23/09/2022
How many times do we suddenly feel anxious, sad, angry, without being able to explain why or what triggered it?
If you take into account that only 20% of emotional trauma is experienced by the mind, while the remaining 80% is directly experienced and dealt with by our bodies, it explains why so many of us are struggling with chronic physical issues, caused by stored emotional trauma.
But how do we know where this trauma is stored in the body? We know the symptoms quite well - chronic unexplainable back pain, knee pain, shoulder pain etc..
When trauma is stored in a specific area in the body, it presents with limited movement in that area. The brain causes the connective tissue (fascia) to ‘freeze’ as a form of protection. This means that the body needs to change its functional movement patterns to adjust, resulting in a non-aligned body and chronic symptoms.
The only way to turn this around, is not to keep focussing on the chronic symptoms, but to find the areas where movement is limited.
When we do our full assessment of fascia mobility, we get an exact map of where to release the fascia, in other words, where to release previous emotional or physical trauma
We teach the brain that it is safe now; that the traumatic incident is in the past. By doing that, we enable the body to deal with new situations from a position of strength and balance, rather than from a position of dysfunction and imbalance.
