Our Story
Attunement Therapy is a direct response to reading the same message, written in various ways from so many teachers from many, many medical professions and healing modalities. They have expressed their dismay toward the state human health on the planet. They talk about a missing piece in the puzzle; something that that mainstream culture has been unwilling to look at until now. We are disconnected from one another. But paradoxically the damage runs so deep that many of us don’t know that we are disconnected. Those who seek to easily increase their emotional and physical health need a unique form of healing that is simple, that works and that needs minimal tools or training to share. We believe Attunement Therapy is the answer.
Our culture is desperate for a healing modality as ‘radical’, as easy to learn and as accessible as Attunement Therapy. But this same culture is also conditioned to require that – a healing modality this ‘left of field’ must be scientifically, medically and ethically respectable. So that is what we are going to do.
By sharing Attunement Therapy, our mission is to de-radicalize human touch. And instead we hope to help create a new culture where non-sexual intimacy is normalized as a ‘common sense’ pathway to healing. If we take a brief glance at the worsening state of loneliness, depression, drug use and suicide all around us, we can see that physical human connection is the key to repairing and enriching people’s way of life. Our greater community has fundamental issues that are getting worse, not better. The current mainstream healthcare and support systems need to re-think their core principals in regards to human healing.
Our intention with Attunement Therapy is to gift this to our culture as a well structured, medically and spiritually respected healing modality that can spread quickly around the earth. Because we need this. We wish to keep the principals of giving Attunement Therapy consistent and scientific because acknowledge that most of modern culture seeks scientific verification before they explore and take on new ideas and experiences.
Responsible, open minded science and its findings gives us the language to express the methods we can use to re-discover this reconnection. This is not just our birth right as humans, but we already had this connection at birth. Attunement Therapy is built form science of child brain development.
We are physiologically wired for physical connection with one another. Attunement Therapy safely offers an experience to clients that awakens their innate knowing that we all need regular human touch to maintain optimum health.
Attunement Therapy is a exponentially growing modality because so many people are simultaneously coming into awareness that miraculous healing through touch can actually be this simple, quick and effective.
How it works
Healing ourselves automatically by simply being physically close to other people in our family, community or tribe should be unmentionably normal. Sadly, due to many factors in the ‘West’, such as scarcity, competition, trauma, latent religious values and government policy – we live in a society that has hyper normalized a physical intimacy deficit. – And it has become unmentionably normal.
We can heal the mind and subsequently the body through physical human connection.
The level of relaxation Attunement Therapy generates in the patient gently reclines them into a super conscious connected physiological state. Their body’s natural healing intelligence takes them on a visual and emotional journey back to health. The ‘unconscious’ parts of their are mind put behind the steering wheel and leads them to the emotions and memories they most need to process. This is often followed by automatic relevant emotional insight, realizations and affirmation that allows them to let go of past issues. Being held in this way re-connects them with a sense peace and enthusiasm toward their past, present and future.
We are Built to be Intimately Connected with Each Other
Our normalized lack of gentle, unrushed, and non-sexual physical intimacy means that this idea of Attunement Therapy may seem outlandish to many people. The fact is that we are built for regular physical intimacy. Many of us suffer from health issues because of the deficit of physical intimacy in our lifestyle. The truth is; that in the ‘right conditions,’ our body will be automatically able to regulate and correct itself. But for many – the ‘right conditions’ have been misplaced.
The exploration of how an infant’s brain develops in the womb and outside it, is the key to attaining insight into how physical intimacy with another is the simplest way to heal.
We were all infants once. Consistent physical intimacy was the factor that kept us alive and healthy. A mind opening example of this, is that of pre-mature babies, put in an incubators. If they are not touched – skin on skin regularly, then their brain will stop growing properly. They left the safety of the womb too early so they need human contact or their body can literally give up.
‘In animal experiments, its known that physical touching induces growth hormone production, promoting better weight gain and development. These finding also apply to human beings. In a study of premature babies, incubated infants were divided into two groups. All their nutritional and other needs were identical accept for one variable: One group was given 15 minutes of tactile stimulation, three times a day over a period of two weeks. Providing this form of stimulation to these babies resulted in significant acceleration a weight gain, increased head circumference and improved behavioral indices compared with the control group….
Interactions with the world program our physiological and psychological development. Emotional contact is as important as physical contact.
The two are quite analogous as we realize when we describe the emotional experience of feeling touched.’
Gabor Mate
When the Body Says No:
The cost of Hidden Stress
Further more, human contact is not just the key to healthy infant growth, it’s the key to maintenance. When a baby is breast feeding, their physiology believes they are back in the safety of the womb, where all their biological needs are freely provided. In the womb they are totally at one with their mother, that occupies the space all around them. She selflessly keeps them warm, protected and nourished. We can’t forget that this reality does not solely apply for infants. The brain we built so rapidly as infants is the one we have now. Its immensely important to grasp that these healing concepts apply to us as adults. We were those infants.
For some parents going through relationship difficulty, they can literally see the level of their rift by observing the neediness in the behaviours of their baby, toddler or child. On the surface, on a mechanistic level we may be behaving like loving, kind parents however on the subconscious level, we are broadcasting our negative emotional state to our child through mirror neurons.
The relationship rift makes the baby upset and she will need a lot more skin-on-skin contact and breastfeeding to counteract. This is due to her naturally seeking closeness, in order to try to regulate and metabolise the outer emotions she is experiencing and attempting to process (not her own) that are caught in her body. If the parents are able to work through the issues in their relationship, the child is able to feel at peace again.
In the most extreme cases of emotional overwhelm we instinctively seek close human contact as quickly as possible so that we may metabolise this energy and soothe our nervous system. This picture is from the Korean War in the early 1950s. This would be a common scene in any war, where hardened soldiers begin to emotionally crack because of the trauma and loss they are regularly exposed to. It is sad that men, for the most part, will only hold each other unconditionally in this way as team-mates in the human experience when the circumstances are only the most severe. The mission of Attunement Therapy is to normalise holding each other, and to offer emotional regulation to those around us and ourselves on a regular basis.
Many of us did not have our Attunement needs met as infants. We simply were not held enough. Separation during infancy scars the subconscious which is most of our automatic thoughts and feelings. Many adults are those same neglected infants. They have highly increased chances of feeling consistently alone, separate, stressed and fearful. It’s unavoidable. Unless we learn how to re-write that tape.
Do you have trouble reaching out to others for help? Do you feel a regular lack of trust, lower sense of safety, emotional security and low self worth?
Being exposed to controlled crying while your brain was in rapid development could be the cause. When we are babies, we are reading the environment and creating our brain for the future where we expect the same environment to exist. In this case, we are becoming hyper-vigilant and hyper-independent because we become en-trained to believe that we can’t count on other people when we need them. If left un-checked, as adults, we won’t speak about our problems or ask for help.
Most adults today in Western Society were exposed to controlled crying during infancy as normal parenting practice.
‘This is a widley used by controversial technique, used to train babies to go to sleep alone…. Basically, controlled crying involves refusing your baby a response when they cry out at night.
You begin by making them wait a few moments, then keep making the periods of refusal longer and longer, until, supposedly, they learn how to fall asleep all by themselves without bothering you… But there are serious problems with this technique.
First of all, its is based on the expectation that babies need to learn to fall asleep all alone, all the time – the very opposite of what babies have, over millions of years, evolved to expect. This enforced self-reliance comes long before the child is biologically ready for it and ignores her most important attachment needs. For the sake of retraining the baby’s behaviour, this technique ignores the fear, helplessness and betrayal the baby feels while crying out for a parent who won’t come… When you are gone, babies cannot understand that you will come back. They can reassure themselves by imaging your return, which makes your absence all the more devastating…
It is nothing like falling asleep contentedly, felling connected to you. By the time the baby gives up on calling you, he has gone through what developmental neuropsychologists call the ‘defeat response’. On the surface it might look like peaceful slumber, but it is more like a state of shock and numbing out, a collapse of all the healthy efforts to reach out for human contact, with none of the pleasure associated with the sleep that comes through emotional security…
Some babies become so frantic after a period of crying alone that they throw up. Imagine how distressed you would have to be in order to vomit.
Once your baby’s brain becomes habituated to producing the defeat response, this practice becomes neurologically set it. The child’s brain is then more likely to use resignation as a strategy to face stresses later in life. The risk with these techniques is that they program the child’s brain to give up on reaching out to others. Ignoring a baby undermines his trust, his sense of safety and emotional security, which can have adverse effects on his later behaviour and relationships.’
Robin Grille
Heart to Heart Parenting: Nurturing your child’s emotional intelligence from conception to school age
Attunement Therapy works on the opposite principals to controlled crying, where your physical needs are met and you can be held in a safe, present, un-rushed way. The healing power of Attunement Therapy can re-wire the brain and heal the damage caused by controlled crying leaving you confident to reach out for help in your life and express your emotions where you KNOW they are welcomed by your partner, family, friends or therapist. This also helps lift your own level of compassion and empathy so you can hold other’s through their emotional processes.
For infants, lack of touching is not just neglect, but it has the same physiological crippling effect as what we call ‘abuse’. Not abuse because of something done to a child – but something – not done. Unmet tactile Attunement needs of babies impairs physical development and at the same time, gives baby the first inkling that they are not desirable or lovable. Later life events will manifest to further re-enforce those earliest impressions
Intimate Adults
If we want to be healthy; then we are not supposed to ‘grow out of’ and ‘harden away from’ the need for regular close human contact and intimacy. Attunement Therapy not only reminds, but relapses the mind of the client, into the sensation of being held by a parent. They feel safe, heard, loved and received.
Many people have unprocessed emotional baggage they carry around with them, whether they are aware of it or not. When we feel relaxed and safe and free of the pressures of task completion or indulging in entertainment, then its automatic for the human body to look at our past story, and begin healing it. However, most people never feel truly safe and relaxed and they don’t allow their body to naturally heal. Other people know their ‘stuff’ comes up if they give them selves space and this frightens them so they stay numb or distracted with addictions.
Its hard to be physiologically interested in sex or food when we are stressed or not feeling safe. This is the intelligence of the body keeping us in check by pumping blood away from the stomach and sexual organs. In the same way, its hard to review, and metabolize our past issues when we are not feeling safe. Attunement Therapy offers the environment for clients to naturally fall into the natural healing and release of the past.
There is nothing to worry about. There is nothing to regret. We are present in the now, and all is well. And this is the space our entire physiology hungers for. Because in that space it can get to work on metabolizing trapped emotion by expressing it through our mind and body and literally purging the visions of negative memories through our visual cortex. This is really what takes place. The body then ‘re-sets’ and fills the mind and visual cortex with peaceful, meaningful visions, pleasant emotions and cognitively available empowering affirmations. This is the dazzling miracle of the healing intelligence within each and everyone of us.
“This is what I’ve been lacking in my life:
Being held in a safe way like this.
I’ve never felt safe and been held like this.
Someone not wanting anything from me. Just holding me…
– as I am.”
Katie,
Attunement Therapy Client
This super healing process gives our brain the re-boot we need to
re-align how we interact with people in our daily life.
Attunement Therapy makes us remember what should be so normal…
Human touch, safety and closeness, for everyone.
Exploring the Benefits
At the moment our brain receives this realignment, we feel completely safe and held by a mother or father presence that is all around us. This imbues our nervous system with a sense of confidence that the world around us is safe. Not only this, we feel a knowing that the Earth freely offers our needs of food, water, shelter, connection to nature, and creative inspiration. We don’t ‘think’ we live on an abundant loving planet – we ‘know’ we do. This knowing balances our entire nervous system.
We are able to rest and sleep easily and peacefully. We feel more confident, inspired and open minded about new ideas, new places, new people and new experiences. Just as it is for infants, ‘knowing’ our connection to this ‘Mother-like’ energy of the earth gives us healthy dopamine function. Dopamine fuels our excitement to explore life and be creative.
Being held as you allow emotions to arise and dissipate that have been long trapped in your body is a unique experience for many. In our evolution, staying a part of the group, whether it is through the family, tribe or community, meant surviving. The drive to BELONG equates with one of our most primitive biological imperatives to survive.
Survival is way higher on the ladder of our physiological priorities than processing uncomfortable emotion. This is how and why we normalise suppressing our feelings in order to be accepted or even loved. Calm, peaceful and friendly = I’ll be loved. Many of us develop a habit of living within a fake personality of serene, calm pleasant-ness, only so we don’t assault anyone at the office, or even break down sobbing in front our wife.
Being held in Attunement Therapy allows you to remember your own worthiness, encourages your emotions to arise to the surface, and welcomes you to remember that you are loved as an emotionally transparent vulnerable human being. You return to feel as though you belong again – in your body and on this Earth. Which is the very opposite to experiencing stress and anxiety.
A long-term side effect of becoming an Attunement Therapy practitioner is an exponential radiating sense of belonging on this Earth. And this affects others.
As you seamlessly fall into a lifestyle of helping others simply by being in the goodness of yourself, you will continue to bloom into higher levels of emotional and physical health. The potential here is very exciting.
Connection to others, and the reminder of the safety we knew when close to our mother is the ultimate stress-relief practice. If left unchecked, negative emotion that we direct at ourselves will further place stress our body. Even the most debilitating emotions such as shame, guilt, self-loathing and severe anxiety can be cleared by being held by someone who accepts us wholly, as we are.
The faculties of our immunity and rejuvenation lie within our visceral organs. If we don’t receive enough blood flow here, then we become wide open to illness, fatigue and ultimately a shorter lifespan.
Viral count tests done on people suffering from HIV have shown that stress has a direct effect on our ability to fight viruses. The peace and comfort delivered by Attunement Therapy would have a direct effect on anyone in the fight against viral or bacterial infection.
Trauma means that the body is behaving physiologically as if a past event is still occurring. Emotions caused by the event may still be very active. Visions of the event could still be arising. Along with this, the physical body may suffer from physical injury or the long-term effect of stress hormones released by negative thinking and visualisation. These stress hormones will eventually kill us. Trauma entrainment – in this way – is the body’s intelligence expecting the event to occur in the future – even if it is highly unlikely. This process is subconscious and automatic.
‘Your brain and body don’t know the difference between having an actual experience in your life and just thinking about the experience.’
Dr. Joe Dispenza
You are the Placebo
Attunement Therapy provides the space for the subconscious to revert to the opposite ‘program’ to trauma – Safety. As discussed previously, we know that when the brain feels enveloped by a loving, nourishing, caring, safe parental energy, it has to potential to quickly heal and reset. We also know that Attunement Therapy allows for the metabolisation of unhealthy emotions and memories out of the physical body. Because of epigenetics, we know that if these thoughts, habits and repetitive emotions stay in the body, they will cause disease, pain and sickness. Attunement Therapy can leave the entire nervous system feeling clear, refreshed and innocent.
As we start to feel more safe, confident and excited about our present life and future life as well as in acceptance of our past, we change the chemical make up of our body. Peaceful emotions and thoughts release hormones and bio-peptides throughout the body, which signal new genes in new healthier ways in all of our cells. This process is called epigenetics. What is particularly astonishing is that stem cells in our body can be signaled by our positive attitude to suddenly heal joints, ligaments, organs, blood or anywhere that they are needed. With the right intention and chemical signals, stem cells will gravitate to where they are needed most and become any type of cell we require of them. This is why ‘sham-knee surgery’ works. Patients are put under anesthetic, tiny incisions are made, and that’s it. The knee heals itself through the placebo effect, guided by the patient’s thought that they will heal and the power of their own stem cells. Attunement Therapy can initiate spontaneous healing in this way, via positive thought and visualisation.
Attunement Therapy’s paramount benefit is to de-stress the whole body. There is countless medical evidence that shows undoubtedly that consistent stress makes us less healthy on all levels. Cell biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton explains to us in his book The Biology of Belief, that he believes that 95% of all doctors’ visits are caused by stress.
What many consider to be mental imbalances can be corrected by neuro-plasticity, such as the ‘psychiatric model’ names such as attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia, bi-polar, or borderline personality disorder, to name a few. Neuro-plasticity means the brain can heal, re-wire and even literally change shape. This means in theory that all psychiatric illness can be physically overcome, given the right circumstances.
The mechanistic psychiatric industry wrongly describes many ‘disorders’ as permanent brain chemical imbalances. This very idea has a disempowering ‘no-cebo’ effect on their vulnerable clients. Meaning that the mechanistic and reductionist diagnosis from their therapists and prescribers can actually cause physiological damage in their body. It also feeds the business agenda of keeping people disempowered and unwell so they continue to book appointments and purchase expensive medications.
No matter what these mental states are named, they are all linked with unpleasant, and involuntary states of mind that can cause great suffering. Attunement Therapy provides an alternative to medications in many cases. In the long term it could allow one’s body to literally change the brain through neuro-plasticity and delete the disease entirely.
Many people are encouraged to manage the effects of negative life events or of an unhealthy lifestyle with psychiatric medications. Furthermore, many people also end up trying to manage the side-effects of their medications with more medications.
Attunement Therapy is a natural and easy way to re-set the brain without bombarding it with synthetic chemicals that upset its homeostasis. The key to balancing the brain is human connection. Becoming trained in Attunement Therapy would be a valuable tool for current prescribers, therapists, counselors, care givers and families of those individuals who seek to withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. Being regularly held during withdrawal, the body will be given the opportunity to accelerate the changes needed in the brain for balance to return.
‘It is important to reemphasize that there are no known physiological or biochemical imbalances in the brains of people suffering from psychiatric disorders. That is where there are no laboratory test for a psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia; there are no known abnormalities to detect. Instead of correcting bio-chemical imbalances, the drugs cause biochemical imbalances. Instead of correcting processes, every psychoactive medication disrupts the normal homeostasis of the brain, causing additional biochemical distortions within the brain as the organ attempts to overcome or to compensate for the drug induced disruption.’
Peter R. Breggin
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and Their Families
An Attunement Therapy client came off antipsychotic mood stabilizers just one week after a single Attunement Therapy session. Her prescriber noticed such amazing changes in her, that it was his suggestion.
“I feel safe in my body for the first time. Since the Attunement Therapy, I feel complete. I feel like a Queen.”
Jen
Attunement Therapy Client
Attunement Therapy inside the mainstream psychiatric care system could save lives, money, time and confusion. All psychiatric medications are described by psychiatrist, Peter Breggin, as ‘life-shortening neuro-toxins.’ The more we can avoid them, the healthier our global community will become.
In the West, apparently most of us have ADD on some level due to unmet Attunement needs in early childhood due to popular but unhealthy parenting styles. ADD is chronic lack of inhibition, and underdevelopment of the pre-frontal cortex (our executive conscious and willful functioning).
The pre-frontal cortex in ADD individuals is functioning at a semi-dormant level as shown by EEG brain monitoring. This is why stimulants sooth the symptoms of ADD: They wake up the under-firing prefrontal cortex which can then calm the entire mind and body by automatically trashing un-needed impulses, reactions, and emotional flip-flops.
The simplest way however, to prevent and heal ADD is through healthy attachment relationships.
Attachment = our need to be close to somebody.
‘Attachment and anxiety have opposing roles when influencing attention.
Attachment promotes attention. Anxiety undermines it.
What we call Attention Deficit Disorder is not a fixed un-alterable physiological state…
The warmth and satisfaction of positive contact with the adult is often just as good as a psycho-stimulant in supplying the child’s pre-frontal cortex with dopamine.
Greater security means less anxiety and more focused attention.
The unseen factor that remains constant in all situations is the child’s unconscious yearning for attachment, dating back to the first years of life.
Where this need is satisfied, ADD problems begin to recede.
Distractedness due to emotional turmoil and thought storms in the mind also blight memory. Anyone with ADD has experienced numerous times a day; going into another room or running up and down the stairs, only to stand there puzzled, wondering what she came to look for in the first place…
When our attentional resources are consumed by internal thoughts and feelings, there are few left over for dealing with the world outside.’
Dr. Gabor Mate
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Happy emotional contact with another is the same as a prefrontal cortex stimulant like Ritalin. This supplies that brain center with dopamine.
Dopamine and motivation reduce anxiety.
The mind can be physiologically healed. We need emotional and physical connection to do it. Most of us are ‘unconsciously’ yearning for it. That is why a light bulb comes on for so many when they first hear about the simplicity and effectiveness of Attunement Therapy.
Attunement Therapy may be the key to breaking this cycle for adults. We are wired for intimacy and we, like children need to be close to someone (attachment) to function happily and healthily. The symptoms of ADD will recede if we are cultivating healthy Attachment relationships.
Attunement Therapy can help aid the healing of ADD by:
- Reducing stress and Anxiety
- Boosting Dopamine via safe physical connection.
- Creating a natural healing state where the mind and body can access past trauma that may have contributed to the creation of the ADD. This emotional memory can be let go and replaced with the bliss of safe human connection.
- Increasing the baseline availability of oxytocin in the brain, which increases the drive and will power to create regular physical intimacy and secure attachment bonds in life.
Attunement Therapy is the catalyst that many people have been searching for their entire adult life to push them in a new direction of thought, desire, focus and action. Healing human contact like Attunement Therapy can eliminate stress and motivate us to pursue more healthy thinking habits and lifestyle choices.
Consistent stress and over release of cortisol makes us far more interested in seeking pleasure as an escape. Cortisol increases dopamine in the ventral tegmental area of the brain, which makes us more driven by short-term pleasure and addiction. Stress also degenerates our ability to reason and make healthy choices because it cripples the pre-frontal cortex where these conscious decisions originate. It also shrinks the hippocampus, our memory center.
‘One of the serial killers that attacks the neurons in the hippocampus is cortisol. The longer your cortisol stays elevated, the smaller and more vulnerable your hippocampus gets, which puts you at risk for depression. This is likely why chronic stress is associated with memory loss and why mothers of toddlers find their car keys in the refrigerator (and not because the kid put them there).’
Robert H. Lustig
The Hacking of the American Mind
When we are not driven by pleasure and we can stay focused on what we want, and our memory is good, then the pursuit of lasting happiness is a natural and blissful journey.
Simply put: It is hard to be genuinely creative and stressed simultaneously. Natural spontaneous creative insight comes from a peaceful mind with healthy natural dopamine function. When the mind is not overcrowded by cycles of toxic thinking and circumstance, the space can be made for creative inspiration to flow through us.
Because stressful lifestyles can motivate us to survive and compete with other people, Attunement Therapy as a de-stressor can alter what motivates us in life. The more we become sensitive and connected, the more we can easily empathise with other people and all of life around us. This means that what motivates us may change. The value of money and pleasure could take a back seat and we may find deeper meaning in the pursuit of lasting happiness and contributing to a healthier planet.
One of the main roles of the vagus nerve is to help regulate healthy and efficient digestion. Chronic and prolonged stress goes hand-in-hand with bad digestion because the vagus nerve cannot function properly when the body is under stress. The body needs to be in parasympathetic activation to digest properly.
There is also a common causative link between sexual trauma and digestive issues, due to changes in the brain that upset the balance in the autonomic nervous system. This means that the vagus nerve is always not activated properly for many of those suffering from sexual trauma. Attunement Therapy can help the release and metabolisation of this trauma to re-balance the nervous system and thus, digestive health.
For both women and men, stress caused by trauma, performance pressure or projected sexual ‘duty’ in relationships can reduce blood flow to sexual organs. Weather it be a penis or a vagina – it requires a lot of blood engorgement for enjoyable sex to prevail. This is because stress hormones literally squeeze oxygenated blood away from our gut and sexual center. Attunement Therapy helps us re-set and become confident with the closeness of another person.
It also helps lift the confidence in our sense of self. When we are confident and respect ourselves, then we are less inclined to enter into sexual encounters that are not healthy for us.
Some people are not motivated to explore long-term relationships simply because they are not releasing enough oxytocin. As we know, the boost Attunement Therapy can give our oxytocin capacity can help us forge lasting bonds with a partner, which in many cases may deepen our sexual enlightenment.
Attunement Therapy re-ignites our drive for deep energetic connection with our sexual partner. Unmet childhood attunement needs or trauma can reduce the feeling of love and connection for some people, or create shame towards receiving it. They may still enjoy the pleasure of mechanistic sex but they may not ‘feel’ what they want to feel in regards to deeper heart, mind and spiritual connection with a partner. A session of Attunement Therapy can awaken our ability to feel a deeper energetic exchange and bond with our lovers. This opens the way for a growing sense of unity, safety and lasting loving connection.
The more we heal through human connection by processing past negative emotion and memory, the more space we make for naturally feeling peace and connection.
We begin to recognise that love and physical connection is the fuel of our wellness, and more and more we feel an abundance of this energy inside us. When we feel safe, sensitive, confident and creative, we increase our personal power and sensitivity to the point where we begin to naturally see our self in other people. Expressing love to other people and to our earth becomes an effortless, natural way of being. And this is the key to healing the entire planet.
Receiving an attunement therapy session can have the unexpected effect of changing the availability of emotion in our body on a day-to-day basis.
This is because the session allows us to become more aware that we are safe and that our emotion is welcomed and not ‘wrong’ in any way. Because of a normalised hardening in culture, many of us have grown up while having our emotions shamed. Some of us have taught ourselves to ‘harden’ in order to become more socially accepted, like a pack mentality.
Most of us have been directly and un-directly numbed due to a genetic history of war and military service, coping and living in harsh environments, encouraged national and domestic violent sporting competition, economic scarcity and entrained sociopathic entrepreneurship. We are exposed to so much death and destruction as day-to-day life events via media. Many of us have been forced to submit to a normalised numbness to cope with living the mainstream culture.
After an attunement session, you may for example, feel more emotional when watching a dramatic movie or listening to emotion provoking music or poetry. This new emotional flow could even be noticeable as you witness the beauty in nature.
This may seem new and strange, but it also means we are coming back into synchronicity with a healthy function of our body: to FEEL, and express emotion as it arises. The numb individual can be unaware of the emotion their body is feeling and don’t allow it to express because of cultural conditioning for social acceptance – or for self-management in shame reduction. This kind of habitual conditioning means that the biological energy of emotion ends up being reflected back into the nervous system where it can condense into a physical disease process.
It is far healthier for emotion to be triggered, to flow and to naturally dissipate.
Emotion = Energy in Motion. Attunement Therapy helps remind our entire physiology that our emotions are welcomed and not wronged – we know we’ll be held and accepted no matter what.
