What is it?
I have been having monthly treatments since the new year. Now, you would think that I would have been skeptical before now. I was not skeptical, when I first went because I knew that the practitioner had worked on three of my friends form my running club and one of them he had treated for several years with good results.
Yesterday, for some or other reason, I wanted to know how it worked. So, I asked him.
I had wanted to ask questions before, but since my practitioner had told me how receptive I am to treatment, I thought that this was enough to know for now.
He described it very well. Visually. I can relate to that. He said it is as if the tissues and ligaments, bones and muscle are wrapped in cling film and the cling film shrivels up and become ruched-up and then it constricts things. He said that on the outside, one's arm can look normal, but on the inside it's 'doing a spasmo' (he did not say 'spasmo', he did 'spasmo' hand - which was funny) If you went to a school, in England, in the seventies/eighties, you'll get what I mean : )
We were a cruel lot.
Anyway, in regard to historic injuries and muscle memory, the treatment manages to pin point these areas so that they can release trapped trauma and accelerate healing. Simples
; )
Yesterday, I had told him about my emotional condition (the recent death of someone) and that my historic knee injury, (aged about 13) when I was competitive running and ridiculously over-active, had resurfaced. When I ran the Valery-Sur-Somme/Transbaie half-marathon, last June, the injury flared up. For the last 2k of the run, I could barely walk. The cold sea water had got to 'freeze' it. My knee cap felt as if it was jarring on raw bone and it was agonising.
I put my mind over matter and decided to ignore the pain in order to get to the finish. I remember saying to myself, "Wait up. Self-talk. Perspective check. You have not face-planted a single mud bank, you jumped them all, even helped others with jumping them. You are being a pussy. You are not being shot at by enemy warfare, you are not about to die. There will be lunch laid out at the other end. Your friend is by your side and will not let you down. There are paramedics in the vicinity. Get the fuck through it".
I also knew that I could have done some irreparable damage - that could come back to haunt me. My father was a sportsman in his youth and until quite late in life, and he has experienced knee injuries from this. I heard recently that Capricorn (body part) is associated with the knees. You, know...Aries = head, Pisces = feet, Gemini = mind, Taurus = throat, Sagittarius = hips and thighs, Leo = heart etc etc. I have two Capricorn placements - in my natal chart (Venus and Mars=Love and War) and Hmmmm, gets me thinking out of the box, again.
Work? My treatments? Very much. The after effects are positive. The next day, in particular, things shift and pain subsides. I was recommended to take at least 20 mins out of my day to lie flat and to relax my body and breathe. 20 mins of yoga, in effect - if you add in some spinal twists and some shoulder exercises with any additional movements that your body is inclined to do.
I needed to nap, this afternoon. A side effect of the treatment. You slow, you rest more and you have to chill.
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