Network Healing Centre
January 2009 Newsletter
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Important Dates to Remember
January 29 - Network Spinal Analysis Workshop
New Year, New Start!
Dr. Michael Tucker, DC is pleased to extend a special New Year’s gift
to friends and family members of clients of the Network Healing Centre.
Provide us with the name and address of a friend or family member
and we will send them a New Year’s greeting card with a
gift certificate for a complimentary Network Spinal Analysis package.
The package includes a consultation, two entrainment sessions, and a report of findings.
Please speak to Mary or Lisa at the front desk to request a card.
Network Spinal Analysis Workshop
Dr. Michael Tucker DC invites you to a workshop about Network Spinal Analysis
on Thursday, January 29 at 7:15 pm.
There will be a half hour discussion and explanation about Network Spinal Analysis
followed by a half hour demonstration of the work.
Friends and family are welcome and encouraged to attend.
If you’ve ever had difficulty explaining NSA care to your family and friends,
now is your chance to let them see for themselves.
Please call Mary or Lisa at (613) 725-0988 to ensure sufficient seating.
Restorative Healing or Reorganizational Healing
By Dr. Michael Tucker, DC
In the New Year we often want new choices—a new focus, and new strategies to move into new stages of health. In the past, I have often looked at choosing a place between curing and healing. It is important to be aware that there is a choice.
After reading new work by Dr. Donald Epstein, the founder of Network Spinal Analysis, I am considering that we also have a choice between restorative healing and reorganizational healing. Similar to the choice between truly healing or simply curing one’s symptoms, we could choose to let go of the attempt to return to our previous comfortable state (restorative healing) in favour of taking inventory of our current place and moving towards a more empowering and creative new state (reorganizational healing).
As written by Dr. Epstein in the November 2007 ANC (Association of Network Care) newsletter, restorative healing returns us to the old; it rewinds the clock. There are several common assumptions underlying Restorative Healing:
- Something is disturbing the way a person was feeling and living his life;
- This disturbance is wrong and must be stopped;
- By stopping the symptom, crisis or disturbance the individual can resume as closely as possible his previous life routines and actions;
- Success is return to a previous and familiar place.
Often, if the previous and familiar place is not a healthy one for us at this time, we may soon find ourselves feeling pain or sickness again.
Reorganizational healing assists self-regulation, self-organization and self-evolution to bring a more dynamic, aware and responsive state. Reorganizational healing brings us to a new emergent place. The common assumptions underlying Reorganizational Healing are:
- Something is disturbing the way a person was feeling and living his life;
- This disturbance suggests that a change in perception or action is necessary in some aspect of the individual’s life;
- Although uncomfortable and disruptive of the life a person is living, the symptom, crisis, or disturbance are instructive and not an adversary;
- Success is creating a new energy efficient emergent state that is at a higher level of organization within the body, its consciousness, and one’s life.
While this transformation can be challenging, we will find ourselves in healthier and more evolved stages at the end of it.
Lawrence J. Bendit, M.D. wrote, “Healing is basically the result of putting right our wrong relations to our body, to other people and…to our own complicated minds, with their emotions and instincts at war with one another and not properly understood and accepted by what we call ‘I’ or ‘me.’ The process is one of reorganization, reintegration of things which have come apart.”
When things fall apart, we have a choice—to restore the old, or to allow something new to be created.
Happy New Year.
This Year, Choose Yourself
by Erin Whyte, R.M.T.
We are faced with millions of choices every day. In fact, we are faced with so many that we often lose sight of the fact that we have any choice at all. Situations may seem out of our control; we may feel victimized, as though the world is against us. It can result in a downward spiral of self-pity, depression, or anger. Suddenly we stop taking care of ourselves because somehow we deem ourselves less important than everything that seems to be happening TO us.
Well, stop right there! Stop letting life happen to you and start making it happen! How can you do this when you are in a job that you dislike, when you are fighting with family members, and/or when you are are injured or sick? Three words: accountability, responsibility and choice.
First, be accountable to yourself. This involves responsibility; the ability to make moral or rational decisions on one’s own and therefore answerable for one’s behavior. That is a powerful statement and, when fully understood, is a powerful realization. Second, choose. Choose your behaviour. Choose how you react to situations. You may not always have control and those are the things you need to realize that you have to let go, but there are many situations whereby you can exercise your power of choice.
One of the most incredible choices that you can make is to choose yourself. And by that I mean to put yourself on the top of the priority list and be responsible for your state of mind and your well-being. You have a choice as to what foods you put in your mouth. You have a choice as to whether you go out for a 20-minute walk or slump back into the couch. You have a choice to say no to invitations that would have you running around the city rather than resting for the following day. You have a choice to take medication to mask symptoms of pain, or to have the courage to find out what might be causing your aches and pains, and to deal with them.
We all have a choice. Big or small. We choose how we are in this life, what we do and how we react. You are an important person, no less so than anyone else. When you choose yourself, you are making a life-changing decision to take responsibility for your own behaviour and take control of the events that make up your life. Seeing as this is the one life we’ve got, don’t you think you owe it to yourself to choose wisely?
Primitive Reflexes in Infancy
By Rosemary Brown-Tucker, RMT
Primitive reflexes are involuntary muscle reactions to certain types of stimulation that appear and disappear in an expected order in the normal infant. These reflexes differ markedly from those present in children and adults and their absence in infancy or persistence beyond their time of expected disappearance normally implies some nervous system dysfunction. With the development of the baby’s brain and nervous system, these reflexes are no longer needed and become integrated by the higher centers of the brain. If they are retained beyond their normal age of integration, they may become a hindrance to the functioning of higher centres of the brain, which include balance, movement, behaviour, learning, integration of gross and fine movements, and more.
Retained primitive reflexes may have a structural component, or physical cause, which may be effectively treated by CranioSacral therapy. Treatment of structural imbalances of the head, spine and pelvis can normalize healthy functioning of the central nervous system, which is responsible for the sequential integration of the primitive reflexes. CST is effective at strengthening motor coordination, sensory perception, and neuromuscular function. A multi-disciplinary approach to correct retained primitive reflexes is also required, such as neuro-developmental therapy, brain gym, etc.