What is safety for the body and how does feeling safe help treat ailments?

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Providing safety and trust means to break the loop of overprotective and defence strategies, gradually, to reach altered behaviour and responses to the perceived threat. Safety regulates the central nervous system and helps it not swing between extremes of inbuilt survival mechanisms.

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Feeling safe in the body and with the environment is primal to healthy individuals. Unless we don’t feel safe within and outside of us, our body cannot function optimally. All the involuntary systems of the body need a safe environment to maintain health and restoration. Sleep, digestion, reproduction, behaviour, emotional regulation, social engagement needs one to feel and be safe. 

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Neurologically, the more safety circuits our brain has, the more resilient it is to stress, trauma and potential dangers or threats. When neurological circuits go through a ‘short circuit’ due to danger (read chronic stress/trauma) if left unresolved or unattended - leads to many mental and physical health conditions. 

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Our 5 senses primarily are instruments that send signals of safety back to the brain through their respective receptors. They are the windows through which our brain defines our state of feeling safe. 

 

There are other specific neural pathways within the body that send safety information from our bodily organs to the brain. These then contribute to the subjective feelings that get manifested in our mood states, emotions, social engagement and behaviour. 

 

A biodynamic touch amplifies safety and disrupts old patterns of danger and threat. It is an extremely powerful and absolutely natural way to access deeper levels of vitality and health.