Psychoneuroimmunology for Bodyworkers

15 Hour CE Course

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Description

The science of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) investigates the mind/body link. This course focuses on PNI in relationship to body memory. The course will help you better understand the emotional component of your work and facilitate longer-lasting positive results. It does not teach hands-on skills.

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Content Outline

Sanity and Healing:	1.5 Hours
The Real and the Unreal The Sane and the Insane Feeling and the Healing System Deep Feeling: the Good, Bad, and the Ugly
The Biology of Emotional Integration:	2 Hours
The Biology of Emotional Integration Internalized Stressors: Who Needs Therapy? Why Body-focused Therapy?
Feelings and the Mind/Body Interface:	2 Hours
The Invisible Factors of Illness and Healing One System The Three Brains of Adam and Eve The Biology of Memory
Communication Central:	1.5 Hours
Memory and Survival Beyond Memory: The Past is Present Our Dual Nature Body Boundaries The Emotional Spectrum and Environment
Psychoneuroimmunology:	2 Hours
The Principles of Mind/Body Integration The Role of an Enzyme-Rich Diet in Emotional Integration The Logic of Catastrophic Thinking Proactive vs. Victim Mentality Resistance: Escape from Freedom From Self-image to Self-reflection to Self-realization Tension: Bane or Boon?
Inner Fragmentation:	2 Hours
Pain: the Circuit Breaker System Four Worlds, Three Brains Making a Case for Healthy Regression When Inner Worlds Collide The Catastrophic World of Infancy The Primal World of Childhood The Outer-directed World of Youth The Inner-directed World of Maturity Four Polar Processing Styles: A Second Axis of Repression
Life Issues:	1 Hour
The Universal Backdrop for Therapy: Suffering The Difference between Suffering and Pain To Be or Not to Be: Is That Really the Question? Lust, Evolution, and Individuation Archetypes: Hard-wired Circuits The Question of Meditation
Integration with Feeling:	2 Hours
How Body-focused Psychotherapy Works Why People Really Come for Therapy Professional Roles and Boundaries The Metacommunications of Therapy How Long Therapy? Technique and Art In Therapy When and How to Do Core Work Therapy As “Worm Stick” The Question of Touch Centropic Integration: My Body-oriented Technique Power Tools for Inner Work The Power of Positive Choices The Course of Therapy: What Recovery Looks Like Couples, Family, Group Therapy Emotional Aikido Case Studies: Therapy in Action Exercises to Challenge Your Personal Status Quo, Help You Lose Your Mind and Come to Your Senses
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Open-book Test and Course Evaluation	1 Hour

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Testimonials

Wonderful! So full of insight and useful information.

Dana H,. RN, LMT Nashville, TN

PNI is a very interesting subject for anybody dealing with pain, wich likely includes everybody! This course was informative and in-depth.

Cory Chase, LMT, Morgantown, WV

This is the all time best course I have ever taken. I am very lucky to have found it. Thanks so much for offering it

Karen Bauer, Traveleres Rest, South Carolina

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book. I found it fascinating and felt it held much truth.

Laura Young Massage Therapist NCBTMB

This is an excellent course, very informative, author proves/supports his assortions well.

Linda Wozniak CMT, LMT Vital Signs Massage of Bodywork

I really benefited by this course and have purchased more copies of the book for people I know who would benefit by its contents. Having a chat room about the contents of this course would be a plus!

Liz

I liked it a lot. author is right-on. Extremely interesting, fascinating and important knowledge for body-workers

Lynessa O\\\'Brien L.M.T. & emotional integration.

A wonderful example of understandable writing that teaches a huge amount of information

Nona Fries, NCTMB, CHt

A good read for anyone working in healthcare, and/or bodywork fields, both personally and professionally!

Patricia Sirois, RN, LMT, Springfield, NH

This course was so informative, and perfectly timed in my life!! i really needed to learn this stuff right now!

paula helfrich russel, nctmb, lmt

This course gave me some concrete reasoning as to why people will release their emotions while I'm breaking up their "pockets of pain" during a bodywork session.

Rosemary E. Heermance, NCTMB Pacific Oasis Medi Spa - Lancaster,

I was very interested in the material. It gave me a different way of thinking about pain and healing

Vivian Beran NCMT

Excellent insight into the mind body connection. The course provided me with awareness on how I can further help/understand my clients as well as myself.

W. Scott Pollard CMT Rockville, MD

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Learning Objectives

Recognize the author’s descriptions of sanity; how feelings are dealt with in our healing systems, and how important bodily and emotional feelings are for healing and wellness.
Define “internalized stressor” and communicate the benefits of “body-focused therapy.”
Identify the biology of memory, the three levels of the human brain, and how these each contribute to “body memory.”
Distinguish between psychological, physiological, and structural tension in yourself and your clients.
Recognize the possibility of elements of fragmented feelings in your own and your client’s experience.
Describe how to center yourself in a therapeutic mindset that carries healing intent through your touch.
Recognize the boundaries and connectedness between psychological, physiological, and structural tension in yourself and your clients.
Identify strategies for a bodywork treatment plan that includes awareness of your client’s feelings and/or life context.
Identify the professional roles and boundaries for a bodywork treatment plan that interfaces with body-focused psychotherapy.

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Sample Text

"The human body structurally demonstrates the fundamental and natural necessity for boundary-setting as a means of sustaining health, especially in two locales: the skin and the immune system. The skin is both our outermost organ and the site of physical contact with the world, marks where the self ends and the "outer" world beings. Also known as the "integument," it functions as the built-in delineator of our separateness and our integrity as individuals. When someone touches us lovingly and appropriately, we feel soothed, stimulated, "in touch", and connected. Gentle touch not only elicits a cascade of mood altering endorphins and the relaxation response to make us feel good, it also triggers the skin to release thymopoeitan, a hormone which bolsters our immune competence by stimulating maturing immune cells. When someone touches us without our permission we feel "invaded" and "violated," and our fight-or-flight response kicks in, along with a gush of stress hormones, aborted digestion, elevated blood pressure, and increased muscle tension. Negative contact with the world is an emergency." (Deep Feeling, Deep Healing by Andy Bernay-Roman LMHC, NCC, MS, RN, LMT, 2001, p. 69)

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