"Ortho-Bionomy is a healing art that can act as a tool to shift the mass consciousness from damage control to preventative maintenance through self-awareness."
“To Shift or Not to Shift”
When we look back we can see all the signs the body was trying to give, telling us to slow down, take a break, and rest a little bit. Maybe we did not have time; we were too busy, we had to get one more thing done. The list never ended and eventually took its toll. The result was pain and tension in our bodies.
Ortho-Bionomy is an avenue to remind the body how to heal itself. We need to relearn how to communicate with our bodies and listen to our bodies’ needs. Having an understanding of what to expect from an Ortho-Bionomy session and practitioner is key to obtaining the desired goal from this work. First we need to arrive at a mutual understanding of the nature of healing.
What is Healing?
Healing happens from within, not without. One must recognize that the symptoms are signposts leading to a root cause of a possible emotional, mental, or spiritual nature. Ortho-Bionomy challenges the client to go beneath the superficial symptoms and discover the catalyst for the pain.
No true healing is a quick fix. Ortho-Bionomy is a process that takes time and energy from both client and practitioner. We have an unlimited amount of resources present in our lives. A shift must occur resulting in a re-allocation of our resources to achieve the desired outcome of better health.
The quality of our health is determined by our lifestyle. We perform maintenance on our cars, our houses and our yards, yet we rarely do maintenance on ourselves. What kind of value is put on good health? For many, health is only an issue when it is absent, and even then the only action taken is nothing more than damage control. Life is not meant for us to wait around until our bodies break down. We all can do things on a regular basis to maintain good health. After years of abuse it is unreasonable to expect to resolve our health issues with one pill, one shot, one surgery, 30 minutes of exercise, or a few sessions of body work.
It is not effective to do damage control by putting “bandages” on our symptoms (pills, etc.). These quick fixes only mask the symptoms of the true underlying issue. The body naturally knows how to heal itself. What it needs is time and to be reminded how.
How Can Ortho-Bionomy Help?
Ortho-Bionomy re-educates the body to understand itself better. Ortho-Bionomy’s main goal is to only address the body in a position of comfort. The whole concept of Ortho-Bionomy is based on this one key point: the body naturally moves away from pain and towards comfort. An Ortho-Bionomy Practitioner facilitates this process when the nervous system has lost touch with what is going on in the body.
Ortho-Bionomy also empowers clients with the knowledge of their own body through slow gentle movements. We are trained by society to give up our power to a “professional” and therefore not trust our own inner voice as to what makes sense. Through Ortho-Bionomy’s careful and supportive movements, the body’s own self-corrective reflexes are engaged and the body easily lets go of the tension it is holding.
Finding Our Self to Heal Ourselves
We are a physical manifestation of how we view ourselves. If we impose on the body and cause it pain, we are not only imposing on it physically, also mentally, spiritually, psychologically, energetically, and emotionally. The goal of Ortho-Bionomy is to put the body in a position of comfort. In positions of comfort the body lets go of its attempt to be something that it is not. Because of the comfort in an Ortho-Bionomy session, the body has no resistance to what is happening to it so the work can affect the body very deeply, very quickly.
Ortho-Bionomy provides options to get in touch with our “real self.” The personas, masks, and layers we put on when we go into the world, illusions that can lead to pain, can be dropped. What is left is a place of healing, comfort, serenity, and joy where no pain can touch us.
Ortho-Bionomy is not completely focused on finding out why the body is holding tension. By labeling the issue we create a paradigm around the issue creating a limitation to the healing process. A session deals with what is going on with the body in that given moment and we move forward from there. We can get caught up in the story of the pain which has a history attached to it and we miss what is going on presently, in the now. Every moment the body is experiencing an unlimited amount of stimuli, commonly known as stress. Our ability to adjust to this stress by finding the path of least resistance is essential to our health and well-being. This adjustment can only occur in the present moment. Ortho-Bionomy can help us find comfort in these circumstances with adjusting to this “ever changing neutral.”
Feeling Good
When the body begins to feel good, it is only the beginning of the healing process, and the wonders of the body are just starting to unfold. This is when most clients feel they are done with the process and go back to their lives as before. An incredible adventure lies within the confines of us all. Many liken it to the peeling of an onion; there is always another layer to uncover. Ortho-Bionomy is an avenue for recognizing patterns within our selves that do not support the ultimate goals we have in life. These patterns keep us from being fulfilled. I remember a quote from when I was growing up that had a very profound effect on me. I cannot remember where I heard it or who said it, however it went something like this: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”
Ortho-Bionomy gives us an opportunity to change these patterns if we wish. We always have this choice, “To shift or not to shift.” The answer to that question lies within each one of us.
Bill Parravano is an Advanced Ortho-Bionomy Practitioner and Associate Basic Ortho-Bionomy Instructor located in the Louisville, Kentucky area. For more information he can be contacted at 502.664.7179 or bill@phase-eight.com
This article appeared in the March 8, 2006 online edition of the ByRegion Healers Newsletter.
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