In the heart of Manchester, just down the road from the shopping Mecca of Kendals and The House of Fraser lies the ultimate solution to getting rid of stress this Christmas. While the season of good cheer is good for the soul it takes its toll on the body. The hustle and bustle of shopping, meeting friends, wrapping presents, spending money, socializing and working soon begins to produce the telltale signs of lack of sleep and too many activities packed into too little a space of time. Stress is the inevitable by-product and one of the main reasons we view Christmas with such ambivalence.

Christmas is a time when stress can really get to you. The pressure to make purchases over a short period of time, the planning, possible worries over career, job or money plus the fact that this is the time of the year when you really do have to juggle it all and it can often get a little much.

When it comes to stress relief in Manchester Stress Solutions have just the ticket. A combination of therapies, expert advice and tailored products you could buy are guaranteed to give you just the right solution to take your stress away, soothe persistent aches and pains which accumulate over the years as a result of wrong posture or physical ailments and turn you into a rejuvenated version of yourself.

Manchester has become the destination of choice for rock stars and top athletes looking to gain relief from stress-related symptoms and improve their posture through Matthew Brownell’s Muscle Alignment Technique (MAT).

There is a new gift certificate that can be ordered within the store, great for people who have never experienced the muscle alignment technique!

This was a short article written by one of my patients who had the muscle alignment technique treatment, she works in media and wanted to write something about the treatment she had with me.

Thank you Christine

Chill out

The credit crunch is having effects in many different areas of our lives and for some it manifests itself physically.

Matthew Brownell who runs a complementary therapy clinic in Manchester city centre says he has recently seen an increase in clients with stress related conditions. “Historically people have come to me with many different ailments and problems – sometimes physical sometimes emotional. Most of these are ultimately stress related and with many facing increased pressures both at work and personally I have seen a marked increase of interest in this field.”

People from all walks of life visit Stress Solutions, from young mothers to city people. Some have had injuries as a result of bad posture, car accidents and sports injuries but many of these are in one way or another related to stress. “The stress-related hormone adrenaline plays havoc with the body especially when we don't burn it off. It pumps blood around the body when we are under stress – sending extra blood around the body and into the arms and legs,” Matt explains. “Unfortunately this takes it away from the face and abdomen which leaves many with digestive problems such as irritable bowel syndrome, acidity, acid reflux, constipation, butterflies and anxiety feelings in the stomach.”

“My job is to find the root cause of the stress related problem and start from there,” says Matt who has almost 20 years experience as a complementary therapist. He uses a specific method called the muscle alignment technique which essentially ‘straightens you out’. “It is amazing how many people are walking around with a neck out of place, one hip higher than the other or one leg shorter than the other – pulling them out of position. Walking around in a misaligned body affects everything you do so I focus on correcting any imbalances and adjusting the flow of blood supply.”

Christine Hughes who lives and works in Manchester visited Stress Solutions for the first time back in spring 2008 with a sporting injury. “I had a bad knee from running and was recommended by a friend to see Matt. He spent most of the consultation looking at my feet, back, neck, abdomen – pretty much everywhere else than my knee. The conclusion; my whole body was ‘wonky’ and this was putting a strain on my knee and other joints. After a lot of stretching, intensive massage and other therapies I went home feeling great and next day I put it to the test with a long jog. It had done the job and my injury was completely gone.” Christine has an office based job and she believes most city people would benefit from this type of therapy. “I visit Stress Solutions every month for a health and stress MOT. Even though I usually feel fine, working in a busy office and sitting by a computer all day does take its toll on the body and the therapy helps prevent work and sports related injuries and aches. Many people have backaches, headaches and other pains which they either ignore or take painkillers for. They don’t stop and think about what may be causing those pains and whether their body is trying to tell them something.”

For those planning to get in shape in 2009-10, Matt says making sure the body is aligned is important. “It is simple really – exercising in a straight and aligned body is much better than in an uneven one,” he says.

Matt’s mother brought reflexology to the north-west of England over 40 years ago and today his muscle alignment technique has become one of the most popular with his clients. The benefits of keeping in the correct posture and having the muscles, soft tissues, ligaments, tendons and stress all kept in check are numerous and felt instantly.

The muscle Alignment and Auric treatment (maat) works on many levels!

If you take the view of homeopathy the principle of which is "like attracts Like" the homeopath would supply the remedy that would be relevant to the disease and the disease can be eased.

In the M.A.A.T energy centres know as chakras maybe affected to bring about internal, mental, emotional and physical changes. When the core energy of a person is changed their external world may also do the same because like (internal energy) attracts Like (external energy) creating change from the core. Like it is said "the answers are within"!

A good way to affect subtle energies such as chakra is to work with subtle energy such as Qi, pronounced Chee, the soon to be released ebook "seeing is healing" shows the connection between the subtle bodies of the body. Look for the Muscle Alignment and Auric Treatment on the treatment list for information on how energetic treatments can help many elements of the body. 

I had to take the video down of "physical ENERGY changes" in the videos section of the site because it was going "viral" i.e. lots of people were viewing it but I was not able to offer the finished book, so I have temporarily stopped the video but it will be back soon with, physical energy changes 1,2 and 3.

Launch date to the book should be November 09.

Its great that there is such a high interest in energetic modalities and techniques!

Thank you for all your pre-orders and payments of my book, please bear with me on its final release!

 Dear Friends,
 I know some of you will be familiar with this, for others you may not
be aware of what parliament is about to do in your name.  Codex
Alimentairus is a law designed to hand over the control of natural
remedies to the pharmaceutical giants. Unless we take this last
opportunity and act now we will not be able to buy vitamins or
health/nutritional supplements without a doctor's prescription - they
will be banned from 31st December 2009.




Like many health and safety matters this was started with good
intentions, in 1962 by the United Nations,  to establish international
free trade foods but has become a major threat to our civil liberties
and freedom of choice.


As the song says: YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT TILL ITS GONE


Please, sign the petition to the Prime Minister .  . It takes 10
seconds! This is for our health, and well-being and the health and
well-being of our children.   Please click on this link below ...

 http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Vitamins/
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for more information google opposition to codex alimentarius or look
on facebook and you'll see that the threat is very real and opposition
is from people from all walks of life, in many countries