Emotional Release Therapy NYC - Dr. Alicia Armitstead

There are 90 different emotions we test for, including hopelessness, obsession, and discouragement. Any emotion can be stuck in any organ. It's been amazing to see the results.

-Dr. Alicia Armitstead

Emotional Release Therapist at the Healing Arts NYC Health and Wellness Center in Manhattan NY 10017 and Connecticut

Stress is a natural response to life's ups and downs, but what happens when our body doesn't shut the stress response off? I have been working with the nervous system for 17 years. As a chiropractor, physically opening up the spine and the nerves to function better and, from a nutritional point-of-view, supporting the nervous system with the right nutrition to function better. In supporting the nervous system, better stress management is also crucial.

I have suggested to patients more exercise, better sleep, deep breathing, or meditation to handle their stress better so the body's nervous system doesn't get out of balance. Keeping the nervous system in a state of balance, or homeostasis, is key to better health.

Even with the proper support, stress can hit, and our bodies can react in a number of ways. We can feel it in our sweaty palms, chest pressure, stomach ache, or trouble sleeping. When stress affects sleep, your health is even more compromised because the body only heals when sleeping. Without good sleep then, stress symptoms can get worse.

Sometimes patients come to me, and I see that their body is stressed out, but when I ask them about their stress level, they don't feel stressed. This is because their mind is not stressed, but their body is. I see the stress in the body through a technique called muscle testing. Muscle testing is a way to get biofeedback from the body to identify unhealthy triggers and to help the body detox. 

The Emotional Release uses muscle testing to tell us what emotion(s) it wants to work on and where it is stuck in the body. We then use magnets on the area where the emotions are stuck and a magnet on the spine to neutralize the nervous system for about 30 seconds. The magnets polarize the nervous system to reset the stress response in the body so it's not so easily triggered. 

The nervous system has two parts to it: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is in charge of the stress response and is turned on too much when stress interferes with someone's health. We want to turn down the sympathetic nervous system and turn up the parasympathetic nervous system to get the nervous system into homeostasis, and that's what the magnets do. 

A Emotional Release Therapy Patient Case Study

There are 90 different emotions we test for, including hopelessness, obsession, and discouragement. Any emotion can be stuck in any organ. It's been amazing to see the results. One patient came to me for nutrition support for her chronic, debilitating migraines. She was doing well with little to no migraines with the nutrition care, but all of a sudden, she was having a migraine and was able to make it to my office despite her sensitivity to sound and light and slurred speech. She couldn't even pick up her head to look at me. I started to do nutrition work on her when nothing was showing up, so I asked her about her stress level, and she said she had an extremely stressful morning with her landlord and was being forced out of her apartment. There was the answer!

I pulled out the Emotional Release kit and started muscle testing what the emotion was and where it was stuck in the body. The first emotion to be released was the feeling of being bullied. She could pick up her head and look at me as soon as I released that.

After going through 2 more emotional releases, she left the appointment with a throbbing head, no more piercing pain, no more light sensitivity or sound sensitivity. The migraine had turned into a dull headache right before our eyes in a matter of minutes. 

The last part of the Emotional Release is to muscle test for a supplement that could support the nervous system. Sometimes people don't test for nutritional support, and sometimes they do. Examples of supplements that can be tested are:

• Min Chex can help those in grief.
• Orchex can help those who are angry
• Adrenal Desiccated can help those who feel burnt out
  

Additional References

• Detox Stress Podcast - Healing Arts NYC