What Didn’t You Know That Your Central Nervous System Did?
Trauma, Breath, and the Intelligent Unfolding of Reorganizational Healing through Network Spinal
There are moments in healing that arrive before the intellect understands.
Before explanation.
Before the mind can make sense of what has just happened.
A breath deepens, A wave moves through the spine. Something long held begins to let go.
And only later do we realize — the intelligence of the central nervous system was leading the way all along.
Pain Is Often a Story the Body Keeps Repeating
Many patients who come into my office are living with significant spinal and musculoskeletal pain.
They have stretched, strengthened, corrected, medicated, injected—and sometimes even undergone surgery.
Yet the pain persists.
Because in many cases, the true origin of suffering is not found only in injured tissue.
It lives in unresolved experience:
• Physical trauma
• Emotional shock
• Mental overwhelm
• Moments the nervous system never fully recovered from or adapted to.
The body keeps exquisite records — not only as thoughts in the mind, but as patterns of tension, guarding and defense within the central nervous system.
And those patterns remain… until the system feels safe and secure enough to release them.
Transformation Requires Integration, Not Just the Administration of Treatment
My work has never been about chasing symptoms.
It is about transforming lives through integration.
This integration draws from:
• Network Spinal
• Chiropractic principles
• The Hakomi Method
• Life and Ontological Coaching
Together, they create a culture that allows for a shift from:
Defense → Reorganization → Healing → Growth
We are not forcing the body to change.
We are listening deeply enough that change can arise on its own.
When the Central Nervous System Reveals What It Knows
Last night, a patient shared an experience that unfolded not in my office, but within the intelligence of his own body.
He wrote:
“I just had a life-changing experience, man. I reflected on what we were talking about earlier, and suddenly my body began moving into a deep respiratory wave on its own.
I laid down because the waves were so intense, and then my body shifted into a somatopsychic wave. I reached a point where I could breathe through my entire body—feet to head—my spine pulsating with each breath. I literally felt my left leg elongate as I was doing it.”
And then he said:
“Love you, man. Your work is a miracle. What you offer people and how you help is truly priceless. You changed my life, Dr. Larry. You are so appreciated!”
Moments like this are profoundly humbling.
Because what we are witnessing is not something being done to the patient. It is something the nervous system has been waiting to do once the conditions for safety and coherence are present.
The Real Miracle
The miracle is not the wave.
Not the breath.
Not even the release of pain.
The real miracle is reconnection and reorganization.
When someone can feel their body again… breathe through the full length of their spine… sense movement where there was once contraction…
They are no longer living in the past. They are reorganizing toward their intended future.
This is the essence of Reorganizational Healing through Network Spinal — and why this work still feels sacred to me after more than four decades in practice.
A Quiet Truth
Reorganizational Healing rarely announces itself loudly.
Sometimes it arrives as a deeper breath…
a softening spine…
a wave traveling from feet to head…
and the gentle realization:
“Nothing was ever truly broken. My body was protecting me. And now… it remembers how to live.”
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Stern Chiropractic Integrative Wellness, P.C.
121 Smith Ave
Mt Kisco, NY 10549