It was thanks to the meeting and intuition of social science researchers with experts in alternative natural methods, working in the specific field of relaxation, which led to the creation and setting up of the Wellness sitting Treatment.
After identifying, through careful research, the 'natural techniques' with the most scientific confirmations (also by official medicine) and considering with great attention the importance to attach to each, through appropriate precautions and making use of modern scientific know-how concerning stress and its symptoms, a single, well balanced, complete and entirely natural method was drawn up, which can be offered as:
'Relaxation
technique which supplies well-being, in a natural manner.'
The
Wellness
sitting Treatment does not give therapeutic and diagnostic indications which
are sole province of the physician in charge, but it could operate, as with all
the natural techniques, in a complementary relationship with official medicine,
when requested by the latter.
WsT
does not cure physical or psychic pathologies
It is a relaxation treatment, wholly natural, for 'clearing the mind' and renewing the required energy charge for fighting and living with the 'discomforts' of a frenetic life.
The main techniques involved, which have given risen to the WsT are as follows:
Foot reflexology
Aroma therapy
Chromotherapy
Music therapy
Therapeutic touch
Reflexology
This is a technique based on the reflex points which each member of the body has in the feet and hands.
The Egyptians, and before them the Chinese, have left us detailed maps of the reflex points for stimulating or relaxing the various organs.
It was Dr. W. H. Fitzgerald (1872 - 1942) who revived the 'foot reflexology' in the modern Western world, after noticing that by exerting light pressures on certain points of the foot or hand, he was even able to perform minor surgery without the use of anaesthetic.
After more detailed studies and careful experimentation, he came to the conclusion that all the nervous terminations of all the organs and the functions of the human body are transported to the sole of the foot or the hand, in areas defined by ten meridians passing through the human body, starting from the head and reaching the sole of the feet.
Subsequently D. Edwin F. Bowers continued with these studies, completing them, and renaming the method, 'zone therapy'.
Aroma
therapy
Aroma therapy was already practised way back in ancient Egypt, in India and China:
essential oils were normally used in cosmetics and medicine.
Several writings prove that the Greeks and Romans treated many pathologies with essential oils.
But also in the West, from the Middles Ages until the throughout 19th century this technique was habitually adopted. It fell into disuse with the advent of chemical pharmacology, but during the last ten years it has been reclaimed by several naturopathic researchers.
Chromotherapy
Colours can help modern man. This technique is based on the capacity of the colours to transmit colours.
The individual can be affected either positively or negatively by colours.
Hence it is possible to favour the psychophysical equilibrium with an exposure to certain colours and with a special method.
Music
therapy
Music as therapy against many of man's ills has already been encountered in past centuries, in Greece, Asia Minor, China and India.
It was taken up and spread in the West by a Hungarian physician Pierre Linchenthal and then developed in 1875 by the French physician Dr. Chomet.
Research has continued up to modern times with many scientific confirmations, up to the institution, in certain countries, of the chair of Music Therapy in the Universities.
Music, with its universal direct and immediate language, has a positive effect on the state of the soul of the individual; a correct and careful choice of the pieces of music acts on the nervous and cell system, thereby favouring with their vibrations an unconscious regaining of the relationship with oneself: it produces an optimum psychophysical relaxation.
Therapeutic
touch
With light and superficial touching of the skin, it is possible to release the tensions and enter in symbiosis with the operator.
This increases the awareness of how the body interacts with the mind.
Light touching helps circulation under the skin. It transmits a pleasant warmth and produces a feeling of general well-being so preparing the person to relax.
Such technique is particularly effective in stress-related ailments.
And
if...
as the proverb says: "strength lies in unity", it is easy to
imagine the great potential of the 'Wellness
sitting Treatment'.
WsT is a 'light' method. Hence it is not a massage, it is not a therapy, quite simply it is a:
'wholly natural treatment producing relaxation and therefore well-being'
The muscles and articulations as well as the external and internal organs are no way involved in depth.
The only parts of the body coming into contact with the operator's hands, and only superficially, are: the feet, hands and skin. Music, colours and essential oils complete the session.
No drugs or otherwise are prescribed or used: everything is absolutely external and strictly natural.
The session lasts about 1 hour and is performed in the lying down position so as to allow the muscles to relax thus avoiding contractions and incorrect postures.
The first part of the session is called the 'feeling phase' and is essential for establishing an initial acquaintance with the Operator: in reality it consists of a short, calm and free conversation. It is followed by the so-called 'structure' phase which proceeds towards the definition of the 'contents' of the session, which are 'built up ad hoc' in each individual case.
The third phase is known as 'the resolution', and is more strictly operative.
To
whom are the natural relaxation techniques directed ?
Above
all the 'Wellness
sitting Treatment'?
Relaxation techniques, for the very fact they are natural, are directed towards nearly everybody because in these days, all of us, with nobody excluded, find ourselves in stressful situations and we need moments of relax, at least every so often.
The WsT, for its very specific nature and for the particular appraisals made in the choice of the techniques and aromatic oils as well as the reflex points, the music and so on, are addressed above all to the so-called 'modern manager' type by way of example.
In other words, to that person who, owing to the very nature of his or her profession, is forced to live with continuous situations of stress (major decisions, long and tiring meetings, continuous deadlines, etc.). Therefore persons, perhaps more than any others, who need healthy doses to renew their energy and therefore to give more strength and resistance to the organism.
It is well known that the Manager often accumulates a great amount of tension, not only emotional and physical, but also mental.
This often leads him to question the relationship with the surrounding world, falsifying it and sometimes making it hard or alien.
The more frequent symptomatology of stress is characterized by: headache, muscular neuralgia, backache, cervical pains, acidity of the stomach, difficulty in digestion, increase in weight and, unfortunately in spiralling increase, sexual fatigue which, unless controlled, can lead to actual impotence.
It
should be stressed that, in this case, as in any other manifestation of the
pathology, consulting the physician in charge is a necessary and immediate step
to be made, without fear or false modesty.
Often added to these physical symptoms there are annoying psychological 'disorders': a general difficulty in concentration, incomprehensible edginess, small memory blanks, decisional difficulty, insecurity, demotivation, tension and difficulty in the circle of family attachments and social relationships.
The Wellness sitting Treatment certainly does not claim to solve the problem of stress, but without doubt it represents a good occasion, wholly natural, which is offered to the modern person to....'unwind every so often', to relax when necessary, but also and above all to build up a personal reservoir of extra energy serving as prevention.
If it is certainly true that the one and only possibility of eliminating stress and its implications, is that of completely avoiding the very situations generating stress, unfortunately it is just as true that this is practically impossible within a context of modern life.
And this is why there is an increasing pressing need to turn to 'support techniques' which, when natural, do not generally have any contraindications and they are not habit-forming nor do they produce collateral effects.
It is not advisable to undergo the treatment during pregnancy, unless under direct medical control, or during the first days of the menstrual cycle or after a heavy meal (wait for at least three hours).
The 'Wellness sitting Treatment' can mitigate and sometimes eliminate
certain stress symptoms, thus bringing about a state of well-being.
In fact, it uses techniques which all act essentially on the psychophysical relaxation, producing a general invigorating action on the body, thereby raising the threshold of capacity concerning resistance and adaptation of the organism to situations of fatigue.
Therefore it helps to improve co-ordination between the nervous system and the muscular system, with a probable strengthening of the immunity system.
The frenetic and competitive life of these modern times often makes us forget that the only true reality which counts is one's own life within a healthy, social, friendly and family relationship.
To like oneself, to think about oneself every so often, should not be at the expense of one's professional activity and certainly not of one's social standing, rather it could make everything easier and nicer.
The
'Wellness
sitting Treatment' is a highly effective 'complementary' technique which can
give excellent results.
It
is certainly not the solution but without doubt it represents a very valid help
as well as a healthy and natural response to the needs of the modern person in
order to alleviate the hardships of a life experienced under the 'sign of
stress'.
