| You might be surprised to know that one of the | | | | able to recognise and properly deal with the cause |
| main reasons why a body develops pain or | | | | of someone's stress is such an important part of |
| problems is stress. When the stress levels are | | | | the therapist's job of preventing and taking away |
| high the muscles become tight and inflexible, the | | | | their pain. |
| circulation is restricted and over time the muscle | | | | Working on the muscles, using your hands, is a |
| fibers become dry, stiff and dysfunctional. A | | | | great way of connecting what you feel in the |
| therapist who is skilled at recognising and dealing | | | | tissue with what a person is feeling in the way of |
| with the specific causes of a body's stress will go | | | | pain. Similarly other lifestyle factors can also be |
| a lot further to taking someone's pain away. One | | | | felt in the body's soft tissue. Things such as; if a |
| who carries out a more standard treatment on | | | | person worries too much or doesn't get enough |
| every client, without picking up on these subtle | | | | sleep, if they eat well or not, how much exercise |
| tissue differences will do little more than rub the | | | | they do, even how strong and healthy they are |
| muscles. | | | | generally, all show up in the muscles in the way |
| To understand the causes of stress, the best | | | | the soft tissue feels. |
| way of reversing it and minimising its impact in | | | | Most of the things that make someone's body |
| the future, your bodywork training must go well | | | | feel different from that of a relaxed, strong and |
| beyond just a standardised approach of rubbing | | | | healthy body can be explained as some form of |
| muscles. It must cover the best way of | | | | 'stress', whether it be emotional, physical or |
| diagnosing and treating the multitude of problems | | | | chemical imbalance. |
| that can occur in the body. The problem is that | | | | Once a therapist assesses and adequately deals |
| many of the teachers themselves are not skilled | | | | with the stress levels in the body, the tissue |
| at doing this and therefore cannot pass it on to | | | | becomes much more responsive to the |
| their students. | | | | treatment being given, the results are achieved |
| One of the biggest problems I see therapists are | | | | faster and will last much longer. |
| not taught how to advise people on the best way | | | | Without properly dealing with the stress levels and |
| to maintain their body at a level that will keep up | | | | their cause, it can be impossible to get results in |
| with their chosen lifestyle so that it doesn't break | | | | many cases, because the tissue stress makes |
| down with injury and illness. Everything that | | | | the manual work far to painful to endure whilst |
| causes stress to the body will bring it that much | | | | the muscles memory and patterns of imbalance |
| closer to developing a problem. This is why being | | | | stubbornly resist the change that is required. |