Life beyond spine vertebrae.....

Since there are many apples on the trees, there

are numerous ways to preserve their flavor.

Structure of the tree governs the growth function

of each of the fruits and clean air supply.

Let's talk about our spine and nervous system.

It’s where the “flow of life’s travels.” It does look

like a stack of houses, where we store life’s

experiences. We have 33 of them, connected to

one another via articulations, ligaments, joints,

and soft tissues. The complexity of this design

system is astounding.

I envision our spine as "departments" as a concept or a

metaphor for this article.

Imagine you want to get to department 3. You

need to get into the elevator to reach your

destination. The elevator is the spinal cord. Do

you get it now?

On the other hand, imagine the nervous system

is like a highway road with a variety of exits

to different towns or cities. Our central nervous

system.

The central nervous system is the main director

who makes sure we have the electricity to

operate elevator by its proprioceptive system.

The main aim in this article is to take a closer look

and journey through each department and

explore its functions.

From a psychosomatic perspective, each aspect

of the vertebral column can be connected to

emotional, behavioral, and physical pain. A

manifestation of life experiences are stored within

our spine and nervous system.

Fundamentally there are 5 levels, and each

represents its own department of working

excellence. Let's start from the ground up and move towards the CEO Department called,

brain and its fluids represents its own department of

working excellence.

The coccyx sits on ground level at the base of

the spine. Via the tailbone, it is connected to the

root of life and navigates our primal feelings of

survival and safety. The emotional pain can hold, for

example, a memory of being scared by a dog and

falling on your coccyx. BOOM.

Your nervous system recorded this experience

and receives signals informing you about this

traumatic accident. The force of nature pushes

entire bone system in different ways so the structure became little bit twiked and weak.

Those little bones are essential for navigating

our human experience, balancing the self and

keeping the blame in check with oneself.

On the second department we have a level called

The Sacrum. It does hold more responsibility

because it maintains an axis connection with the

HIP bones. It looks like a pendant, and it

actually, serves a purpose by making sure our

power is online and inner stubbornness needs to be

softened with awareness. Our

sexual energy coils around that area.

When unbalanced or compensated it pulls transverse line and sacral canal out of alignment, without us knowing it. We might feel powerless, drained with oneself. We might expect to feel of being stuck with an old sexual and relationship energetcal tights.

As by design, Nature pushes us towards balance. With a lack

of balance we weaken our ability to respond to anger consciously and not blame

the world for our bad choices. Meanwhile, the soft tissue compensate on

the axis and the sacral nerves alarm you on when to

let it go.

As we move to higher levels, there is a larger

department of 5 coordinators. L fellas.

This department support our life processes. It is tough to say that in this department we house our families and the lineages, our lives work, our life and

the support we need in our lives in order to feel we are

belong.

An example would be: My car breaked

down but I don’t have anyone to reach out for

help. My family members never supported me

on the practical financial aspect of life. Etc. The pain

indicator here can be conflicted in a

relationship's connections and can be a gate to

treating the part of the body with proper

techniques. Nature of our body will speak and communicate in the front of the

body fearing the future and force the L1-5 fellas

to compensate for its natural alignment.

On a deeper layer, the question we need

to ask here is?, Can we fully accept life's

pleasures and deal with sexual shame from

abusive relational experiences?

It can be confronting place to be in.

When we have strengthened, resolved and

mostly accepted our family relationships and

balanced our work environment and belonging,

we will feel more open. And by noticing intrinsic

knowledge about ourselves we can soften our will to

fight the contracted pain.

Let’s continue to move to the higher department of

housed visitors. Department of 12 sub-coordinators.

The T12. fellas.

On these levels we have more work to do. Here,

we meet the fear of life, closing oneself off,

and trying to find movement towards clarity. It

does protect our chest pectoral muscles, as well

as, the heart and internal organs. The emotional

door invites experience as being overwhelmed

and angry at life, holding onto old heartfelt hurts.

Our rage can be housed in this room until we acknowledged its existence and transform into creation and healing.

An inability to have control over your personal

situations: As a example your friend triggered your insecurity by withdrawing his/her love and you find yourself"in a Victim attitude with a self-critical friend.

The inability to digest life might hang out by the window if we let

it. As you see, we have a lot of work in this

department. It supports and protects a lot of weight

in our life; via its beautiful, curved “ C”

shape.

Going up. The work done in this department is

based around C7 coordinators.

Guess what? C Fellas are a good friend of the Diaphragm family as it

controls the chest muscles and nerves on

the front of the body.

The another guests here making sure we fight for

how we communicate with the world and find strength in self-expression; dealing with

confusion and guilt might be bottled up.

This leads to feeling not good enough and running

from life. Our neck in general represents our

ability to see clearly, to speak our truth. When

life coils down rather than spiraling up the strength of a neck is compensated and our self-expression is internal; we might dealing with

confusion and internal guilt could be bottled up.

Which leads us to feeling we are not good enough and are

running from life, rather sit with it.

An entire department of C7 fellas are exposed to

compensate for the structural alignment by stiffening

and contracting, thus leading to unspoken words,

suppression of emotions like; I feel heavy on my neck from caring all the world and unresolved conflict.

By unwinding knots in this department, we are

accessing the inner voice and acknowledging the

wisdom of our intuition.

I called this a "TUITION to your inner healer. What a ride!!

On this level, we are supported by the cranium

and atlas. The operational processor of visual,

sensory and thought process. Here we are going

to access our CEO department, where the main

coordinator sits and bridges the upper torso and

cranium.

We elevated ourselves to the department of

cognition, thinking, housed by the Universal

mind & brain of a CEO fellas.

It contains 8 interlocked bones via

biomechanism of human body, including 14

facial bones working in harmony to protect the

brain. Along with an entire waves like ocean

movements of CSF ( cerebral spina fluid )liquid inside

the spine, we are being informed

about our homeostasis experiences through an

intimate connection with nature around us.

The Greek Mythology, “ Atlas is the Titan

condemned to hold up the heavens of sky for

eternity after Titanomachy.

Our burden of heavy lifting is heightened on this

one bone. Atlas. Without complicating the story and

simply put, when twisted our flow of life is

restricted.

On the psychosomatic level, it is essential to be

informed about our connection to all of the

departments. For an OMT practitioner like

myself, my ability to respond to clients'

challenging pain is a necessary skill to know/

how. On the psychosomatic level, it is essential to

be informed about our connection to all of the

departments, thus treating the body as a

whole. And by the use of proper palliative and soft tissue mobilization techniques ( not always the case), is an essential key component in

my manual therapy practice.

I wish for all of us to hold a vision for whole

body health and its responsibility we carry in

our hands. And, to empower one another to

take nature’s intention seriously rather than be

overpowered by our weakness, societal

conditioning and overall well-being.

With love,

Lukasz