0:00 - 4:10 Intro
- What we’re going to talk about in this podcast
- The Key Principle behind Neural Release Therapy (NRT), Myofascial Release Therapy (MFR), etc. will be unlocked.
- Mechanoceptors are the Hot Topic of the Day
- Biggest Takeaway of Today : More Sensory Information coming In = More Optimized Movement going out.
4:11 - 8:38 - How Body Tension drives Pain
- Basic Principle = reduce Body Tension, Tension can come from Bottom-Up or Top-Down
- Pain around the Spine is strongly evlutionarily conserved.
- Body Tension hyperactivates the Frontal Lobe, allows for better decisions.
- Top- Down Body Tension = when tension is driven because the Frontal Lobe is not releasing control of the body.
- When Bottom-Up signals are ignored by Pre-Frontal Cortex (Frontal Lobe) the signals get labelled as threats; which activates a sympathetic response.
- Creates a cycle where more Tension is activated, activating more Mechanoceptors, turning feelings into threats, strengthening Top-Down Body Tension.
- Cycle Review
8:39 - 10:53 - Describing Pain Solutions and Mechanisms of Pain
- Tissue Decompression = More Access to Mechanoreceptors = More Information about where the Body is.
- More Information = Better Assess Body-wide Homeostasis = Awareness that You are Safe = Melts Danger signals.
- This is why studies involving Mindfullness and Meditation reduce Pain, because You’re putting Yourself in Ventral Vagus (VVC)
- How Curable Health works
- Pain Pathways is an overwhelmed Sensory Pathway,
nociception (“Pain Nerves”) evolve based on behavioural conditions.
10:54 - 14:15 - Why having Access to Good Movement Capacity translates to optimal Health
- If Your psitionally where Your supposed to be, Fascia is able to do it’s job.
- Space-holding internally, podcast reference FasciabasicsP.2 reference
- Balance = Health
- Why Fascia is so cool, everything in the Body converges in the Fascia.
- The state of Your Fascial Health is a direct indicator of the state of balance withinnYour Body
- What defines a Good mover?
- Ancestral Tribes —> Everyone runs with the tribe until they die, because mdern-day mobility problems dont exist
14:16 - 15:46 - Why embodies makes a good mover.
- Definition of what it means to be embodied.
- Touch & Movement together —> Informs the Body that it exists, it creates You watching You.
- Somatization moves into Embodiment, Embodiment is the bridge between physical Health and Spiritual Health.
15:47 - 18:58 - Opening the book of Science, the Movement Cycle
- The Movement Cycle Define; (1) Body needs to know where it is, (2) Move (3) Re-orient & Repeat.
- How Touch & Movement lead to Self-Organization which leads to Optimization.
- Self-Experiment, moving around the house blindfolded.
- Skin contact will increase Movement Competency
- How touch links to emotions
- Be conscious about where You are in Space, sensory information can be subconscious
18:59 - 25:56 - Looking at Mechanoceptors to enhance Step 1 of the Movement Cycle.
- 2 sense of Touch, external & internal
- External Touch examples (Exteroception), Internal Touch Examples (Interoception, Proprioception)
- How Proprioception is different from Interoception, Proprioception is responsible for wobble when You stnd on one foot.
- What makes Mechanoceptors so special
- Main types of Mechanoceptors, slow-adapting (SA) & fast-adapting (FA)
- You have to be moving to activate FA Mechanoceptors.
- Why this is so important.
- Enhancing Quality, Volume & Specificity of Sensory Input will impact the Quality, Coordination and Grace of Motor Output, even if the input is intuitive.
- Review the step sequence of how sensation translates to better movement.
25:57 - 30:57 - How it’s related to Fascia
- ~250 million nerve endings within th Fascia, Your Fascia has 10,000% more nerve endings more than Your ear.
- All these nerve endings converge and sent into the Mid-Brain; it informs the Motor Cortices to put out a motor response
- The majority of people block this because they operate from a Left Hemisphere Operation.
- The importance of the Right Hemisphere; the Left Hemisphere is physically incapable of handling the amount of sensory information.
- The difference between the way the Left Hemisphere and Right Hemisphere solve problems.
30:58 - 31:57 - The Salience Network and why activating it allows for updating Movement & Behavioural Maps
- The Salience Network gets activated by the Right Hemisphere.
- The Salience Network updates the Default Mode Network (DMN); the network that operates the body when You’re “offline”.
- Clarifying the impact of the Prefrontal Cortex on creating Body Tension.
31:58 - 34:50 - What it means when the Left Hemisphere is leading
- The Left Hemisphere disassociates from the Body when it leads from the Top-down.
- The Left Hemisphere doesn’t have the hardware to receive information from the Bottom-Up; it also cannot receive it Real Time, (its always too late.)
- Back Pain Example; Left Hemisphere VS. Right Hemisphere Leading.
- How the Right Hemisphere is linked to the First Step of the Movement Cycle
34:51 - 41:04 - The Second Phase of the Movement Cycle
- More Touch = More Confidence in Our Movement
- Optimized Movement Cycle is maintained by staying open to the messages that convey that we are in control and balanced.
- Right Hemisphere first has to be in control or Mechanoceptors have to be released to flood brain with new information.
- How NRT targets mechanoreceptors
- How Human Garage targets mechanoreceptors
- How TRE targets Mechanoreceptors
- How Resistant Stretching targets Mechanoreceptors
- Excess Body Tension can compress acess to mechanoceptors = less information accessable to the brain = less safety.
- Degrading Motor Ouput.
41:05 - 43:01 - The Influence of Mechanoreceptors on the Movement Cycle
- Integrating increased touch into the Movement Cycle
- More Movement Cycles per unit of time = More Mechanoreceptor activation per unit of time.
- Flipbook VS. Film Analogy for graceful movement
43:02 - 47:48 - How to train for Right Hemisphere leading
- Practical Takeaway —> Train Your Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS)
- Analogy of the Autonomic Nervous System; Car goig down the hill.
- Train for Vagal Tone; most of Your sensory nerves converge on the Vagus Nerve before arriving at the mid-brain.
- How trauma can play a role.
- Do it now: Shift into a PSNS, eyes technique lets Yu stay out of Your Body’s way.
- What it feels like to be in the Right Hemisphere
- Other Techniques
47:49 - 48:38 - Close out
RESOURCES
- Resistant Stretching - Bob Cooley Books
- Resistant Stretching 1.0-: Becoming Flexible in all ways
- Genius Flexibility: The smart way to stretch and strengthn Your Body
- Mindfullness Reduces Pain Papers
- Mindfulness meditation–based pain relief: a mechanistic account
- Mindfulness meditation to control pain
- Mindfulness Meditation Reduces Pain, Bypasses Opioid Receptors
- The efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in acute pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Ian McGilchrist - The Master and his Emissary
- TRE (Trauma Releasing Exercises)
- Resistance Stretching by Bob Cooley - Youtube
