Emotional categories

Myosteopractic recognises two broad emotional categories:

Sudden emotion: eg. anger, fear, shock, etc

Chronic emotion: eg. anxiety, depression, resentment, often arising from primal issues, work stress, relationships, moving home, death, etc

A typical emotional response sees the body tightening in order to armour itself. This may result in hunched shoulders, contracted chest, clenched muscles of the buttocks, clenched hands, tight jaw, etc.

Depending on the emotion held, various parts of the body will tighten and posture will distort accordingly. Certain emotions will be held in the organs. (Typically, anger in the liver, worry in the spleen, fear in the kidneys, etc). When these organs are stressed they impact on the musculo-skeletal system accordingly.

Emotional stress effects many areas of the body, some of them are:

• Headaches & Migraines
• Up the neck into the head, sometimes behind an eye
• From the neck down a arm or both arms
• Between the shoulder blades, or behind a shoulder blade into the shoulder and neck
• Painful lower ribs, almost cramp/winded feeling on one side or radiating across the back
• Lower back pain, as if the client has sore kidneys
• Lower back pain radiating into a buttock, and perhaps down a leg
• Across the sacrum

Myosteopractic may check and release the diaphragm, cervicals (neck), lower back where the diaphragm attaches, organ reflex points. In addition, it may include releasing the jaw, respiratory system, and shoulders, as well as postural imbalances using cross release and myofascia release techniques.