One of the most important factors in relation to health in our society is being reduced, and it is human interaction. We are replacing it with mechanical interactions and isolation. Isolation destroys our health and it is precisely what is increasing day by day. People sit in front of their screens and get lost in social networks, forgetting how it is to interact with a person.
He is forgetting how to share love, and this is destructive to health . The most destructive. Even the younger ones could stop being accustomed to personal relationships.
You, as massage therapists, are offering with your manual therapies what patients are needing and that will help them recover. I am firmly convinced that the new technology is getting too far.
People are responding worse and worse to the treatments of technological medicine, and it is not that it is bad, on the contrary, it is a great advance, but it needs to be controlled and used in moderation.
We cannot use it instead of the human relationship. Because, how much tenderness and care could we receive from a scanner?
You are the antidote to this lack of human interaction, you express love, and the absence of love harms your health.
Personally I think that violence and compassion (love) are inversely related. The more compassion you experience, the less violent you will be. If you can use your hands on someone and help them feel better, your compassion for the client grows, along with your mutual appreciation, and most likely none of you experience violence throughout the week. Violence and compassion are simply incompatible in the same person.
Why is this so difficult to convey? Why is it so hard to understand?I strongly believe that each cell, each molecule has its own consciousness. We can communicate with a tissue, with a muscle, with a bone or with a gland. There is an inner wisdom within each patient, and also yours as a therapist, and these two wisdoms connect.
The client's body knows what your skills as therapists are, and he will direct you, teach you how to handle it.
The cutting- edge technology does not contemplate the potential that the human body has for its self-healing.
I think compassion is the kind of medicine we need today. You use your hands and you have your abilities. You just have to press on the edges, push on the borders to start experimenting. It is surprising how a client's body can teach us a lot if we give it a chance. If you have not learned something from a particular session, you have not had a good session. It's that easy.
If you maintain a positive attitude you will do good, through the movements that your fingers are doing. If you are aware of this and keep it, you will be offering compassion . Try to feel what your patient feels, try to feel true compassion.
Part of the beauty of your way of working is that you will never get bored. No two clients are alike. Each patient is different, and each body has a story to tell you.
If you are prepared to listen, to devote the necessary time, to keep an open mind, it can be a very beautiful job. There will come a time when you will feel better working days than rest days.
Do not let your intentions be short term, you may try to have something good happen, you may try to have something bad happen, you may try to have nothing happen. It all depends on your attitude that particular day, so be very careful where your mind is when you are working.
Try to be helpful, you don't want to dominate and offer what your patients really need.
If you maintain a positive attitude you will help your patient, no matter what he has. You will really do it.
You are body workers, and you have the ability of manual therapy. Give them generously and you will be facilitating the self-healing of your client. I am convinced that you will feel full with the practice of your therapy.
Excerpted from the speech of Dr. John Upledger, DO, WMO, at the conference for the Florida State Massage Therapy Association, in July 2000.
Translated by lunaMultimedia.
Estela Freytes Alonso
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist
Neurosicoeducadora
Source:
J. Upledger: Goodness in the hands of craniosacral therapists
