Anxiety is no joke. Your heart races, breathing gets shallow, your stomach feels like it’s churning, your body trembles, the mind is racing and you can’t speak because your throat is constricted. You want to run away. 

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While this is how the body may feel and respond to a situation, but going a little deeper - the nervous system and the primitive parts of the brain are stuck trying to protect you. Here, the tiniest stimuli from inside the body or outside from the environment can trigger this defense mechanism making it an almost default, ever-present in the background of day-to-day living. Thankfully, our nervous system is highly plastic, meaning it is moldable and adaptable and we can overcome anxiety by learning to feel the exact opposite feelings and sensations to anxiety. 

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While everything feels out of control and racing past you when you’re anxious, what the body and the nervous needs is something that can slow things down. The red alarm button, which is meant to go off for life and death situations, goes off at every tiny trigger, meaning the threat is constant. And one of the ways to switch off the alarm, bring back safety is a light touch and the presence of another. And in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy we use a gentle and safe touch and an empathic presence to help turn off this alarm. It slows things down in the body and mind. With the help of the therapist, the client is grounded, made to orient to present-time awareness with various tools and techniques to facilitate and support the journey back to health and safety. The therapist helps the client to de-link the sensation and felt sense from the memory and over time, the client is able to overcome anxiety.