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Have you ever had a physical injury that seemd to plague you long after the site had healed? That's not as unusual as you might think. Even when CranioSacral Therapy releasese restrictions in body tissues, sometimes a release of emotional energy is necessary to fully discharge a trauma. In those cases, I may gently encourage a SomatoEmotional Release.
Research conducted in the late '70s by osteopath Dr. John E. Upledger and biophysicist Zvi Karni led to the discovery that the body often retains the emotional imprint of physical or emotional trauma or shock.
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What is an an energy cyst?
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These imprints, especially of intense feelings that may have occurred at the time of injury — anger, fear, resentment, grief—leave residues in the body called "energy cysts."
The body responds to an energy cycst by effectively walling it off and compensating around it, rather like a boulder in a stream.
Although you can adapt to energy cysts, over time your body requires extra energy to continue performing its day-to-day functions. Then, as years pass and the body becomes more stressed, the adaptive pattern of the body loses its effectiveness; symptoms begin to appear, and become more difficult to suppress or ignore.
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How does SER work?
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Through SomatoEmotional Release, I engage in imaging and dialoguing processes (in addition to the hands-on techniques) that can guide the patient through an otherwise challenging encounter with long-held emotions. The patient does not need to analyze the problem to release it.
Often the body will spontaneously return to the same position it was in when the injury was first sustained. As this occurs, I can feel the tissues of the body relax as the energy cyst is dissolved.
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What are the results of SER?
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SER helps release these patterns from the body and the mind, resulting in elimination of symptoms, increased energy being available for optimal healthy physical functioning, and an enhanced sense of wholeness and balance in the physical and emotional state.
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