“Why is acupuncture so relaxing?”
I am a 30 year old male I want to know why is acupuncture so relaxing?
21 Answers
Release endorphins
Acupuncture causes you to feel relaxed because it is rebalancing and reharmonizing your body systems. This is a very normal response to acupuncture and sometimes massage.
I encourage you to book a session with your practitioner of choice to get help with relief.
The mechanism is very complicated. In Chinese Medicine emotion is not only related nerve system but also related to liver, heart and sleep functions etc. Each acupoint can acts on multiple organs at the same time. In modern words, Acupuncture can regulate and adjust the level of multiple neurotransmitter and hormones, resulting in profound effects on nerve system and multiple other organs at the same time.
Acupuncture uses your body's internal mechanisms to bring relief. When the fine needles stimulate nerves under the skin, the nerve sends a message to the brain, telling it to release our natural pain killers, called endorphins. These natural brain chemicals cause us to relax and feel euphoric or happy
Because you have a good acupuncturist who knows what he/she is doing.
It is so relaxing because it increases serotonin, dopamine and other endorphin levels in the body, causing stress on the body to reduce.
Current research has found that acupuncture will stimulate beta endorphins, a 'feel good' chemical, in the brain and tells the body to heal itself. Other research has shown that acupuncture is very similar to massage therapy in terms of their effect on muscles: like massages, acupuncture can help the muscles release alpha adenosine, chemicals that help the muscles relax, only because the filiform acupuncture needles are inserted they have a micro-cellular level approach meaning they are effective on a deeper level. Please check with your primary if you would be a good candidate for alternative medicine.
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Michael
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Michael
Lots of reasons, like a comfortable place to lay or sit quietly by itself is relaxing. Add in a treatment that upregulates the parasympathetic nervous system and you have a perfect recipe for a restoring session!
In order to understand why acupuncture is so relaxing, we have to understand body mechanisms. In short, the body is normally in a parasympathetic phase. This is a fight or flight reaction to stress. It can show up in the form of nervousness and inability to relax. Acupuncture helps create a parasympathetic shift, into a rest and relax mode, for optimal healing!
Acupuncture balances our neurotransmitters.
Acupuncture releases a lot of the "feel-good" hormones like endorphins and serotonin, which contribute to the sense of relaxation.
Acupuncture helps the parasympathetic nervous system to activate, which is your rest and relaxation phase. It allows for the body to relax & promote healing and rejuvenation.
Acupuncture stimulates the messaging system of our cells, sending data to the area of the brain that releases our natural feel good neurotransmitters called endorphins.
Because acupuncture can release neurotransmitters such as serotonin from the brain to calm you down.
Because it's changing your body from a sympathetic nervous state to a parasympathetic nervous state. Meaning it stops the "fight or flight" respose. It also releases endorphins and can change your brain function to a state similar to what is achieved through meditation.
Mr. Anthony James Lorenzo
Acupuncturist
Because relaxed states are when the body heals and digests properly... and it is a true system of healing.
Acupuncture can promote the secretion of endorphins in the brain, so that our worries can be quickly relieved and it also can promote blood circulation .
In Chinese medicine, there is an emotion associated with every organ, so as we treat the physical body we are also treating the emotional body. It's amazing how relaxed that can make you feel.
Some studies state that acupuncture stimulate the limbic system. The limbic system deal with emotions and memory. It regulates autonomic or endocrine function in response to emotional stimuli. On top of this metabolic response to acupuncture, we make sure that you will be in a safe, all inclusive environment that will help you unwind and relax.
Here is a link to a study:
Acupuncture modulates the limbic system and subcortical gray structures of the human brain https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/%28SICI%291097-0193%282000%299%3A1%3C13%3A%3AAID-HBM2%3E3.0.CO%3B2-F
Here is a link to a study:
Acupuncture modulates the limbic system and subcortical gray structures of the human brain https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/%28SICI%291097-0193%282000%299%3A1%3C13%3A%3AAID-HBM2%3E3.0.CO%3B2-F
Good question. In order to answer it, I need to explain a bit about the human nervous system and how it works.
The human nervous system has multiple different divisions but for the purposes here, we need to consider the autonomic system. This is the part of the nervous system over which we don't usually exert too much conscious control. The autonomic system has 2 main sub-divisions: the sympathetic and the parasympathetic,
The sympathetic nervous system is sometimes described as the 'fight or flight' portion of the autonomic nervous system. The main neurotransmitter here is epinephrin/norepinephrin (adrenalin), and the system functions in such a way as to prepare the body to fight something or run away from it. Blood is diverted away from internal organs to the muscles of the limbs, blood pressure is increased, pupils are dilated along with a number of other physiological effects which function in the aggregate to either fight or flee.
The parasympathetic system, on the other hand, operates in opposition to the sympathetic. This system is usually referred to as the 'rest and digest' system and its main neurotransmitter is acetylcholine. When this system is activated blood is diverted from the limbs to the internal organs, pupils are constricted, gastrointestinal sphincters relax and a host of other physiological effects that put one in a more subdued mode.
What acupuncture does is force a person into a parasympathetic state.
The human nervous system has multiple different divisions but for the purposes here, we need to consider the autonomic system. This is the part of the nervous system over which we don't usually exert too much conscious control. The autonomic system has 2 main sub-divisions: the sympathetic and the parasympathetic,
The sympathetic nervous system is sometimes described as the 'fight or flight' portion of the autonomic nervous system. The main neurotransmitter here is epinephrin/norepinephrin (adrenalin), and the system functions in such a way as to prepare the body to fight something or run away from it. Blood is diverted away from internal organs to the muscles of the limbs, blood pressure is increased, pupils are dilated along with a number of other physiological effects which function in the aggregate to either fight or flee.
The parasympathetic system, on the other hand, operates in opposition to the sympathetic. This system is usually referred to as the 'rest and digest' system and its main neurotransmitter is acetylcholine. When this system is activated blood is diverted from the limbs to the internal organs, pupils are constricted, gastrointestinal sphincters relax and a host of other physiological effects that put one in a more subdued mode.
What acupuncture does is force a person into a parasympathetic state.
