Reduced resilience to disease can lead to recurrent illness and exhaustion. The immune system can be supported to help defend the body against bacteria and viruses which occur in the environment.

Mr Stefan Chmelik on Reduced resilience

At New Medicine Group we have come to understand and recognise that there is a group of people for whom reduced resilience is the main factor that keeps them unwell and locked in a cycle of chronic illness. Virtually all people with long term and difficult health problems have a reduced resilience.

What does this mean?

Resilience is “The capacity of a system exposed to hazards to adapt, by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. This is determined by the degree to which the system is capable of organising itself to increase its capacity for learning from past disasters for better future protection”.

In simpler terms, someone who lacks resilience finds it both hard to resist illness and to recover from it, due to no fault of their own. There are a number of reasons why this can happen, and they are different in everybody, but they can include constitutional factors, early traumatic experiences or toxic and environmental exposure.

Changing this is not necessarily an easy or fast process, but can be achievable with the right level of consistent support and guidance. Please feel free to send us an email information request for more details abut how we can help.

Liesl D Hinkly on Reduced Resilience

Some of my work involves examining how life impacts you. Whether it’s looking at the impact of running on concrete on your knees or the impact from a childhood illness that you feel like you have never fully recovered from. We need buffers, support, holding and understanding to move through and forward in our lives .We need resilience. Life is unpredictable. We don’t always know what’s coming round the corner. But to reach an unburdened place of lightness both physically and emotionally we might need help to “bounce back” with strength and health. Rolfing can play a complimentary and exiting role in finding your resilience.

Dr Brian Kaplan on Reduced Resilience:

This is big problem for many people. ‘I pick up every cold that my daughter brings home from the nursery’. This is an ideal problem to treat with a whole person orientated approach.

Orthodox Medicine

A few tests can be done to exclude the rare, but important causes of decreased resilience to illness but more often than not, nothing is found.

Homeopathy

A remedy is chosen to stimulate the body to do a better job of defending itself and classical homeopathy is a good choice for dealing with this issue.

Nutrition

A healthy diet and a few well chosen supplements is well capable of leading to increased resilience to illness.

Autogenics

Deep relaxation almost always leads to increased resilience to illness in my experience.

David Peters on Reduced Resilience

Treatment and training that builds resilience

Getting out of the downward spiral might involve metabolism, mind or muscles; though usually all three. Generally a recovery programme has to be long term and will entail nutrition, exercise and psychological techniques. Sometimes this calls for direct treatment, but it always calls for homework, because self-care is often the key to recovery, whether from persistent pain, mood disorder, chronic inflammatory and allergic disease, or long-term digestive disorders like IBS.

However, if you have a long-term health problem, getting advice that works and support on your health-journey will be crucial: being told you have a condition that calls for lifelong medical treatment, can come as a shock and in certain ways it changes how you feel about yourself. Adapting to this new situation isn’t always easy and obvious. If it were you would have found it yourself already!

My aim as a practitioner is to support your wellbeing holistically. This means we have to consider the things that build you up, find your healing resources, help you adapt to the challenges you might be facing. My own approach to treatment of long term health problems generally entails some body-oriented work - osteopathy, craniosacral therapy, acupuncture – which can help release tension and constriction, and perhaps some easy techniques for you to use at home. And if digestion and excretion are not working as well as they should – as is often the case - I might suggest some diet modification and medicines ( herbal and homeopathic) to enhance the body’s natural detoxification processes. In addition, people with long-term health issues generally feel better when the body-mind’s ability to relax deeply is restored, so I might also teach you techniques that encourage this. Mind-body therapies I tend to use include progressive relaxation, the use of healing imagery, mindfulness based stress reduction, meditation and breath-work.

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