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Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Removing Stress and Anxiety and Healing the Body with Time Line Therapy™

Stress and anxiety are often caused by the body holding on to negative emotions such as anger, sadness, fear or guilt. As your body regularly experiences these negative emotions, it begins to store them but as your body deals with negative emotions on an unconscious level - you are not consciously aware that anything is wrong. Over time however, these negative emotions build up and start to have a physical affect on how your body works and the way you look and feel. This build up of negative emotions creates physical changes and can block your body’s natural flow of healing energy. Before you know it, you are consciously feeling something is wrong: stress has started to affect isolated areas of your life as well as the way your body and mind function.

Stress and anxiety can affect the way your body functions in lots of ways including: an inability to concentrate, disrupted sleep patterns, muscular aches, pains, headaches and digestive problems. How do you know that it is stress that is making your body feel this way? Well, think about it – have you ever heard anyone say ‘I’m thinking so stressed today’ or ‘I think so anxious’? What you would normally hear is actually ‘I’m feeling so stressed today’ or I feel so anxious’. Stress and anxiety are something that you feel as a result of negative emotions affecting the way you think.

You are often aware of small changes in the function and energy flow in your body - the problem is that you don’t know you know – because it’s happening at an unconscious level. Have you ever felt that something in your body isn’t working properly only to find that doctors cannot diagnose a specific medical problem or condition?

Stress and anxiety can affect you physically by causing tension in the smooth muscle: these muscles are found in places like the stomach, intestines, blood vessels and the bladder. These smooth muscles are controlled unconsciously by the autonomic nervous system and when they are affected by tension they cause problems in the way the body functions. For example, Irritable Bowel Syndrome is often caused by tension of the smooth muscles in the stomach or intestines (or both). Or, if there is tension in the blood vessels going to the head this can result in headaches or in severe cases, migraines.

What is so revolutionary about Time Line Therapy™ is that it can clear negative emotions, the cause of stress and anxiety, from your body. What this means is that the functional restrictions in the nervous system are cleared out, so that your body can start to heal itself again – just like it’s supposed to.

Time Line Therapy™ helps you find the root cause of the stress or anxiety and gets rid of the negative emotions associated with it. With the negative emotions gone, you are free to enjoy life once more. You’ll feel good and find yourself full of confidence and energy to go out into the world and experience those things that you may have been avoiding.

My name is Keith Dorrington and I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Master in Time Line Therapy™ and Master Coach in NLP. I specialise in helping people to overcome feelings of stress & anxiety. If you want to experience for yourself the powerful benefits of these techniques to create positive and permanent changes in your life, then please contact me on 07764 580438 or email me at keith.dorrington@mind-body-fitness.co.uk.

You can find out more about these powerful techniques and how I use them to treat a wide variety of issues at www.mind-body-fitness.co.uk

Friday, 22 October 2010

Hypermobility Syndrome Blog

http://danceinjuryrecovery.blogspot.com/

This blog is about dance injury in general, and in particular, my own personal recovery and rehabilitation following a calf injury. There is a lot about hypermobility and Joint Hypermobility Syndrome.

A blog that we might want to follow with Laban Health.

Laban Health Practitioners discuss Osteoporosis!

Hi,

I am seeing a 63 year old lady at laban health regularly for shiatsu treatment who has recently been diagnosed as showing signs of osteoporosis in her spine following a bone density scan. She has been recommended by the hospital consultant to have injections to slow down her bone production which has the effect of slowing down the bone loss too. She is reluctant to have these and was asking me to advise her on some specific bone strengthening exercises. I would appreciate any advice from the physio's and or osteo's about exercises and whether exercise alone can, in someone of her age, effectively manage osteoporosis. She would be willing to have a physio appointment and already attends the pilates studio, I said I would enquire on her behalf first. I am seeing her again next Tuesday.

Perhaps if anyone responds they can respond to all so we can generate a discussion and exchange of ideas from this. I have directed the email primarily at the physio's and osteo's initially but welcome any suggestions from our other therapists,

yours gratefully,
Deborah (Shiatsu Practitioner)

Dear Deborah,

A combination Of exercise and diet can help. There is some precautions and contraindications to exercise but it is very beneficial for this type Of patients. Would be happy to discuss this further, and help this lady with setting a home exercise program.

Best wishes

Ana (Physiotherapist)

Dear Deborah,

Tai Chi is a low impact, bone and muscle strengthening exercise, which also improves balance: falls being one of the most significant risks for the elderly, especially those with osteoporosis. Joining a local class would be her best bet (not too difficult to track down: http://www.taichifinder.co.uk/ is a good place to start). However I would be willing to show her a simple weight shift and stepping excercise, commonly used in warm ups before going on to do form work, if she wants to get in touch.

http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993%2802%2900050-3/abstract

Kevin Grey (Acupuncturist and Tui Na Therapist)

Dear Deborah,

A very interesting case!

There seems to be a vast amount of evidence indicating extension-based exercises in order to reduce the incidence of Osteoporotic wedge fractures. These commonly occur at Thoracic spine levels T7, T8 and T6 and fracture prevalence [commonly] occurs in that order.

Weight-bearing exercises are encouraged to stimulate bone growth, swimming too because of the spinal extension to keep afloat. Advice to take care in day to day trivial things such as high steps and stairs, as often the impact from a steep drop can cause a wedge fracture.

A colleague and I wrote an unpublished paper as undergraduates that I have attached, and it has been found to be useful as a handout to patients. Not much in the literature has changed since osteoporosis was recognised as a condition; there is a seminal paper by Sinaki and Mikkelsen (1984) advocating extension-based exercises, including in Pilates, be adhered to. There fracture rates at [five-year] follow-up were significantly reduced compared to controls using flexion and flexion and extension exercise groups. We also understand direct manipulative mobilisations to the vertebrae should be contraindicated, this includes those who do not have a definite diagnoses of osteoporosis but may well be osteopenic.

I hope this is helpful and contributory..... Case study anybody?

Best,

Darren (Physiotherapist)

Bowen quote of recommendation:

"Isobel has given me a Bowen session. I felt that Bowen has given space around muscles and joints and has settled my body better, and given it some balance. It has opened up around my lungs and given them more space to expand after some of the tightness around my ribs has been relieved. There has been quite a significant reduction of pain in my knees and I hardly have stabbing pains at present. They are better placed and I have been able to address what I need to do keep my alignment. I feel calmer and my IBS and sleep has also been in a good condition after these sessions, all of it has encouraged me to move again, which is something I have felt quite reluctant to do for a while because of the pain. Since moving helps me it is a good circle" Anna Bergstrom, BA3, Laban Dancer (quote with permission)