The Mickel Therapy Clinic, Auckland, Mickel Therapy - contact Kim or book a session
by Dr David Mickel
One of the most important primary e-motions arising within our body, without doubt, is that of the family of 'boredom'. Just a brief summary of body or primary e-motions: these arise without thought or in other words are not created by wrong thinking. Science has shown neural activity in the e-motional centres in the mid-brain while there is none in the thinking part of the frontal cortex. In other words the 'body' is sending e-motional feedback independent of thought processes.
One of those e-motions that we have discovered most prevalent in Mickel Therapy is the unlikely candidate of body boredom. This follows on nicely from last month's article on "Body Moods". It has become very clear to us at Mickel Therapy that our body does indeed have changeable moods in terms of what fulfils it and what doesn't. The way it communicates this to us is through creating the primary e-motions of joy/happiness or its shadow form - boredom. In the development of Mickel Therapy this created much confusion as a client would report doing something that they really 'enjoy' but suddenly experience an increase in their symptoms.
Now, quite naturally, they would assume that their body was requesting them to rest but as we know after many years of trial and error - symptoms are never created by the body to seek rest as it uses healthy tiredness for this. Time and time again we have seen c lients in the middle of activities that are not particularly exertional but symptoms worsened nonetheless.
By applying the Mickel Therapy theory of body boredom then they may then choose to change activity to some form of exercise and to their surprise the symptoms reduced despite the increased effort of the new activity. When this happens it is always a sign that the body's mood had changed to become bored. All clients going through Mickel Therapy discover this to their surprise. Indeed we would say that when a person can prove to themselves that symptoms never actually come to tell them to rest then a return to health is not far around the corner.
Just to further expand on the e-motional family of 'body boredom' it also includes the e-motions of loneliness (body request for human contact) and lack of fulfilment (body request for fulfilment of purpose or role in life). The obvious irony is that the mere nature of fatigue symptoms is that we tend to respond to them by resting and limiting our life to the extent that we create further body 'boredom' as described above.
The Mickel Therapy process has been designed to show our clients how to correct this often confusing situation and allow their bodies to move closer still to stopping sending symptoms.
The result is that a person becomes re-aligned with their body changeable moods and as long as they are willing to go with the flow of this then their body will happily stop sending symptoms...when it sees that its e-motional signals are received and acted upon.