Up here in Ft. Worth we haven’t had much impact form the storms. I have been asking my clients if they have loved ones in the storms path and no one does so far, keep fingers crossed.
I am one who loves rain, how about you ? Perfect time to give or receive a massage. I have been reading some interesting news form websites who are pointing out that wonderful things happen to the body with a very gentle touch.
Lymph drainage is one of the well known usages of a very light touch. So are the cranial-sacral techniques from Dr. Bowen, Dr. Upledger, Randolph Stone and Dr. Morter (to name a few)
Premie babies gain weight faster and need less medication after surgeries. The non-force chiropractic techniques are of this nature. For a highly trained practitioner to perform these gentle maneuvers they need only be still, and listen to the body and respond accordingly. There is one example I like to give comparing the ability of these healers. It is the idea that there are people in this world who know how to listen or perceive with their senses in a such a heightened manner that you already know and believe in. Perfumers, Sommeliers (wine specialists) and also Forensics experts. These people can differentiate between thousands, yes thousands, of different smells, tastes and combinations.
Sometimes in session, I must take a back-door approach, the elimination method, of discovering what the source of their distress is. More often than not, a person says “I don’t know how or why I feel bad, I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary” I then can be sure that the massage will help even if we don’t get to the real backstory. What is completely true everytime is that they are stressed emotionally which translates to a chemistry imbalance in the body that is positively affected with massage. Their symptoms are going to be relieved to a point.
In closing this long blog today, may I say that if someone comes to me after a fender bender, an extreme physical exertion (pre or post) or an emotional upset, I can share with them an important fact: there are layers and categories of stress in the body that we can address immediately and have wonderful relief and there are the longer term type that may need more attention. Once this is understood, that they are not ONE big ball of stress and pain, that we will release many degrees of anxiety, the healing has begun!
And of course, there are those clients that it is not necessary to talk or discuss or otherwise analyze their condition and we will get a wonderful result too. Which are you?
Warmly,
Hannah