Welcome to the Network Center for Healing & Wellness
Our mission is to help you connect to the energy that heals, inspires, and gives you life.
There are many reasons why people seek care at our center and continue their journey for months, years, and even decades. What they share is that when they connect to “the energy,” they feel better. And when they stay connected, they feel good and live a richer, more fulfilling life.
So what is this energy? It’s the unseen and unbound energy that’s the source of...everything. It heals us. It creates and sustains life. It’s where inspiration and creativity come from. The energy supports us as we navigate the difficulties, hardships, stresses, and challenges throughout our journey of life.
our inspiration
During my 30+ years in practice, I have observed that when people connect to the energy, they get relief from back and neck pain and experience better functioning of their nervous system and the organs that it controls. They have a stronger immune system and get sick less often. I see that people are better able to handle life’s stresses and challenges, and amazingly, their whole outlook on life often changes. They are released from being in fight-or-flight, liberated from feeling stuck, frustrated, and defensive, and experience more flow, stronger presence, and a sense of “resting in being.”
Connecting to this unseen energy seems to help them whether they are struggling physically, mentally, or emotionally.
OUR APPROACH
We use Network Spinal as our means of helping you connect to the energy. A Network Session is a relaxing and enjoyable experience. A session usually begins with you lying face down, fully clothed, as I analyze your spine and your energetic systems. I use gentle contacts to points along the spine that act as an interface between the unseen energy and the parts of you that are in need of healing. This connection causes a reorganization of your body and mind that liberates the tightly bound energy and tension. As you connect, stress melts away, your mind and body relax, and a sense of wellbeing emerges.
And… it doesn’t end there. We then help you learn how to stay connected to the energy between sessions by helping you learn to master the art of Living Energy Rich.
Dr. Andy Witt
OUR NETWORK CENTER
Our Center is a place where you’re seen as a whole person. You’re not a condition, disease, or a case. You are not a “patient” that we are treating. Most of the members of our practice are referrals, which makes you a friend of a friend and that’s how you are treated.
Our warm, bright, sunny office is a reflection of this mindset.
We are located in Upper Montclair, NJ with plenty of parking and ADA access.
The network spinal session
To better understand how a Network Spinal session and Living Energy Rich helps you, consider the following:
Ever wake up and have a low-energy day, where you’re dragging and just not feeling up to it? If you had a list of 10 things you absolutely had to do that day, you’d be overwhelmed before you even started and might not even want to get out of bed. The thought of the list you have to do and the possibility of not completing it would cause you to tighten up in defense and make the list seem even worse. Alternatively, if you woke up in a great mood with tons of energy, you would tackle the items on your list, looking forward to getting them done and out of the way.
The important idea is that it’s the same list, just experienced differently depending on our energy state. The list represents the different events in your life. If your energy was low when you experienced an event, you may consider it to be traumatic or at least overwhelmingly stressful, causing the defense reaction to it. In a higher energy state, you may feel like, “That was a horrible and very challenging event,” but not an overwhelming experience that would put you in fight-or-flight and create defense physiology. In other words, you move from This is too much to I got this, and release the defense.
By connecting to the Super Energy Richness of the unseen energy during a network session, you increase your energy, changing your experience of the events of your life, and with enough energy, the defense is released and you feel much better.
a metaphor for the network session
Whether you are having a network session or increasing your energy by Living Energy Rich, the following metaphor helps explain the process that occurs:
In an ideal state, we are "loosely bound energy." Our body, mind, and emotions are like water — loose, flowing, flexible, resilient, and adaptable — allowing for a healthy body, a wide range of emotions, and the ability to see many different points of view.
If you lower the energy in water, it becomes ice. The energy is "tightly bound" — rigid, fixed, and unchanging. In this lower energy state, the body is stiff, tight, and prone to injury. The mind's ability to see varied points of view is restricted, and emotions are bound up, leaving a narrow range of experiences. The resiliency, flexibility, and adaptability are gone. The ability to respond appropriately and function normally is lost.
If you take the ice and put it out in the "unbound energy" of the hot sun, it melts and becomes water again — loosely bound energy. This is the healing process experienced when we connect to the unseen energy during Network Spinal session or on our own when we practice Living Energy Rich.
The following clip from Gaia’s movie E-MOTION demonstrates how emotions are repressed and bound in our bodies when we are overwhelmed by stress. Connecting to the energy is the strategy that keeps you from being overwhelmed when stress hits. Being able to handle stress allows you to release it and experience life, health, and well-being more fully.
As seen in the video clip, when you hold emotions, they are held physically in the body, especially in the spine. The neck and lower back are common places where we may be aware that we are holding tension.
This tension makes you stiff, restricted, and prone to injury, even when doing the simplest activities like “picking up a paperclip.”
When the tension is left unresolved, it leads to chronic pain and results in degeneration of the discs and joints of the spine due to the constant pressure it causes.
This process continues until, like the video says, you have a strategy to release the bound up emotions and tension.
connect to the energy, change your life
Having a means to connect and stay connected to the energy is the key to getting and staying healthy while liberating the emotions and traumas that are bound in our body.
The solution to repressed emotions is becoming internally supported, safe, strong and empowered, which is exactly what connecting to the energy does, so that we can experience the emotions without being overwhelmed by the pain.
This is also the strategy to create a fuller and richer experience of our lives. The more we connect to the unlimited source of energy, the more we are able to experience all aspects of life — the “bad” stuff and the “good” stuff — and remain present to it all. This keeps us loose and flowing and in the present moment, which is the key to a happy and fulfilling life.