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   - Embryonic development

+ Working with the blueprint. - September 07

+ CST and bowed legs? - December 05

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Hi John
Thanks so much for your continuing newsletter and the great tips and humour.
I have a double question.
It's often a lonely place at the coalface and I seem to have people come to me with "last resort" problems that require much from me - I am doing a lot of anatomy and physiology research these days.

First question. Do you think it's possible for a young man whose body doesn't make testosterone to get that working again?
He is 23 and came to me essentially for massive headaches and his lack of testosterone problem. It was diagnosed at age 15 when he had major back pain.
Bone testing revealed his bone age was that of an 8 year old. He has to inject himself 3 x weekly for the testosterone cycle to happen. This injecting ritual is also affecting his mental health - facing this for the rest of his life is depressing.

So, he has major lesion patterns in his head, esp membranes, akin to birth trauma (although his mother reports a "perfect" birth), and his pelvic girdle/sacrum.
Unwinding those complex restriction patterns is top of the list, with my intention also on all sites for the production cycle to work normally (including cerebral cortex, hypothalamus and pituitary and testes). I can't see any reason it won't, but there seems to be an issue with the 'kick starting' of the process.
If he is injecting and producing LSH, then his body may not have the opportunity to take over.
He has had all the tests and specialists do not have any idea why this is happening in his body.
They can only offer injections for his lifetime.

Can you give me any clues here?

Second question. I have a lot of people with conditions related to experiencing terror in-utero. So, the main problem seems to lie in the central nervous system, and glitches in its development.

These all have the quality of having to return to the blueprint as the major goal. This requires a lot, from both practitioner and client. (This is also the situation for the young man already mentioned)

Can you give some insight into the process of returning to the blueprint?

Luckily, I have had success already in this area, but the symptoms and conditions I'm treating lately, (as well as the overall goal of returning to the blueprint), are extreme and debilitating for the clients.
Patience seems to be the major virtue. Have you any other insights?
Thanks so much for your continued support.
Cheers,
Jenny
Brisbane, Australia

>>>MY COMMENTS:

Thanks for the feedback Jenny I'm glad you are finding the newsletters useful.
'Do you think it's possible for a young man whose body doesn't make testosterone to get that working again?'

Yes. When it comes to people and their bodies I think anything is possible.

Both of your questions revolve around the blueprint and how to work with it so I will answer them together.

It sounds like your palpatory skills are at the point where you are beginning to feel the blueprint, which is great. The downside is that it sounds like you are finding it a bit daunting.

But daunt not because it doesn't need to be.
The ironic thing is that you have been working with the blueprint from the very beginning of your cranio sacral training. The difference is that now you have reached a level of refinement where you can differentiate the blueprint from the rest of what you are a feeling.

As you know the blueprint is the energetic framework that underpins our bodies. The cells of our bodies being a bit like iron filings on a piece of paper. When a magnet is brought to the underside of the paper the filings are drawn to form the shape of the magnet.

The magnet is like the blueprint. The difference is that the blueprint is not a static rigid thing but moves and grows. The growing part being particularly relevant for your testosterone light patient.

Like many aspects of cranio sacral work, we feel something and learn to work with it but have very little scientific evidence or terminology to
describe it. 10 years ago science was enraptured with the mysteries of genetics, with few voices who was saying anything different, one of which
was Rupert Sheldrake and he was labelled a kook.

Then the genome was finally mapped and when the party was over there was a dawning that it didn't have all the answers. That everything wasn't determined by our genes. This is reflected in the work of the likes of Bruce Lipton in what is being called the New Biology.

The idea of an energetic field or blueprint underpinning our body has been around for yonks and shows up in different cultures in different ways, meridians, charkas, assemblage point and so on.

As I said, the blueprint unfolds during embryonic development. The timing of this unfoldment directs the pace and progress of our embryonic development and once started moves forward with its own pace and rhythm.

It's like a piece of music that begins at the moment of conception and continues for the rest of our lives. Within the overall piece of music there are movements, passages that have the general themes of the overall music but have their individual beginnings, middles and ends.

If something happens to interrupt the music or a particular beat is missed, it is very hard for the body to fill in the blanks.
No magnet - so the iron filings don't know where to go.

For example the maxillae meet each other and form the hard palate at about the seventh week of embryonic development. If this doesn't happen
then person will end up with a cleft palate.

It sounds like all went well with your patient during the embryonic phase of his development. He decided he was going to be male and the initial flood of testosterone ensured this.
The beat that was missed was in his puberty.
The second wave of testosterone never happened. So he never matured into a man. It is this point that I would look at in his blueprint.

So how to work with it?
I have found that knowing about the blueprint is the beginning of being able to work with it.
It's the same as when knowing what flexion and extension were before tried to feel for them was a help in being able to feel them.

A useful initial access to feeling the blueprint is to use the cranio sacral rhythm. Think of it in terms of William Sutherland's description of it as being the 'breath of life'. Think of flexion as the in-breath and extension as the out-breath of this breath of life. He also described the movement of this breath of life as adding potency to the cells of the body.

I find this kind of imagery helpful in getting in touch with the blueprint. It always reminds me of a beach, in particular that part of the beach where the sand meets the water. Where, if you write your name in the sand the water will come in and wipe it away and smooth the sand out.

With my hands in contact with the person's system and my eyes closed, tuning into the cranio sacral rhythm and feeling it in terms of an in-breath that vitalises and recreates an energetic blueprint, each in-breath washes across the cells of the body and they become luminous. Any anomalies in the blueprint itself begin to reveal themselves.

The daunting thing about working with the blueprint is that is energetic. You don't feel it in the same way as you feel flexion and extension, for example, which is a physical movement. It is felt in the same way you can feel something between your palms when you hold them close together. It's the same sort of something.

The good news is that once it is felt the blueprint behaves and responds in the same way the body does. So if you get a sense that there was a
disturbance in the unfoldment of the puberty movement of his blueprint 'music' then it is the same as it would feel if there was a trauma that had occurred to him during his puberty.

But instead of looking to get a sense of a trauma you are looking to get a sense of what interrupted the unfoldment of his blueprint, which, ironically could have been a trauma.

Once you get a sense of where the gap is then you can use your intention to fill it. But not in a directed forceful, 'I know what needs to be done here.' sort of way. More with a sense of providing a bridge with your intention across the gap.

It is a little like direct technique in as much as you are encouraging his system to fill in the gap but you don't make it happen.

As kooky as the blueprint may sound it is still a mechanical kind of thing to work with. Just because it is energy doesn't automatically imbue it with mystical dimensions.

If he doesn't improve through working with the blue print you would have to look deeper. What is deeper than the underpinning energetic blue print that holds the cells of our bodies in place?

Well as I said the blueprint is in essence a mechanical structure. It is used by the part of us that knows the bigger picture of ourselves. What our life is about. Why we are a man or a woman, why we chose the parents we did, the country we were born in and so on.

That is a different part of the questions you would be asking yourself about the bigger picture of what his symptoms might mean in the context of the deeper issues he may be working out in his life.

Is he resisting letting go of being a boy and becoming a man? Or is he resisting growing up? The movie, 'The Tin Drum' comes to mind. Were the headaches just a way to get him to come and see you or are they part of the mechanical aspect of how this disharmony is expressing itself.

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***QUESTION***

Hi John,
As always, superb and enjoyable! I feel like an empty sponge, ready to absorb and learn - the only problem seems that one tends to forget most of what one has absorbed, at this stage of ones life!

Have you had any success with bowed legs? Am going to have to work on a baby about 16 months old. He has nearly all his teeth (molars too) already which is a bit abnormal? If I hold his upper legs together, that part looks totally normal, but the lower legs then cross over with the feet facing nearly sideways. The problem seems to be in the ankles, so that the legs have to adapt? They live in the bundus where I have been, so I will only be able to see him once a month.
Enjoy your day.
Your Buddy
Nellian Bekker
Cape town

>>>MY COMMENTS:

Nellian, it's worth checking to see if he was lying in an awkward position in the womb but I don't think that is the case here because when I add the bowed legs to what you've said about him having all his teeth, I think it's more likely to be a case of a disturbance when he was developing in the womb.

Think of embryonic development like an orchestra playing a piece of music. Once the performance starts it plays through to the end. If one of the musicians makes a mistake or drops their instrument, the orchestra won't stop and restart, they just keep going.

Remember that the first 8 weeks of our embryonic life is the time when all organs, systems and tissues are outlined. If that process is disturbed or interrupted, we can get all sorts of problems. Cleft palate is a good example. If the two Maxillae haven't met by around the 7th week, then they never meet.

Disturbances to the process after the 8th week will cause problems in refinement or development of the systems and structures outlined in the first 8 weeks.

It sounds like your boy has had a bit of both.

That's great John, what do I do about it?

Getting that developmental piece of music to play again is a bit like trying to remember on old childhood song. You can remember bits of it but remembering ALL the words is tricky. It's the same with helping a persons system reactivate developmental energetics. It's possible but not
easy.

The most remarkable demonstration of it I ever had in clinic was an 87 year old man who was in constant pain and loosing power in his legs from stenosis of his vertebral canal.

During treatment, he managed to access the notocord part of his embryonic development music and the cells around his vertebral canal started to migrate away from the area where his physical notocord used to be, just like they did when he was an embryo. His vertebral canal consequently got larger and his symptoms went away. It was bloody
remarkable!

That's great John but how did you facilitate that?

Think of a spy movie. Remember the scene where the rookie spy was about to walk into the unguarded vault but was stopped by the older more experienced spy who then sprays an aerosol of some stuff in the air and reveals a web of infrared sensor beams and we nod our heads and think, 'Man, this movie is full of clichés.'

The point of the analogy is you firstly need to know there is something there, the energetic blue print in which the developmental music is contained and secondly you need some of that magic aerosol, which in our case is our intention.

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