Philosophy

Western medical science sees the human body essentially as a machine, an assemblage of molecules and cells, further combined to form tissues, organs, and ultimately, us. From this perspective, most health problems would be expected to develop from chemical imbalances such as deficiencies of vital substances, poisoning by various kinds of toxic pollutants, or bad ratios of ingredients in the chemical mixture. And we freely acknowledge that these things occur and contribute to many diseases.

Medical doctors prescribe drugs to change our biochemistry and deal with such chemically-based health problems. We prefer to avoid drugs when possible and use the nutritional and detoxifying methods of Functional Medicine and Clinical Nutrition to balance body chemistry and heal problems on this level.

When we look closely we can see that we are more than just chemicals. Everything that happens in our bodies, including the movement and balance of chemicals, is controlled by our regulatory systems: the nervous system, which is made up of the brain and nerves that run like wires from the brain to all parts of our bodies, and an electromagnetic field generated by our molecular structure that we call the bioenergetic matrix. If you think of the nervous system like a network of telephone cables, the bioenergetic matrix is more like the wireless internet.

When our bodies incur traumatic injuries, the force of the impact is absorbed into our molecular structure. This creates lasting changes in the function of our regulatory systems, which can create patterns of tension, pain, altered physiology, and health problems. To deal with this we practice the amazing manual therapy technique, Matrix Repatterning, which is the only thing we know of that is able to undo and remove the effects of traumatic injury. Matrix Repatterning often creates instantaneous and lasting changes in pain, stiffness, and function. Once we have removed the impact of injury with Matrix Repatterning, we can employ Energy Medicine techniques like acupuncture, microcurrent, and laser neuromodulation to stimulate the bioenergetic matrix and balance the regulatory systems.

We are not only chemicals and regulatory systems. Our mind and emotions can influence both the function of our regulatory systems and the balance of our body chemistry. In some ways, our thoughts can create our reality. For instance, research shows that if we believe we are receiving a powerful drug, we can take it and recover from an illness, even if the drug is, in truth, completely inert. This is called the placebo effect. Likewise, chronic stress or negative thinking can create a state of ongoing emotional agitation that leads to, for example, persistent indigestion and gastrointestinal disease.

Difficult situations engender stressful physiological states in us, which bring about neurological and chemical changes. These states can sometimes persist for many years after the initiating event, keeping us upset and even making us sick. The more stressed we are, the more vulnerable we are to new stressful situations, and ultimately the stress physiology becomes habitual, keeping us sick. We can even form destructive beliefs based on the traumas and our responses, which distort our view of reality and keep us unhappy as well as unhealthy.

By far the best technique we know of for such problems is called NET (Neuro Emotional Technique.) NET lets us access, explore, and heal the unconscious beliefs and negative patterns that keep us from being able to break out of our reactive stress cycles and heal.

We support the NET with Transformational Psychotherapy, guided intuition, grounding meditation, and lifestyle coaching, to help you make the changes you are seeking.

Sometimes, when working with people we can see things going on that don’t seem to make sense. Someone will get sick at the same age her mother was when she died, possibly with the same illness. Someone else will fail in business just like his father did. And others might, despite their concerted efforts to do better, recreate their parents’ awful marital dynamics. Strange as it sounds, these people are often responding to unconscious pressure from the transpersonal dimension. They are not always engaging in mere copycat behavior. The rules of the transpersonal world seem to require a sort of energetic balance that we must honor and facilitate even when such balance can, ironically, only come about from self-sabotaging behavior.

Responding to transpersonal influences, it can seem like things move through us rather than originate within us. We call these forces fate, destiny, or karma. We believe that disturbances on this level come most often from problems in family dynamics, such as breakdowns in the relationships between parents and children, or between siblings. It seems like patterns of family dysfunction can even pass down through generations, like a weird family heirloom. Those with transpersonal disturbances seem to feel emotions that are not directly related to their external circumstances, or even their own life experience. But they feel them deeply, and they cause them distress. Fortunately NET can help us discover, explore, and heal these pervasive patterns.