Ever wish you could just let that headache or chronic pain go?

Ever think that there was some part of you holding onto your pain, and wish you could just let it go?

I think this is very common with chronic conditions. I hear these statements from patients. Sometimes clients think there is a part of themselves (physical or psychological) that is purposely holding onto the pain. Sometimes I see an underlying level of self-blame. I can totally relate to this and understand why it happens, because after trying so many different things to make the pain go away, and it keeps coming back, you start to wonder if the pain is there because of some belief system or thought process. 

It’s very common to think we can heal ourselves because our bodies do, in fact, heal themselves all the time. And I do agree that when we feel pain there is a part of our body that cannot let it go.

But you can’t let it go on your own because your body isn’t strong enough, because you’re sick and your body doesn’t have all the tools it needs to heal. You do not have the inner power required for healing because you are sick.

What you need is a supportive, nurturing, healing environment where body, mind, and soul are safe to let go, process, and heal. What you need is therapist with a variety of tools and the power of a strong healing presence to support your body’s natural healing abilities.

You may also need traditional medicine or medications. You may also need to make some lifestyle changes. Our bodies need a combination of these. That's why complementary therapeutic bodywork can be so effective. It supports the body and helps the medications and traditional therapies be more effective.

A CranioSacral Therapist is a facilitator of healing for your body. We are trained to communicate with your body’s inner wisdom and follow its treatment plan. And our treatments affect the whole body, gently and powerfully because we are giving the body exactly what it needs.

I’ve never found another modality that truly respects the patient’s body and wisdom in this way, the sessions can be profound.
So at the end of a few appointments, your body does let go of the pain. It just needed a healing facilitator to help do what it needed to do.
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Have you ever experienced CranioSacral Therapy? Maybe it’s time to experience it yourself? You’re body with thank you! 

Politics. Whether we like to stay informed or not, we are being affected by politics and news. Many feel uneasy about the future of our country. Many of us are getting stressed out by the news. Some of us are being triggered by the news. 

What I keep seeing with clients is that the headlines and political events are causing people to be triggered by past traumatic events. Even if we are actively trying to stay out of it, we are often hit with headlines involving rape, sexual assault or abuse. And for the people in our country that have experienced these traumas, it can be a very stressful time. I know it has been for me.

Memories of trauma come up, but we still have to carry on with our lives. We have dinner to make for the family, we have meetings to run and people to manage. We often just don’t have the time to process or to even talk about what may be going on with people we trust.  Sometimes all I can do is turn it out and think to myself, “I can’t deal with this now” or “not now.” And I carry on.

Keeping busy does get us through the day. But we may notice it’s not so easy for our bodies. We may feel an increase in headaches or aches and pains. Maybe it’s a lump in our throat that just won’t go away. Or maybe we’re just so good at being busy our mind can’t turn off when it’s time to sleep. Maybe our bodies just needs a good cry.
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I sometimes feel like this too. It’s my body’s way of getting my attention.

These physical signs mean it’s time to get bodywork. It’s time to care for your body and nervous system.

CranioSacral Therapy gives our body a re-set. CranioSacral Therapy nourishes the nervous system so we can turn down our stress levels and get the pain relief we need. CranioSacral Therapy provides the safe and supportive environment for our body to release, so we can reclaim our strength and vitality.  

At Twin Cities CranioSacral I provide my clients the safe and supportive environment their bodies need to release the stress and trauma weighing them down. It’s a very important time for us to get bodywork. It’s time to release the trauma  for a new you. 

While we are catching our Z's, our brain is hard at work clearing out the byproducts of our busy brains. New research findings suggest the position you sleep in during the night influences the efficiency of your brain's natural cleansing system, the glymphatic system. Getting these byproducts, waste, out of the brain is important, the buildup of waste products like amyloid beta and tau proteins are involved in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's. Sleeping on your side will not keep these conditions at bay, but greater understanding of the functioning of the glymphatic system will hopefully help in discovering new treatments or prevention.

CranioSacral therapists work with the cerebrospinal fluid production and absorption, this is what our hands are feeling while working on clients. We detect where there are restrictions to the rhythm and flow of this fluid and then help the body correct these restrictions. Cerebrospinal fluid flows throughout the glymphatic system, its the medium which moves these byproducts to the lymphatic system and our body's natural, many ways to detox itself. 

Hopefully one day there will be research on how CranioSacral Therapy and the glymphatic system work together. Some of the techniques CST uses to promote the production and absorption of cerebrospinal fluid are the relaxing and soothing still point, the dynamic rock and glide and cranial pumping techniques.   

Sources

Hedok Lee, Lulu Xie, Mei Yu, Hongyi Kang, Tian Feng, Rashid Deane, Jean Logan, Maiken Nedergaard, and Helene Benveniste. The Effect of Body Posture on Brain Glymphatic Transport. Journal of Neuroscience, July 2015 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1625-15.2015

University of Rochester Medical Center, Scientists Discover Previously Unknown Cleansing System in the Brain, https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/3584/scientists-discover-previously-unknown-cleansing-system-in-brain.aspx.