Potential For Change
Pain is Our Body Telling Us Something is Not Functioning Correctly
As long as we are alive…we have the potential to change, to ‘reprogram’ our muscle coordination for support and movement. How can we accomplish that efficiently and easily?
The human body is a living intelligent system constantly adapting itself to new influences in its environment. Even arthritis is body intelligence at work. Finding a language to communicate to the brain’s organizational intelligence so it can most quickly find its way back to normal function gets you the winner’s cup in bodywork. NeuroMuscular Reprogramming (NMR) is such a language.
NMR is based in a very simple process. Add that process to what you are already doing and you will see miracles everyday in your sessions.
I have experimented for over 50 years with the NMR protocol to determine whether the prior muscle testing of related muscles matters to the correction process and I find most of the time that simply releasing a muscle does not have the same ability to change the preset of muscle firing patterns, ie., the ‘default’ firing pattern of muscles firing in a sequence. Hence once the sacral extensors begin initiating for the gluts and hamstrings walking up stairs, it is not possible to get the hamstrings to fire without the back just by thinking about it. It requires a ritual of reprogramming to enable that change to be easily possible.
The prior muscle testing of affected functions (back extensors) related to those contracted hamstrings in this case, enables the body to integrate new sequencing ability very quickly, after which residual restrictions in the hypertonic sacral extensors are able to melt away without the use of force. The other thing I’ve noticed is that manipulating tissue that is not integrated functionally with its surroundings does not produce much change for the time invested and the painful soreness of those tissues tends to persist even though deep tissue bodywork techniques are being applied.
NMR makes the rest of your bodywork easier. Often tight muscles spontaneously achieve a deeper release after post testing a correction. ‘Challenging’ the neuromuscular sequence involved anchors, for the body’s self referencing, that the alignment and functional sequencing are better supported and all muscles are doing their part. It’s the big AHHHHHH of release, after the AHA!! of learning something new and turning on new capabilities.