Flow, Safety, and the Gift of Resistance – A Craniosacral Perspective

Our health and wellbeing is what we desire, yet, there’s actually a paradox;
Health and wellbeing involves the integration of our relationship with resistance.
Without which, we lose the edge, that fosters growth and resilience.

Resistance is a part of life. It helps support and shape us.

The very structure of our bodies involve some form of resistance. Otherwise there’d be no distinguishing one cell from another. One organ, bone or muscle from the other.

The picture shows a microphage cell engulfing bacteria. This is the immune system resisting the intentions of a foreign particle.

Our bodies first encountered resistance at birth. Driven by biological impulses, emerging from the nurturing fluid space of our mothers womb. Navigating the narrow passage of the birth canal. This initial resistance kickstarted our developing brain, digestion, immune function and contributed to our emotional wellbeing.

To deepen into health, we need a felt sense of safety. In Craniosacral Therapy we notice a relationship within what is called ‘birth patterns’.
Birth patterns pulsate back and forward between contraction and expansion. These patterns remain and echo on throughout adulthood as the cycle of contraction and expansion continues to inform the fundamental building blocks of life within us.

In Craniosacral Therapy we foster appropriate resources that help provide a felt sense of safety. This is what builds resilience and helps us to adventure outwards into the world.
This helps us to determine where we can have healthy resistance and let go of unecessary resistance.

Resistance is that edge that stimulates our growth.
And, with adequate safety gives us that restorative impulse and stimulus to support connection.

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