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Wellness
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The Network Wave of Healing
About Network Spinal Analysis...Continued
By Donald Epstein, D.C.
Once people experience these Network “healing” waves, they tend to make
healthier choices. Suddenly the exercise, diet, supplements, meditation
or prayer that may have been resulting in minimal wellness benefits
increased in effectiveness. Saying it differently, people in Network
care who experience these waves often double their perceived wellness.
As these “healing waves” progress along a person's spine, it
revitalizes, energizes, and helps the body to self correct distortions
of alignment and posture. They move “stuck energy” and are a source of
new energy and vitality. Vertebrae of the spine spontaneously realign as
one of the by products.
NSA helps the person “inside” who is experiencing
disease and must deal with a prognosis, treatment and symptoms. With
care they are better able to develop innate strategies to find tension
in their bodies and spontaneously move and breathe to dissipate it. NSA
helps the person to use the energy within their spinal tension (and
unresolved past and current stressful or traumatic experiences) to fuel
the healing process. Network Care helps the internal cues to become so
available that people more often act, think, feel and respond in a more
productive and healthier fashion. The internal communication systems
become clearer, to coordinate the body more effectively, even during
periods of stress and trauma. People have been shown to make healthier
choices and enjoy life more. Also, a wide range of physical complaints
such as headaches, stiffness, pain, eczema, menstrual cramps, dizziness
and many others have been reported by the Network patients to improve or
resolve.
Why is it that we lose our wellness and health?
It seems associated with the way we experience our
world. When an event occurs that our brain determines is not safe for us
to fully experience, the energy and information of the event is
translated into vibration and tension, which is then stored in the body.
It is not unlike the after-image of a flashbulb. Our body then walls off
the offending energy and tension over time with muscular spasm, spinal
distortion, reduced breathing into the area and reduced movement. Much
of what many disciplines seek to correct through manipulation, massage
and therapy, is often a symptom of this process.
Until it is safe to experience that energy again, and
our bodies develop the strategy to do this, as well as digest the
information from the trauma, we cannot really feel whole or well. The
state of safety is one, which promotes internal awareness and internal
“growth”.
Our body tenses more easily and our physiology remains
set on 'defense'. In defense we tighten, our blood pressure begins to
rise; we feel less emotion and are living our life in reaction to our
stress of the moment. Nerves that attach through the spinal cord into
the brain connect every cell of the body. Tension in this main cable
network creates tension in the body tissues. The brain continues to
perceive life defensively, and produces stress chemicals that inhibit
the ability to pay attention to the incomplete “energy” or “unfinished
business”.
Through gentle contacts along the neck and lower
spine, (where the spinal cord attaches inside the vertebral column),
called entrainments, greater body awareness is achieved. The body moves
away from defense and towards growth. The brain becomes aware of the
spine, which is a main conduit of consciousness, the coordinator of body
function, and a proposed location of the subconscious mind. Our posture,
spinal alignments, and tension patterns all reflect our emotional
reactions to our perceived world.
Most of us remain in defense throughout our lives, and
the higher more evolved brain does not have the opportunity to develop
its unique properties and evolve new strategies for experiencing and
responding to life.
When at peace, the internal growth “programs” can be
switched on because the body does not need to protect itself from
injury. It can then assess if our reactions, adaptations and symptoms
are appropriate or not. We can feel more profoundly and use subtle
information within to make healthier choices. We can be more
compassionate to others, and to ourselves. We can activate “internal
software” for experiencing life, changing our course, and for healing.
Our brain can pay attention to the body's tension patterns, its spinal
alignment, its posture, and its current state.
In order to fix something we must first be able to
find it. As our brain is better able to inventory the body, it can
better orchestrate healing. This naturally occurs as NSA care progresses
and the individual not only becomes aware of spinal tension patterns,
vertebral motion and respiration, but also even the energetic motion
through the body. Natural outcomes of Network care include this
awareness, and even the self-regulation of spinal tension and alignment.
For those people who have had the greatest wounds, or
stresses and traumas in life, they may tap stored tension or blocked
energy through NSA care, to develop the statistically greatest positive
changes in wellness. This is part of the “stress busting” effect
demonstrated in Network Care. I interpret this to suggest that the
greater the wound, the greater the potential gift. That is, if new
strategies can be developed to access the internal storehouse of energy
for healing. This is what appears to happen in NSA care.
The NSA practitioner seeks to promote new strategies
for your spine and nervous system so that you can be more effective at
being well. The spinal assessments the doctor makes are matched with
your personal health and wellness inventory. Allow the practitioner's
expertise, and your ability to heal, to join in celebrating the wellness
that is available to you ... even in the presence of disease.
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