Healing Comes From Within

By Bruce Baltz
Founder of SpiriPhysical, Inc.
International Educator of: Deep Tissue Healing "The Art Of Stone Massage"

As massage therapists, our role is to initiate the natural healing process which lives within each one of us. But, due to lives circumstances our body is not always our best friend. We are trained at a very young age to hold in emotions and to not express our feelings. As we get older most of us don't even recognize the turmoil that we have created inside our own bodies. As adults we have become quite proficient at masking our feelings to the point, which makes our day-to-day lives seem quite healthy.

However, if we look at our lives a little closer we will find that a great deal of our imbalances is based on our reaction to fear. Most of are taught if we don't act in a certain way, or live up to certain expectations, there will be consequences. So as you can see a pattern is being developed that does not necessarily work to our advantage.

First, we need to acknowledge that we are carrying emotional baggage that can be the root cause of many of our physical imbalances. We then have to look at the systems of the body and how they are affected unconsciously. Studies have shown that the autonomic nervous system holds the key to many of our physical discomforts/problems. Stress and fear are two of the most notable causes that have been directly correlated to the dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, better known as dysautonomia.

The chain of communication starting with the hypothalamus communicates with the pituitary gland and then the adrenal gland. These three glands produce many of the hormones that we need to keep our body in balance. But, through stress and fear we tend to overload our system to the point of losing touch with our overall well being.

The autonomic nervous system is broken into three parts, sympathetic [flight or fight] parasympathetic [rest and digest], and the enteric brain [digestive brain].
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