Zero Balancing at Red Mountain

@RedMountainSpa

By Mark Montgomery,
Acupuncturist and Zero Balancer

Zero Balancing (ZB) is a hands-on bodywork system designed to align your energy body with your physical structure.Simple yet powerful,it focuses on your whole person, even when addressing specific needs. Considered at the leading edge of body/mind therapies, ZB moves beyond Western scientific approaches to body structure by incorporating Eastern concepts of energy and healing. This enables the practitioner to work simultaneously with your structural and energy bodies to bring balance.

Essentially, these two bodies work in concert with one another and with the external world, yet function independently of each other. The structural body is what you can see and touch - bone, soft tissue and all the body organs. The energy body is the seen and unseen movement, including muscular movements, movement of tissue fluids, cellular and molecular vibrations, movement within the body fields, and movement of the life force itself. Your energy body directly affects, and in large part is responsible for, your mood, emotions and vitality. Changes in body energy and its fields usually precede illness and have a causal relation to disease.

It can be useful to think of the structural body as the sail of a boat and the energy body as the wind. At some point the wind meets the sail. When structure and energy are not integrated, you're like a sailor floundering at sea, not "tacked into the winds of life." Life is less satisfying and you're more susceptible to all manner of emotional distress and disease - from simple irritability and headaches to more profound mental or physical symptoms and illnesses.

When structure and energy are balanced, dysfunctional habits, such as outmoded emotional patterns and imprints from past traumas, tend to release. In addition, you're able to function with relative ease, efficiency and comfort, cope with things better, and enjoy greater, more robust health. This is why most people undergoing Zero Balancing report experiencing a sense of fluidity, integration and well-being following a session.

The Zero Balancing process generally takes between 30-40 minutes and is performed with you fully clothed. Using touch, the ZB practitioner evaluates your energy fields and energy flow and balances the structures as needed. He or she may focus on body, mind, spirit,or all three, depending on where the fields are disturbed or the energy is blocked. Throughout the Zero Balancing session, attention is given to the skeleton in particular because it contains the deepest and strongest currents.

Everything in a ZB session is designed to promote maximum relaxation and a sense of well-being.The process is distinguished by a form of touch known as "interface." Gentle and noninvasive, it's pleasant for both the ZB practitioner to give and the client to receive. Some people describe experiencing "expanded awareness," others "tension melting away," and still others say it's like "feeling balanced to zero."

A Zero Balancing session is ideal for helping to prevent and relieve the problems encountered in this harried world we live in. ZB creates a point of stillness where the mind quiets, the energy fields organize and internal reorientation occurs. The process is designed to work in tandem with primary health care, focusing on deep quieting and integration of the body/mind/spirit to promote optimum functioning. ZB is a major adjunct to staying well as you navigate the challenges of life.