| The Master Practice Root Lock Practice |
| In December of 1999 I had just finished a miserable experience in the White Rock Marathon. My back hips and thighs began tightening up around mile 14 and the remaining 12 miles were slow and painful. At this point in my life I had been experiencing chronic back pain, body stiffness and sciatica for many years and I had never heard of physical pain disorders caused by psychological dynamics. A few days after running the Rock, I decided to try Yoga as a treatment to fix my chronic pain body. I began with a practice of Power Yoga where the primary focus was first on a special breathing technique and on holding locks (muscle contractions) and secondary on the movements (postures). After five months of consistent practice I am 90% pain free. I did not know it at the time but the key to this practice and to my recovery was a combination of the special breathing and the holding of something called the root lock. There is a Sanskrit word moola or mula which means root, source or cause. And another Sanskrit word bandha, which means, lock, shut or close. These words are put together (moola bandha, mula bandha or root lock) and known in yoga practice as the perineal lock. This lock is a contraction of the muscles around the perineal body in men and the cervix in women. On the physical level this is simply the contraction of muscles. You will soon discover that it is much more. It is a powerful, mindful, energetic upliftment! The importance of the root lock should not be underestimated. As you perfect this practice it leads to a realignment of the physical, mental and emotional bodies and has big, huge benefits: 1. Maintaining hormonal balance. 2. Stimulating and regulating the nerves that innervate the lower pelvic region. 3. Rebalances nervous activity in the body. The root lock is an important tool in the treatment of physical diseases and disorders. It has an immediate effect of creating a deep sense of mental relaxation, which relieves most mental and psychosomatic disorders, which are the direct or indirect result of inner stress, tension and anxiety! A Practice that Communicates with our Nervous System The root lock practice unlocks stuck emotional energy. Inherent is this process is the release of physical and mental tensions that have been trapped and stored in our body. Dr. Pert has told us how emotional peptides communicate throughout our system and when inner stresses are perceived our autonomic nervous system responds with a constriction of blood vessels resulting in oxygen deprivation. The root lock practice is how you can deliberately and positively influence communication with the autonomic nervous system. This communication is therapy, which is allowing you to regain and maintain a healthy balance on the physical, mental and emotional planes. The root lock contraction stimulates both the sensory-motor and the autonomic nervous systems in the pelvic region. This pelvic stimulation activates parasympathetic fibers from the neck and pelvic areas and sympathetic fibers from the upper and lower back areas. The overall effect of this nervous system stimulation is to re-balance these two major components of nervous activity in the body. This benefits the endocrine system which communicates its information to our emotional (limbic) system. This practice is focused in the perineum region located at the base of our spine. For those of you familiar with the chakras, you know that the base or root chakra is the source of our support and is also located here at the base of our spine. For those of you not familiar, a chakra is an energetic power center. The state of each chakra reflects the health of a particular area of your body. It also reflects your psychological and emotional well-being. When the energy in our root chakra is open and moving freely it is responsible for good health and vitality. We have a sense of trust and the ability to relax and be still. When this energy is stuck or pinched off it can cause physical problems like piriformis, sciatica, low back pain and irritable bowel syndrome. The foundation of our emotional and mental health is located in this chakra. Family beliefs, tribal traditions and all fears stem from this location. It is here that we are concerned with obtaining personal security. From this motive arise our competitiveness, grasping, controlling, perfecting and worry. I hope that you are beginning to see the correlation of everything that we have been discussing about these dynamic pain disorders are stemming directly from this energy location. This is the foundation of our emotional and mental energy. Our Type A behaviors thrive in the energy located here. Physically i is at the base of our spine which predominantly affects our neck, back, and legs—the foundation of our body and the dominant region for our symptoms in these disorders. The nerve which supplies this region is the pudendal nerve. The interaction of the nerves in the perineum with the brain, autonomic nervous system and the rest of the body are extremely intricate. Despite this broad, complex network with its myriad of emotional communications, neural pathways and physical connections, it is possible to unlock the mysteries of these dynamic pain disorders. The technique of root lock is how we can do just that and the key is practice. The Master Practice Program - Book & CD teaches you the Root Lock technique. |
| Whatever path you are on to heal TMS or your chronic pain body or your chronic running injuries caused by inner stress, root lock can greatly enhance it! Before I ever knew the name Sarno or TMS I ended 20 years of chronic pain with the Root Lock practice being the key. Root Lock is a powerful technique that works in conjunction with any TMS Therapy Program, Think Psychological and Think Clean! This is how we defeat TMS or chronic pain caused by inner stress/tension at every level. This is why it is called The Master Practice. Root Lock is real therapy and it works! "The root lock is an important tool in the treatment of physical diseases and disorders. It has an immediate effect of creating a deep sense of mental relaxation, which relieves most mental and psychosomatic disorders, which are the direct or indirect result of inner stress, tension and anxiety!..." excerpt from The Master Practice "Moola bandha or root lock, offers an infinitely powerful technique capable of breaking down the rigid barriers that have been built up in the mind over the years, thereby expelling deep unconscious conflicts and complexes that are not easily accessible to modern psychological techniques...The technique of moola bandha had been a closely guarded secret for millennia. By contracting the mooladhara chakra we have a more powerful technique than all the modern psychological techniques put together. They look like child's play compared..." excerpt from Moola Bandha The Master Key |
| Root lock is an energy charging practice with great specific benefit for many diseases of mental and pranic origin, where there is depression of physical energy or imbalance of the mental body. Psychotherapeutic value: Root lock is a powerful means of relaxing the body and mind. It relaxes the mental tenseness that we see mirrored in various personalities as phobia, mania, hysteria, depression and anxiety. This is because root lock is a mental purgative, releasing the subconscious mind of repressed anxieties and hidden mental blocks.... Psychophysical relationship: Root lock leverages on the mind-body link. You may wonder how it is that a single contraction of such a small area of the physical body can have such powerful effects on the whole human system. Yogic philosophy states that the effects of root lock are more powerful than contraction of all the other muscles of the body combined... Psychoemotional relationship: The physical contraction is merely a means to locate a psychic body component. Now the real work starts. The subconscious mind is stimulated so that repressed mental energy is allow to surface into conscious awareness where we can deal with it through our own detached awareness and control. |
| Root Lock leverages the mind-body link |
| Root Lock will compliment your healing path |
| Excerpt from The Master Practice |
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| The New Sarno-TMS Program The Master Practice Includes Root Lock |
| Root Lock is a powerful technique that works in conjunction and enhances any TMS Therapy Program, Think Psychological and Think Clean! This is how we defeat TMS or chronic pain caused by inner stress/tension at every level. This is why it is called The Master Practice. |