Getting in touch with your body and becoming more aware of how you hold yourself in different situations already begin to change the accumulation of stress in your system. As Rolfing frees up those old holding patterns that emotional history may also be released. You become more responsive than reactive, living more in the present than before and acting with more awareness. Note that react means repeat the act, where as respond means act responsibly.

Rolfing is often used in conjunction with other emotionally focussed therapies. As the mind becomes more free and open, it is useful to release the body as well. In fact, the two are one, show me a mind without a body. Even the language we use to describe our emotional states uses gravity. We feel high or low, up or down, things become a drag, heavy, man! We have the weight of the world on our shoulders, we can’t stand on our own two feet, we have lost it.