IMAGINATION : SYMPTOMS : RECOVERY

IMAGINATION : SYMPTOMS : RECOVERY

How much does your imagination affect you?

Can your thoughts contribute to your symptoms?

Likewise, can your state of mind help in recovery?

A simple test:

1)   Turn your head from side to side and see if one side feels more restricted than the other.

2)    Stand in one position – raise the more restricted side’s arm and point directly in front of you.

3)    Without moving your feet, slowly turn your torso with your gaze following your finger until you can’t go any further.  Take a mental note of what you are pointing at.

Come back to your original starting position, standing comfortably.

1)    Close your eyes.

2)    Now IMAGINE ONLY that you are raising your arm again in front of you.

3)    IMAGINE ONLY that you are slowly turning again, except instead of IMAGINING that you can only go as far as you did in reality, IMAGINE that you continue slowly turning your torso until you have gone full circle, i.e. you have gone right around until you are facing the front again.

Open your eyes and run the test again and see how far you can rotate this time.

For a small percentage of you, no change will have taken place.  For most of you, you will now be able to rotate further than before.  What happened?  You used your IMAGINATION to free up some restriction.  The reverse can be true as well.  You can use your IMAGINATION to bring upon all sorts of physical (not to mention mental) restrictions.  Your emotions CAN get the better of you.

Now, it’s impossible to be the type of person that is SOOO optimistic and will always be happy, especially while being chased by a homicidal maniac with an axe.  But it’s easier to become the pessimist, always or often imagining the worst.  Or it may be a traumatic experience that cannot seem to be let go of, one that keeps reappearing or that gets replayed over and over again.  There are many modalities and practices that help break that kind of thought cycle.  Likewise, SRT can bring emotional release as well as physical.

Again, at the risk of sounding spurious and pseudoscientific, your IMAGINATION can aid or inhibit recovery.  On the flipside, anxiety can be a symptom of restricted C5,6, T1,2,3, & Sx vertebrae.

A client of mine, on following up her first treatment, said that she experienced more emotional freedom than physical freedom and was finally able to confront much of the baggage that followed extreme childhood abuse.  As a result, physical symptoms started to fall by the wayside instead of repeatedly returning.  Another client in her 60s started crying the moment I started treating her as suppressed memories of physical trauma as a 6 year old at the hands of a grandparent came flooding back.  Once she was able to no longer react to these memories with fear, we were able to bring over 50 years of back issues to a close in three more sessions, as her body and mind finally allowed treatment to be effective.

These are extreme cases and most people will not experience these emotional highs and lows as a result of SRT, but nevertheless, your mindset does play a role in recovery.

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