Sanctuary for Heart Magic :Unwinding Spines & Unleashing Hearts utilizing Network Spinal Chiropractic in Boulder, Colorado: bodily symptoms

UNWINDING NEUROLOGICAL DEFENSE

Dismantling our protection from pain

We’ve all experienced tension. That tight, constricted, unrelaxed feeling. Sometimes it feels hard to breathe. It can come with feeling overwhelmed and like there isn’t enough time or resources available to us. It can be challenging to discover and feel what we are feeling. Often it comes with uncomfortable sensations in the body. Tension is means of protection. We create tension, and our body feels that tension, in order to protect us from pain, when we perceive that pain might be present or imminent. The pain, which tension is protecting us from, isn’t always clearly evident to us. Yet if we investigate we can always find the thing we are attempting to avoid feeling or experiencing.

Pain can come in many forms. It can be purely at the body/sensation level. You might experience this in a car accident or a fall where you finding yourself bracing (i.e. creating tension) in order to protect the body from damage and lessen the impact. You may also have a chronically painful part of your body. Often we create tension around that area in order to attempt to not feel the pain as much. It’s not the tension that is painful even if that is what we think is the source of the pain. The true source of the pain is often below the tension. The tension is the means to dull what is underneath it. Pain can also be felt at the emotional level. The root of most emotional pain is the fear/experience of being unloved or unlovable. At the next level up pain felt at the mental levels is often rooted in not being enough, sharing enough or having anything worthy to give/be. Lastly pain is also experienced at the spiritual level, which is rooted in believing we are separate from spirit/God.

Due to the fact that most people don’t want to experience pain we learn to create protection or defense from it. We gear up and create armoring. This armoring is like a neurological suit that we wear that we don’t even know that we are wearing. Everything we experience or interact with gets to come into contact with this suit. The suit is a filter. It’s not who we are, but it is often who we think we are and also who others perceive us to be. Loosely you could call this our personality, and it also comes with a particular way we posture our body, talk, walk, think, perceive, dress, eat, behave and the sensations we have or don’t have. It colors our entire world. The suit comes with wiring. That wiring is called neurological defense. There are patterns and architecture to neurological defense. These patterns are specifically what Network Chiropractic addresses. Network assesses for the patterns that are present and helps wake up awareness and liberate energy inside these patterns of protection, so that your true self may be known to you.

OPENING INTO THE HEART

Rewriting the nervous system

The true self is the heart. It is that space or experience of relaxation and easefulness that is joyfully and blissfully present. It is light and spacious. It is all inclusive and allows everything inside of it to be as it is. It is energized and alive. It is awake. It sees nothing as wrong. There is no resistance and we feel just as our self. Nothing to hide, protect, avoid, or run away from experiencing. It is that which we are all hungry for and finding our way into in our own ways. The heart is not just for some people or for some times. It is for all times and all people.

The heart seems absent, foreign or mysterious to us when we are in a state of neurological defense. When we are in protection mode we view ourselves as a subject/object that is independent from other subject/objects. This is how most beings in the world view themselves and also why there is such a disconnection from the heart amongst our collective at large. When separation is the predominant perspective than there is always something/someone to protect ourselves from. Yet when that predominant perceptive changes to non-separation or unity, than protection becomes nonsensical and arbitrary.

The heart isn’t something hard to find. Its all pervasive, ever present and never comes or goes. What does come or go is our focus or attention on it. When our focus and attention is wrapped up in all the ways we need to protect ourselves to physically survive, get all of our emotional needs met and to satisfy the demands of the stories we’ve learned to tell ourselves about what our life is supposed to be and who we are supposed to be, then the heart is not in our view. Shifting priorities, changing stories and reconditioning the neurological patterns present in your energetic and physical configuration is required in order to experience life as heart.

Opening into the heart is closer than you think. It’s not too hard to find/feel glimpses of it. These glimpses are important as they start to light up pathways that don’t get lit up that frequently inside most people’s nervous systems. This is what Network entrainments provide the container for as well. During entrainments an energetic field is created that is organized in such a way to amplify the experience of heart for you. While the gentle contacts along the spine help dismantle neurological defense, this field or container of the heart is readily present and available. With continued tastes, touches and glimpses of this field of the heart, a person can receive and exchange more and more energy and awareness with this field. The energy, awareness and perspective of heart then becomes the dominant program in your system. The heart starts speaking louder than the pathways that are fighting for survival and viewing life from a scarce and separate perspective. This is the progression, the objective and the intention. It’s simple. It’s available. It’s time is ripe.

Dr. Amanda Love, Chiropractor, Network Spinal Analysis & Somato-Respiratory Integration, Boulder, Colorado

YOUR BODY IS NOT SEPARATE FROM YOU

The catalyst of bodily symptoms

Most people don’t like it when their body behaves in ways that seem dysfunctional. People’s relationship to novel or chronic sensations, pains, or symptoms that don’t make sense often throw them into a state of alarm, panic and distress. The struggle to attempt to change the expression through figuring out and controlling one’s self or environment can become life consuming. Often the journey can feel exhausting and like it isn’t achieving the desired outcome.

If you see from the perspective that this entire life experience is about learning, then including the experiences that you have in relationship with your body is no different. Oftentimes however rather than viewing from the perspective that life is about learning we attempt to find some solidity or permanence inside of our experience, particularly when it comes to our physical body. Since most people identity as their body rather than the presence that makes their body come alive many feel intimately threatened by certain bodily sensations or symptoms. That threat can come in the form of not being able to do things we feel we want to do, loss of certain functions that seem vital to our existence and a general hopeless or powerless perspective towards the body and its expressions.

First I want to offer the perspective that you are not your body. Your body is an instrument of you. It is what you utilize inside of this human experience, but it is not you. The body also does not function independent of you. Just like a piano does not play without the pianist, your body does not function without you playing it. Without you your body does not make a sound, a beep, or a single move. This is important to fully understand. See when things go “awry’ in our body we tend to view the body as separate from us and while your body is not you it does nothing without you.

When we view our body as acting independently from us we disown ourselves in the equation and thus any power we have. This is why we feel powerless, helpless and try to figure it all out as if it is something other than us. It is not that we are actually powerless or helpless to our body, but only that we have the perspective that we are somehow separate from our body. When we see through and dissolve the story of separation we no longer perceive disconnection or otherness. There is no other thing inside of your body running the show. It is only you inside your body running the show. How could there be something or someone else inside of your body? That one that is you is the one that is playing this instrument of your body.

EMPOWERED YOU = HAPPY BODY

You are the Creator

All learning is to help us realize more of ourselves, and the more realized we are of what we are, the more empowered we experience ourselves to be. To say this another way the more we know ourselves, the more aware we are, and the more resourceful we are in navigating with the forms of life because we see more clearly how we are the creator of them. The body is one of those forms of life, one in which we are seemingly more intimately connected too.

In times when we perceive greater separation there is often the feeling that life and our body are against us. Maybe we see our body’s symptoms, pains and expressions as punishment for something, or as unfair, or as wrong. However our body is not against us as that would be absolutely impossible. That would be like saying the piano is against the pianist. How could that even be so? Who would be inside the piano to be against anything. The piano is inherently neutral and so is your body. What chooses for or against is you.

What I am pointing to here is a high level of empowerment and knowing yourself. Not everyone is ready to take full responsibility for knowing themselves and therefore will keep trying to fix and manipulate the form. The form will change in response to those manipulations, however it may or may not change your experience. This is why people don’t arrive where they hope to arrive. They are waiting on the form to inform them. They are allowing the form to decide for them rather than deciding for themselves.

The way I see it is that the body’s expressions are catalyst, meaning ways to help us wake up and realize ourselves. They are learning tools. They are not meant as punishment, or to harm us, and they are not wrong or unfair. They are pointers, pointing us to pay attention to ourselves. To see, choose, act, respond, think, and feel differently then we currently do. To expand our range of life and possibility and move beyond our current perceptions of limitation. To ultimately turn our awareness towards ourselves rather than the stuff of life. To come to know ourselves. This is how I see all of life. There is nothing in this entire universe that isn’t moving towards greater self-recognition. That is the impulse that drives all movement, all energy and all direction. It drives your entire life even if you don’t yet see it.

No forms are permanent. We all know this despite our great efforts to try to make them so. You are on an epic learning journey with the only destination being greater awareness of self. The one stable, non-changing element is you. Not your mind, thoughts, emotions, sensations or ideas about who you are, but your very essence. Come to know that. Realize that is all any of this is about. Find safety in yourself, not in the ever changing world of forms.

Dr. Amanda Love, Chiropractor, Network Spinal Analysis & Somato-Respiratory Integration, Boulder, Colorado