Aug
13
Posted by John Dalton on
August 13, 2008
+ Why does the body return to the position of injury in order to release? - November 05
Hi John
I have a question. In SER the body often returns
to the position of injury either emotional or
physical in order to release the disease (energy
cyst) held there. This fits perfectly with the
founding law of Homoeopathy “like cures like’ or
similia similibus curentur. But I can find no
written explanation for why this law is a law!
What is your experience of why the body holds to
this?. Or does it always?
Thank you.
Lorraine Archer
County Roscommon.
Ireland.
>>>MY COMMENTS:
The principal of ‘like curing like’ is the same
in cranio sacral therapy and homoeopathy but the
mechanics of how the ‘curing’ happens are
different for each.
During cranio sacral therapy the body goes to
the position it was in when the trauma occurred so
that it can reconnect with its underlying
energetic blueprint.
But hang on, I’m getting ahead of myself.
Let’s talk about the blueprint for a minute.
Why do plants, trees, animals etc. grow into
the shape they do? How do the cells in a bone
know to become bone cells?
Currently we are told that the answers to these
questions lie in the mysteries of DNA.
DNA is very cool stuff and remarkable in its
own right. But in time, the limitations of DNA
will reveal themselves. The genome will be mapped
better than Manhattan and these questions will
remain unanswered.
What has yet to be proven is that when a seed
is planted it starts to unfold an energetic
outline or blueprint of the shape it will grow
into and the cells migrate in accordance to the
blueprint. DNA is the executive of this process
and responds to the blueprint.
Think iron fillings, magnet, paper. The magnet
(Blueprint) influences the iron filling (Cells) to
form into a particular shape, the shape of the
magnet. You may not be able to see the magnet
because it is hidden behind the paper but you know
what shape it is by the shape the iron filing are
forming.
Most of the older traditions have identified
different expressions of the blueprint and
represent it in different ways.
In traditional Chinese medicine there are the
meridians. In Ayurvedic medicine there are the
charkas. In Toltec or Mexican shamanism there
are what are called the feathers of the eagle.
The botanist, Rupert Sheldrake has been talking
about this kind of stuff for years, he describes
it in terms of morphic fields.
When a person’s system gets traumatised, the
cells may be displaced but they return to their
original position under the influence of the
underlying blueprint.
As they do this, they have a particular
movement which thankfully for us, is palpable.
The whole process goes to make up the auto repair
mechanism we call a release.
When the trauma won’t release it’s because the
blueprint itself has been bent out of shape.
We learned early on, that given the right
support a body will start to move of it’s own
volition. If we can follow this movement and
know when to hold it, we may be able to facilitate
a release.
That initial movement is the cells of the body
looking for the blue print. When the persons body
returns to the position where the trauma occurred,
the cells and the blueprint reconnect. It’s at
this point that all the different manifestations
of release can occur, pulsations, trembling,
shaking, sweating, crying, laughing and that’s not
to mention what goes on for the patient.
Couldn’t resist.
Once the cells and blueprint reconnect then the
whole system, cells and blueprint, come back into
alignment and harmony.
So as I said it’s a process of re-collection.
Not all bodies need to go into the traumatic
position to release. Sometimes restriction
patterns are very ripe for release and need very
little support to complete the process.
I’ve also found over the years that as I’ve
gotten better at working with the blueprint,
deeper subtleties have revealed themselves.
I find more releases are happening at deeper
levels and require less gross movements on the
surface.
Back to the homoeopathic question. As you know,
I’m not a homoeopath but I do know some great ones.
So I went and checked with one of them to see if my
suspicions about how the mechanics of ‘like curing
like’ are different between cranio sacral and homoeopathy,
and she confirmed what I thought.
With homoeopathy, the remedy caries an
energetic signature that causes the whole
energetic structure in the system to change.
So going back to the magnet and iron filings
analogy, I’ll explain the difference in mechanics
that I spoke about in the beginning.
If a square shaped magnet gets bent out of
shape on one side. What cranio sacral does is
collect all the iron filings on that side and help
them to ‘find’ the bent shape and collect it,
allowing it to return to its original state of
squareness.
With homeopathy a magnet that is normally red
has become blue. The homeopath identifies the
remedy the magnet needs. Blue. They know this
because in the proving of the remedy many healthy
red magnets were given this remedy and they all
started demonstrating blue symptoms. So the blue
magnet is given the blue remedy and the whole
composition of the magnet starts to change.
Eventually the magnet returns to its natural state
of red.
Who said two wrongs don’t make a right.
Jun
19
Posted by John Dalton on
June 19, 2008
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.
