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6 KEY Elements for Healing and Successful MFR

Here are the 6 KEY Elements for Healing and Successful MFR:

ACTIVATING THE LOVING PRESENCE OF THE ENERGY BODY

SLOWING EVERYTHING WAY DOWN

QUIET AND MEDITATIVE MIND

CONSCIOUS AND SLOW BREATHING

LEARNING TO FEEL ALL THE SENSATIONS

TREATING THE WHOLE BODY

If you are new to MFR (Myofascial Release) or looking for a deeper dive into this work and you also know deep inside that there is a way to heal yourself and your life, let me invite you to explore a few key elements necessary for your success and deeper progress and also for your self-treatment. Myofascial Release’s purpose is to help integrate your body with breath, and your mind with the fascial system, which is a doorway to an authentic healing, and flourishing in all aspects of your life.

6 KEY Elements for Healing and Successful MFR – Audio Recording. Your therapist is your facilitator, your guide, who helps you navigate towards healing and deeper connection. The goal of this beautiful work is for you to become more aware and conscious of your own restrictions, patterns, what is holding you back from healing, and from fully flourishing in life. The intention is also to connect and activate the Real You, The Healer within the innate capacity of your system that has ability for corrective and healing measures. This is the part of you that is eternal, divine, whole, and complete. Your therapist is holding space for you, encourages you, supports you and nudges you when they see you being stuck. Here are the 6 elements:

1) SLOWING EVERYHTING WAY DOWN is crucial and vitally important in a session and with self-healing techniques. This work invites us to slow down, way down, and hold the position for minimum of 3-5 minutes or even longer if we want to see some magic happen. Slowing down the mind and the breath is necessary for the “walls” or protective mechanism to start coming down.
2) QUIET and MEDITATIVE MIND. This point is significant. Quieting the mind from obsessive thinking, mental chatter, self- doubt, and wobble of confusion is necessary to hear the messages from the body appearing in the form of sensations or feelings, enabling you to explore your body. When you fully engage your mind with the body, it is like sinking into the groove and you enter the Mind-Body Connection. If you lose your mind to thoughts, be easy on yourself and come back to the body. It gets easier with time and practice. Imagine that you want to listen to a country song, yet your radio station is tuned into a reggae station. Put your mind’s attention onto the body. The key is for the mind to be more in the observer role. By paying attention to the breath and the sensations of the body you are learning how to be self-aware and how to expand that self-awareness.
3) CONSCIOUS BREATHING. Make it an intention to keep breathing more consciously, slower, however without effort or trying during the session. Engage with the breath that is deeper, smoother, and more relaxed. Breathe into the area of tightness or discomfort with a simple intention to fully feel and embrace that area with full acceptance and surrender. Stay very patient and present. See The Power of the Breath.
4) LEARNING TO FEEL. The only way to heal, truly and authentically, is through the feeling process which is exactly opposite to what society, or our upbringing is teaching us. The first 3 keys must be consistently present in order for you to start feeling anything. Engaging with the body and fascial system requires curiosity, staying open, being patient, remaining mentally quiet and neutral, imagining you are embarking on a new journey of self-discovery. Make it fun and exciting. Many times, you may not be familiar with those sensations, or your mind may question if you are supposed to feel them. With fascial restrictions you may experience tenderness, heat, burning, a “good” hurt, or a deep hard to reach itch. Breathe with and into these sensations and be present with them. You may feel that you want to stay in the same area longer or that you want to run away from it. With more time and practice you will become more familiar with those sensations. Think of those areas as a doorway to a space that wants your attention for healing. Your pain is not your enemy. It is here to invite you for deeper exploration so you can experience more freedom and liberation in your body and in your life.
5) TREATING THE WHOLE BODY. We tend to go directly to where the pain is. It is like spot treating. Remember that we are treating the entire system, body, and a person. In most cases of chronic pain, the root causes and restrictions are buried deep in the fascial system. A skilled and experienced therapist will help you to find the area that may require our attention.
6) ACTIVATING THE LOVING PRESENCE AND THE ENERGY BODY. After you are breathing for a few minutes, your mind is quiet, and your body is relaxing deeper and deeper. you will start becoming aware that something is rising from deep inside of your belly and your body. We are all born with a healing capacity and loving unconditional presence that is waiting for us to be tapped into when we learn how to quiet the mind, relax the body, and disconnect from the external world. Your most healing capacities are in your own heart and in your belly. This part is the most important part of healing that nobody really talks about.

Introduction to Experiencing a Healthier You
My deep intention and joy has always been to share and teach you the ways you can discover and ignite your own healing capacity for a greater level of healing, up-leveling yourself, and living your best life.
The month of May brings to the forefront the magnification of that intent through introducing you to Wholistic Self Care (WSC) – Experience a Healthier You.
From our work together at the office I know you have been living with chronic pain for years and even for decades. Making progress can be such a relief and yet often we feel frustrated and disappointed when our pain ebbs and flows.
Science is showing us that how we relate to our pain can be affected by our thoughts, feelings, attitude, beliefs and also by our subconscious mind. This is what I am so excited to be teaching; that we can create new thoughts, emotions and energy that amplify our own healing.
My intention is to teach you how to use new tools and techniques to connect, unlock and unleash the amazing healing stream of energy that naturally flows through our physical body. You may experience healing on many different levels – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
WSC is an effort that represents an expanded vision of Wholistic Therapeutics growth based on my deep desire to teach each of you valuable tools and practices derived from my experience and the Science of Energy Medicine.
Open Focus
I remember taking some very early Myofascial Release classes when we were instructed to approach every person with an open focus. I have to admit that I had no idea what it meant, but when I learned more about it – it changed everything.
What if I told you that the key to healing and to having a more successful, calm and happy life is based on how we pay attention?
What??? What do you mean??
What if I told you that there are different ways to pay attention, and to use our attention, based on what we want to accomplish or heal. You see – two different goals.
Most of us are brought up to pay attention in a very narrow fashion, when we need to learn something, or when the situation asks us for a very intense and laser type of focus. Since many of us get rewarded for that way of paying attention, we wrongly assume it is the only mode of operation.
This mode of operation is meant only for short periods of time when we need to focus intensely to accomplish something or when there is an emergency, and we need to densely gather energy to act to survive the ordeal or to save someone else.
Living in a society filled with high anxiety and fear-based information and perception of the world, habitually teaches our nervous system to be in a constant fight and flight or freeze mode.
Most of us live in a highly compromised sympathetic mode where stress hormones flood our system, blood pressure is increased, blood vessels become constricted exceeding the capacity of the muscles to relax. That leads to chronic pain and musculoskeletal dysfunction.
If we continue living in this manner we are headed to disease, disorder in the body, chronic pain, anxiety, problems in relationships, being unhappy and unfulfilled, and we never really access our true genius.
Have we given any thought to the fact that we all possess healing and renewing capacities inside of ourselves and can live a much more rewarding life?
The narrow focus or trying or performing mode will never access those juicy abilities.
Living in this way we may never may know what is really possible for us.
When we learn how to pay attention in a more open, relaxed and fluid way, our nervous system starts to relax and switches to a more parasympathetic mode, which enhances healing, the blood vessel and muscles are relaxed, happy hormones are flooding our system, and we can start healing and living in a more fulfilling, calm and happy way.
Nothing from the outside needs to change.
All we need to change and learn is how to open our focus, and to pay attention, as our attention determines how our nervous system, which operates our body, works for us, or against us.
The key to any new habit or changing the programing is repetition! Self-Discipline and repetition are the two keys that will put you on a new path to healing.
I always want to make sure that you are aware of what is available to you that can help with your journey of life…