4. What is a BMR session like?
Interview: Your BMR session begins with an interview, during which you share with the therapist your medical history, current health conditions and goals for treatment. The therapist may also inquire about traumatic, stressful or particularly stressful experiences, past or present, which are often the source of body memory. Examples include injuries, illness, pain, trauma, abuse, surgery and overwhelming change.
Posture Evaluation: The interview is followed by an evaluation of your posture. The therapist will look for evidence of the freeze response and myofascial tension which pulls the body out of its ideal alignment. She will also identify "epicenters" or central areas of tension.
Imagine if you scrunched the center of a flat sheet. You would notice the tension created in the center of the sheet would extend into all four corners. Epicenters of tension in the body have a similar effect. A BMR therapist identifies and treats epicenters of tension which tend to be the primary cause of stress, pain and dysfunction.
Treatment:
The therapist utilizes the information gathered in the interview and the postural evaluation to begin hands on treatment. Once his hands contact your body, he relys on the highly trained senses in her hands to locate and treat body memory. BMR bodywork may be combined with therapeutic dialogue to encourage relaxation and deepen the self healing process.
Follow-up Treatment:
After your BMR treatment, the therapist will note changes in your posture, ask you how you feel from the treatment and provide recommendation on how to proceed. The frequency of treatment depends on what you want to achieve, the condition of your body and how you respond to the initial treatments.
Self Care & Home Exercises:
Your therapist will provide you with self care recommendations including exercises that will help you maintain and further your progress. If needed, he may recommend that you include other health care professionals such as a personal trainer, counselor, acupuncturist, dietician or physician to comprehensively address your unique needs for healing.
5. How do you feel after a BMR treatment?
You may feel relaxed and experience increased freedom of movement. Symptoms, such as pain, can temporarily increase from the release of stored stress but eventually decreases considerably as your body integrates and returns to a state of balance.
It takes energy to integrate the physical freedom, toxins, emotions and memories from a release of body memory. In general, a short period of rest, adequate hydration, vital nutrition and gentle exercise will maximize the integration process.
6. Can you feel worse from BMR?
Yes, There can be down times when you feel worse, but these periods are temporary and followed by significant change and progress.
7. What if memories surface?
If memories surface, your therapist will guide you to open to and release them. Insights can occur during or after a memory recall that provide you with a new understanding about yourself and your past. If needed, your BMR therapist will recommend that you incorporate counseling, journaling or other self help therapies that support you to integrate and resolve your body memories.
Vivid awareness of a specific event does not always accompany a release. Individuals can carry a melting pot of stress from many different experiences over many years; most of which is physical and emotional. For the most part, to release these accumulated stresses is all that is needed.
Keep in mind that body memory refers to those experiences that you have already survived. But surviving an experience is different from resolving it. Survival involves protection. Protection involves suppressing and disconnecting from an experience. BMR supports a person to release, integrate and thus resolve body memory; a transformational process that we are all designed to do to maintain ideal health, function and vitality.
8. Who is a good candidate to receive BMR?
A good candidate for BMR is anyone suffering from pain, stress, emotional challenges, overwhelming change, or a particularly challenging condition that has failed to resolve from other forms of treatment and therapy. BMR is safe and effective for seniors, children and infants and provides both relief and resolution of the conditions listed below. It is particulary effective when combined with chiropractic, acupuncture, proper hydration and nutrition.
Joint & Muscle Dysfunctions
Fibromyalgia
Low Back Pain
Sacral Iliac Pain
Neck Pain
Joint & Muscle Pain
TMJ
Headaches
Scoliosis
Restricted Movement
Post-Surgical Pain & Dysfunction
Organ Dysfunctions
Digestive & Intestinal Disorders
Gallstones
Asthma
Breathing Problems
Immune System Disorders
Fibromyalgia
Lupus
Pediatric Conditions
Scoliosis
Autism
ADD
Hyperactivity
Infant Conditions
Colic
Torticolis
Poor Shaped Head
Breathing Problems
Stress Conditions
Anxiety & Depression
Fatigue
Shock
Phobias & Fears
Reproductive & Pelvic Conditions
Infertility
Pelvic Pain
Ovarian Cysts
Loss of Libido