Solutions to improve Your life
Christine Pirrie -
Why should I offer Psychotherapy and acupressure massage?
The link between emotions and physical health has been recognized since Antiquity, yet only recently has science verified that a connection exists.
We are not surprised to blush (a physical manifestation) when embarrassed ( an emotion) or have goose bumps when scared but we can’t believe that loneliness or resentment can impact on our body also.
Wherever a thought goes, a chemical goes with it:
We need to understand that our thoughts affect our body. Neuro-
Our mind is all over our body, not just in our head, and what we think affect how we feel.
Western philosophy has been based on the idea that the body is a machine and the
mind and body are separate. The Eastern holistic approach believes mind and body
are in constant inter-
We often hide our emotions, for different reasons: the stiff upper lip, not manly to show weakness
...or just too scary to look in the cupboards full of skeletons!
It’s often not Politically Correct to show anger or even grief!
If we think we can’t deal with emotions then we repress them...but it’s not because we bury emotions that we are not still carrying them (often in our back!)
We store the ‘trauma’ in our body. (Trauma can just mean the unresolved feeling). We contract muscles or organs where that memory is stored. We clamp down in the area that we tightened at the time of event.
This can happen in the
- Smooth muscles, the ones we have no conscious control over (tightening in the lungs can bring on asthma, in the blood vessel: high blood pressure or migraine…..if in the intestines: IBS etc )
- Or Striated muscles like shoulders, back, arms and legs…(and we end up with slipped discs... Muscle aches and pains..)
This is why pain is often chronic: we deal with the outside manifestation , the ‘Symptom’
using pain relief or manipulations or even surgery. But if we don’t deal with the
reasons behind the imbalance in the first place, then the ‘dis-
Listen to your body
Our body speaks to us in metaphors and if we don’t listen..it has to speak louder! Giving us physical symptoms for us to take notice.
Thoughts and emotions can result as tension in the back... As if we are carrying too much on our shoulders, or we feel we don’t have enough support....or we put in the back the things we don’t want to look at! A stiff neck might be because someone close to us is being a real ‘pain in the neck’, if you suffer from stomach ulcers, ask yourself what is it you can’t digest ? Or what
are you bitter about?
Holistic means that in order to ‘Heal’ (To become whole), we have to work on all parts of us.
- Release unexpressed emotions with psychotherapy and
- Relieve the manifestation of these buried feelings in the body, through acupressure massage and energy work.
They are powerful solutions on their own but when combined, you can really let go of stuff that you have been carrying round for too long. And keeping stuff hidden takes a lot of energy. Energy that could be spent in better ways, don’t you think!?
© 2010 Christine Pirrie : info@urlife.co.uk