NSI uses the proprioceptive system - your senses - to provide sensory input to your ‘brain’, which has receptors all over your body. The motor cortex, after receiving this information, can send signals back to the soft tissue that help to reset the muscle spindle, telling the muscles to let go and prepare to reorganize for new combinations of movement. The muscles act as a gate to the rest of your system, and as a stimulator for your awareness.

Once the soft tissue opens, joints decompress, pressure on nerves is released, proper cell metabolism and energy/nutrient exchange begins to happen almost immediately as the blood and oxygen begin to circulate freely again. Pain and inflammation often decrease within minutes, and the guarding mechanisms relate that it is safe to move freely again.

As the joints become freed up, their new position in space and increased range of motion further signals and reinforces softening of the muscles and connective tissue. It becomes much easier to realign posture so that old compensatory patterns don't reinstate themselves.

At times the compensatory patterns also change the way you walk, meaning that the dysfunction is reinforced with every step you take. When awareness reaches the ways you use your body that contributes to the dysfunction and you have a renewed baseline telling you what 'normal' feels like, your senses can alert you when things begin to slip and you can catch yourself and self-correct. 

In this way, as awareness integrates from the body's own interconnectedness and extends out into how you use it in your daily life, you are empowered to prevent recurrence and the changes can become lasting.

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