After some emotionally deep changes last months I decided to try something on a more physical level. In overall I felt quite stable so I wanted to give it a try. A friend told me about this guy checking the body on a muscular level, testing out muscle tension and balancing the glands and the nerve system. Due to the huge impact these first sessions had on me I want to share it here with you.

This technique is called:

Neuroreceptor Therapy
The Method of Proprioceptive-Deep Tendon Reflex (P-DTR) in Functional Neurology

by Jose Palomar MD

What is P-DTR?

P-DTR is a unique neurological therapy based on neurology, biomechanics, neurophysiology, anatomy which works directly with the Central Nervous System. Unique to P-DTR as a therapy, is the understanding of the role that sensory nerve endings resp. receptors play in the function and processes of the central nervous system.
P-DTR uses receptors as its entry point to understand, assess and treat all kinds of dysfunction, pain and all kinds of symptoms experienced in the physical body.

You can check out the offical webpage here:
https://pdtr-global.com/about-pdtr/

The basic theory behind is that everything experienced in your body is remembered by the body. Every accident, every breaking bone, each operation, each scar, all illnesses, everything. This memory is not only part of the cells, but is also saved in the muscles and the nervous systems.

My first experiences with P-DTR

Basically I had no actual symptom I wanted to work on, no actual pain or physical issue; I just wanted to check out this technique. The results were unbelievable. My practitioner checked out my body and found most of the muscles active. He joked: “You are a strong woman.” But basically this means that my body muscles are mostly never in a relaxed state, always ready. But this also means that I am always ready to fight or run, like the people in the stone age, where there was always the fear of being eaten or killed or something else. The practitioner explained that a state like this consumes a lot of energy and that I might be more tired than actually needed. This made me remember the sentence I use to say to people when they ask me how I am. I usually say:

“Oh, you know, I am chronically tired, but don’t worry, this is my normal state.”

Me

The practitioner went on a search in my body where this comes from and finally checked out my head, especially the ears, around my eyes and my jar. We went on a journey what kind of trauma I could have experienced in these areas and slowly I realized what had build up there.

I grew up in a quite abusive family. My father used to beat us a lot, me as the first born only daughter mainly in the face. That is why – when I hear a loud voice – I used to have the spontaneous reaction to throw my hands up to protect my face. This already caused strange situations with my husband for example, who was very upset, because he thought I would think he would hit me, though I didn’t think that. It was just my unconsciously learned action as a kid how to react to screaming.

Interesting for me was, that my strongest muscle reaction in my body to something that happens to my head, was sound, something I hear. This means, that my muscle reaction is mostly triggered by sound. I remember my parents screaming a lot, actually I do not remember them ever have spoken kind to each other. These constant screaming seemed to made me turn my head away from it, which caused a constant asymmetry in my whole body, from the head, down the spine, the hips, all the way down to my feet, preventing me from walking straight. After the deletion of my muscle reaction to sound my practitioner let me walk up and down. I felt quite dizzy, but quickly I felt my spine straightening and I did not have to concentrate to keep my feet straight while walking. This was already quite amazing, but it was just the start.

Another way my body coped with the situation was biting my teeth together. When I look back now I realize, that always when there is stress or some uncomfortable situation, I bite my teeth together and keep biting on them and it is difficult to stop. Even my mother kept saying this:

“Bite your teeth together, you have to endure this.”

Mum

I literally did this and keep doing this until today. And though I worked on this sentence for so many years now, with so many different techniques, it is still remembered by my body on such a deep level, literally on o cellular level, that I never got completely rid of it. This made us concentrate on my jaw. Working through this I realized what had happened more and more. On the one site the beating in my face and on the other side the request of my mum to bite my teeth together to be able to endure all of this. I started realizing this fact as the reason for:

• a sudden really bad inflammation of my lower jaw as a kid, followed by 2 operations with general anesthesia – I almost lost all of my teeth of my lower jaw
• the long and painful journey of dental issues as a teenager
• the actual physical loss of several molar teeth in my lower jaw

At the end I walked up and down again and felt really dizzy. I still could not believe that working on this level had such immediate impacts.
During the next days and weeks I watched myself closely and realized:

• in situations of stress and emotional discomfort I bite my teeth together, creating a huge tension especially in my lower jaw
• when experiencing negative emotions they were often accompanied with pain in my teeth and painful tensions in my jaws

The more I understand the relation between the pain and tension in my nervous system, muscles, bones and teeth, the more I can consciously differentiate the fear that is hidden behind this physical reactions of my body.
The extend of discovered unconscious fears scared the hell out of me.

It took me a couple days until I accepted how much I am afraid of so many things in my life:

• fear of change
• fear of no change, fear of what will happen if I don’t change
• fear of being stuck, inability to change
• fear of talking to somebody
• fear of being myself
• fear of not being able to be myself
• fear of telling the truth
• fear of not telling the truth
• ……..
• fear being alive, fear of life itself

“I am a person guided by fear”

Me

I always knew this, but I was not aware to what extend, to what depth this is burned into the unconscious memory of my cells and nerves.

A huge “Thank you” to my therapist and P-DTR practitioner John Braz, who is supporting and accompanying me on this journey. It’s a pleasure to work with him.
I really appreciate his spontaneous reaction when I ask him if we can work on whatever strange response of my body and he smiles and says: “Let’s check it out.”
He gives me the feeling that “Long desired change is actually possible.” Thank you.

John Braz Facebook profile:
https://www.facebook.com/John-Braz-Terapeuta-2265050900197719/

Let’s see what impact P-DTR will have in a couple weeks, I keep you posted.