In this video, I cover 3 things, which relate to the parasympathetic nervous system:
✅ How do we unlock our body’s inner healing super-power?
✅ Switch on the magic buttons for our body’s repair and rejuvenation mechanisms!
✅ How does this help reduce our pain and sensitivity?
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Here it is…
So, last time we talked about what happens when your body gets stuck in that fight, flight, freeze mode; and why so often, that results in persistent, and recurrent physical pain.
Empower Our Body’s Natural Healing Ability
Today I want to share with you some more ideas about how you can step out of that fight, flight, freeze mode, into your para-sympathetic nervous system. Out of your sympathetic and into your para-sympathetic nervous system. Where you can relax and strengthen the natural healing ability of your body.
When you relax your muscles, you can ease the tension out of your body. That can enable you to be more flexible, and move more freely, easily, and comfortably. It can reduce the pain itself and also the inflammation.
Enables Our Long-term Repair and Healing Mechanisms to be Switched On
That may in turn lower your nervous system sensitivity and the cycle of pain that you’ve been stuck in. It can improve the blood flow through your whole body, which can bring healing power of the parasympathetic nervous system. Activating that can help the body then, to allow your long-term repair and healing mechanisms to function. And enables them to be switched on. Enhancing your healing process and helping your body recover faster and better.
Reduce Our Pain Sensitivity
At the same time, [this can] reduce your pain sensitivity, on a neurological level. As we spoke about last time. The same highways, the pain highways that have been getting really, really strong. As we switch into the parasympathetic nervous system, these ones get stronger. The (neurological) highways get built, and because you are using the pathways along in this direction, (strengthening your para-sympathetic response) more than your sympathetic system. Those ones start to erode. They become like a back road, rather than a highway. And then they can reduce even further, and become like a dirt road. So it’s really not being used. And what is being used, is your para-sympathetic nervous system. Of course, what’s being focused on is your para-sympathetic nervous system, so that you are enabling that rest-and-digest, or that rest-and-repair mode to be activated more.
Tap into emotions
It can enable your pain sensitivity to be lowered. Enabling you to tap into emotions, like peace of mind, and contentment. That can help decrease your experience and perception of pain, simply because you are focused on a more positive mindset.
It strengthens your peace of mind and releases you from the pain cycle.
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Namaste.
Sarah xx
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About Blossoming Me
BlossomingMe offers a fully integrated approach to your wellbeing. Located on Sydney’s Upper North Shore. Sarah is our Cranio-sacral and Remedial Massage Therapist and health and lifestyle coach. She can help relieve those problematic knots, tightness and other specific ailments to promote a healthy recovery. These complementary massage therapies can be combined to suit your needs, and include: craniosacral therapy, shiatsu, acupressure, reiki, remedial, swedish, and body-mind-massage.
Our qualified Osteopath, Alexis, offers a drug free, minimally invasive, “hands on” treatment focusing on the musculoskeletal system with its associated muscles, tendons, ligaments, membranes, bones and joints. Alexis takes a functional approach. This means that she focuses on the way a component (body part, tissue or group of tissues) performs its role, as well as the way the body works, performs and integrates as a whole. Our team can support you to improve your posture and therefore your overall health.
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