Re: More speculations on healing
Prior to a healing session, the "patient's" body is always out of whack. In Hubbard's jargon, the person might have a high tone arm reading and a tight needle. In the occult, I've heard it said that people's chakra's are out of alignment. In my massage technique, several things are ALWAYS present. There are no exceptions ever!! What will always be found are as follows:
#1. The neck and shoulders are very tight, always one side tighter than the other. Often there's a tightness in one's arms, usually in the triceps area.
#2. There is misalignment of various bones, causing stress to be placed on certain muscles which are attempting to restore the body's proper alignment.
#3. In sever cases, the misalignment of bones and muscles will cause a pinched nerve which can be extremely painful.
#4. Typically, one side of the body is not carrying its normal load and the other side is attempting to compensate for that by doing extra duty.
#5. If the practitioner puts his finger on the patients head, he will find several hot spots, not necessarily physically hot but points which are energized in a negative manner.
The area on the back of the skull, just above the nape of the neck will act similarly to an electrical capacitor and will be a storehouse of static electricity.
#6. The patient will be under stress and will have some sort of deficient mental computation going on as to the cause of the stress.
These mental computations fall into several categories, however in every category, the patient will exhibit the phenomena of being pulled strongly in two or more different directions. So far, I have been pretty good at sensing what the patient is thinking. Once I sense it, I ask a generalized type of question such as, "Are you in a situation right now where you have to finish a project at work and also have to finish studying for a test at school and you don't believe both things can be achieved by their deadlines?
If you are not good at picking up on what the person is thinking, that is okay too. You can just ask the patient, "What's going on? or What are you thinking about right now?' If you connect with your patient and they start telling you a lot of personal info, the odds are very high that your session will be short and successful. Sometimes a person either won't talk to you but wants to keep everything a secret or even worse they want to prove you wrong and will do anything to make you fail. If you sense that this is the case, you should just tell them that you can't help them and quickly end off the session and don't make anymore appointments with them.
Assuming things are going well and the patient is freely telling you about his problem, you take great pains to duplicate exactly what he is saying. If you don't fully understand something then ask them for a clarification. Always acknowledge fully every thought or origination which the person shares with you. Keep pressing on the various hot points on the head; sometimes these will shift, some might go cold but others may pop up. Also, every now and then, press on the area just above the nape of the neck. Your goal is to get the trapped static electricity to start flowing our of that area. Once the flow starts, stay with it and if you are grounded to the floor, it is okay for the energy to flow through you and down into the floor and then into the ground. My present patient says that it is better for the practitioner if he/she lets the energy flow out into the surrounding space rather than through his or her body into the floor.
THE END PHENOMENA
Once the energy starts flowing off the head in large quantities, you are near the finish line. You let the patient talk and don't cut his communication. You will see various positive physical manifestations such as improvement in the patient's skin tone and color, a happier mind set, quicker and more animated speech, possibly a grin and sometimes an epiphany. This end point is very important for both parties. As the practitioner, I stop pressing on the head and start looking right at the patient and listening to every word he says. Every now and then I will say Wow! or That's great! Finally when they are done talking, I just tell them that we are going to end off the massage.
TRYING TO SEE MORE CLEARLY WHAT IS GOING ON HERE:
I see a person under stress, usually family related, romance related, job related or money related. The person is being pulled strongly in two or more directions and is coping as best they can. They try hard to right their ship by doing a figure-figure and as far as I know, this always fails. There may be exceptions, certainly it is possible, but I have never encountered one.
As the person sinks more deeply into their problem, despair starts to take hold. Meanwhile, the body's flows are altered and there are jam ups of flows on one or more nerve channels, usually on just one side of the body. The body attempts to fight back by having the better side of the body do extra work so as to attempt to carry the load for the weaker side of the body. This helps a bit and keeps the person able to function for a while longer but the problem is that the good side of the body now has it's flows overloaded and it's flows also start to become stuck.
If this situation were to be carried on indefinitely, the patient might become incapacitated or unable to walk and of course their sleep, digestion of food and their bodily functions start to fail.
Our Western society does make an effort to help a lot of people and they do have many workable tools including standard medicine and chiropractic. I have no beef with Western medicine, use it myself and respect most of those who work in it. All that being said, sometimes a simpler non medical treatment will get fantastic results. Such treatments can be used as stand alone treatments or they can be used in conjunction with standard medicine and/or chiropractic to facilitate the effectiveness of those techniques.
THE MASSAGE COMPONENT OF A TREATMEANT When a person is under stress, the nerve flows and perhaps the lymph flows get blocked. As this happens, one side of the body weakens first and the balanced flow system of the body is upset. Further damage is done when the healthier side of the body attempts to compensate for the weakened side. As the flows become blocked on both sides, muscles, such as calf muscles, may tighten up and this in turn may lead to pinched nerves such as what happens with the sciatic nerve. As all these negative processes take place, certain flows have to go somewhere but since they can't go to their regular destinations they tend to pile up on a person's skull. The trapped energy on one's skull builds up while only a small portion of it is able to escape the body by transferring to the space around the skull.
A BASIC MASSAGE: A good massage, on its own, may be able to restore some of the flows of the body and get things flowing again so as to allow some of thetrapped energy to dissipate. However, the person's stress of being pulled in conflicting directions, the mental component of his ailment, is not addressed by standard massage.
A MASSAGE PLUS A SESSION COMBINED: The session is introduced so as to tackle the area which the massage left untouched.
You have good medical treatments available, good chiropractic treatment and good massage treatment but none of those techs, as good as they are, attempt to go after both the physical component of a body problem and the mental component leading up to it. The 2 treatments above could implement my massage treatment into what they already are doing and they might have a terrific therapy. We know that is not likely to happen. First, it is not scientific enough to be accredited and second, if it was determined that psychological treatment was required, the MD or Chiropractor would have to refer his patient to a Psychiatrist or Psyschologist. With those two mainstream techniques out of the picture, that leaves Massage as the only physical type treatment that I can think of which can be mixed with mental healing techniques to form a new therapy.
THE THEORY OF WHY MASSAGE COMBINED WITH MENTAL THERAPY WORKS
At first, as the patient talks about his problem, bodily flows may improve a little but not that much is happening. Now, out of nowhere, the masseur ACKNOWLEDGES the patient. This is unexpected. None of the other people the patient had told his problem to had ever given a good acknowledgement. Therefore, the patient talks more and again to his surprise the masseur acknowledges even stronger. The patient starts to cheer up, he/she starts to think, maybe this masseur is the expert I was looking for all along; he is the one who will advise me how to solve my problem. The patient then starts talking more and the mass on the person's skull starts to strongly flow off of the skull, down the practitioner's body and into the floor. With this release of mass, the patient suddenly blurts out the solution to his/her problem, on her own. She waits for the practitioner's response, worried that it might be negative. Instead the practitioner loves the patients proposed solution and makes a big fuss about how good it is. At that point, the patient really blows out; she realizes that she was the expert she was always looking for all along. She sees that her earlier attempts to solve her problem were fruitless and made matters only worse but somehow, once all that bad energy was released from her head, she was immediately able to visualize the excellent solution to her stress which she had just figured out on her own!
Looking at it analytically, the person themselves should be the best possible person for solving their own problems. They alone know themselves, know all the other persona involved and know all the other nuances and idiosyncrasies involved so who could possibly be better than the person himself or herself in solving their own problem?
Lakey
Thank you very much, Lakey!
Whoo~Hoo!!! Post 20,000!
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I did find my hat with ear flaps, thank God!
It's a nine days wonder! 
If you won't go to the snow, sometimes the snow will come to you! Even here in So Cal! 
