Stress

Our culture has replaced natural sources of stress, for which we had refined effective responses over thousands of generations, with the stressful aspects of modern living. Many of these stressors have emerged in our lifetimes, making our instinctive abilities to deal with stress nearly useless, and making stress a chronic epidemic. We feel this as hormone imbalances, chronic muscle tension, impulsive tendencies towards a 'fight or flight" response, chronic fatigue, joint pain, fybromyalgia, sexual dysfunction, premature aging etc.

In my sessions I support my clients in re-aligning with their physical and emotional center, at all of the levels we can reach. From the perspective of stress the result is happiness, a sense of wellbeing, a sense of having resources to deal with stressors as they occur and a quick recovery time when the stress manages to throw them off balance. The experiences of health, strength and balance are natural outcomes of appropriate stress management. 

Stress exhibits as pattern of imbalance that can be revealed through gentle bodywork, energy kinesiology and dialog. Once these patterns are "on the table" it is relatively straightforward to help the body rework and begin to eliminate their effects / symptoms. As the body "unwinds", it can use the gains to adopt more efficient solutions to stressful circumstances. Gracefully dealing with ongoing stress requires that we integrate our instinctive reactions and consciously / willfully respond to our situational needs. This is much easier to do when our instinctive / reactive responses are stress free. I use a variety of bodywork skills to help this integration and to help develop the response of choice.

I maintain a web site on a self help technique for managing stress: Emotional Stress Release

Article in Science on the effects of stress