Pain is not your destiny
By Kylie Walsh MHSc. (Osteo) | Founder Nourish & Non Physician Osteopathic Manual Therapist
The human body is not destined for disease, dysfunction, or pain. The human body is a perfectly designed machine created flawless in its ability to function, heal, grow and develop.
In osteopathy, we believe that the body, in any way it is, is already the perfect blueprint of life dwelling within all of us. While our body holds the story of how we got to where we are, the blueprint of life holds the complete wisdom and understanding of how we can heal.
In contrast, it is commonly thought in the world of symptoms and medication that pain is bad and must be removed at all cost. As osteopaths, we believe that pain is a sign that something is not right and that the body can no longer tolerate its discomfort, unseen and is now alerting you to its discomfort and calling for help.
Our bodies store everything. The unmet needs, unseen traumas, unresolved feelings, imbalanced anatomy, misaligned joints, inadequate blood flow, unsatisfactory nerve function, and more. These experiences held in the body over time can show up as pain or dysfunction.
Pain is not an enemy; it is the highest intelligence at work, speaking to you and asking for you to seek help, move differently, sleep more, eat better, stop, rest a moment, laugh more, and enjoy your precious life. Pain is a flashing light in our osteopathic world, there is a problem that the body can no longer live with, compensate for, or handle on its own. The body is asking for help.
Pain can stop you in your tracks, leaving you incapacitated no longer able to bend, sit, lift, or reach. Othertimes pain creeps up on you over time.
At Nourish, our osteopathic manual therapist use their hands to listen to the body and connect with the painful areas, the signals, and the story the body is sharing. When we sit down to listen to the body with our hands we are shown where the body needs additional support, where the blood flow is restricted, where the stress is on the joints, where there is a decrease in funciton of a tissue and in this way we begin to understand what needs to be done to help the body heal. We use our hands and variety of osteopathic techniques to bring the body back into balance allowing it all it needs to function optimally and pain free. This is the magic of osteopathy, and we see it as not only science, but as an art.
If you are seeking a deeper understanding of your pain and believe that pain is not your destiny then you are in the right place. Get in touch with us, share your complaint and let us join you on your journey to complete health and healing.
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