Your nervous system has a language
We need to be listening 🎧✨🌊✨
Good afternoon, drops of sunshine ☀️ I hope you are having a great week so far! Thank you for opening this message 💛
I recently remembered something really crazy that happened with me and a client at New Day a couple of years ago.
One afternoon, this client arrived at New Day for her regularly scheduled care, coming into the adjusting room and laying down on her stomach on the table as she normally would.
But then, when I approached her on the table, touching her spine and checking in with her (“How’s it been going?” etc.) as I normally do with each of you when you come in for your care, she did not respond to me.
That’s when I noticed something strange. I saw that she was holding her cellphone in her hand and had her airpods in her ears.
I watched as her thumb hit “mute” and she turned her head to me to say, “I’m on Zoom,” before again turning face down and unmuting herself.
I was astonished. Then, I was shocked. Then I was just frustrated and (quite frankly) a bit angry 😱😱😱
How could anyone who receives my care, I wondered, possibly think that listening to a Zoom call during their adjustment could be a good use of time and energy? For them or for me??
I mean, on the one hand maybe she just somehow thought that I am just SUCH a magician with this care that it would somehow work on her in spite of her lack of engagement or attention paid? 🪄✨🪄💥
It must also be considered that this required engagement is one of the MAJOR differences between this form of care versus interventions in the medical realm.
In our (medical) culture we are conditioned to think that for something to “work” that it should “work” without any input or awareness from the (passive) patient.
And not only that but that the procedure should possibly even “work” without the patient even knowing it’s happening 😮 (consider the medical research “gold standard” of the randomized, double-blind, controlled trial)
Network Spinal is quite the opposite, which is new for many people.
Think of it this way; this is a practice.
A practice, whether it’s a yoga practice, a meditation practice, a movement practice, or this, is a way of observing yourself.
Your nervous system is speaking. Probably not in English or a language that you immediately understand (especially not at first).
When you come in for your care with me, this is a practice for you to observe yourself and your spine and be listening to your nervous system.
The language your nervous system speaks through your body and spine comes in the form of:
👂👀🥰💥💐🔥 sensations
💨🌀🎈💗 breaths
🕺🌊🐬🐣 movements
It is speaking at all times, not just when you come to New Day to be adjusted by me 😊
So why not just start “listening” to your nervous system at all times even when you’re not here?
When you are experiencing the adjustments in Network Spinal care, there’s a “listening” that just isn’t possible when you are stressed, in fight-or-flight, overwhelmed, in pain, and/or ruminating and focused on your situation.
The atmosphere at New Day, and the fact that you are laying face down with nothing else to focus on, helps too!
But the adjustments are what’s helping the most.
While you are “practicing” with your observation of your nervous system, body, and spine, I am simultaneously listening to your spine and body and working with you in such a way as to have your nervous system speak more loudly and/or have it feel like your (metaphorical) “ears” are suddenly working MUCH better 💥
The better you can observe/listen/focus/be aware on the table at New Day, the more quickly this care process will start helping you outside the office and in the ways you want it to help you ✨☀️💥🌀💗🌍
Thank you for for reading this message and engaging in this amazing, life-changing care process and beautiful New Day community!
I look forward to seeing you for your care with me tonight, tomorrow, Thursday, and next week ✨
SEE ALSO:
Don’t kill the vibe (April 2024)
We can’t solve the problem from the level of consciousness that created the problem. . . (February 2024)
Nobody ever asks, “What’s your middle game?” (December 2024)
