Is your pain trying to tell you something? Let’s find out!
Each day I have the honor and privilege of working with patients not only in regards to their physical bodies but their emotional health as well. As I meet with them they become used to hearing me say that I believe in a triad when it comes to overall health.
At Live Free Chiroplus, our mission is to treat the physical, chemical, and emotional health of the body. Many times a patient will only receive treatment for one or two of those components. That concerns us. I will explain.
When you are stressed, whether at work or home, you may find that you experience digestive issues or perhaps tightness in your neck and shoulders. That is a good time for you to sit back and ask: is this physical pain or symptom perhaps caused by an emotional issue I am dealing with? We all know that stress affects our body, but how many of us actually work through that part of our health?
There are so many techniques out there that we can utilize to address this component, and one of them that I have come to know is something I’d like to share with you. It’s called NET NET or Neuro-Emotional Technique is a stress technique that specifically works with the ‘physiology’ of emotional/stress responses. This technique teaches that our physical body will create a response (or symptom) when there is a perceived threat to our environment or survival. This could be something as simple as someone not asking you to play on the playground when you were five causing you to feel left out and not worthy of community. This ‘emotional complex’ or perceived threat we tell ourselves creates a conditioned response or muscle-memory pattern. Over time, this response (feelings of loneliness or low self-worth in this case) can start creating chaos in our body and organ systems. If we are in chaos too long, our body will compensate and create symptoms that can eventually lead to dis-ease.
Our bodies are designed to compensate until they no longer can. This is why we want to get to the root of the problem. When we are reminded or triggered by that original event (ie. from a smell that reminds us of that time or hearing or seeing the person or even someone not asking us to go to a party when we are older) our body remembers that stored emotion and will start to light up certain areas of the brain that is connected to those memories. When the brain is activated in that way, our body will try to protect itself and can create a ‘fight or flight’ response. Whether that be joint pain to something more intense like a panic attack, our body will express that conditioned response to that trigger. NET is one tool we use to find the root of that response. If your response is connected to a stressful event, we use a series of steps using muscle testing to help your body process that stressor. If we can change our physiological response to our triggers, think of how our body can function!
At Live Free we want to make sure we are getting to the root of the issue. If you are not taking a look into your emotional, mental or spiritual health, we might be missing a big pillar of getting well. There are so many techniques and modalities to address this. Whether it is counseling, prayer, meditation, talking with a friend, or even a stress technique like NET, take a look into your health and see what is missing in your journey. You might need to find multiple practitioners to encompass all three of these components but that is the beauty of all spectrums of health care. There is so much power in working together and using different modalities to get to wellness. Find your tribe and start living free.
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