Author Archives: Lisa Townsend
What Controls Your Vibration?
According to the studies I’ve read and the work done in the lab, what we know as facts about the body is that there is nothing outside of the body that is more powerful than what is inherently in the body naturally. Inside of you is your blood and all of your cells. Your cells absorb every thought and feeling you have on every level. All the work of Candace Pert, Ph.D., neuroscientist proved it and I blogged about it […]
Categories: aerobic, BELIEF, blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, DRUGS, endocannibonoids, endogenous opioids, energy, EXERCISE, food, HEALTH, HERBAL MEDICINE, HOLISTIC MEDICINE
why is one shoulder or hip higher than the other?
Answer; because the muscle is shortened and raises up the joint. The muscles control all of your bones and joints and dominate your body. In order to have healthy bones, you have to treat the muscles and deep tissue FIRST. It’s an anatomical fact. That is also why the M.D.’s will tell you that weight-bearing workout, keeping your muscles strong over time is what keeps your bones strong. They don’t say, “Keep your bones strong and your muscles will […]
Categories: blood, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, HEALTH, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, JOINTS, medical manual therapy, MUSCLES, soft tissue attachment • Tags: bones, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, JOINTS, MUSCLES, soft tissue, therapy
A Sacred Space Called Therapy
My office space is sacred, especially for my patients and especially since it’s bodywork. The lack of sacred space provided in the massage therapy profession is glaring, especially given the fact that many times it crosses into prostitution given the status of women in our society. *Note* the boundary I’ve had to set on my website. The link is below. When a man enters my office, my energy is challenged to hold sacred space for me with him in the room, […]
Categories: boundaries, CAREER ADVANCEMENT, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, gender, men and therapy, office boundaries, prostitution massage • Tags: bodywork, Dr. Eric Perry PhD, sacred space
My bones hurt
It’s not likely. It’s your soft tissue that is attached to your bones that hurt. It just feels like it’s your bones. What do we know about the bones? Bones have no nerve innervation meaning the nerves are a soft tissue that does not go through bone tissue. What hurts is the soft tissue (muscle, ligament, and tendon and nerve) which is the cause of almost all pain in the body. Since muscle makes up the majority of soft tissue […]
Categories: blood, bones, DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, JOINTS, ligament, manual therapy, MUSCLES, nerves, pain, pain relief, soft tissue attachment, tendon • Tags: medical manual therapy, MUSCLES, pain, soft tissue
Body Truth; “Molecules of Emotion”, Chapter 12-Bodymind
This will be a perfect segue into the next subject matter; morphic resonance; a phenomenon discovered by the work of Rupert Sheldrake. Dr. Pert talks about it as well at the end of this book. I have one more post on Chapter 13 for tomorrow and then we’re done. “Information is not dependent on time or space, as is matter and energy, but exists regardless of these limits! If information exists outside of the confines of time and space, matter, […]
Categories: AUTHORS, BOOKS, cells, Dr. Candace Pert, emotions, HEALTH, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, Rupert Sheldrake • Tags: Molecules of Emotion
Body Truth; “Molecules of Emotion” Chapter 13, Truth
This book was written in 1997 but 22 years later, there is still an ongoing materialistic tendency among holistic practitioners and adherents. It’s mainly projected on food but includes expensive supplements, vitamins, lotions, herbals, wraps, and more. I believe much of it is unnecessary. The first part of Chapter 13 is very materialist focused as Dr. Pert is attending a Wellness conference where panelists are not altogether holistic. I’ve been mulling this issue over for ten years now and have […]
Categories: AUTHORS, BIOLOGY, BOOKS, cells, Dr. Candace Pert, emotions, HEALTH, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, Mind-Body, POLITICS OF HEALTHCARE, SCIENCE, scientific method, spirit • Tags: BIOLOGY, cells, emotions, NIH, SCIENCE
Body Truth; “Molecules of Emotion” Chapter 11-A New Crowd
It’s time to finish up Chapter 11 and Dr. Pert’s life has completely changed. She’s in a “labless existence” as she puts it. Being in healthcare myself, I can’t imagine being without my office where I treat my patients. I’d be lost without it! In 1991, she met Deepak Chopra, MD who is still sort of a rock star in the field of leading-edge holistic medicine, similar to Andrew Weil, MD. They “get it” on an energy level and use […]
Categories: AIDS, AUTHORS, BIOLOGY, Dr. Candace Pert, emotions, HEALTH, NIH National Institutes of Health, Peptide T • Tags: AIDS, BIOLOGY, emotion, Molecules of Emotion, Peptide T
Body Truth; Activating the 12 Chakra System
I work with the immaterial energy centers of the body all the time in my office while I’m doing Reiki. My patients can feel it because I’m working with Qi or Ki. In addition, my pendulum can pick up the direction of their spin very easily but I don’t use it much anymore. My hands can feel it. I only use it when a patient needs to see how their energy is affecting something they can see; the pendulum. Chakra means […]
Categories: chakras, emotions, energy, Grand Rapids, Michigan, healing, HEALTH, HEARTSET, HOLISTIC MEDICINE, intuition, joy, Mind-Body, REIKI • Tags: chakra balancing, chakras, energy medicine, REIKI
