6.1.3.21. Adaptation - From Chronic Stress to Increasing Sensitivity

1. *Summary: The text discusses the body's response to healing, particularly in the context of coMra therapy. It explains how the nervous system's sensitivity increases during the healing process, which can be misinterpreted as a relapse. The text also uses an analogy of a sleeping arm to illustrate the return of sensation and the body's constant effort to achieve balance.*

talking about the shirt on the back, shoulder, shirt on the back and how once the body goes into a state of chronic stress, it turns down the nervous systems, let's say, turns the volume down. So pain signals are reduced and all this. So once the body gets that energy and the nervous system responds, it's actually going to increase its sensitivity again because it needs to in order to start making adjustments. So what can appear as relapse where a person feels worse is actually simply the nervous system now saying, okay, I can start to increase my sensitivity so I can make adjustments again. And so this -- it won't be necessarily that the pain is increased, it's that durability to perceive the pain comes back. And so this feels like a relapse to the person. You could have an example where if you had, let's say, a line on your arm on the sofa and then you take your head off your arm and your arm is gone to sleep. And then as the feeling returns, you get the pins and needles and all these things as a little analogy. So this is one of the things too to keep in mind. It's not a negative occurrence. This is actually a great thing. Pain has changed in shape, location, feel, intensity, the body is starting to respond. And then what happens is you see the up and the down of the graph is because as the body, let's say, if you increase one of that polograf, the body is always trying to bring that back into coherence and synchrony. So if you increase one area, then the other ones have to start to adapt and change to balance that out. And so this constant movement of all of those things to create this balance when the body is coming out of a chronic stress state can often be, let's say, the person doesn't really know how to cope with that in the sense of the pain changing location and shape because they're so used to it being in one area all the time. And so it just is really a matter of talking people through this in a lot of cases. Let's say you have this photograph, you know,