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New Series: Emotions and Your Health

1/29/2016

 
This is the first in a series of blog posts that will focus on how our emotions can impact our health and well-being. There is an emerging understanding that our bodies respond to and store stress in a variety of ways – many of which are harmful to our health. Dr. Jean-Pierre Barral D.O has studied this extensively and has written an excellent book on the topic. The book, Understanding the Messages of Your Body, How to Interpret Physical and Emotional Signals to Achieve Optimal Health, provides interesting and surprising details on how stress and negative emotions can attack specific organ systems in our body.

Over the next few weeks I will be sharing some of the lessons that I have learned in this area. Some will be based upon what Dr. Barral is teaching. Some will be based on my own professional experiences, training and studies.

Some of you know my personal story about how I got interested in massage therapy and how both receiving treatment and learning how to provide therapeutic massage helped me through a personal loss and difficult time in my life. This experience made me aware of how emotions can cause weakness and even illnesses and how important it is to treat the whole person, not just a sore spot here or there. I hope that this experience and knowledge is evident to every person who spends any time on my massage table.

Here is what you can expect in the coming weeks: I will focus on how the different kinds of stress can impact your brain, heart, lungs, stomach. Even your liver, gallbladder, kidneys, skin and genital organs can suffer the impact of negative emotions. Each week I will focus on a different organ system and provide information on how to maximize the health of that organ.

So, next week the first post in this series will focus on your brain. I will give you plenty of helpful tips on what to do physically, nutritionally and psychologically to maximize the health of your brain.

See you here next week!
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To your health!
Gail Grieger

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    Welcome to my Blog!

    Thanks for checking out my blog. I have had a life-long interest in all things related to health and wellness, which is part of the reason I became a massage therapist. I am constantly on a mission to increase my knowledge and I like to share what I learn with others. My hope is that these posts will be interesting and provide you with information and tips that can improve your health. If I can ever answer a question or if you think you might benefit from therapeutic massage, please give me a call or send me a note.

    Gail Grieger, CMT, CFH

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