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As I am sure you know, our bodies are miraculous in the way they are created, develop, grow, heal, reproduce, and move in an attempt to obey our every command! (that's the part that blows my mind completely). Each cell contains the blueprint for your entire body, your DNA. If you get a chance, and are interested, absolutely amazing images of the process of human conception on the cellular level is contained in the 1982 NOVA documentary called "The Miracle of Life" by Lennart Nilsson.
As we interact with our environment, our health is either distorted or is enhanced.
Each of us, though unique, have so much common biological and anatomical function. All of it grows into existence from a perfect, unique-to-us*, design. As we interact with our environment, our health is either distorted or is enhanced. We are are all ultimately driven to attempt to achieve the perfection of our design. (Spoiler alert: We all die trying). But! along the way, each of us has many opportunities for optimal health and to achieve our encoded destinies - to live, love, express our uniqueness, reproduce, and love some more, for as long as we live.
* perfect and unique. So, no two lives are the same. There is no one standard of perfection. Each of us is perfectly unique, just like everybody else... I'm sure you're familiar with "all men are created equal..." which does not mean we're all the same by any stretch, only that we are all equally valuable.
Anyway - all this to say, when I see you, I see the perfect you. I see how your life experience has distorted your physical body, your "myofascia", ("myo" means muscle, "fascia" means connective tissue), your health, and I see how, with some (maybe a lot of!) support and some (maybe a lot of!) release of tension in your myofascial body, you can return to a more perfect version of yourself. This process involves learning how to relax. Relaxation is where the healing begins.
The mind and the brain - two different things entirely.
I don't know if you noticed, but my whole rambling discussion here describes the body as separate from "us". For the purposes of learning about relaxation, I will continue to differentiate between the "brain" and the "body mind". So the myofascial body, your "body mind", can (and does) operate optimally completely seperately from the frontal cortex, the "thinking part" of the brain. Abosolutely ZERO input is required from the executive functions of the brain for the body to function optimally. So. The FIRST thing you have to do in order to learn to relax is to figure out how to distract or amuse or entertain your brain. (That's why my profession is called "body work" - what the brain's ultimate purpose is is way beyond the scope of this discussion.)
** Relaxation is highly discouraged by our culture, our world - but you know who runs the world and he does NOT want you to relax, he wants your soul - he wants your to be his slave... but I digress.
Relaxation, where was I... oh yes, relaxation.
a holistic, whole-systems approach
disease - dis ease or ill at ease
immune system - Key Components:
White Blood Cells (Leukocytes): The "soldiers" of the immune system that circulate through the blood and lymph.
Lymphatic System: A network of vessels, lymph nodes, the spleen, and the thymus that filters bodily fluid, stores immune cells, and mounts responses to infections.
Bone Marrow: The spongy tissue inside your bones where all blood cells originate
syndrome - a group of symptoms that has no known cause. A consistent, recognizable collection of signs and symptoms that tend to cluster together.
-itis: it's red, inflammed, and it hurts
-osis: generally indicates an abnormal condition, disease state, pathological process, or an increase in a physiological element (such as a cell count). It differentiates from -itis, which specifically denotes inflammation
-emia: means a blood condition or the presence of a substance in the blood. Derived from the Greek word haima (meaning "blood"), it is used to describe various systemic disorders, infections, or chemical imbalances related to the circulatory system.
Anemia: A condition characterized by a deficiency of red blood cells or hemoglobin, leading to reduced oxygen transport and fatigue.
Bacteremia: The presence of bacteria in the bloodstream.
Hypoglycemia: An abnormally low level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.
Leukemia: A type of cancer of the blood and bone marrow, marked by an abnormal increase in white blood cells.
-ia: Words ending in -ia typically denote conditions
Poikilothermia: a medical condition in which the body loses its ability to internally regulate its core temperature, causing the body's temperature to fluctuate with the surrounding environment.
-asia (along with related forms like -asis and -osis): a condition, state, or process. It usually denotes an abnormal, unhealthy, or diseased state of a specific body part or system. Common examples include:
Ectasia: The dilation, stretching, or expansion of a hollow organ or vessel (e.g., bronchiectasis, the abnormal widening of the airways).
Phasia: A root/suffix combination relating to speaking or speech conditions (e.g., aphasia, the loss of ability to understand or express speech).
Chronic - long term
accute - right now
Here is a list from the Autoimmune Disease Organization: Alphabetical List with Symptoms
Achalasia
Addison’s disease
Adult Still’s disease
Agammaglobulinemia
Alopecia areata
Amyloidosis
Ankylosing spondylitis
Anti-GBM/Anti-TBM nephritis
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Autoimmune angioedema
Autoimmune dysautonomia
Autoimmune encephalitis
Autoimmune hepatitis
Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
Autoimmune myocarditis
Autoimmune oophoritis
Autoimmune orchitis
Autoimmune pancreatitis
Autoimmune retinopathy
Autoimmune urticaria
Axonal & neuronal neuropathy (AMAN)
Baló disease
Behcet’s disease
Benign mucosal pemphigoid (Mucous membrane pemphigoid)
Bullous pemphigoid
Castleman disease (CD)
Celiac disease
Chagas disease
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO)
Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) or Eosinophilic granulomatosis (EGPA)
Cicatricial pemphigoid
Cogan’s syndrome
Cold agglutinin disease
Complex regional pain syndrome (formerly known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy)
Congenital heart block
Coxsackie myocarditis
CREST syndrome
Crohn’s disease
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Dermatomyositis
Devic’s disease (neuromyelitis optica)
Discoid lupus
Dressler’s syndrome
Endometriosis
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE)
Eosinophilic fasciitis
Erythema nodosum
Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
Evans syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Fibrosing alveolitis
Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
Giant cell myocarditis
Glomerulonephritis
Goodpasture’s syndrome
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Graves’ disease
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Hemolytic anemia
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP)
Herpes gestationis or pemphigoid gestationis (PG)
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) (Acne inversa)
IgA nephropathy
IgG4-related sclerosing disease
Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
Inclusion body myositis (IBM)
Interstitial cystitis (IC)
Juvenile arthritis
Juvenile diabetes (Type 1 diabetes)
Juvenile myositis (JM)
Kawasaki disease
Lambert-Eaton syndrome
Lichen planus
Lichen sclerosus
Ligneous conjunctivitis
Linear IgA disease (LAD)
Lupus ( a chronic autoimmune disease )
Lyme disease chronic
Meniere’s disease
Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
Mucha-Habermann disease
Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) or MMNCB
Multiple sclerosis
Myasthenia gravis
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disorder
Myositis
Narcolepsy
Neonatal lupus
Neuromyelitis optica / devic disease
Neutropenia
Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
Optic neuritis
Palindromic rheumatism (PR)
PANDAS (Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus infections)
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD)
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)
Parsonage-Turner syndrome
Pemphigus
Peripheral neuropathy
Perivenous encephalomyelitis
Pernicious anemia (PA)
POEMS syndrome
Polyarteritis nodosa
Polyglandular syndromes type I, II, III
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Polymyositis
Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
Postpericardiotomy syndrome
Primary biliary cholangitis
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Progesterone dermatitis
Progressive hemifacial atrophy (PHA) Parry Romberg syndrome
Psoriasis
Psoriatic arthritis
Pure red cell aplasia (PRCA)
Pyoderma gangrenosum
Raynaud’s phenomenon
Reactive arthritis
Relapsing polychondritis
Restless legs syndrome (RLS)
Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Rheumatic fever
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sarcoidosis
Schmidt syndrome or Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type II
Scleritis
Scleroderma
Sjögren’s Disease
Stiff person syndrome (SPS)
Susac’s syndrome
Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO)
Takayasu’s arteritis
Temporal arteritis/giant cell arteritis
Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (Ttp)
Thyroid eye disease (Ted)
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS)
Transverse myelitis
Type 1 diabetes
Ulcerative colitis (UC)
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
Uveitis
Vasculitis
Vitiligo
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia
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