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Welcome to The Stillpoint Project
...dedicated to the exploration, mastery, and promotion of the healing arts

Osteopathy:
What is Health?

Most people seek medical attention for symptoms that are either chronic or mysterious. The prevalent approach by the medical profession is to attempt to discover a pathology (a degenerative condition) and/or to introduce pharmaceuticals aimed at suppressing the symptoms. This approach can be helpful in a life threatening circumstance but it is of little help with common problems. In fact it can be detrimental. This is why.

Health or wellness is the reflection of an individual's ability to maintain an internal balance with respect to the constantly changing environment. An example of this occurs as the body maintains normal body temperature even as the external temperature varies. A small fluctuation in temperature and the body easily regulates without discernment on the part of the individual. With more extreme temperature changes, this process is accompanied by noticeable symptoms such as shivering or sweating. Both reflect an increased symptomatic response as the body works to maintain normal temperature. If this increased reaction is insufficient, dysfunctions such as hypothermia or hypothermia arise and, with an associated reduction in vitality. In other words, if extreme temperatures continue and the person's ability to adapt is diminished, degeneration arises, lessening the capacity of survival.

The language of the body that we call 'symptoms' is intelligent. Instead of suppressing them, we can identify and address them as indicators leading to factors that are hindering our body's ability to self regulate. Through this interpretation we can effectively restore and maintain health and wellness. This approach is called biological medicine.

A Wellness Map

As first described by Dr. Sid Baker, author of 'Detoxification and Healing', the basic model for health maintenance or promotion, is nurturance. Nurturance by definition, insures the provisions necessary for the body's needs and at the same time avoids factors that are toxic or harmful.

The Body's Needs

These needs include nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and fatty acids, and accessory nutritional factors such as good quality air, water and light. Included as well are the needs for physical movement, rest, relaxation, rhythm (daily routine) and a sense of belonging and community (love).

Toxins to Avoid

These include allergens - substances that affect certain individuals in a negative way, such as food, dust, mold, chemicals; and toxins which adversely affect all humans, albeit at different thresholds and with different affects. Toxins can be external in source; ingested or inhaled. And they can arise internally; created by normal as well as abnormal metabolisms. They can be elementary (lead, mercury), biological (plants, germs, metabolic wastes) or synthetic (mostly petrochemical).

Detoxification

Un-eliminated toxins tend to accumulate in the connective tissue or matrix. This matrix can be described as the internal sea that surrounds the cells. All nutrients, metabolic products and wastes, travel to and from the cells and blood and lymphatic vessels via this matrix. In a healthy body the matrix is fluid. It is maintained by body movement, inherent tissue movement, circulation and respiration. It's health is vital for the efficient transportation and delivery of nutrients and the effective elimination of toxins. Trauma, recent or old, often results in restricted muscle skeletal movement which can cause areas of stagnation in the matrix. This interferes with the efficiency of transportation and results in increased toxicity and decreased vitality. Often associated with pain, this stagnation can be the underlying problem associated with physiological changes that result in symptoms such as fatigue, impaired immune status, decreased mental functioning and poor healing ability. This understanding is the focus of biomechanical medicine.

› What is Health?
› What is Biological Medicine?
› What is Osteopathy?
› What is a typical treatment plan?
› What you can expect during treatment and afterward.
› Infection Connection

The Stillpoint Center
for the Healing Arts
4419 West 10th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6R 2H8 Canada
Telephone: 604-224-6857
Dr. Blaney: 604-224-6583

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