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When the body reaches a point of stress overload, and the stress goes beyond the body's ability to adapt, the stress becomes "locked" into the physical structures, which we call "body stress”. Body Stress impacts the nervous system and disturbs the body's lines of communication, thereby undermining the efficiency of function.
The effect of stored tension or "body stress" may result in these and many other conditions:
I want to share my daughter's story with you:
In 2008, Mia was born with an emergency caesarean section 4 weeks too early. She was constantly crying and sleeping very little. I wanted to go bonkers! She was just over a year and still in nappies when I realised that maybe she had a bladder infection. Those of you who have had it before will know it makes you miserable, crying over nothing and in pain and discomfort.
The doctor confirmed that it was a bladder infection. From there on, she was on antibiotics almost every month or even every three weeks. The condition would keep coming back, even though we tried our best to avoid it. (no sugar, shower instead of a bath, drinking a lot of water, etc.).
She was at four different Specialists between the ages of 2 – 9, had four scopes done, x-rays, and sonars, and no doctor could tell us what was happening and why. At the age of 7, her bladder started to leak as well.
You can imagine all the emotional stress she and I were going through. She cried and screamed so much that I wanted to pack her in a suitcase and post her overseas with no return address. All my emotional stress and carrying her around most of the time locked into my physical structure, and I could barely walk. My lower back was so stiff and painful that I could not even dress. Early in 2019, someone suggested I should go for BSR. BSR? What is that? She just said, find a practitioner and TRUST me. So I went to Eloise Sauer for my first session, and she explained to me how the body works. All the nerves running through your spine support your organs, skin, and muscles. And when you have body stress in your lower back, the muscles tighten, joint spaces narrow, and the nerves get compressed, so specific organs can't function optimally.
Here is where the light came on for me, and I finally realised that someone could help Mia. (remember, you can't see nerves on sonars and x-rays). I started to cry and couldn't stop. It was tears of relief and joy! I immediately booked the three sessions for Mia: After the 1st session, she was calmer. After the 2nd session, she was not crying anymore. Following the 3rd session, the infection cleared up. We continued with more sessions to release all the tension locked over time into her lower back.
Today, three years later, she has not had another infection, AND bonus part, we became best friends. She is an amazing child. BSR changed our lives for the better.
I referred so many people to Eloise that on 23 December 2019, she asked me, "why don't you go study BSR?"
And that is where my journey started….
During a long, prosperous, and joyful career as a H.O.D. in fabrications in the Film industry, it dawned on me there was something lacking in my life, and I grew more and more pessimistic, fearful, estranged, and overweight. All kinds of pains and aches accumulated in my being and physical structure.
I did not know then that this was due to stress overload (physical, mental, and chemical). This stress had been locking into my physical and mental existence as locked in muscle tension for years, disrupting my very essence and energy flow, making me, in short: MISERABLE and compromising my SELF HEALING MECHANISM. And this BODY STRESS was not being released.
Until early 2019 my body miraculously coped because that is what it does, until it does not. So early 2019, "burn out," I resigned from my job. I was not capable. I don't believe in half-heartedness. My employers sent me for counselling and Psychological evaluation by the film company, for which I am thankful to this current day. The counselling helped somewhat, but when my ex-life partner encouraged me to go to B.S.R. to get rid of my lower back pain, excruciating neck pain, indigestion, and ill mood, that is when it turned. To my surprise, Mary Parkers' practice was (and still is parallel) to our residence and one of our practices. So off I hobbled one day, the whole 100m or maybe less.
Quite frankly, and forgive me, after the 1st appointment, I thought: "That what she did is supposed to fix me?",
"I don't think she worked hard enough." Yes, that was still the pessimistic and dismissive, ignorant me.
Remember, I was used to forcing things, not just allowing for them to happen.
After about my 5th session, Mary looked at me and said: "Look at you! You are a whole new person."
It was a nice confirmation of what I felt before she said it. There are no more sleepless nights due to back pain, neck pain, indigestion, or anxiety. I walked with a smile.
My delamour: I still didn't know what she did. She wiggled my feet and pressed here and there on my body, and I relaxed and fell asleep sometimes on the table. I got up and thought and willed: "I want to do magic just like her, and so I enrolled for the B.S.R. course in Wilderness. To my amazement, the magic is in the very heart and minds of all of us and always and magnificently in the very you or I, the receiver (the client) who has to learn how to receive and thereby give and grow to optimum health and becomes the observer of his or hers self-healing initiated by the gentle practice/technique of B.S.R. and then the captain of their own health and destiny and evolution.
Many thanks to my teachers, the B.S.R. community, and last but not least, the very founders of Body Stress Release, EWALD, and GAIL MEGGERSEE.
