My body keeps score of what?

Your body remembers,
 

Ever get an overwhelming feeling that you need to reach out to someone? Or do you ever start to melt into relaxation when you smell a certain scent? It's as if your body is responding to something before you do!

This is very normal, and is actually happening most of the time whether you realize it or not.

Maybe you've heard the phrase "your body keeps score," but you didn't realize just how often your body is responding based on memory stored within your nervous system. 

Your body and nervous system are brilliant (I can't seem to say this enough)! 
Every experience (physical, mental, emotional) is an opportunity for your nervous system to process, adapt, grow, & evolve. 

Your nervous system can either process a life experience real time (think easy breezy biking to the library) and grow and evolve from it. Or if it's outside your bandwidth (think: a car cut you off while biking and you almost went down, and you found yourself pissed!) your body may not have the capacity to process it real time and will hold onto this information to process later. 

You'll form patterns of stored stress and neural networks based on experiences and whether or not you have processed them. Say hello to your bodies memory! 

An unprocessed experience, is remembered in the nervous system and can cause us to be tense or jaded in the future. (Ex. You don't want to ride your bike to the library anymore, or you do but you're pissed off at all the drivers around you regardless of who it is!).

Our body also creates neural networks when we process and grow and evolve from something. (Let's say after you got cut off on your bike you paused took a few deep breaths, and when you got home you did a meditation to move your emotions. Your body learned from this, you now choose to ride a new way to the library and always check your right shoulder. These new ways of riding, and checks become second nature, they become an automatic learning and your body naturally takes on less stress this way. When you do experience another close call, your body processes through any fear or anger much quicker this time.)

Neural networks are like autopilot programs that help us better respond to future stressors. Neural Integration is my favorite way to lay new neural networks, and meditations that help create more coherence in the nervous system.

For those that receive Neural Integration on my tables, your body is learning to re-process past experiences/stressors in a safe and calm environment. After our work you may experience an old trigger, or experience that would've been stressful but you watch yourself in awe as you brush it off and move along. 

Now, that's your bodies memory working for you!