"The connective tissue and fascia
form a mechanical continuum, extending throughout the animal body, even
to the innermost parts of each cell. All great systems of the body--the
circulation, the nervous system, themusculo-skeletal system, the digestive
tract, the various organs--are ensheathed in connective tissue. This matrix
determines the overall shape of the organism as well as the detailed architecture
of its parts. All movements, of the body as a whole, or of its smallest
parts, are created by tensions carried through the connective tissue fabric.
Each tension, each compression, each movement causes the crystalline lattices
of the connective tissues to generate bioelectric signals that are precisely
characteristic of those tensions, compressions and movements. The fabric
is a semi-conducting communication network that can convey the bioelectric
signals between every part of the body and every other part. This communication
network within the fascia is none other than the meridian system of Oriental
Medicine, with its countless extensions into every part of the body. As
these signals flow through the tissues, their biomagnetic counterparts extend
the stories they tell into the space around the body. The mechanical, bioelectric,
and biomagnetic signals traveling through the connective tissue, and through
space around the body, tell the various cells how to form and reform the
tissue architecture in response to tensions, compressions, and movement
we make."
James Oschman, Natural Science of Healing |
