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Nerve Pathways g Boostin REWARDS THE HEART
by Lynell Cavner, Owner & Master Certified Bowen Practitioner, Lynell & Company
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urn up the love of alternative healing protocols with your heart in mind. Your heart is your body’s motor. Without a healthy heart, your nervous system won’t fire properly — it will short circuit. Doing something good for our body and nervous system creates strong rewarding nerve pathways. Through alternative healing processes that focus on our “motor” (our heart) and our “wires” (our nerves), good self-care and healthy eating habits, we can create stronger brain/body connections. To develop reward pathways, combine a healthy heart diet with plenty of magnesium- and potassium-rich foods, fewer saturated fats, low cholesterol intake and an increased amount of good water with consistent exercise — a combination of cardio, weight lifting and stretching. The later includes deep diaphragmatic breathing, which stimulates the vagus nerve system. This nerve helps to lower heart rate, regulates blood pressure and sweating, and much more. It carries sensory information from your
internal organs back to your brain. The healthier the vagal tone, the more resilient the body’s response to stress. Interesting note: If you take an aspirin to prevent a stroke or heart attack because it inhibits an enzyme that makes the blood prone to dangerous stickiness, know that ginger not only inhibits the same enzyme, but it does so without any possibility of gastric bleeding. Clearly, lives have been saved and extended
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with the help of drugs and surgical techniques, but those can carry serious risks. They can be invasive, expensive and traumatic to the body. Sometimes, heart surgery can be the beginning of the end of a normal, natural, lifestyle, and sometimes it can be just what the body needed to wake up and make some changes. Perhaps it’s time for you to add body and nerve restoration work to your life, helping your body turn on its own healing power
through the nervous system; creating those reward pathways. Synapses that fire together will wire together. This work is powered by the Bowen Method. A session consists of several series of gentle moves through light-weight clothing. There are frequent and important pauses between sets of moves to allow for integration. It primarily works by restoring the autonomic nervous system, which controls over 80% of the bodily functions.
