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Fascia has incredible tensile strength, which serves to protect us. However, in
traumatized shortened tissue, this strength acts against us and over time causes
havoc in our systems— postural misalignment of our skeletal system, fatigue,
tension and chronic pain in the affected muscles, nerve entrapment, occluded
blood vessels and even compromised cellular health.
The reason the restrictions remain in our bodies, sometimes for years on end,
is because our consciousness can’t fully process the fear and/or pain incurred
at the time of the trauma. A memory of that moment in time becomes stored in
the fascial communication network, and there it waits. The body’s intelligence
knows its better for us if the trauma is fully processed at a later date in a safer
environment.
Understanding the fascial system, and what goes on in it as a result of trauma,
gives us a framework to understand why we have chronic aches and pain. It is
a drug-free way to achieve physical release and lasting pain relief. It treats the
whole person, not just one body system. Each session is highly individualized,
addressing the holding patterns unique to each client.
MFR is a non-invasive series of techniques that apply gentle sustained pressure
andmovement to the connective tissue system for the purpose of eliminating phys-
ical restrictions and the outmoded emotional patterns and belief systems con-
nected to them. MRF is so relaxing, many people fall asleep while receiving it.
A practitioner of MFR is trained to feel at very subtle levels, operates with calm
and focus, acts intuitively and with manual precision – re-opening flows of en-
ergy in people by creating subtle physical shifts in the connective tissue that
allow healing to take place.
A brief scientific explanation of the myofascial release is that it is a
piezoelectric
phenomenon
. The connective tissue web is crystalline in structure. The correct sus-
tained manual pressure applied in MFR generates an electric potential be-
tween the two points of contact, which after a fewminutes generates a vibratory
frequency in the connective tissue. The vibration elicits the desired response —
the release.
Releases can be felt as a softening, melting feeling, or as a rubber-like stretching
sensation. Some people feel very little physical sensation whereas others may
experience emotions or a memory of the trapped event during a release. Some-
times after a release, people feel heat, tingling or circulation rushing back into
the area. Another fascinating thing about MFR is that it can continue to work
after the appointment is over. This phenomenon can be likened a thread that
has started to unravel. It is not uncommon to experience a spontaneous release
in the days after a session.
My desire to help others drew me to a healing path, but it was my own experi-
ence of chronic pain that took me much deeper into understanding. Witnessing
and experiencing the profound positive results available through MFR, I found
the answer I was looking for — MFR bridges cutting edge science, hands on
healing and working in the realm of higher energy into a process that may help
everybody.
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Rebecca Donald practices MFR locally, at MFR Clinic in Clarksburg.
60 and 90 minute MFR sessions - by appointment.
185 Marsh St. Clarksburg, upper level 705 888 5683
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