by Fabiola Marelli
The image of self, the attitude of the body and the process of self-awareness are formed and form the individual through the emotional and physical difficulties encountered throughout life.
All this represents the body schema, defined by a dynamic set of postural, kinesthetic, temporal, somatosensory information, which continually changes because it gradually integrates with the information that reaches the body and that, in part, we are able to decode through anamnesis, observation and osteopathic palpation.
The impact on the body scheme is greater the more the centripetal information is perceived by the body.
Motor coordination and postural attitudes develop through maps and neuronal pathways initially not yet traced by experience, but which then become preferential lanes because they are perceived as more responsive to the needs of the individual.
If a given behavior is accompanied by a negative reinforcement, it will be abandoned as soon as possible.
If the child is scolded when he shows an aggressive attitude, he will quickly learn that survival is not guaranteed in this way (the love of the parents), so he will develop a "fast track" to forced meekness.
On the contrary, his body will not betray him, and he will retain in his memory the trauma suffered by the impossibility of releasing his aggression under the scheme of muscular contraction (perceived as pain).
Muscle contraction is always the translation of a defensive system in place.
It is a real conditioned reflex that one is almost never aware of and that over time could cause dysfunctions, "blockages", pathologies, which the sensitive and trained hand of the osteopath almost always manages to identify thanks to understanding the mode of fascial tissue communication.
(How many times does the body try to warn with small signals that gradually become stronger and appear with pain, precisely because these small signals are not listened to consciously by the individual? NdA).
Muscular armor corresponds to a character armor.
The traumas suffered are revealed by the shape of the body.
The posture, the muscular patterns of agonists and antagonists, narrate the continuous adaptive effort of the individual to be able to counteract the emotional and physical gravity.
Our organism is much more than a set of elements that are subject to the laws of biomechanics, yet, despite ourselves and our unconsciousness, our body always tries to adapt, to continue.
Paradoxically, the body is governed precisely by that part of us that hardly ever reaches our consciousness, and we are not referring only to the neurovegetative system but also to all that series of repeated gestures without realizing it, of the postures of habit, of those automatisms that collect, at the tip of the iceberg, the SUMMA of our life experiences.
The more they are unaware, the deeper their root will be.
It is the osteopath's task, his hand, to ensure that the unconscious body areas enter into communication with the conscious body in search of health.
That's why consciousness means healing means wellness.
This is why self-awareness means self-healing means health.
Fabìola Marelli - Osteopata DO Registered in the Osteopathic Register of Italy - No. 268 and at the ASL of Como. He works as a freelancer and researcher. Lecturer and lecturer in the master. Author of texts and treatises on Music and Osteopathy. Administrator and professor of the School of Osteopathy CRESO - Osteopathic Research and Studies Center Srl . Director of the CRESO Edizioni publishing house . |
