Troubled Childhood, Triumphant Life: Healing From the Battle Scars of Youth by James P. Krehbiel

Author:James P. Krehbiel [Krehbiel, James P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Personal Growth, Happiness, Self-Help, Child Psychology, Emotional Problems of Children
ISBN: 9780882823188
Publisher: New Horizon Press
Published: 2010-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Power of Touch

Massage therapy provides another entry point to ferret out emotions and faulty assumptions. Often, our psychological pain manifests itself as somatic symptoms. Our muscles may be tense, our backs strained and we develop chronic headaches. When we choose to store our psychic pain rather than express it, we’re more likely to experience mind/body difficulties. Pain is similar to water leaks that find an open space: We try to plug the leak, but eventually it finds its way to another vulnerable spot.

Our body has a warning mechanism (sympathetic nervous system) that lets us know when things are amiss. Massage therapy provides us with another avenue for breaking up trigger points, which represent our way of holding our body together to protect it from harm. When we have experienced trauma, we may be afraid to unwind our bodies, anticipating that we will “unravel” in the process.

Massage therapy helps us make a connection between our tension-filled bodies and our emotional states. As we allow our muscles to relax, there may be a corresponding response or release from our thoughts and feelings. Massage therapy provides us with one more way of getting at a complex of thoughts and feelings that we have stored during childhood for our own protection.

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