Body Stress Release technique
This technique is designed to help the body release its stored tensions. With the person fully clothed and lying down, the Practitioner carries out a series of tests to locate the exact sites of stored body stress, and determines the precise directions in which the lines of tension exist.
This is done by applying light pressure to various points on the body, and observing the response. In this way, the body acts as a biofeedback mechanism, supplying the information required.
The practitioner then applies stimuli, by means of light but definite pressure, in the exact directions necessary to encourage the body to release the stored tension. If the body stress has occurred recently the process of releasing it is usually very rapid.
However, if the stress has been stored for a long time, the stress releases may have to be carried out a number of times, over a period. This is because the tight, protective layers of the muscles tend to relax by degrees back to their normal tone.
Because Body Stress Release works with the body's natural Striving to be stress free, it is a gentle procedure that does not require force.
Body Stress Release is not a diagnosis or treatment of any condition or disease. It is concerned only with locating and releasing stored tension, so that the body is assisted in its in-built ability to maintain and heal itself.
Stress Overload
Stress becomes a negative, destructive factor in life when it goes beyond the individual's ability to adapt to it. When the point of stress overload is reached, instead of the stress being released from the body, it becomes stored within the body as "body stress". As we differ in our emotional and physical makeup, we have varying degrees of susceptibility to stress overload.
Stress - is it a bad thing?
Not all the time, we need a certain amount to help us grow and evolve or we would become bored and stagnant. It's when the body can not cope with the stress any longer that is when the body adopts to protect itself. E.g. if you where to hold your hand over a flame you could not hold it there before the protective mechanisms (muscles) in the body react and pull the hand away. This is how the body protects itself.
The muscles are used to move and support us, when they are used to protect us there can be a numbing affect on the nervous system, which can lead to an ineffective communication from the brain to the body and vice versa. If the brain is not getting a good signal from the body it may not know that an area is in need of attention, and the brain would not start the bodies own self healing mechanisms.
This is where BSR help's, we encourage the body to release those stored muscle tensions thus enabling the nervous system to work as it should, the brain can then start the bodies inbuilt ability to heal and maintain itself.
What causes body stress?
This could include paint stripper, varnish, bleach, air pollutants, cosmetic products, additives in food and drink. They maybe consumed, absorbed through the skin or inhaled. This may cause headaches, migraines dizziness, sickness, nausea, vision disturbances.
Life is a roller coaster of emotions, from shock, hate, depression, fear, a passing of a loved one, an ongoing anxiety or depression. They can all manifest as tight shoulders, stiff neck, and jaw grinding, tension in the diaphragm.
This may be something major such as whiplash from a car accident a bad fall, or a slow and cumulative e.g. hunching over work, sitting slumped forward, incorrect lifting, doing the wrong exercises. Possibly causing cramps, weak knees, weak bladder, sciatica, stiffness, indegestion, a bloated feeling. In a severe case the intervertabral disc may bulge or prolapse, and possibly pinch on a spinal nerve.