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Your ANS is the big boss. The numero uno. The one who is in charge. The ANS is always on, behind the scenes and is running the show. What is the show though? The show is you, how you show up in your life, in other people's lives and what you FEEL. The number one goal of your ANS is safety, keeping YOU safe. Humans have very large and unique brains, but we still have some very old software. Some of that software is more relevant than ever, and some seems a bit archaic. Having a few insights can really help you understand, well you.
Wait, wasn't the headline about noise? What does that have to do with my ANS and safety? There is always noise around us, not just literal noise, but all the unspoken stuff too. Everyone's nervous system is wired a bit differently. Some of us can tolerate a ton of noise and not even realize it's there. Other people hear a pin drop and it's deafening. Ok neat, what does this all have to do with RAPID?
In a RAPID session, our goal is always to help reset your brain to a place of safety, when the ANS is feeling safe we generally have little or no pain, full mobility and generally a good disposition about life. There is very little noise. When the ANS is not feeling safe, we often have a lot of pain, mobility can be limited or muscles can feel weak, we can have a lot of feelings and emotions especially ones that cause anxiety, depression and a sense of despair.
This is why some people get out of pain quickly with RAPID and others take a lot longer. Some people when having a session don't have a ton of noise in their body, this doesn't mean they are without stress, old / current injuries and all that stuff, it just means that their brain heard (or rather felt) the RAPID treatment quickly and reset to safety. Other people need a lot more inputs (sessions) for their brain to get that reset.
I recently had a client who only after about fifteen sessions did we start to see real and lasting change, the next five sessions they had after that were more typical of what the average person experiences with RAPID. I'm so glad that they trusted both myself and the process. There was a lot going on in this person's nervous system. Several old injuries, some of which had never really been addressed by anyone, a fairly traumatic surgery that went well on a whole, but didn't leave the client in the best place on an emotional level. This person had severe pain in several places, as well as a lot of small aches and pains that initially weren't even on the horizon, the noise from other things was so loud that quieter things couldn't be heard until the system had calmed down enough to hear them.
Their system was on such high alert that even the lightest RAPID touch would elicit that eight out of ten. Slowly the ANS began to hear the inputs (Jackie's touch) and make changes. Now many of those places don't hurt anymore, physical balance is better, the emotions are calmer, and the places that are still hurting and being actively treated in weekly sessions are in that six out of ten range, overall there is a nice reduction of hypersensitivity. Staying the course, having regular sessions to keep the reset goals of RAPID consistent, and addressing the process with patience, kindness and deep understanding for how this person felt about many key components of their history is what made that big shift.
Consistency is a big part of success with RAPID. Weekly is ideal, however I have seen great results with people who were not able to commit to weekly sessions - usually they just needs a few more sessions to get over the finish line.
Do. Your. Homework. Who hasn't heard that? This is a big piece of the RAPID puzzle too. Your ANS responds REALLY well to the homework I give out at the end of your session. Move more than you usually do. That means, do more. It also means incorporate all those tasks / movements etc. that you have been struggling with. The more you do those especially in the first 24 hours and then the following day or two, the more gains you will likely make in general from your sessions. This is because we are helping your ANS remember a time when it felt safe AND you could do that movement / activity / task. You're helping to lock that in as accessible to you once more.
Avoiding ice, topical applications (creams, lotions, ointments) that inhibit or reduce your inflammation, foam rolling, massage devices or regular massage should all be avoided for at least 48 hours after your session. Ice you may want to avoid indefinitely! The reason these things are not implemented is they create their own noise in your system, and they clash with what RAPID is doing, so they negate some or in rare cases all of the benefits you otherwise would have received from the RAPID session.
When you experience relief from your symptoms temporarily, that's usually an indication that your ANS heard the session, but it didn't cancel out all the other noise, more sessions will get those results for you to stick. So whether it was five minutes, five hours, five days or five weeks, more RAPID sessions will get those results to stay for you. Most people do really well with six to eight weekly treatments to resolve their issues.
This is one of the reasons I generally suggest you do not combine RAPID with any other intervention. Both may be good for you, but together the noise each makes often muddies the waters and confuses your ANS so results are often slower. You also won't know which one did what for you.
Our brains have some very old parts to them, primarily your brain stem which is often called your reptilian brain. This part of the brain is really the main aspect of keeping us alive and manages our essential survival instincts. Mostly still very relevant for us today. We do live in a very different world. Our nervous systems were mostly designed to live in small communities, to gather, forage and hunt. Not to feel the weight of the world on your shoulders, be constantly stimulated by technology, or stressed out by deadlines. We weren't meant to be as sedentary as we are. We were meant to eat real food, not the processed foods most readily available. These things create noise in your nervous system that it was never really meant to hear. When there is too much of this noise it can push your ANS into a very scared place and that can cause a lot of discomfort physically because it's one of the only ways your brain knows how to talk to you. So let us turn down the noise and get you pain free!
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