Lisette Van der valk Lisette Van der valk

THE WISE NERVES

I received a very beautiful feedback from Teresa one of my online students who had a heavy accident and was years in recovery of her back. And it brings me to tears that she feeling safe to practice with me. Her coming back is amazing!I bow for her healing and her inner work and willingness 🙏🏼🙏🏼

That's why i felt to share my thoughts and what i start to understand more and more! Somehow i always kinda felt ..but yeaahh in a world of pushing harder and faster🙏🏼 softness doesn't seem like much like a strength ❤️

The nervous system controls our muscles. When we experience an injury or trauma, the nervous system often tells certain muscles to "shut down" as a protective response. While the body may recover physically over time, ( which is also amazing survival mechanism) the nervous system is often left out of the healing process.

So yes—we heal, we get back to our daily routines—but that doesn’t mean the nervous system has fully recovered. Some muscles, especially the smaller ones, may still be shut down or compensated for by other, stronger muscles.

Real healing happens when the nervous system starts to feel safe again. From there, we can begin to gently reactivate those dormant muscles—not by pushing harder, but by rebuilding from the ground up.

That’s why many people actually need to start first reconnecting with their bodies slowly to reactive and recover, rather than simply trying to push through and train harder! And of course some stress on the body makes us resilient and stronger, but first the body needs to know that's safe again!! Keep listening to the wisdom within its magical!!

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