The Emotional link to Pain

I happened across this interesting article by Mel from Natural Solutions Magazine, which struck a  cord, what do you think?  While most bodywork experts agree that tension and pain in the body are largely caused by how we move, or don’t move enough, throughout the day, a growing number of practitioners cite emotional stress as another factor. Deb Shapiro, author of Your Body Speaks Your Mind (Sounds True, May 2006), says that understanding how parts of the body connect to certain emotions can help us get in touch with neglected areas of our subconscious.

“And the great thing about that is tapping into the root of the problem on an emotional level can heal chronic pain,” she says.

Here’s what your tension spots could be telling about you.

Neck
The neck is a two-way communicator: You take in life-sustaining food, water, and air through the neck, and at the same time, emotions, feelings, and thoughts are expressed outwardly through your voice. Stiffness here can indicate resistance, usually to other ways of thinking.

Shoulders
This is where you carry the weight of your responsibilities, whether it’s work, family, or mortgage payments. Creative energy flows from here, moving into your arms and hands, where it emerges in what you do in the world. Tense shoulders can also indicate resistance, perhaps to the responsibilities you feel you must maintain, or pressure that’s put on you to perform.

Upper back
This area, the reverse side from the heart, is where you can store repressed anger, resentment, guilt, or shame.

Mid back
Your core allows you to bend and move, representing your ability to be psychologically and emotionally flexible. Stiffness in the mid back can reflect an inner stiffness, holding on to a fear, or inability to go with the flow.

Low back
This part of the body supports your weight from above, and it’s related to your notions of survival, security, and self-support. If you’re feeling insecure—or as though you’re unable to meet other people’s expectations—that pressure can manifest in the low back.

Bottom
Although seemingly soft, the glutes are often the most tense and clenched muscles in the body. This area has to do with elimination and release, so control and power issues are often held here.

Hamstrings
These muscles are connected to the knees—which we use to bow down to a higher being—and so tight hamstrings can often mean that a deeper level of surrender is needed. The thighs and hamstrings also hold on to past conflicts, such as traumatic childhood memories, anger, or resentment. This area is also closely associated with sexuality and intimacy.

Take a break and s-t-r-e-t-c-h

Office worker?  Sitting at a desk for long periods can take its toll on your body.  Professional Bodyworkers know this restricts your natural movement in the lower back, hips, backs of thighs and calves which can prevent your energy from flowing freely around your body. Re-energise these areas by taking regular breaks to stretch your legs..and shoulders… and neck…and just about everywhere else!

7 Good reasons to have a Massage – No 4

Let your Energy Flow.  Oriental images of acupuncture meridians are now (at long last!) being confirmed by modern scientific instrumentation.    Blockages in these meridians (channels) can develop into future illness.  Just like a mountain glacier flushing away rocks and debris in a spring melt, massage is ideal for releasing blocked energy anywhere in your body.  Being smoothed over and ‘steamrollered’ by a powerful No Hands®  massage can get your energy flowing once again.    The amazing flowing touch which comes from No Hands®  massage allows all the energy channels to move and circulate once again.  You can walk tall through the day feeling the energy in your whole body literally vibrate.  That’s what feeling fully alive is, as opposed to feeling like a member of the living dead!

U-Knead-Me!

With today’s stressful lifestyle, more and more people are turning to massage to relieve their tensions, aches and pains. A really good, professional massage by a solely dedicated Massage Therapist can solve a surprising number of your problems.  The daily clinical experience of professional massage therapists, physical therapists and doctors strongly indicates that most of our common aches and pains are caused by Trigger Points.  Before you book your treatment ask your therapists if they have been trained in, understand and have experience in Trigger Point therapy.  An extremely high percentage of therapists are still out of the loop regarding Trigger points.

Problems such as stress, lack of energy, repetitive strain injury, sleeplessness, back pain, shoulder pain,temporary loss of strength from hard physical or mental work, cellulite, headache, migraine, back ache, tummy ache and in fact, most aches and pains anywhere in the body.

Massage Therapy does more than just get rid of pain. It can make you feel better in minutes, rather than days, weeks or months.  No Hands®  Massage Therapy goes even further and a whole lot deeper than that……..

Try Standing on 1 Leg!

Standing on one leg could help you live longer! Good balance could stop you from falling and breaking a bone.  Practise standing on one leg while you clean your teeth and balancing on your tiptoes with your eyes closed. Go on give it a try you may be surprised how sturdy, or wobbly you are!