We use two approaches
✬ Indirect technique
✬ Direct technique
It is through a combination of indirect and direct technique that restrictions can be assisted to release.
INDIRECT TECHNIQUE
Indirect technique requires the skill of being able to follow the body to the point of restriction.
FOLLOWING
Following the Body is a skill that takes a lot of practice to get proficient at. Without getting too flowery about it, it’s a bit like singing along to a song. It requires you to keep in time and in tune so that your singing harmonises with the music. The combination of the music and your singing produces something more than the individual components.
If you put your body in a flotation tank it will generally start to move because when your body has a gravity free environment it begins to unravel.
Like a piece of cellophane that has been you crinkled up in your hands. When you let it go it begins to unravel.
Following the body means providing this gravity free environment in which the body begins to move. The skill comes in following the dance.
Indirect technique is a process of Unlatching.
You are at a door that is locked. There is a key in the lock but when you try to turn it the key is stuck. You lean your weight against the door, pushing it even further closed knowing this will give the barrel of the lock the space it needs to turn.
While pushing the door in, you try the key again and it turns freely.
You release the door and it springs open.
Indirect technique works in a similar way. It is one of the gems of the cranio sacral approach. It takes the view that substantial permanent release can be achieved by following the body into the pattern of restriction.
If one of my vertebrae has been displaced to the left by a trauma, a whole pattern will have been established around the vertebrae that will keep it displaced to the left.
No amount of pushing to the right is going to keep the vertebrae in line permanently. If that approach is taken the vertebrae will keep ‘popping out’ and will need to be ‘put back in’ with increasing regularity.
A permanent release and subsequent realignment can be achieved by following the vertebrae into the pattern of restriction, that is to the left. At the point of the trauma the restriction will release and the vertebrae will return to alignment naturally.
Indirect technique, going with the restriction pattern.
DIRECT TECHNIQUE
Direct technique is used when indirect technique fails to achieve a release. The restriction pattern has been felt and the therapist knows the structure needs to release in a certain direction. Direct technique is moving in that direction against the restriction.
Direct technique works because of another gem of the cranio sacral approach; a little pressure over a long period of time can move mountains.
You have just made a peanut butter sandwich. You suddenly decide you want to put jam in your sandwich too. If you pull the pieces of bread apart too quickly you will tear them. But if you apply a small amount of pressure and wait, the two pieces of bread will come apart in time.
You are in a lake. In front of you is a huge yacht. You have to move it 200m from one jetty to another. You run at the boat and push it with all your strength. (Not easy when you are waist deep in water holding a peanut butter sandwich.) The boat hardly moves. Luckily you are a trained cranio sacral therapist and you apply direct technique. You place your index finger against the boat, applying a small amount of pressure and you wait. In time you will see that this huge boat has moved and if you continue you will cover the 200m in no time.
Direct technique, going against the restriction pattern.
Every interaction that occurs between a cranio sacral therapist and the person you are treating follows the same general outline.
❍ Tuning in to yourself and then the patient
Tuning in means being open to receive whatever the person’s system wants to reveal to you. Tuning in is making yourself available for communication.
It is important to approach the person with as little going on inside yourself as possible. Our thinking is often unconscious to us. We need to tune into ourselves (make it conscious) to see what is going on in there before we approach another.
As we tune into ourselves we can drop as much tension in our bodies and unnecessary thinking as possible. Once we have
made a ‘blank slate’ of ourselves we can then approach the person and tune in to them.
❍ Following the body
This is giving the body the space in which to move and the sensitivity to follow it.
❍ Holding Against Restrictions
Following is important but it will be pointless if the therapist doesn’t identify the restriction and hold against them at the right time.
❍ Waiting for Release
It is vital to allow the body time to release in. You may find yourself in an awkward position or just get bored, but you must wait on the body, trusting that it will release.
❍ Following through
Following through is continuing to follow the dance once the release has occurred. It means avoiding just plonking the limb or whatever part of the body you are working on, back on the table when you are finished.
❍ Reassessing
This means standing back and looking at the bigger picture in the light of the new release you have helped to achieve. What difference has it made? What does that difference prompt you to do next?
The above goes on in the larger scale of the whole treatment program, in each session, in each technique and in each release within each technique.
So the fundamental cranio sacral treatment approach is
❍ Tuning in to yourself and then the person
❍ Following the body
❍ Holding against Restrictions
❍ Waiting for Release
❍ Following through
❍ Reassessing
In the video above I go through the difference between Attention and Intention and how we use intention in craniosacral therapy.
Here are some other aspects of intention to consider. We use intention to help restrictions release. Intention has the potential to sound almost mystical. Particularly when the therapist works on the head from the feet, which can happen from time to
time. Intention is similar to attention but includes intent.
You are in a forest. A young boy is hiding behind a tree about 1 meter away from you. 10 meter in front of him you can see a young girl whom you suspect is his sister. She is hiding behind another tree. In the distance you can see their father looking for them. You are enjoying the reactions of the children in their game of hide and seek.
What you are using in the forest is your attention.
You look at the boy close to you, then the girl in the middle distance and then the father in the distance. When you are looking at the girl you are aware of the boy and his father, because they are all in your line of sight, but your attention is on the girl. The same when you look at the boy or his father.
Attention has no intent in it. It is simply the focus of your observation. With intention we are talking about the focus of our palpation. What level or depth you are working in the person’s body. Like the princess and the pea, we feel through all the mattresses (layers of fascia) to the pea (restriction) at the bottom.
You are six years old. Your grandmother has sent you a Christmas gift in the mail. Your parents place it under the Christmas tree and say you can’t open it until Christmas morning. As soon as you are alone you pick up the package and start to feel it. It feels like it might be a doll. But Granny has wrapped the doll in something before she put the wrapping paper on. It feels like bubble wrap. It is kind of squeaky and plasticy.
You are palpating through two layers now, the wrapping paper and the bubble wrap.
Opps! You have popped the dolls leg out accidentally. You can feel it through the dolls clothing. (That’s three layers you are palpating through.)
After some wriggling and squiggling you manage to get the dolls leg back in its socket. You have done this without ever contacting the dolls leg directly. You have used a form of intention to put the dolls leg back in place.
In Cranio Sacral Therapy we use our intention in a similar way to help structures to release, that are impossible to contact directly.
You can read my answer to a question about intention in the newsletter archive here.
You are in the fruit and veg department of the supermarket. You pull a bag from the roll provided. You are talking to your friend as you try to open the bag. You rub the end of the bag between your thumb and finger. After a couple of attempts you realise that you are trying to open the wrong end of the bag. If you look closely at where you have been trying to open the bag, you will see that your thumb and finger have left an imprint in the bag. You could say there is a pattern of restriction in the bag. If you smoothed out the imprint as best you could, you would still not be able to get the fine creases out of the plastic.
This is similar to the way restriction patterns are formed. The body undergoes a trauma of some kind. Let us say a car accident. The impact of the steering wheel on the body puts a large pattern of trauma in the body. Broken bones, lacerations etc. The body can release much of the pattern of restriction but it may not be able to release the entire pattern (the fine creases in the plastic). The residual pattern of restriction is what causes the symptoms that the person comes to you for help with.
You might wonder why these patterns of restriction are not detected and treated with expensive machinery, like MRI machines. Also how could such small residual patterns of restriction be so devastating?
To get an idea of what goes on in the body think of fascia as being like 20 layers of glad wrap one on top of another with a thin layer of fluid between each layer. When your body is functioning normally each layer glides over the next. If you poked your finger into the middle of those layers the imprint left by your finger would totally compromise the glad wrap’s ability to move one layer over the other. Take the above small analogy and multiply it by 1,000 and you will begin to get an idea of the effect patterns of restriction can have in the body. The machines are good but they are not looking for widespread minute restrictions.
Patterns of restriction are often wide spread but like anything that is creased, some parts are more creased than others. They are called focal points, trauma focuses or energy cysts.
Patterns of trauma are usually complex because the body moves as it is impacted. So in the example above the person would not have a steering wheel shaped pattern of restriction imprinted in the area of their body where they struck the steering wheel. The pattern of restriction will include the way their body moved as it was thrown around in the accident.
If you have ever seen crash simulations using dummies you will know that they move around a lot during the impact.
Also to be considered is the depth the pattern is imprinted in the body.
You have a large bowl of jelly and a ball bearing. You hold the ball bearing 5cms above the surface of the jelly and let it fall. It hardly breaks the surface of the jelly. You retrieve the ball bearing and drop it into the jelly from a height of 1 meter. The ball bearing has now embedded itself into the jelly to quite a depth.
With patterns of restriction the greater the force of the trauma the deeper into the body it is imprinted.
EMOTIONS
Emotional trauma also lodges in the body and can cause restrictions equal in severity to patterns of restriction formed in a purely physical way.
You are six years old. You are walking past a building site. A brick falls off the scaffold and hits you on the shoulder breaking your clavicle. 40 years later you have frozen shoulder.
You are six years old. Your father is angrily telling you that you are stupid. As he does this he taps you on the shoulder with his finger to make the point. 40 years later you have frozen shoulder.
The memory of these events may not be in the conscious mind, but stored in the cells of our bodies. In the course of a Cranio Sacral session these memories can spring into the conscious mind as patterns of restriction are releasing.
TISSUE MEMORY
If you find the notion of ‘Tissue Memory’ difficult to accept, think of it this way; videotape is made of plastic with iron filings stuck on its surface. There is nothing too amazing about that, yet when the videotape is played through the VCR and we watch the film, we laugh and cry and become emotionally engaged. The cells in our bodies are a lot more complex than videotape. They store an incredible amount of information and perform a mind boggling number of tasks every second, it is very plausible that they can also store individual memory.
TRAUMA RELEASE
Patterns of restriction release when the body returns to the position it was in when the trauma was imprinted. For example if a person’s frozen shoulder was caused years before by their arm being violently. Then the pattern of restriction resulting from that trauma will release when the arm is in the exact position it was in when the trauma occurred, in this case bent backwards.
When the body returns to the exact position that the trauma occurred in, a spontaneous release occurs.
It would be practically impossible for the therapist to find the exact body position a particular trauma occurred in based on the person’s memory and external guesswork. Luckily for us we don’t need to work it out because the body remembers. The cranio sacral therapist tunes into the body and allows it to move. With skillful following the body will lead the therapist to the point where the trauma occurred.
The cranio sacral therapist uses the body’s memory of the trauma and follows it knowing that with timely and appropriate assistance it will release it’s own restrictions.
We will go into patterns of restriction in great depth as your training progresses. For now, knowledge of patterns of restriction will give an appreciation of what you have at your fingertips as you practice.
*As with all anatomy I suggest you search for each new term on google then click on the ‘Images’ tab at the top of the page. Look at as many different pictures of each structure, from as many different angles as you can. Then look at it on the Visible Body. This will help you get a 3 dimensional image of the structure in your head.
The cranio sacral system is a physiological system within the body. Along with the Respiratory and Cardio-Vascular systems, it forms one of the three primary life systems.
The Cranio Sacral System consists of -
❍ Fluids
❍ Membranes
❍ Fascia
❍ Bones
Each is a recognised anatomical structure but outside Cranio Sacral Therapy they are not treated as one integrated system.
CEREBRO SPINAL FLUID
A clear colourless fluid which surrounds and bathes the central nervous system, creating the environment within which the brain and spinal cord grow, develop and function. It provides nutrition and drainage for the brain and spinal Cord also. It is in continuous motion, as any stagnation would undermine the brain and nervous
system.
Cerebro spinal Fluid is produced in hollow spaces at the centre of the brain called ventricles and circulates throughout the membrane system.
THE MEMBRANE SYSTEM
Containing the cerebrospinal fluid is a tough waterproof sack made up of three membranous layers called the meninges which surround the brain and spinal cord. The meninges have horizontal infoldings in the cranium which separate the cerebrum from the cerebellum called the Tentorium Cerebelli and a vertical infolding called the Falx Cerebri and Falx Cerebelli which divide the right and left hemispheres of the Cerebrum and cerebellum respectively.
THE FASCIA
Fascia is a connective tissue which forms a continuous sheath throughout the body from the top of the head to the soles of the feet. It envelops every organ, nerve, blood vessel, muscle and indeed every structure throughout the body.
This continuous fascial sheath forms a close connection to the meninges at the point where each peripheral nerve emanates from the spinal cord. As the spinal nerves penetrate the Dura they pull some of the Dura with them and this blends into the fascial sheath which covers the spinal nerve on its journey. This transition point from membrane to fascia is called the epineurium. It is one of the ways the Cranio Sacral Rhythm is translated to the rest of the body
BONES
The meninges are closely attached to the bones of the Cranium and also to the 2nd and 3rd Cervical Vertebrae (C2 and C3) and to the Sacrum and Coccyx. The outer layer of the Dura is so closely attached to the bones of the Cranium that it forms a periosteum or inner lining to these bones.
Consequently, all the bones to which the membranes attach must inevitably follow any motion exhibited by the membrane, expanding and contracting in accordance with the membrane and reflecting every pull or tension within the membrane system.
Below is the course syllabus from the Diploma of Cranio Sacral
Therapy that I developed and taught at the Australian Institute
of Cranio Sacral Therapy when it was in existence.
The diploma was accredited with the government and was
recognized as a tertiary level qualification. It will give you an
idea of the areas covered and the level of training that therapists
who have graduated from the institute achieved.
It took 2 years to complete the diploma and it was divided
into 6 trimesters. Because it was a vocational qualification
it used what is called competency based learning. Which means
that ever technique and theory that was taught was assessed.
TRIMESTER ONE The cranio sacral system & treatment cst 001
Flexion and extension
The ventricular system
Fascia
The Membrane system
Bones of the cranio sacral system
Venous sinuses
Principle of still point induction
Direct and indirect technique
Contraindications
Palpation 1 cst 002
Tuning into patients body
Assessment of Symmetry
Amplitude and Quality
Using the listening posts of the body in treatment
Directional terminology
Restriction release (limbs) cst 003
Tissue memory and its role in Cranio Sacral Therapy
Principles of release
Limb articulation
Limb release
Releasing the sacroiliac joint
Transverse sites and their release
Emotional factors in the releasing process
Cranial mobility techniques 1 cst 004
Frontal bone release
Parietal bones release
Temporal bones release
Spheno basilar synchrondrosis compression and decompression
The Sacrum
Releasing the atlanto-occipital joint
Still point induction from the occiput
Dural tube release from the occiput
TRIMESTER TWO
Vertical membrane techniques cst 005
Anatomy of the vertebral column
Dural tube release from the sacrum
Enhancing the cranio sacral rhythm from the sacrum
Falx release
Releasing the dural tube using double contacts
Nervous system 1 cst 006
Structure of a neuron
Basic divisions within the nervous system
Somatic nerve supply
Location and clinical significance of somatic nerve plexi
Palpation 2 cst 008
Identifying the primary lesion
Assessing the pelvic girdle
The therapeutic nature and use of energy
Cranial mobility techniques 2 cst 009
Accessing and treating the sphenobasilar synchrondrosis for flexion/extension – side bending – torsion – lateral sheer – vertical sheer and compression lesions
Mastoid tip compression
Case history management cst 010
Recording information for case histories
Using a diagnostic body map
Utilising case history data as a diagnostic tool
Maintaining a treatment record system
Employing active listening skills
Observing nonverbal communication
TRIMESTER THREE
Nervous system 2 cst 011
The Autonomic nervous system
The sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system
Location of the major plexi and ganglia of the autonomic nervous system
Using the iris to assist in diagnosis of sympathetic /parasympathetic dominance
Facial and throat treatment cst 012
Anatomy of the face
Treatment of dysfunctions of the face and throat
Palpating the cranial movement in the face
Releasing bones and soft tissues of the face and throat
The significance of the orbit
Advanced diagnostics cst 013
Using the symbology of the body in diagnosis
Recognising the significance of still points
Enhancing perception
Working in conjunction with another cranio sacral therapist
Personal development 1 cst 014
Identifying personal obstacles to compassion
Recognising the significance of personal obstacles to compassion
Personal analysis of internal emotion and reactions
Evaluating personal strengths and weaknesses
TRIMESTER FOUR
Inner stillness cst 015
Using meditation as a vehicle to observe the mind
Developing deeper awareness of the body
Tracking thoughts
Differentiating between assumptions and facts
Maintaining stillness in activity
Dealing with the mechanism of worry
Bringing stillness to the workplace
Therapeutic inquiry cst 016
The principles of therapeutic inquiry
The importance of non-leading questions in therapeutic inquiry
Assisting clients to invoke internal images
Verbal communication with the intelligence of the clients body
Conducting a therapeutic inquiry
The dynamics of resolution
Cranial nerves cst 017
Overview of brain function
The 12 cranial nerves – their pathways, structure, function and possible sites of restriction
The foramina in the cranium that relate to the cranial nerves
Personal development 2 cst 018
Utilising feedback from external sources
Recognising opportunities to give and /or receive
Becoming more authentic
Discerning the value of feedback in relation to its source
TRIMESTER FIVE
Pregnancy and children cst 019
Embryonic development
Stages of labour and the birth process
Treatment of babies and children
General pathologies in children
Reflexes in babies and children
Considerations in treating children
Treatment during pregnancy and post partum for the mother
Viscera and glands cst 020
Overview of the organs and structures of the viscera
Individual attention to each structure in relation to location, function, related structures, nerve supply, energetic tendencies and pathologies
Overview of the endocrine system with attention to each gland in relation to location, function, related structures, nerve supply, energetic tendencies and pathologies
Abdominal release cst 021
Palpation of the abdomen with intention and hands
Umbilical shock
Releasing abdominal restrictions
Contra indications in abdominal release
The emotional factors associated with abdominal release
Multi-practitioner techniques cst 022
Working in a 3-5 person therapeutic team
Using therapeutic inquiry in a multi-person treatment
Leading and following within a therapeutic team
Leadership skills
Synchronising cranio sacral rhythms
Merging intentions
Verbal and non-verbal communication within a therapeutic team
Palpation 3 cst 023
Using therapeutic feedback from fellow practitioners to refine palpation
Including the opposed model of motion in palpation
Methods of expanding palpatory intention
Dynamics of cranial rhythm merging
Personal development 3 cst 024
Recognising personal projections onto clients
Mechanisms of projection
Recognising projection from clients
Analysing optimum personal performance parameters in therapists and clients
TRIMESTER SIX
Full body release cst 025
Establishing a clinical environment for full body release
Dynamics of full body release
Leading a therapeutic team in full body release
Recognition of contra-indications for full body release
Including therapeutic inquiry
Including knowledge of birth process in adult release, personal fitness and strength
Advanced techniques cst 026
Overview of the lymphatic system
Lymphatic pumping from the feet and thorax
Enhancing cerebral drainage
Business practices cst 027
Clarifying success parameters
Marketing and advertising a cranio sacral practice
Insurance
Business registration
Basic accounting
Ethics
Health and safety
Hello,
It turns out imaginary friends are good for
kids. Well not bad at any rate. Apparently kids
can use them as a practice ground for
relationships.
“There is an amount of control over a
relationship with an imaginary friend that you
don’t have with a real friend.” says Stephanie
Carlson, a psychologist at the University of
Washington.
Something I didn’t realise was that a lot of
imaginary friends are actually enemies. But
that’s good too.
“Children who have imaginary enemies are better
able to take on the idea that other people have
opinions and desires than you.”
In addition, naughty friends test parents
reactions, and come in handy as an ever-trusty
scapegoat, when kids misbehave themselves.
So next time parents tell you that their child
has imaginary friends it’s not necessarily a bad
thing.
If you were one of the many people who wrote to
me to let me know that the link to the back issues
of this newsletter didn’t work, I just want to
tell you that it wasn’t my fault.
The link I typed in worked but Timmy changed
it.
No I didn’t.
Yes he did. He tells lies too. Big fibber.
Not me, him.
Whatev-er.
Anyhu, on with the mailbag.
***QUESTION***
Dear Mr Dalton,
I receive your newsletters gratefully and with interest. I have also
read your book and found it excellent, both for myself and my patients.
In a number of your responses to questions you have referred to
‘Intention’.
I have heard and read about intention from different sources
but I am curious to know what it means to you.
Can you explain exactly what you mean by intention and how it is used.
Kind regards.
EM
Melbourne.
>>>MY COMMENTS:
I’ve had a few letters like yours over the months so I’m going to
address it in detail.
To explain how intention works we need to take a little trip through
quantum physics. Let’s take your common or garden subatomic particle.
The thing about subatomic particles is they need heat to move.
The more heat, the more they move. So if you remove all the heat
there should be no movement.
Or so you would think.
What physicists have found is that even at absolute zero,
that’s really cold to you and me, there is still some movement.
The subatomic particles keep passing little parcels of energy back
and forth between themselves.
So your empty space is not so completely empty after all. It turns
out it is full of energy. Physicists call it the ‘Zero point field.’
The idea is that if the universe were cooled down to absolute zero
and all particle movement was frozen out, this energy would still remain.
This is not your normal quantum physics stuff, with train ‘A’
traveling at a certain speed and someone throwing a ball out
the window and depending on where you are standing and
so on and so forth and what’s on telly tonight anyway, yawn.
No, this is not just theoretical. There are scientists, like Dr Hal Puthoff,
working to find ways of harnessing this energy right now.
To give you an idea of how much energy we are talking about.
If you and I were standing one metre apart there would be enough
energy in the ‘empty space’ between us to boil all the oceans on the planet.
Not that you’d want to. Enough to make a cup of tea would be
fine for me but you get the idea.
This energy is common to ALL particles which means they are ALL at it.
Passing energy parcels back and forth to each other and because of it
they are ALL connected. That’s why the physicists call it a field.
It means ALL subatomic particles are connected in a HUGE field
that connects EVERYTHING together.
Together now ‘We are the world.’ Everybody! ‘We are the children. . .’
Suit yourself.
This, everything being connected idea, is no news to most of the
older philosophies. I’m told a lot of Buddhists go to quantum
physics symposiums just so they can sit in the front row with
a smug, ‘I told you so.’ look on their faces.
What is exciting about now is that our science is finally getting
around to the view that all is one and one is all.
The other thing to know about subatomic particles is that they
don’t exist as a thing, as such. They exist as a potential of a thing.
Kind of like a neurotic friend I used to have, who, when introducing
himself to women he was interested in, would say ‘Hi my name is
Mark and if you don’t like me. . . .I’ll change.’
Subatomic particles have the potential to be many different things
but are none and all of these things simultaneously. They only
become one specific thing when something particular happens.
And that particular thing is usually wearing a white coat. Yes,
you’ve guessed it, it’s our old friend the observer. As soon as the
observer shows up and takes a measurement or makes an
observation the subatomic particle becomes a specific.
That the presence of the observer affects the outcome has been
known since the beginning of quantum physics. Niels Bohr,
one of the granddaddies of quantum physics, would frequently
throw a tantrum if Albert Einstein ever came in to observe his experiments.
That was a quantum physics joke.
Observing the experiment . . . . never mind.
What has been happening lately is the physicists have been asking
the next questions, questions like. . .
If subatomic particles only exist as potential till we show up,
are we in fact creating what they become?
If we are creating what they are, does that mean we create our
own reality?
If we are creating our reality can we influence that creation?
How does consciousness affect matter?
Bloody good questions, if you ask me and I’ll buy the next round of drinks.
And here’s Fritz Albert Popp from Germany, he has figured out
that DNA in its structure, is essentially a crystal and, like a quartz
crystal, for example, produces a highly coherent signal or field.
This DNA emission is known as a biophoton. Put another way,
it is light produced within the cell.
There is a direct link between the light the cell produces and the
activity of the matter in the cell. Not only that but the light or
field of each cell is in communication with every other cell in
the organism. This means the whole organism KNOWS what every
cell is doing and every cell KNOWS what every other cell KNOWS
at the same time.
Freaky, No?
Now how does all this quantum mumbo jumbo amount to a hill
of beans when it comes to intention?
Well, quite a bit actually. First of all it adds a whole new level
to the reciprocal nature of the system. Not only are all structures,
big and small, connected through the fascia, everything is also
connected at a subatomic level through the zero point field,
and all the energy in it, and also through the interconnected
biophoton fields of each cell in the body.
All that stuff could be going on all the time and you would never
be the wiser. It becomes incredibly powerful when you know you
can influence it with your consciousness.
Put simply, it means that what you think about has a direct
influence on what you are thinking about.
It means that when you have your hands on a person’s ankles
and you are thinking about their sphenoid, for example, you
are actually CONNECTED to that person’s sphenoid.
It’s not just in your imagination, it is REAL.
If you feel like their sphenoid is restricted it’s because you’re
feeling it through the fascia AND through the interconnected
biophoton fields of the cells AND through the zero point field.
It means that if you feel the person’s sphenoid needs support
as it goes into a restriction pattern and you think of holding it
into the lesion pattern your thought ACTUALLY holds it into the
lesion pattern as sure as if you had your hands inside the persons
head and were holding the sphenoid in your hands.
It means that your intention is capable of doing whatever you
THINK of. Not only is it as adaptable as your thinking it also has
access to unlimited power to accomplish whatever you are
working to achieve.
The only limitation on what you can do with your intention
is the limitation you think is on your intention.
Think about that,
. . . but don’t sprain anything.
