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Pain is the body’s call for attention, and we need to listen before we treat. I look at pain patterns through the eyes of science and psychology.

By understanding the mechanisms of pain we get to its root, rather than soothing the symptoms.

08/04/2023

Life and exercise can be hard on the body and we need ongoing care and recovery. It is essential to keep our myofascia (muscle+fascia) pliable and hydrated to avoid stiffness, microtears and pain. Stretching, movement in all planes of motion and myofascial self care are good ways to keep the myofascial tissue healthy. Try this self care a couple times a week, more is not better.
It should not be too painful, however, you should be feeling something, depending on how stiff your tissue is from use and “abuse".

27/03/2023

🤸 Balance to Lower Anxiety

Balance needs to be a part of everybody’s fitness regime regardless of age. Having good balance helps prevent falls and makes many activities of daily life easier, especially stepping on a stool or ladder.

In addition, balance is very good for your brain. It connects you to your body, and gets you out of your cognitive head. The nerve-information from your balancing body can actually help to interrupt obsessive circuits in your brain, which can reduce anxiety and get you into a calmer headspace. So, if you feel anxious on a given day, try to balance as a means of getting connected to your body and thus lowering your anxiety.

04/03/2023

In Romantic Relationships Privacy is Precious and Secrecy is Vile.

When two adults commit to be together romantically, it is important to keep in mind that there is a difference between secrecy and privacy. To maintain a certain level of privacy can be helpful as a means to preserve healthy boundaries and an erotic charge.

There are thoughts and actions that if shared can be hurtful to the other, but that does not imply that they are deceitful.

🗝️ In other words, to build and maintain trust and mutual respect, privacy must be included while secrecy must be excluded.

22/02/2023

💡 This is a very cool piece of art by Robert Panda, located at the Prata Riverside Village in Lisbon. However, the posture is only sustainable for a sculpture. Any human being maintaining this position would start to suffer quickly. While it is becoming more and more common to see something akin to this posture in our computerized society, it is harmful to your body as well as your mind. This posture can create a lot of tension in the back of your neck/head which in turn may cause severe headaches, exhaustion and a foggy brain. In addition, it can result in serious back pain because the back muscles get overstretched and thus weakened in this position. The more hours you spend sitting like this, the more fatigued and painful the back muscles will get.

💪🏻 What can you do for yourself?

Get a good chair with support for your lower back.

Be mindful of how you sit on your chair, check your posture every 15 min.

If you are already in pain, see a good massage therapist.

Get professional advice on how to strengthen your back so that you can maintain a good posture, and prevent future pain.

08/02/2023

Fascial fitness in Lisbon, Portugal. 💪
Never miss a chance to climb, crawl and defeat gravity from a different angle when the opportunity presents itself. Not only does it make you strong all over, but it is also so much fun! 🤩

19/01/2023

Teaching Gestalt Therapy Theory and Neurobiology to enthusiastic students at the fabulous Gestalt Institute in Randers / Denmark.

https://www.gestaltinstituttet.dk/

20/11/2022

How does unresolved trauma cause a lack of s*x or desire?
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29/09/2022

Newspapers are temporary and yesterday’s news are quickly forgotten, however books tend to be permanent.

Leiden Stadsfotograaf Koen Suidgeest’s () project of 2021-2022 whose goal was to show that Leiden is a multicultural city, succeeded and culminated in a beautiful book featuring 52 stories of chosen expats.

Big thanks to Koen who included me in this project. Last Sunday we all got the opportunity to attend a beautiful gathering to celebrate the book and to honor and applaud Koen’s talent and success.

12/09/2022

Osteocalcin is a hormone released from the bones that can reverse age related memory loss. While exercise to maintain strong bones is known to be good for preventing osteoporosis, it is also good for your brain. Maintaining the bone mass, through weight bearing exercises and healthy eating, prevents a decline in the release of osteocalcin. Osteocalcin works by influencing the production of dopamine and serotonin and several other neurotransmitters involved in memory.

Age related memory loss begins around the age 40 and it is different from Alzheimer's disease. It involves different parts of the brain and has different biological processes than those underlying Alzheimer disease.

Thus, when you go to the gym, don’t think muscles only, lifting weights or lifting the weight of your body in planks and other body weight exercises are all good for bone health. In addition, use any other opportunity to load your bones by carrying groceries, your child or grandchild and other heavy things.

Bottom line;
The more you lift or carry, the stronger the bones, the better your memory.

02/09/2022

Depression is a complex condition that despite much research, is still in many ways a mystery. Similarly mysterious is the fascial tissue(thin tissue that wraps every organ /muscle, blood vessels/nerve in the body). The fascial tissue was initially thought to be garbage and excluded from all anatomy text books. But over the last 20 years, it has been shown that fascia is a highly complex and refined tissue with more nerve endings and biochemical processes than any other tissue in the body. While the mind/body connection for depression has been discussed for a long time, there has not been much scientific data supporting this discussion.

However, a recent study has shown that in clients with major depressive disorder the myofascial (muscle +fascia) tissue has increased stiffness and reduced elasticity They also showed that foam rolling had a positive impact on the stiffness. This lead us to speculate that perhaps massage or bodywork could benefit depressed clients by reducing the stiffness of their myofascial tissue. The end result of this could in theory change the messages from the body to the brain and thus impact the neurobiology underlying depression. More research is needed before these speculations can be confirmed or dismissed.

In the meantime, it is important for people with depression to explore alternative healing modalities like massage or bodywork. For the massage therapist it is, as always, important to be attuned to their client and adjust the work to fit the particular client’s needs, so listen carefully to what the tissue has to say.

Myofascial tissue and Depression
Johannes Michalaket al..
Accepted: 25 November 2021 / Published online: 21 December 2021 ©
The author(s) 2021

21/08/2022

◘ Strokes are not only for the apparently “unhealthy”, elderly people, those that are maybe a bit on the heavy side, who enjoy a steak, a cake and a few drinks, and who rather inhale deeply from an occasional cigarette than from the exertion of the treadmill. More and more youngish, healthy looking, educated, people are suffering from strokes these days, and it is a big shock to everybody who knows these ”healthy” people, how could that happen to them? They are doing all the “right things".

◘ Unfortunately many of these young stroke victims are their own worst enemies; very driven to succeed in life, and unusually eager to absorb as much knowledge as possible, they rarely “mess up; ”Things are in order." They are known for that. And of course they are fit. Sometimes “too fit” for their age.

◘ One can eat kale until the cows come home but if there is no inner peace, if what you do is never enough, if there is always another “to do” list waiting, stroke can strike anybody. The bottom line to prevent strokes as well as heart attacks, which is not mentioned in most educational material from well meaning organizations, is the inner peace that is needed to create a harmonic environment for all the cells in the body to thrive.

◘ If there is constant stress and inner pressure there is higher chance of inflammation and infection and that can be a source of blood cloths which can create ischemic strokes, blockage of one or more small arteries in the brain that will starve the adjacent nerve cells for oxygen. The hemorrhagic strokes refer to a blood vessel in the brain bursting as the the walls of the blood vessels can get more fragile if there is inflammation in the body.

◘ Bottom line:
Take little symptom seriously: headaches, tiredness, feeling off, frequent urination or lack of, upset stomach, changes in s*x drive or appetite, don't push through, try to pause and examine what could be off balance, rest a bit, even if that is not your "normal” way of being. We are not talking about becoming hypochondriacs, but rather be attuned to small nuances in your well being.

18/07/2022

🌷 This local giant ph***ic form was on view in the fantastic Hortus Botanicus in Leiden. The flower has not been in bloom since 2009, so it was no joke. Some of us may not be able to wait another 10 years to see it bloom again. The name is Amorphophallus titanum, which translates to giant shapeless p***s. It originates from the rain forest of West Sumatra. It has both male and female flowers, but to avoid any problems the female flowers open first to be followed by the male two days later. I felt very blessed to be able to squeeze in a visit in the midst of my workday last week to see this!

Bottom line; Grab the moment, tomorrow is too late.
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