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Releasing Stress Heals Fibromyalgia
Do you have ongoing, non-specific pain? Is this pain worse when you’re tired or stressed? If you answered yes, you may be suffering from Fibromyalgia.
If you google stress and Fibromyalgia, you’ll see that Fibromyalgia is a hot topic. For my Stressed Out blog, I [...]

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There’s an 80% chance you will see your doc about back pain during your life. In the last article, you learned the distinction between acute and chronic back pain, and how to not cause either. And you learned that breathing is the key to preventing and healing back tension. This article will explore, in [...]

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It’s inevitable. Like death and taxes. Back pain.
Second to colds, the most likely reason you’ll visit a healthcare provider will be back pain. Fifty percent of Americans report back pain each year.
Are you in pain right now? Is your movement limited? Are you reducing your activities because of the pain or the fear [...]

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This post is an article that was published in the Rolf Institute’s journal by Gael Ohlgren, a Rolfer and her teaching partner Robert Litman about the body, exercise, breathing and staying young. They discuss Continuum, a body and movement therapy which is the a beautiful compliment to Rolfing with its teaching the body about deep [...]

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Social and emotional support 
Social support can be a key to reducing healing crises. Finding people or a group that understands what it is to travel the healing journey may take some work. Many “support groups” focus on an illness. These groups aren’t focused on the process of getting well. I have seen instances when a [...]

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Support through expressing emotions 
I discovered if you could take what was emotional stress stored in the body and convert it back to expressed emotions, healing crises could be avoided or reduced in intensity. To facilitate this I have recommended to clients that they go out and rent a set of movies that represent the five [...]

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Support 
Now that you understand the concept of the healing crisis, you can know what is occurring and can be familiar with the symptoms. Lets discuss what you can do to support yourself through the process. 
Creating the new frame for your reactions, and how this can generate a healing crisis in itself, can be significant. When [...]

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Emotions
When clients tell me what the biggest benefits to being Rolfed were, they usually say that it’s not that the symptoms that brought them in are long gone, but that their emotional/stress state is much better. I was naïve as to how much stress impacted my body and its tension level, and how [...]

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 Symptoms
Symptoms range from the most subtle physical release to the occasional, intense emotional release. Here is list of some of the most common healing crisis reactions I’ve observed in the past 30 years:

extreme fatigue
listlessness, feeling “spaced-out” and/or confusion
restlessness
emotional sensitivity
melancholy
neediness and/or wanting to be left alone
outbursts of emotions such as: anger, fear/anxiety, sadness/grief
dizziness, a [...]

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What is happening?  Continued
Old or sub-clinical (not medically observable) infections can die off. These very low-grade infections can be bacterial, viral or fungal. A lingering infection may finally leave, as the soft tissue of the body increases it circulation and vitality. As the infection dies off, much like with a common flu, there can be [...]

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