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STRESS

  • Stress doesn’t just involve emotional pain; its effects can cause physical tensions, aches and pains, and if not checked can lead to other symptoms and side effects that can be increasingly debilitating. Stress is the most consistent predictor of back pain in clinical research.
  • Zero Balancing bodywork aims to provide respite and promote recovery from both emotional stress and the physical aches and pains caused by problems associated with stress.
  • Zero Balancing bodywork sessions can be deeply relaxing for both body and mind, particularly because it’s done through clothing. The fact that there is no need to undress can be very reassuring – and less stressful – for many people.
  • Zero Balancing bodywork also avoids putting the systems of the body under further strain: Zero Balancing is neither manipulative nor painful. Its potential lies not in pressing strongly, but instead in the reparative and respectful quality of the touch.
  • A Zero Balancing bodywork session involves lying comfortably on your back. The practitioner uses gentle finger pressure and held stretches that offer the opportunity for the body to relax, rebalance, recalibrate and reset. Practitioners work principally on the lower back, the hips, the feet, and the upper back, neck and head, with the effects extending widely around the body.
  • The work encourages tensions to release and areas of looseness to become more energised. Zero Balancing practitioners handle clients in a way that can allow changes to be absorbed by body and mind, and which then can encourage the body to right itself.
  • Zero Balancing bodywork can offer relaxation to the systems and tissues of the body, which can also help improve flexibility, and can provide a breather and a feeling of total refreshment for both the mind and body.
  • Zero Balancing offers a respite for those caught in hyperactivity, when we have become dislocated from our body’s natural rhythms, or when we feel we can’t switch off – all common problems when dealing with stress.
  • Health & Safety Executive, Stress and Psychological Disorders (2011).
  • Zero Balancing practitioners also take in a broader view, looking at the whole body and at our life in general. As such, practitioners do not just focus on the symptom, so there is scope for even greater improvements than the relief of the causes, symptoms and effects of stress.
  • The observed knowledge of how Zero Balancing affects people is backed up by quantifiable research-based data. This data clearly indicates that ZB stimulates the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system producing states akin to deep meditation. ZB counteracts the physiological and psychological effects of the “fight or flight” mechanism that causes anxiety, chronic muscular tension, and depletion of the immune system.
  • In a 2011 survey of the use of complementary and alternative medicines carried out on caregivers at a major US military hospital (employees could choose from ear acupuncture, clinical acupressure and Zero Balancing), 97% of respondents strongly agreed they felt more relaxed after sessions, 94.5% experienced less stress, 84.3% experienced more energy, and 78.8% experienced less pain.

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