Holos Therapeutics
Kinesthetic and Cognitive Hygiene
Hygiene, not Therapy
Most people don't need therapy. Today, record numbers of people are in therapy, yet rates of depression and anxiety are at an all-time high. This is because these and other experiences people seek to address through therapy or counseling are not problems that need to be fixed; they are not "mental illnesses" or "pathologies." They are intelligent signals from your body~mind telling you that there is an incongruence between your natural, innate needs as a biological creature and the environment that is supposed to meet those needs.
Restore holistic function, restore health
"Health" derives from the Old English term hælþ, meaning "wholeness; being sound, whole or well." Today, Americans are deeply unwell, not because something is "wrong" with them but because we live in a world that serves the interests of a mechanistic industrial order rather than serving life. Have you noticed? Machines, computers, and industrial infrastructure is thriving, while most people are suffering and struggling.
Just as we need to brush and floss our teeth everyday to maintain dental health, we need to care for our kinesthetic and cognitive systems everyday. We don't brush our teeth because something is wrong with us; it's just basic dental hygiene. This is how we should think about mind~body health and wellness. We clean our teeth regularly simply because by eating and drinking everyday, stuff builds up that can become a problem if we don't address it on a regular basis. Just so, simply by moving within and interacting through a pervasively mechanical, industrial, technological social world, cognitive and kinesthetic "junk" builds up in our systems, and this becomes a problem if we don't cleanse ourselves of it on a regular basis.
This is what I mean by kinesthetic and cognitive hygiene. To learn more, read the full story on the My Approach page.
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." ~ Nietzsche
iNT: Interotelligence
The Dynamic Intersection of Health and Intelligence
Living within industrial society has mechanized our body~minds and disrupted our natural biological functioning. The result is the ever-growing set of symptoms plaguing modern people: depression, anxiety, fragmented attention, insomnia, IBS, addictions, compulsive behaviors, PTSD, chronic pain, tinnitus, migraines, hypertension and many more.
You're likely familiar enough with this situation, but did you know that these conditions are all, at their root, characterized by compromised interoception?
Interoception reflects the complex process of sensing and maintaining a state of dynamic balance and homeostasis in our body~minds, which is vital for health and wellness on all levels of our being. When this central balancing process is disrupted, a literal and figurative state of dis-ease results. It is simply not possible to be robustly healthy if the interoceptive system is dysregulated.
This is why I've developed "Interotelligence," a unique approach to restoring proper interoceptive function through simple, safe, and natural practices that activate the self-healing and self-regulating abilities of the body's innate intelligence.
Proper interoceptive functioning is necessary to resolve:
- common "mental disorders" such as depression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, PTSD, insomnia, looping thoughts/worrisome rumination, addictive behaviors, and related experiences
- IBS, chronic pain, postural/structural imbalances, and related physiological and mobility challenges
Developing your interoceptive abilities can improve and refine:
- Metabolic function
- Immune function
- Communicative abilities (attention, memory, speech, and social connectedness)
- Sleep, rest, recovery, and restorative processes
- Mobility dynamics: strength, stability, balance, endurance, flexibility, and injury resistance
- Creative and artistic abilities
The core conviction of Holos Therapeutics is that to recreate and sustain the wholeness that is health ("health" derives from the Old English term hælþ, meaning "wholeness"), we must work with ourselves as unified systems rather than "targeting" specific issues in isolation. This involves the unique functions of fascia, which is one of the primary organs of interoception, sensation, perception, movement, structure, and communication. Fascia is literally everywhere in the body, constituting a unifying, multidimensional system that supports holistic integration and dynamic functioning of every other system and aspect of human experience (emotional, motivational, perceptual, communicative, immunological, metabolic, cognitive, neurological, hormonal, structural-anatomical, and cardiovascular).
Everything in human life is totally interconnected: everything "mental" or "cognitive" is always embodied, and our "physical" existence is much more than mere mechanical movement. There is an adaptive intelligence streaming through all aspects of our existence that can be accessed, leveraged, and optimized to sustain a state of robust health and vitality.
To learn more, see a more complete explanation of my approach here:
Holos Therapeutics: Down-to-Earth Support for becoming Fully Human
Life adapts to the conditions that surround and support it. Unfortunately, for humans in modern industrial society, we have been forced to adapt to a mechanistic and technological socioeconomic system that exploits our innate abilities and turns our originally adaptive intelligence against us. The result is the widespread proliferation of chronic dis-ease that shows up as so many common experiences today: depression, anxiety, fatigue, physical immobility, insomnia, addictions, and all the rest.
In short, we have become more mechanical and domesticated than wild and alive.
But, this doesn't mean there's something "wrong" with you. Rather, the root problem is an incongruence between your natural, innate needs and the available provisions of this cultural environment. The solution is therefore not to "fix" you, but to restore your interoceptive capacity to discern what you uniquely need and how to procure it from this crazy world. This is the essence of Interotelligence.
At Holos Therapeutics, there are no hacks, gimmicks, quick fixes, or miracle pills. Every method and modality I employ has been time-tested since antiquity, and/or rigorously studied by science.
This is for real. This is for life.
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