I’ve been having some fun recently with a sandwich analogy to describe part of Network care. It can apply to any food where it’s better to have to have a condiment or topping spread out rather than all bunched up. It goes like this

Have you ever had a sandwich where the mayo or mustard was all in one spot and not spread out? If you have, you know that this is not the ideal set up for taste, and there is also a high likelihood of a mess when you get the bite with all of the mayo/mustard. Its far better to have your condiment of choice evenly spread out.

The same is true for energy in your body. People often lay down on the table with too much energy in one part of their body and too little energy in other parts of their bodies, Here is an example.

If you have a large unexpected emotional stress, you might present with an excessive amount of energy in your emotional system. This could lead to tight muscles and tendons as well as a lack of energy in other systems such as your mental, bioenergetic or awaken systems.

The same example can be applied to physical and mental stresses as well. If your body is forced to adapt to a large stress or smaller amounts of stress over time,, it can end up storing too much energy in the system that the stress was experienced in. If this happens, another part or system will respond by having lower energy. This can lead to breakdown of both the system with too much energy and the system or part with too little energy.

In this example, one goal of an entrainment would be to help the body process the extra emotional energy in order to spread the mayo or energy back throughout the whole body, This makes for a healthier body just like spreading the mayo makes for a tastier sandwich.

Have you ever turned your head the wrong way when we ask you to turn left or right?This happens pretty often, and it’s not a big deal at all. Just turn your head the other way when we say to turn your head. 

Turning your head is part of our phase pattern analysis in Network Spinal. Tapping your feet is a quick and easy way to ask you to turn to that side. This also makes things simpler since you just turn your head to the side we tap. If we tap both feet, we are asking you to turn to the middle. We might also ask you to tuck your chin or even lift your head up as part of this analysis. Please only turn your head through pain free motion. Stop turning your head if it hurts and be sure pay attention how this might change during your entrainment. 

When certain phases are present, uneven legs will even when you turn your head. Sometimes this happens quickly and sometimes it takes a few seconds depending on what part of the phase is showing up. Please keep your head turned until we either ask you to turn to the other side or back to the middle.

The phase that deals with legs that even when you turn your head is called phase 2. It deals with how your upper or lower neck act as primary points of critical tension . These primary points then affect the rest of your body. Energetically, this phase deals with trust when there is enough energy and fear when energy is lacking. 

Something important in Network care, and in life, is to celebrate the small wins. These are the ones that will add up over time to create sustainable change. We are in the habit of wanting the home run every time, myself included. Some small wins that inspired this weeks newsletter were someone having a small but noticeable improvement in their neck pain and tightness after their first visit and someone who has trouble sleeping having noises agate them a bit less. Both of these are reasons to celebrate, and no one is going to celebrate for you- you get to do it. The added bonus is that anytime you have less of something, you open room for more of something else. In these examples, I encouraged them to celebrate both less of the bad but also what they have more of. Less pain and more mobility. Less agitation and more peace.

I hope you find lots of reasons to celebrate this week.

Where in your life do you play? Play or being playful adds energy to your life and to what you are doing. 

Play is crucial for childhood development, and it’s also important for adult development and health. Play helps to activate the neocorectx or new/ human brain (including the frontal lobe which is activated in Network). It also reduces stress hormones and promotes neural flexibility and growth. 

You might hear me making sound effects while entraining. This is one of the ways I stay playful at work. It does nothing for the actual entrainment, but it’s fun for me and adds free energy to our interaction. I also play at home with our kiddos (A LOT) and I am playful at jujitsu.

Play can be different for everyone, but in general it involves letting go of being serious even for a few moments. Andrew Huberman has this to say about play”…how it changes our feelings, thoughts and actions and indeed, how it can rewire our brain to function better in all contexts.” You can watch his podcast about play here https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/using-play-to-rewire-and-improve-your-brain