How To Shift a Client Out of Hyper-Arousal

Signs of  Sympathetic Hyper-Arousal 

Actually it’s the clients who must do the work to manage their own Autonomic Nervous System. I introduce a breathing practices, our gear shift for managing our nervous system, and the incorporation of a couple of simple techniques from Educational Kinesiology which have become very popular with Chiropractors in the last decade as they choose to expand their clientele to work with kids who have cognitive processing problems due to their exposure to stressful life experience.  Slowing the breathing and rebooting the brain are VERY effective to shifting the ANS toward the Parasympathetic where all healing and cell repair takes place.

NeuroMuscular Reprogramming NMR® incorporates some of the basics of Brain Function Facilitation (my term for Brain Gym®) and teaches it at a level that can make a big difference to clients’ progress.  Everyone’s goal is much the same: reduced structural pain and improved Range of Motion (ROM).   The body cannot change or learn new things when the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is stuck in hyper-arousal. Survival and the chemistry of immediate automatic action keep the fixations locked in place.

In my intake forms I look for signs of multi-system breakdown.  When there is a history of trauma and visceral or cognitive effect, ongoing Sympathetic Dominance may be a contributing factor. For some people the hindrance is cognitive and for others it’s structural/functional and for others it has evolved into metabolic disturbances disrupting digestion, absorption, elimination, rest, rejuvenation and cellular repair.