Release your stress with Network Care

by Dr. Robin Browne - Doctor of Chiropractic

Stress is a fact of life - of our busy lives. In fact it's so common that we don't even realize what a toll it’s taking on our bodies and our health.  But when we consider that stress is major component of all diseases, it needs to take top priority in our wellness treatments.

Network Care is a chiropractic method designed to bring you from illness to wellness, from surviving to thriving. It uses the least amount of intervention to achieve the most amount of change. In three levels of care, Network Care uses light touches along the spine in a precise sequence to reorganize your nervous system’s response to stress. It’s like an upgrade to your hard drive!

So why do we get stuck in survival? STRESS and our BRAIN. Our brain function has evolved in three main stages. Heart rate, breathing and basic survival instincts are organized by the reptilian brain. The mammalian brain is one level up - it coordinates feeding, breeding, fighting and fleeing. It is reactive and uses a black and white, knee jerk kind of reasoning. The ‘highest’ level is the frontal cortex - our awareness, integration, compassion, love, meaning and sense of community lives here. Everything that happens to us enters our body through our senses and is filtered by the brain from the bottom up.

There are many kinds of stress and many stress response patterns. The ‘fight or flight response’ is the best known. First it builds tension in the muscles around the spine and limbs to prepare us to fight or flee. Second, the body shifts the blood flow away from the digestive and reproductive organs to the heart, lungs and muscles so you have the resources to save your life. Third, it affects your ability to think and feel. Your attention is shifted away from your thoughts and emotions to the external events happening around you. This mechanism allows the body to store tension and our emotions about the event until the threat has passed.

Under normal circumstances when the body perceives a threat, fight or flight takes over like an autopilot and when the threat has passed, the tension and the emotions associated with it are naturally released. Because the body survived the incident it learns to use the same strategy for the next similar event. But, if the stress is constant, repeated or overwhelming, we can get stuck. Then the tensions and emotions continue under the surface using up our vital energy and reducing our capacity to feel and think.

With our head down, our shoulders rounded and our body stooped forward, we may look and feel like we’re carrying ‘the weight of the world on our shoulders.’ At this level, the cumulative effects of stored tension can interfere with the communication in the spine, further disrupting the nervous system. Eventually our physiology begins to erode followed by symptoms, opening the door to pathological changes and disease syndromes.

Network Care clients are required to participate during their treatments by breathing deeply and paying attention to their inner experience. As you learn to connect to tension in your body and release it, you realize that your body is taking care of you every moment.

With Network Care your body learns to seek out more subtle levels of stored tension and releases the energy from them. Because your system is at ease, you are free to think and feel, and will naturally make better life choices. Experience how easy wellness can be with the touch of a finger!

Robin offers Network Care at New Strategy Wellness Centre. It’s exciting how easy wellness can be. To get started today call 780 429-0023.

Note: This information is for educational purposes only. It is intended to supplement your current health program and not to replace the care of a doctor. For diagnosis or treatment of any disease please consult a licensed physician.

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