Research and clinical experience shows us that normal movement and position of the vertebrae of the spine are affected by stress. Physical stress, emotional and mental stress cause the deep layers of spinal muscles to alter their normal habits and pull their attached vertebrae in directions and positions that alter normal brain function.
When the normal functions of the brain are altered its ability to guide us through life is diminished as it is not able to allow us to adapt to things happening to and around us.
How does this display itself?
Poor adaption to emotional stress creates cascades of normal hormones injected by our glands but at abnormal times and abnormal quantities. Depression, anxiety, obscure responses to others, altered sleep patterns and reduced ability to fight disease are the result.
Poor adaptation to mental stressors sets up patterns of brain connection (synapses) that alter well-adapted thinking patterns. Decisions, interpretations, concentration, brain nutrition and normal responses and reactions are altered.
Poor adaptation to physical stressors result in reduced healing times, susceptibility to infection, fatigue and reduced future function of both musculo-skeletal and visceral (organ and gland) parts of the body.
Regardless of a person’s vitamins, yoga, meditation, exercise or good food, we cannot be healthy without a properly functioning nerve system.