For truly successful Myofascial Release healing you will need to give it your all. Like so many things in life, what you get out of it will equal what you put in to it. Myofascial Release healing works! But it does require a willingness to do the work, to put the time and effort in, feel the sensations and emotions and soften into the pain to allow yourself to change and heal. 

But if during and after your MFR treatment you don't feel and process the sensations, emotions and memories that come up during treatment, you’ll miss a big opportunity for healing. The treatment is just the beginning. It’s like someone giving you a push on the swings when you were a kid. They get you going then it’s up to you to lean in to it and see how far you can get with the energy they gave you and your own determination.

Get the Best MFR Results

To get the best results from your MFR treatments, during treatment at home or with a therapist, you'll want to really pay attention to what you are feeling & soften into any sensations, emotions or memories you may experience. Even if the sensations you feel are uncomfortable or hurt, notice how you feel about that pain, and really feel what it feels like, is it achy, stabby, nervy, does it recreate symptoms you've been having lately or remind you of the sensations of an old injury or anything else from your past? You want to work with your therapist as a team, share what you're feeling and experiencing & ask for guidance when you need it. 

If you are just falling asleep or thinking about your to do list during treatment you may not make much progress. Now sometimes treatment will hurt, it's ok let it hurt, soften into the pain & really feel it. Your MFR therapist should teach you to sense the difference between therapeutic pain and injurious pain so you can feel safe to soften when you need to or speak up and advocate for yourself if the pain feels too intense.

Softening and feeling into your pain is a skill you'll need to practice, your MFR therapist cannot do this for you. That's why working with your home therapy tools is so important whether you're working with an online or in person MFR therapist you'll need to use your therapy tools to practice softening into your pain either way. Really tough restrictions, tight spots or areas of chronic pain, trauma or surgery will need repeated releases with your therapy tools at home while you feel the sensations and emotions that come up until they have softened and cleared.

Listen Inward for True Pain Relief

For those who have lived in intense pain, there is nothing better than the actual relief of that pain. True healing is so much better than just masking the pain with drugs or shots which can have negative side effects. But even more importantly the issue that caused the pain in the first place was not fixed and the pain was merely numbed. This unfixed issue then can continue to worsen if left untreated. 

Pain, symptoms and emotions are how your body communicates with you. These are the only ways it has to tell you what is going on inside you. Instead of shutting your body up or ignoring it, MFR teaches you how to listen to your body and gives you the tools to deal with whatever it is your body needs. When you have pain, lack of mobility, anxiety, sadness, rage, Myofascial Release gives you real tools to deal with these issues, not mask them or just talk about them but instead to work them out and finally heal so you can move on and live fully.

My first MFR therapist used to say “healing is not a passive event, it is an active sport”. And like any other sport, if you want to win at healing you’ll have to carve out the time, put your heart in to it and give it your all and you will heal!