Student and Therapist Newsletter Archive
   - Treating the Elderly

***COMMENT***August 07

Hi John,
I had some excellent results with Parkinson's; however it is a long term commitment for therapist and client (nothing wrong with that - if you have the patience).
Parkinson's is not a disease; it is a simple question of waste management.
Too much toxic material has accumulated in the center of the brain (due to stress patterns around it), that simple Cranio (releasing the chronic
tensions all around) will already have a beneficial effect.
The fluids need to move!!!

Toxic waste accumulates in and around the substantia nigra (who produces dopamine) that its production becomes limited and its dopamine (who is the messenger that stimulates to the Basal Ganglia, Globus Pallidus and Caudate Nucleus) cannot reach its destination. It is the restricted function of the Basal Ganglia that creates the typical Parkinson's lack of movement control.
So, any CS will be beneficial.

Also I instruct my clients (during the sessions - so they can directly connect with them) about the functions of the different brain structures
involved and how they work and get blocked due to the accumulation of waste.

I introduce them to the glia cells who can help in the removal of waste products and I set up a home- work program, where the client works twice a day talking to his glia cells while on a still-point inducer or on a tennis-sock (if there system can take the pressure - rarely they cannot).
I also convince them (by asking their brain structures) that they need to drink more water (besides the coffee their used to) and I start them on a daily intake of flax-seed oil, what will soften the membranes of their brain cells (instruction also during the sessions).

In the beginning I work on them bi-weekly (or weekly - depending on your confidence)and after a few months, they come once a month, depending on their home-work.

It can become a months long program, sometimes for the rest of their lives and often (hopefully) they will get hooked on what you have to offer. Since they are usually quite old CS will benefit them tremendously with rounding of this life time.
The elderly are like baby's, they are so happy to ride the wave.
Have fun,
Etienne
Belgium.
www.craniobabies.com

>>>MY COMMENTS:

Thanks for that Etienne. I really like the whole waste management perspective. Very useful.
I also like the way you talk about getting the person involved their own recovery by telling them about the different structures you are both
working with. Top Stuff.
I'm not wild about the use of still point inducers for the reasons I mentioned in my response to the previous letter except in this case it is images of the Mona Lisa against a computer pixelated background coming to mind.

Personally I haven't found the elderly are like babies . . . at all. Hang on, maybe I am being too quick to say that. They are like babies, just babies that are locked behind 500 layers of compensation.

***FOLLOW ON COMMENT FROM ETIENNE IN BELGIUM***

Hi John,
I stated about the tennis sock ... if their system can take it ... even if you are not crazy about it, its their system that has the answer !

If you can bring the elderly past their compensations you will find they are all too happy to go into babyhood, how do you do that ... only if you drop the idea that they will go automaticlly into compensation (which they will do as a defense mechanism, because they do not know what else to do) , but it is your job not to step into that pile but via your own system show their system (in complete silence) how to go beyond the mind, thats all, of course you have to drop all prejudice for that, do not forget, knowingly or unknowingly they are preparing for death ... and a guide out of their cr.p is welcome

There is a very good therapist in St Martin de
Lon... something (South west France) Margo Berr
<berr@wanadoo.fr>
Have fun,
Etienne

>>>MY COMMENTS:

Hello Etienne,
Thank you for your swift and passionate response.

I am not wild about the tennis sock thing for two reasons.

Firstly I think it negates all the years we spend developing our palpatory skill and learning about timing and sensitive responding to a persons system.

I agree that the person's system has the answer but there needs to be someone there to hear and respond to the answer, not an inanimate object.

The person's system will change in the time between treatments. If their system can't handle it the tennis sock will give them a headache or an uncomfortable feeling of pressure.

Secondly. The people that I treat are by and large uninterested in natural medicine or alternative approaches. I think most of them would be more than happy if the Doctor was able to help them. They only come to see someone like me because they are desperate.

I am very aware of this and aim to make it as easy for them as possible because I know that the really confronting thing will be their having to take responsibility for their own health.

So I try and minimise the other stuff. I am conscious of the environment they will be returning to and the sort of resistance they may have to put up with from family and friends.

From a sceptics perspective the tennis sock thing looks and sounds kooky. For its benefits, which I think are minimal at best, compared to the undermining effects it could have on the person's whole process, I don't think it's worth it.

As for the elderly, you are right of course. Having any kind of preconception about how a treatment is going to go is never good. Whether it's that the elderly are like babies and they are so happy to ride the wave or that they are like babies that are locked behind 500 layers of compensation. We must always treat what we find.

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