We hear so much about stress these days: the high percentage of doctor's visits that are related to stress, the number of diseases related to stress, etc... Rheumatoid arthritis, many forms of cancer, mental illness, high blood pressure, ulcers, insomnia, headaches, migraines, back pain, carpal tunnel and numbness are all byproducts of being overwhelmed by stress. In the current health paradigm a lot of energy is being spent trying to fight off these symptoms but many are finding that they can't fight hard enough to make a difference. Watch the news or pick up a paper (speaking of causes of stress, I suggest moderation here) and you'll see why. The world and our lives are becoming increasingly complex, increasingly stressful, and the trend toward greater and greater levels of stress is not going to change.

When we choose to do battle with something, it tends to fight back. Approaching the subject of stress with a little bit of acceptance might create a helpful change in perspective. The truth is that we can rely on the continued acceleration of stress levels because that's what dynamic, living systems like ours do. They adopt higher levels of organization and they get more complex, more stressful, if you will. Like it or not, we are all an inseparable part of this planet and everyone and everything living on it. This system is changing and evolving, exerting pressure (through stress) on us to change and evolve with it. To the extent that we can adapt to the stress, we will develop new strategies for living. The information that we can't deal with, however, ends up as defensive patterns in our nervous systems, tension in our bodies and survival strategies in our lives. If we make stress the enemy, we're likely to become overcome by it, driven into a constant state of survival. If we can allow ourselves to ride the wave of stress, adapt to it, it will carry us to new levels of being.

Is it possible, then, to increase our ability to adapt to stress? Yes. Over the last 20 years, new wellness technologies have started to emerge to meet our need for greater adaptability to our environment. These wellness technologies are systems of healing that allow a person to build new strategies for healing and living. Whereas the predominate health paradigm is about trying to get things to look the way they did before, the emerging paradigm is about creating something new and unique and more energy efficient out of what is. While the current, prevalent paradigm is concerned with the restoration and the maintenance of what was, the emerging paradigm is about taking the pieces of the current situation and completely reorganizing them into something that functions on a higher order. Network Spinal Analysis and Somato Respiratory Integration, the technique that we utilize at the Network Life Center, is a technique on the leading edge of this emerging, Re-organizational Healing field.

Recently an in depth article was written describing this newly emerging field being led by Donald Epstein, the developer of Network Spinal Analysis and Somato Respiratory Integration. Incidentally the Network Life Center's own Dan Lemberger, D.C. is one of the co-authors of this groundbreaking paper. Click here to read the paper.