Man Is One: How Our Mood Leads to Physical Injury

The man is waiting for someone to come to him. The bell rings, he rushes to open the door, slips, falls. Now let’s add some details.

The first situation: before the arrival of guests, the host is in joyful anticipation. The long-awaited bell rings, he quickly gets up, clings to the edge of the carpet, falls and, most likely, without even noticing it, runs to the door.

The second situation: the owner is waiting for a summons to a gloomy court. A frightening call rings out. He, already hunched, downcast, depressed, trudges to the door, trying at least for a moment to delay the inevitable blow of fate. And here in addition to everything falls.

Question: what will be the consequences for each?

Most likely, the one who was waiting for the guests with joy, I repeat, will not even notice the fall, and his body will not notice either. He feels light, impetuous, dexterous, mobile — like we are all on the rise. And the one who was waiting for the summons, it’s good if he gets off with bruises, because in such a mood you can earn even more serious injury.

What happens to the body?

Doctor of osteopathy John Upledger and biophysicist Zvi Karni have suggested that the density of the tissues of the human body allows it to dissipate the energy entering it. Upon contact of the body with the floor surface, as in the example, the potential energy of the floor is converted into the kinetic energy of impact, passes through the body through and dissipates. Course of school physics.

Sometimes, for some reason, the energy does not pass through the body and is not dissipated, but is retained in the tissues. And note: not «bad» or «good» energy. She’s just redundant.

To minimize the consequences, the body compresses it and, as it were, encapsulates, that is, delimits it. It turns out a structure like a cyst. It was called so — «energy cyst».

Like any other cyst, it does not need a blood supply, it is simply present. But this is an obstacle that all substances moving in this area are forced to bypass.

It is easy to understand this by imagining the repair of the road: the main highway is blocked, a narrow, inconvenient detour has been created. Everyone stands in a traffic jam in front of the “bottleneck” for a long time, then slowly and one by one they go around the closed area and again taxi out onto a half-empty highway.

Translated into anatomical and physiological language, any process will take more time and resources (ATP molecules). And, most importantly, its effectiveness will be much lower than before the formation of the cyst.

Why is it important and what threatens?

If the organ is not supplied with enough blood, it will atrophy. If there is no proper cleaning with the help of lymph and venous blood, stagnation occurs.

Classical medicine treats the consequences, but rarely answers the question of what is the cause. Although, for example, in a situation with a stone blocking the exit from the gallbladder, everything is clear to everyone: what happens to the organ where bile does not leave, and what happens to the entire digestive tract, where bile does not come, etc.

Why didn’t the body dissipate the energy immediately? Because the fabrics were denser than nature intended.

There are two main predisposing factors:

• unhealthy body;
• destructive emotional state (most often guilt, anger or fear).

We are not as strong, flexible and physically developed as our ancestors. We are not adapted to either physical or emotional stress. And there is no need to remember here how we are all nervous. Our predecessors had much more reasons to worry: the weather, on which the harvest and immediate survival depended, predators, lack of antibiotics, and so on.

We live in places completely unsuitable for this, and we consume what is not suitable for consumption by creatures such as ourselves. We eat a lot, drink little, sleep poorly. When we are in a good mood, satisfied and imposing, our body relaxes. When we are “bored and sad”, we tighten up, the tissues become denser and do not leave energy a single chance to pass through us without stopping.

Is it only physical trauma that leads to the formation of an energy cyst? No.

Emotional trauma that causes activation of the autonomic nervous system, followed by a reaction of the muscles and internal organs, can contribute to the formation of a place with limited tissue mobility. Excessive radiation, prolonged toxic exposure — in other words, something that weakens the body — all this leads to a decrease in its vitality and contributes to the formation of energy cysts.

How does this manifest itself in osteopathic practice?

An energy cyst feels like a place with limited tissue mobility, about which the patient can sometimes tell that there was an injury such as a fracture or bruise.

During treatment, the tissues regain the ability to move, and memory of the event that led to the cyst may appear. The patient may smell the smell that came from the next apartment that day, or suddenly remember the people who were nearby, or just suddenly that situation may come to his mind, although he himself forgot to think about it.

For example, a colleague of mine had a patient who complained of pain in his knee. At first glance, everything was clear: the diagnosis was osteoarthritis, a very common condition in the elderly (he was 65 years old at that time). However, there were no specific changes on the radiograph. When she put her hands on that knee, he started talking about a fire that happened over 30 years ago.

At this time, tissues from practically immobile became alive. Getting up from the couch after the session, he wondered why he remembered this, although everything had long been experienced, then no one died and everything was rebuilt. But my knee hasn’t hurt since.

«The sky got higher»

You won’t go to the doctor in the clinic with complaints that sound like “something is not easy for me to move”. Meanwhile, it is quite easy to fix it at an appointment with an osteopath, especially one who has the skills of bodily-emotional release, that is, releasing emotions through the body (often bypassing consciousness).

Tissue stiffness is often not only physical (sitting on an office chair with a computer on the side for 8 hours a day for 10 years in a row), but also emotional, sensual (fear during a dentist appointment, guilt in front of your pet, anger to a mother who is deaf to your childish desires, etc.).

This is not psychotherapy — it deals with loved ones and yet other things. By the way, often after sessions with a psychotherapist, people experience pain in the lower back or migraine. The osteopathic interest is to have as few areas of limited mobility as possible in the body.

The osteopath seems to work with the body, but often after treatment the patient feels that the sky has become higher and the people around are better.

A person is a single whole, where everything is interconnected: body, mind and emotions. Ideally, you need to take care of everyone, but even if you do one thing, the other two will definitely say thank you.