Articles ##Nervoussystemregulation

The human body is a complex and interconnected system where every component plays a crucial role in maintaining health and well-being. Among these components, the diaphragm, a dome-shaped muscle located beneath the ribcage, is often underestimated in its significance. Beyond its primary function in respiration, the diaphragm plays a profound role in regulating the nervous system, influencing both our physical and mental states. This article explores the essential relationship between the diaphragm and the nervous system from a body-mind perspective.

We are as a collective living in overwhelm , uncertainty and our stress levels are at all time high! Many of us already carry and manage so much on a day to day basis, now to mention the last few years with the pandemic, it does not matter how strong you are, it can take a toll.

Mindfulness is a mental state and practice of being fully aware and present in the current moment, without judgment or distraction. It involves paying deliberate attention to your thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the surrounding environment.

I have been fortunate to be exposed to this debilitating condition from the beginning of my practice 20 years ago, when a local journalist was sent my Way. The poor woman tried everything from Injections, to physiotherapy, chiropractic and massage therapy and nothing has helped for 2 years. Needless to say It affected her job typing and sitting all day, her lifestyle and activity levels declined and so did her mental and emotional well being.

Going through this unprecedented pandemic that we did over the last few years, we are asked to Isolate ourselves, to social distance and to be quarantined. For many of us this is not new news, or a new state of living and being!

When people ask me who are your teachers? Who taught you everything that you know? I always answer.. "my clients, in particular the elderly".

To be honest, as much as I love the Summer in British Columbia, Canada under these “extraordinary” times we are in, I am happy that the Fall is HERE! Why you might ask? Using the natural rhythms of our beautiful seasons here, helps to attune me the the natural world and to my own Innate natural wisdom. Nature is a powerful teacher and in the fall we can see the letting go process. It teaches us that it is inevitable and completely natural and beautiful. It shows us that we are able to let go, heal and renew ourselves.

In the 1980’s, Sylvester Stallone became famous for Rambo, a movie character who was the ultimate warrior. Many men and young boys, including myself at the time, idolized Rambo. I even had his posters on my wall as a kid thinking that’s who I want to be one day. But what I learned later as I became a bodymind therapist working with trauma and chronic pain; That even Rambo has a breaking point!