Cosmic religiosity
The mystery of life is the best feeling we can experience. It is the deep feeling that lies at the origin of true art and true science. Whoever does not experience the mystery and who no longer feels amazement and wonder is like dead, an extinguished candle.
Knowing that something impenetrable exists, knowing the manifestations of the deepest intellect and the most luminous beauty, which are accessible to our reason only in the most elementary forms, it is this knowledge and this feeling that constitute the true spiritual attitude, in this sense, and in that sense alone, I am a deeply religious man.
The mystery of the eternity of life and the intuition of the amazing structure of reality are enough for me, together with the effort that comes from the depths of my heart to grasp even a tiny portion of the intelligence that manifests itself in nature.
You will hardly find, among the most profound scientific minds, one that does not possess its own peculiar spirituality.
The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causality. Its spirituality consists in the ecstatic wonder of the harmony of the law of nature; that a superior intelligence is revealed to him, such that all systematic thought and human actions, in comparison with it, are but a completely insignificant reflection.
In my opinion the most important function of art and science is to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are able to do so.
Albert Einstein from „How I see the world”
During these years of practice, I have found that many people are amazed after the treatment, because although they experience its relaxing and regenerative efficacy, they cannot intellectually understand how this works.
In this paper, I will not focus on in-depth self-referential explanations regarding the functioning of the technique, rather I would like to focus on the philosophical, historical, cultural, scientific context in which these explanations are inserted.
Creating a theoretical and conceptual basis useful for understand the principles of the operation of the Biodynamic Craniosacral method.
I think this can be useful for improving understanding and make a little more clarity for customers and operators.
During this paper I will write in Bold the key concepts, which I will resume later in the chapter below when discussing the principles of the craniosacral technique, in italics the main concepts.
The new Paradigm; the scientific understanding of self-consciousness:
The „paradigm shift” (paradigm shift) is the expression coined by the philosopher Thomas Kuhn to describe the revolution of basic assumptions which, from the dominant scientific paradigm, leads to a new paradigm. The expression paradigm shift, understood as change in model and interpretation of reality and events has since been applied to many fields of the exact sciences and of human experience in general.
For many contemporary scholars and thinkers, we are living in an era of global paradigm shift, which is transversally affecting all fields of human culture and experience.
The element that most characterizes this new paradigm is the scientific understanding of self-consciousness, intrinsic intelligence of nature, and its primary role as a central element of living systems.
Historical philosophical bases:
“The problem is not that people are ignorant. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught and not educated enough to question anything other than what they are. been taught „
Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize in Physics 1965)
The birth of modern science:
The scientific method identified by Galileo Galilei marks the beginning of modern science. Modern science develops by inheriting from the Renaissance a new confidence in the cognitive abilities of man: the ability to free oneself from Catholic transcendent principles to explain reality, the reconsideration of the direct experience of the senses, the rejection of the principles of truth imposed from above.
The universal value of the data deriving from experimentation and mathematical analysis, which can also be checked and validated by other scientists, makes it possible to achieve a knowledge of objective, reliable, verifiable and shareable reality.
The experimental method he developed will lead him to oppose the geocentric proposed by Aristotle and Ptolemy and supported by the Catholic Church, which placed the Earth at the centre of the universe, in favour of the heliocentric theory, in which the earth revolves around the sun. Scientific knowledge was going to demolish the ancient paradigm based on theological and philosophical dogmas, endangering the global validity of the structure of faith.
This theory, even if supported by clear scientific evidence, was strongly opposed by the church in fact in 1633 Galileo was found guilty and forced to renounce his astronomical concepts.
The Cartesian dichotomous paradigm
Descartes was the first to define conceptually the separation between matter (physical substance) and the spirit (the conscious and thinking substance) and indicated that the first was the domain of science while the second was exclusive monopoly of the church. This was a strategy to separate the fields of relevance for fear of not incurring church condemnations and to allow science and medicine to be able to develop in a secular and autonomous way; Descartes comes to affirm that the human being is only a material body, a machine driven by the soul through a small point: the pineal gland (the epiphysis).
The Cartesian dichotomy made possible the separation between consciousness and matter: the church did not lose its power and its exclusivity and science began its unstoppable expansion. Believe that the conscience, likers cogitans (be aware) was impossible to study empirically and therefore did not constitute a subject of research and scientific knowledge, from the seventeenth century onwards it has in fact developed with a strongly materialist and reductionist attitude as „Science without conscience”. The first scientific paradigm is therefore based on the assumption (unwritten, dictated by the vetoes of religion) that science cannot and must not study the soul, the conscience, the cogitans.
The scientific revolution of consciousness the new and more sophisticated methods of scientific investigation and the evolution of knowledge related to neuroscience, and PNEI (Psycho-Neuro-Endocrine-Immunology) today are generating an acceleration in the paradigm revolution that is based precisely on the recognition of central role of consciousness and the Self in the biological and cognitive organization of the living. This lays the foundation for a more unified, holistic and systemic understanding of the human being[i], of its ailments and their treatment, and capable of providing scientific concreteness to the intuitions developed in the ancient medical and spiritual traditions.
Consciousness finally returns to the centre of the human system, the most complex living organism known to us, as a multidimensional „unitary system”, a „psychosomatic self” that governs itself, like a neurocognitive network of extreme intelligence and organization, as it is aware of all the information in its system. [ii]
In the Craniosacral theory, there is a similar principle, namely that there is an Intelligence of the mind-body system, which coordinates all the parts of our body, and that it is capable of reorganizing internal resources, to repair the body itself.
Numerous scientists they tried not to separate science from consciousness but to find a way to bring them together within a global and unitary understanding[iii].
The phases of the paradigm revolution
Like all scientific revolutions, this one we are experiencing also has e it will have its phases and its conflicts.
After four centuries, the inability of the dichotomous and materialistic paradigm is evident to be able to fully interpret and understand phenomena, such as: consciousness, self-awareness, the nature of life and its evolution and the inadequacy of explaining in neurophysiological terms the very basis of emotions and psychosomatic disorders.
The too reductionist attitude in medicine and in the approach with the patient and the disease tends to a too mechanistic interpretation that makes the person a mere clinical case denying him human dignity.
The tendency to consider psychological disorders such as stress, anxiety or depression as errors or breakdowns of biochemical or genetic mechanisms, which must essentially be repaired with pharmacological interventions.
Since the 1960s, a small minority of scientists, on the basis of experimental data, have proposed new models, hypotheses and theories based on consciousness, to decipher phenomena that previously were not explainable or to offer a more complex and unitary approach to the same phenomena.[iv] However, these new models are obviously still incomplete and not still gathered in a single organic paradigm. On this basis, scientists who identify with the old paradigm defend their own certainties, they do not welcome the new approaches by labelling the new theories as „unscientific” or „methodologically incorrect” or even accusing them of total inconsistency.
This conflict between paradigms can result in a victory of the old paradigm, as initially happened with Galileo’s heliocentric theory, but also, as Kuhn states, it can result in the affirmation of the new unitary paradigm, when the new theories begin to be disseminated and tested by an increasing number of scientists and in particular by young people, who thus become the bearers of the values and understanding of the new paradigm of awareness. By taking over the old dichotomous paradigm they will usher in a new period of science based on a new methodology and understanding.
The new paradigm in quantum physics: entanglement and non-locality
„Classical mechanics is unable to explain consciousness. ” Roger Penrose
The old Newtonian physics conceived the world as made up of physical, material atoms, isolated from each other and completely disconnected from the dimension of consciousness. This is the physical basis of the historical Cartesian division or dichotomy between matter and consciousness, which has characterized the last centuries of our history and which reflects a parallel dichotomy of inner perception between mind and body. This old paradigm has long since been supplanted by the new paradigm of quantum physics, developed at the beginning of the twentieth century by an incredible number of scientists who through their research and discoveries have overturned the understanding of the world and of the human being. The ground-breaking understanding of quantum physics is that nothing really material exists in nature, as physical matter is actually composed of particles or quanta of informed energy.
Each particle is an infinitely extending „quantum field” that is deeply and constantly interconnected with all other fields and with the whole of existence. This powerful concept of interconnection, called entanglement quantum, has opened the way to a different human and global perspective where every atom, every person, every living being is deeply and constantly connected to the great and delicate web of life.
The essential principles that characterize the new quantum paradigm are summarized below through a brief description of the Nobel Prize winners in Physics and the fathers of quantum mechanics who discovered them.
Albert Einstein: Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, highlights that the field is a region of space that manifests a gravitational, magnetic or electrostatic force that theoretically extends to infinity, losing intensity with the square of the distance. Quantum physics proves the existence of an energy field around every physical object, from the particle, to the human being and the planet Earth. More particles or more people can share a common field. Einstein’s quantum physics highlights that each particle is an energy field that extends to infinity and is interconnected with all other particles. Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen pointed out, in a famous article, that according to the laws of quantum mechanics, there is a deep connection between every quantum particle.
Eugene Wigner: Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, wrote: „it is extraordinary … that the very study of the physical world has led to the scientific conclusion that consciousness is the primary reality… The main argument, against materialism, is that mental processes and consciousness are primary concepts, that our knowledge of the external world is contained in our consciousness and therefore that consciousness cannot be denied„.
Max Planck: one of the fathers of quantum theory and Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1918, said: „I consider conscience as fundamental. I believe that matter comes from consciousness… Everything we consider as existing postulates consciousness„. The Observer (January 25, 1931)
Werner Heisenberg: Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932, in his „uncertainty principle” states that we cannot precisely determine the moment or state of a wave-particle, as the act of observing (through the researcher’s consciousness) creates an interaction with the observed particle and modifies it. Three profound considerations arise from this principle. The first is that the observer’s consciousness is deeply connected and interferes with every phenomenon of existence and with the Whole. The second is that the units of physical existence are not completely determinable and quantifiable and therefore they are free. The third is that the whole structure of scientific knowledge is probabilistic and nondeterministic.
Erwin Schrödinger: Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1935 he coined the term „entanglement „To describe the interconnection between particles already predicted by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen. More precisely, quantum entanglement is a phenomenon in which it is Quantum state of a set of two or more physical systems depends on the state of each system, even if they are spatially separated. It implies the presence of an instantaneous remote correlation between „non-local” systems
Alain Aspect: physicist from the University of Paris Sud in 1982 performed experiments in which he demonstrates the “non-local” quantum entanglement between two particles. This happened instantly: a communication beyond known time and space. This proves the existence of an interrelation between particles at a speed higher than that of light, which informs them of their reciprocal state, as if they knew what happens to their twin particle anywhere in the universe.
David Bohm: colleague of Einstein and professor at Princeton University, author of fundamental texts on quantum physics, argues that: „each particle is accompanied by a holistic field ” that is an „active information field”, Which guides him. A field is something that expands throughout space and the electron has this „subtle” field which means „elusive”, „intangible”, but also „finely interconnected” to the surrounding environment and endowed with a primitive mental, cognitive quality, which the great mathematician Alfred North Whitehead calls „proto-consciousness„. This suggests that the division between matter and mind is not so clear-cut and that there is mind even at the quantum level. Bohm tried to explain the unity of existence as a Whole (Wholeness) consisting of an „order explained „For material and measurable phenomena, and a „implied order „For the” invisible „processes of information e of consciousness. Explicit and implicate order are inseparable parts of the global Unity.
In other words, the electron reads the information around it, so it is no longer just a small particle, but more like something that has a proponent, similar to that that Wolfgang Pauli also sensed, namely that the mind was present and guided its manifestation of life from the beginning. Rather than considering that awareness and the brain have developed from the complexity of life, it is quite the opposite, the information was present from the beginning and guided the emergence of life, mind and matter were united from the beginning. there is no separation between the two.[v]
Giuliano Prepared ed Emilio del Giudice: quantum physicists from the High Energy Institute of the University of Milan, discover and codify the basics of Electroquantistic coherence„, or the quantum particle capacity of synchronize on the same frequency (phase), discovering how for example, the water in which other substances are dissolved, can create gods „Domains of consistency”: quantum systems that have the ability to store „energy and information” within them.
Another example is light; a match that dimly lights up a dark room where the waves don’t coherent of photons, they disperse energies and information in every direction. The coherent waves instead create the laser beam, a unified field in which the energies and the information is completely merged and purchased power and complexity. These coherence domains are the information basis for life, so we can see coherence as the expression, the realization of the unity of the universe and of life.
Quantum coherence is the physical principle that explains and sustains the cell, life, brain and consciousness. The Holistic paradigm corresponds to the consideration that all the components of matter are related to each other and it is not possible to touch one without altering all the others
THE NEW PARADIGM IN GENETICS: TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETICS, the new information paradigm that evolves with experience
The biologists H. Maturana and F. Varela argue that the living organisms are autopoietic and cognitive systems, as, through information processing, they can self-organize and self-repair[vi]. Autopoiesis is their ability of a system to maintain its unity, in all forms of life, is directly linked to the phenomena of cognition and consciousness. Maturana[vii] declares: „knowledge is a biological phenomenon„, That is the life, knowledge and consciousness are emergent properties of autopoietic organic systems. Already at the dawn of life, in the first single cells there are all the hormones and neurotransmitters that we find in the brain and in the human body.
The cell is the basic unit of living systems, it is a unitary system highly specialized, and aware of every part, following what is a system coherence.[viii]
The retention of information is the basis of memory, cognition and self-awareness. The evidence derived from the numerous epigenetic researches of recent years have experimentally demolished the foundations of the Neo-Darwinist interpretation, decreeing both the collapse of Crick’s central dogma (i.e. The information proceeds in a unidirectional way, from DNA to RNA to proteins), and the basic incorrectness of the concept of „randomness” applied indiscriminately to the entire evolutionary process; highlight that the development of each organism, and of the entire evolution process, are profoundly influenced by the information acquired, that is, by the knowledge derived from the life experiences and understandings of the parents and, in part, handed down to the children through epigenetic mutations. Epigenetics shows how the genetic system is plastic and sensitive to adaptive experiences acquired from parents, made necessary by situations external or internal to the organism. The epigenetic action does not involve a change in the DNA sequence (genotype) but only one variation in the expression of genes present in DNA (phenotype) that can be regulated, activated, inactivated or silenced. These mutations persist throughout the life of the organism or cell, even during cell division.
The research and studies of the geneticist Eva Jablonka, professor at the University of Tel Aviv[ix], demonstrate the existence of a „fourth dimension” of Evolution, and of a „Transgenerational Epigenetics” that provides scientific evidence of how consciousness, knowledge, experiences, emotions and culture generate epigenetic changes that can be passed on to subsequent generations.
THE NEW PARADIGM IN EVOLUTION: COGNITIVE NEURAL SELECTION
„Ontogeny is a recapitulation of phylogeny„. Ernst Heinrich Haeckel the human being, in the phases of his embryonic development (ontogenesis), retraces all the main phases of the evolution of living systems (phylogeny). The genetic memory, present in human stem cells, contains all the information derived from previous knowledge and, therefore, it allows us to accelerate, in nine months of gestation, an evolutionary path that lasted four billion years.
Manfred Eigen, Nobel Prize in Chemistry states that: „Information represents the very essence of Life” and therefore that „Evolution cannot be random” Everything that has happened since the beginning of life has happened on information plan. „
Gerald Edelman[x], Nobel Prize for neurophysiology, highlights that: „Darwinian thought applied to the study of brain functioning leads to a global theory: the theory of selection of neural groups, called „neural Darwinism„. “In evolution, the most suitable individuals are selected”. „The selection (of the most adaptive behaviours) does not operate on single neurons but on „neuronal groups”, in particular anatomical configurations: the „circuits” or „neuronal systems”. „Evolution favours individuals who successfully use these neuronal circuits to increase their cognitive adaptability and make more descendants survive „.
The latest research from neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp [xi]on emotional systems and epigenetic research, confirm this theory that favours neurocognitive structures and circuits that allow more functional, intelligent and adaptive responses. It also highlights the presence in the brain of seven main „emotional systems” and experimentally shows that these areas of the brain are present in a similar way in all animals. We humans share the same basic emotions and consciousness as all living beings.
THE CHANGE OF EVOLUTIONARY PARADIGM IN NEUROSCIENCE
Sir John Eccles, neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1963, was one of the first neurosearchers to be interested in the self and consciousness. In the early 1980s, the Nobel laureate Francis Crick, discoverer of DNA and pioneer in neuroscience, affirms that „Consciousness is a legitimate field of scientific research”.
Gerald Edelman: Nobel Prize in Medicine highlights how consciousness and the Self are the effect of the entire coherent information network of the brain, and proposes the concept of „Core Consciousness” and „Dynamic network of Consciousness”: the neural network of consciousness „
The centre of Antonio Damasio’s theory of consciousness is the “Core Self” and the “Core Consciousness” the „Central core of self-awareness”, the „basic consciousness” described as a level of awareness generated by neural structures also present in most animals. Damnasio identifies the higher or neocortical functions of consciousness as the „autobiographical self”.
The neural tube, which is formed in the 16th day from fertilization by the folding of the embryonic sheets, is considered as the embryological sketch of the neurocognitive axis of the self as a cognitive process and organization centre of systemic information, from which the brain will subsequently develop[xii].
The neural tube is identified as what is called the „Midline” using the terminology of the biodynamic Craniosacral, and „Central Channel”, in terms of Yogic Philosophy.
THE NEW PARADIGM IN MEDICINE: THE PSYCHOSOMATIC REVOLUTION OF PNEI
In 1964 George Solomon, a professor at Stanford and the University of California Los Angeles with some colleagues coined the term „psychoimmunology„. In 1975 Robert Ader, psychologist, and Nicholas Cohen, immunologist, at the University of Rochester, experimentally show that the psyche, through the nervous system, can influence the immune system. With their demonstration of classical conditioning of immune function, they coined the term PNI „psycho-neuro-immunology”.
In 1984 Edwin Blalock, a physiologist at Alabama University, published the article The immune system as a sensory organ, in which it shows the interactions between the nervous, endocrine and immune systems.
Candace Pert[xiii], discoverer of endorphin and neuropeptides declares that “we must think of the human being as a “psychosomatic network”. This neuroscientist said that it is no longer possible to separate the body from the mind because „in every single molecule we find information processing, mind intelligence, awareness ” Then the whole system becomes a complex network, governed by a centre of consciousness which allows the network to become unitary.
Consciousness is the effect of the whole system, of the network of all cells, organs and systems. Within this system the brain must be understood as a holographic organ. A system that takes up all the information of the physical body, of the emotions and of the psychic part.
Inside the brain is a beating heart. This is a nucleus that is anatomically identified with the thalamus.
The thalamus has various functions, especially in the somatosensory dispatch and gives a rhythmic basis which is responsible for the spontaneous activity of the brain.
The challenge of the third millennium in the field of medicine and health is to get the mind-body relationship out of a purely philosophical option, and transform it into a scientific paradigm.
This necessarily goes through modelling[xiv]
The great tradition of psychosomatic medicine today can be realized in the moment in which it is able to describe the ways of communication between the biological level, the emotions, the psyche, etc.
PNEI has this ambition. Refund a holistic paradigm on the human being as a whole using modern science, validating the unitary vision applied to the human being.
PNEI (psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology) scientifically confirms the unity and intimate relationship that binds the psychic, nervous, endocrine and immune systems.
THE NEW PARADIGM IN PSYCHOLOGY: THE REVOLUTION OF MINDFULNESS
In the United States, Jon Kabat-Zinn developed the MBSR Protocol (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) which he managed to bring to the attention of the Western scientific world the millenary meditation practices of Eastern spiritual traditions, giving them a lay and structured structure, so that they could be the subject of empirical validation and method of intervention in the treatment of various problems. Today mindfulness is a practice known and used all over the world thanks to many doctors, psychologists and researchers it is a tool scientifically studied and validated by a large number of studies and clinical research.
In the article published by Richard Davidson, John Kabat-Zinn and colleagues on Psychosomatic Medicine in 2003, it was noted that even a short two-month mindfulness program generates changes in brain activation, with increased activity in the left hemisphere, correlated with positive emotions and an improvement in immune activity.
As we spoke earlier during the laser example, also in the brain we detect the same phenomenon of the coherence of electromagnetic waves. IS coherence is considered as an index of communication of different areas of the brain. From these studies carried out by the Centre for PNEI Studies, a correlation between the state of brain coherence emerged and the state of psychophysical health.
Over the past 20 years, numerous scientific experiments and researches have been carried out in this regard by carrying out[xv], experiments on electrophysiological coherence (such as EEG, HRV, EMG; GRS; and numerous psychological tests, trying to measure the quantum coherence between different parts of the brain[xvi]. The three brains highlight the three evolutionary stages of the psyche: Unconscious instinctive reptile. Mammal, preconscious emotional. Human, conscious and mental.
When he lies, emotions and instincts are in conflict or out of harmony with each other[xvii], the foundations of psychosomatic blocks are created.
Studies have shown meditation and medicine techniques as well energy, improve all the scales of well-being, increasing the coherence between the various parts, decreasing depression and anxiety improve cognitive ability, emotional communication and empathy in relationships.
Consciousness is connected with the concept of awareness, which means getting in touch with oneself, in a global way with all the intelligence of the system, including body, emotions, thoughts is therefore a single field that embraces the total individual.
So, there is a self which in turn governs the psychic system, the endocrine system and the immune system.[xviii]
Meditative techniques are a fundamental tool for the regulation of stress emotions, they influence gene expression, inflammation. The activity of the immune system produces a balanced harmonic response, it is able to produce and reduce inflammation when the body needs it.[xix]
These studies open doors for a better dialogue between mainstream medicine and holistic disciplines, offering new improvements in therapies and prevention.
For many years, the WHO has been supporting the need for this synthesis between science and complementary medicines, in order to improve the physical „psychological and spiritual health of the human being”
The holistic paradigm
The model of human being of ancient and modern holistic medicines is based on the unity of soul and body, of psyche and soma,
The same concept of disease is expressed as an imbalance between microcosm, the inner world, understood as a unity of spirit and body and macrocosm the outer world which in Andean cultures for example is represented as the Earth Goddess, Pachamama.[xx]
We need a holistic paradigm, because it is the most realistic way adapted to reality. In fact, the world is whole wheat, it is not fragmented, it is a totality of its socio-economic, political, cultural, ecological part, we are inside an integral system, like a living system.[xxi]
Man is unitary, with his own consciousness, which has internal functioning systems that are always present. In ancient maps they highlight different aspects of the human psychosomatic unity as networks of informed energies organized into centres and channels that regulate consciousness, health, and disease. From these foundations innumerable techniques have developed which heal through the balance and coherence of energies and information such as acupuncture, shiatsu, plantar reflexology, craniosacral, Tibetan ku-nye massage and countless other techniques.
The biodynamic craniosacral
Craniosacral biodynamics is a discipline that it has its origins in osteopathy, but is combined with the innovative contributions of modern studies on quantum physics, consciousness and the deep physiology of life processes.
The craniosacral technique conceives the individual as a unit, part of a set of interconnected parts that collaborate and yes, they self-organize in a coherent way to strive for balance and health.
It is based on the principle that in every organism there is a profound wisdom, a universal intelligence who generated it and continues to create it in every stage of life, which sustains vitality in its most original form is an expression of the creativity of the universe; The individual life force is the basic principle that maintains order and balance in the body the biodynamic Craniosacral is an invitation to slow down, to stay in the present moment.
During the session, through contact, presence and empathic listening, a relational field is created and maintained that creates a neuro space, in which one remains in a non-judgmental observation, which does not reject any experience that manifests itself.
Within this space, it is possible for the recipient to enter a state of deep relaxation, of dynamic quite full of potential, which allows you to wake up to the present and reconnect with the disconnected parts of yourself and access your vital resources and intelligent reorganization skills of self-healing. The power of awareness of the Presence, understood as “staying in the here and now”, without oscillating between the memory of the past and worries for the future, has this power, as demonstrated in the Mindfulness protocols.
For me the practice of biodynamic craniosacral is very similar to that of Mindfulness, but applied to the relationship with the other. Starting from Heisenberg’s observation, I believe that the observation of the operator during the process influences the experience of the recipient, through the constant attention that the therapist keeps on the patient, and on his state. I think this creates a connection very thin, which allows the operator to receive information on the state of the receiver instantly and globally. Similarly, the recipient can benefit from the practice of Presence that the operator stands doing in his favour. I also believe that the operator has the ability to offer healing information to the body, directing the person’s resources towards health, creating a process of agreement between of the internal rhythms with those of nature, called in technical terms Long Tide.
This organizing force, anatomically it is identified in the thalamus, more precisely with the third ventricle. I’S like a beating heart within our brain that expresses itself through the rhythmic movement of the cerebrospinal fluid production cycle, which characterizes the craniosacral system, and indicates the mobility system of all bones, and membranes. The fluid itself, supports the functioning of the brain and nervous system.
The cyclical movement of the CSF can be considered as the anatomical basis of the expression of primary respiration[xxii].
It could be said that it is the expression of direct breathing from the nervous system.
It is important because the craniosacral operator works by coming into contact, through his own perception and be careful with the expression of these rhythms.
Primary respiration is the expression of an intelligent movement that has an organizing potential, which is an expression of life itself. It is an expression of health. By synchronizing with this we are in tune with the universe, which has an inherent coherence, which harmonizes aspects of ourselves.
Independent of other breaths, is called Primaria because it precedes normal breathing in intrauterine life, and also remains for some time after clinical death. It is called Breathing because it is a metabolism of cyclic formation and elimination, which manifests itself with a movement of expansion and retention, like an inhalation and exhalation.
It manifests itself as a wave, for this reason the different rhythms that we can pick up in the body are given the name of rope tide, medium and long.
The craniosacral operator is aware of the embryological origin of the tissues and of the historical memory they carry with them.
What kind of information is left behind during our evolution from unicellular to multicellular organisms?
What was our experience in the womb and during childbirth? What was our first interaction with the external environment? during our growth process? Have we experienced any trauma during the growth process or in life?
A very deep part of our consciousness has the ability to keep track of information related to events, images, sensations, perceptions and experiences. [xxiii]
It is as if our Mind-Body-Consciousness System reproduces this information, like one symphony composed of an orchestra who learned to play together like that.[xxiv]
Generally, we find compressed forces that remain blocked within the organism following a physical, psychological or emotional trauma, which is not resolved and released. The organism is busy keeping these forces in check and this leads to a waste of energy by the whole system.
In a traumatized organism, the nervous system remains in a state of alert, and this manifests itself on primary respiration. As alterations occur in the cardiac and respiratory system, such as tachycardia and shortness of breath, in the same way primary respiration will express itself with irregular rhythms and chaotic, indicating that the forces of movement are blocked and reorganization cannot take place. In case of chronicization, we could perceive a very weak primary respiration, with a slow or almost absent movement, which means that the body has decreased its ability to tend to balance and self-heal.
Through a subtle invitation, the therapist „reminds” the organism what its resources are, orienting its potential.
Instead of focusing on the localized symptom, the therapist views the whole system as a whole of interconnected parts. Working on the Median Line, it comes into contact with the central axis that coordinates the information in our body, to activate the reorganization process by directing the system to a healing resource.
The effect of the reorganization process, generally manifests itself as a relaxation of tensions that cause a series of chain effects, being each part of the body interconnected with all the others, according to the principle of Biotensegrity[xxv], a term coined by Dr. Graham Scarr.
There biodynamic craniosacral technique helps to bring coherence and harmonize the fragmented aspects of ourselves and reconnect with the disjointed parts.
I believe that the biodynamic craniosacral technique can offer a valid contribution in the prevention of all those pathologies deriving from chronic tension and stress that can lead to the development of psychosomatic and even serious illnesses, and to be a support to accompany the therapies of official medicine.
Although an increasing number of experimental clinical studies [xxvi]demonstrates the related evidence in this regard (Evidence-Based Medicine) and there is a growing interest from the international scientific community, one slice of medicine advocates official does not recognize the effectiveness of the technique, accusing the method and the operators of quackery.
We hope that the continuous evolution of scientific research can offer a broader understanding of this method, giving complete dignity to a discipline that deserves it.
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[2] „Holistic Psychosmatics”, 2010 Nitamo Federico Montecucco, Medical researcher neurophysiology of states of consciousness.
[3] Among these Darwins, the Nobel laureates of quantum physics: Einstein, Winer, Planck, Heisenberg, the Nobel of literature: Bergson, Mann, and of Chemistry: Eigen.
In the specific field of neuroscience, one of the historical moments that marked the beginning of the revolution of consciousness took place in 1965 Sir John Eccles, Nobel laureate in 1963 for neurophysiology, publishes „The brain and the unity of conscious experience „, in 1977 together with the philosopher of science Karl Popper „The
[4] Self and Its Brain„, and in 1989 „Evolution of the Brain: the creation of the Self„, the first texts that scientifically investigate the traditional philosophical themes of the nature of consciousness and the evolutionary origin of the self and soul. In the early 1980s, Francis Crick, Nobel laureate for the discovery of DNA and a pioneer in neuroscience, states that „consciousness represents a legitimate field of scientific research „and that, given its complexity, it must necessarily be studied with a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach.
[5] Peat:
[6] Autopoiesis and cognition. The realization of the living.
[7] Maturana (1970)
[8] Dr Laura Garnenone
[9] Evolution in four dimensions. Genetic, epigenetic, behavioral and symbolic variation of life, Eva Jablonka
[10] Edelman, 1993
[11] Psychologist and neuroscience researcher, Washington State University
[12] Holistic Psychosomatics, Montecucco
[13] The molecules of emotions, Candace Pert
[14] Biggiero:
[15] starting from the hypothesis of Karl Pribran who proposed the hypothesis of the holographic brain
[16] “The 3 Brain Model” Paul Maclean
[17] Maclean’s theory of schizophysiology
[18] Montecucco: „Holistic Psychosomatics”
[19] Bottaccioli: „psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology”
[20] Serrano
[21] Ervin Laszlo, philosopher of science and systems theorist. Club of Budapest.
[22] Michael Kern.
[23] There neurophysiology explains the formation of the memory trace, with functional and dynamic modifications nerve cells inserted in special circuits and with regard to persistent aspects of memory, with chemical modifications affecting the cells themselves.
[24] I borrow this expression from Evelin Fox Keller, Biologist, who in the book „The Century of the Gene” uses it to describe how genes work.
[25] Biotensegrity. The structural basis of life Dr Graham Scarr
[26] Craniosacral Therapy and Migraine: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23337558
Craniosacral Therapy and Chronic Pain in subjects affected by Fibromyalgia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20702514
Influence of Craniosacral Therapy on Anxiety, Depression and Quality of Life in Fibromyalgia Patients: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19729492
Effects of Craniosacral Therapy as a support to classical therapy in the management of pelvic girdle pain in pregnant women: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23369067
Effects of Craniosacral Therapy on Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=craniosacral+therapy+multiple+sclerosis
Effectiveness of Craniosacral Therapy in subjects afflicted by Dementia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=craniosacral+therapy+dementia
Impact of Craniosacral Therapy and Acupuncture on the Clinical Consequences of Asthma in Adults: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=craniosacral+therapy+acupuncture+asthma
„Craniosacral Approach to the Cardiovascular Physiology: Characteristics, Mechanism and Therapeutic Perspectives. ” Armeni M., Bravi V., D’Emidio S., Leggio M. Journal of Cardiology and Therapy 2014; 1 (8): 165-168
„Short-Term Effects Of Intentional Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy On VO2max and Heart Rate Recovery: A Pilot Study. ” Armeni M., D’Onofrio R., Sommaiuolo P., Gregori G. The American Physiological Society Abstract’s Book 2012; 10: 45-46.
You can find other research for example connected with Autism in the link: https://craniosacralresearch.wordpress.com/