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Issue: 2

June/2011

Greetings!

   

Welcome to our second newsletter from Alamo Holistic Healing Center.  It is our intention to provide our clients with information and articles that we think would interest you and provide insight into our style of healthcare and wellness.  In addition, we plan on providing tips for improving your health and practice of maintaining inner calm and contentment.  In this, our June Newsletter, we have provided short articles on such topics as your inner physician, the healing process, conscious breathing and self care techniques.

Be sure to let us know what you think about our newsletter and if you have any suggestions regarding future content, please let us know.  Wishing you the best in your Health and Wellness.

-Mike, Michelle, Marci & Tracy

Alamo Holistic Healing Center

Mike Morgan, LAc

The Recovery of Wellness, or the Real Healing Process

 

 One of the most important steps in undergoing any healing modality is having an understanding of the healing process.  As we begin our treatments for any illness or symptom, we come face to face with the healing process. 

 

Western medicine has provided us with a mostly short-sighted approach when it comes to healing.  This approach has taught us that healing is something that is experienced quickly and immediately.  Since western medicine tends to look at health care as simply the cessation of symptoms, it has taught us that healing is only the removal of symptoms or the condition that caused us to seek medical care in the first place.  In the western approach the headache is cured if the headache is no longer felt by us.  But too often this approach leads us to a cyclic occurrence of symptoms.  We take our medication and our symptoms disappear and, more often than not, we need to take more medicine in order to maintain this removal of symptoms.  This does not lead to a healing of our medical condition.  Instead, it leads us to a continual requirement to medicate our illness forever.

In holistic medicine such as Acupuncture, the approach to healing is quite different.  True Healing is the end of illness and the recovery of Wellness.  This process is often complicated and requires many steps through to its completion.  One of the most important things to remember as we undergo any healing modality is that there are times when the sensation of healing seems to become less and less.  In the beginning of treatments many people experience quick and amazing results. As their treatments continue these results seem to taper, or level off.  Many people begin to become discouraged during these times often mistaking this leveling-off as the end of any healing benefits they can expect to receive from the treatment.  Actually, what is happening during these times is that the body is rebuilding and recovering at a deep level.  This time of deeper healing is the most important time in any healing process because it is precisely during these times of "leveling off" that the recovery from our illness is taking place.  When this deeper healing is completed we are able to take the next step in our recovery.  We can take the next step towards Wellness.

When this next step is taken, sometime we experience new symptoms or illness.  An example of this would be a newly discovered muscle tightness or pain once a joint or tendon pain is resolved.   This expression of new symptoms is often a deeper illness which was hidden or masked by the original discomfort.  The body was unable to deal with it directly, either because there was not enough healing energy, or the illness was trapped within the body.  As we recover our wellness, the body has more and more energy to direct towards other issues and traumas that have been lurking within the body.  The healing process becomes more like the peeling away of the proverbial onion layers than the simple "relief of symptoms", as suggested by the western medical model. 

What is important to remember is that true healing is often a journey which begins to unravel the layers of trauma and illness that our bodies have experienced over the many years of our life.  Once we achieve our recover of wellness, we can live our lives without our illness and our medications.  What we must remember is that this process of healing requires personal patience and a great deal of self-support as we peel back our layers and step into our wellness.

Marchelle Milligan, MS, CST

Your Inner Physician Marci

 

When you bruise a part of your body, do you have to think about how to heal it?  No, your body knows exactly what to do without you even needing to think about it.  With a small cut, a scrape, some part of us just knows how to heal it. It knows because your body is designed to fix itself.  It manages to do this very well most of the time. 

 

You only run into a problem when, for some reason, your body has to over-compensate to maintain balance.  It would be like trying to ride a bike with a lots of baggage hanging off the side.

 

Our bodies never stop trying to release the deeper residual patterns of trauma. If the imprint is too intense, it overwhelms our body's repair mechanism. The prolonged effort of trying to release a traumatic imprint that is stuck is exhausting and after years of trying your body can feel very low in energy. 

 

You may be able to keep going, but the effort over time would be draining and eventually you would crash.  Our body fixes itself on a daily basis with things like bruises or infections etc., which would be small bags. A big bag would be a trauma. 

 

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) facilitates what the body is trying to do to fix itself, not by the therapist deciding what needs to be fixed.  CST believes that the primary focus is on listening; supporting and recognizing that the body has an autonomous, all-knowing intelligence known as the "Inner Physician" or body intelligence.  If you would like more information on CST please visit my website, or call  (925) 286-6237. 

Tracy Tucker, CST

Conscious Breathing 

Tracy

 

Why is "Conscious" breathing so important?

The lungs are the radiator of the body. With each breath, we are oxygenating and detoxifying our muscles and organs (especially our brain).  Natural breathing is too shallow for our bodies to perform at peak level. We should focus on our breathing several times throughout the day. Conscious breathing consists of taking a deep breath in through the nose, filling the abdomen, holding it for a few seconds, and releasing it fully through the mouth. Studies have shown that a lack of oxygen can lead to anxiety, chronic fatigue, insomnia, etc. A deep breath of fresh air is free. So breath it in!

Michelle Dorshkind, CMT, CHT

Self Care Techniques

Michelle

 

This month I had a hard time creating an article. I'm in the middle of a busy holiday month, packing my home for an upcominng move, while caring for a toddler, doing laundry, cooking, updating a website, and creating a newsletter.  Kids are transitioning into summer activities, and the world seems like it is in chaos.

  

Too often our lives are filled with tasks. We often find ourselves driving on auto-pilot to our next destination. For example, have you ever "zoned out" while driving and passed your exit?  That little meditation is a "hypnotic state of mind". You've drifted off to some other place in your mind...trusting your body to steer you in the right direction. Those mini vacations can feel good, but if your body is exhausted it can be dangerous on the roads.

 

I've found myself recently "zoning out" and feeling like I don't know which direction I am going in general.  Thank goodness I have a lot of tools in my pocket to practice "self care" that help me get through challenging times when my schedule is too busy for one more appointment. They are simple and most only take 5 minutes a day to practice.  Lately, I have been practicing all of these self care techniques...

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USAlamo Holistic Healing Center is a collaborative group of healing practitioners offering preventative and restorative healthcare through alternative medicine.We support people who are actively working on a balanced wellness program to maintain overall good health. We look forward to serving you in your wellness program.
 

 

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