I have been exceedingly busy in the last few weeks, so have not had a great deal to say. In the midst of studying degree modules and completing tasks towards fund raising for our big event in March next year, and getting back into training for that, on top of integrating a whole new format for teaching yoga, and work and homelife and somewhere in that schedule I have to find time to sleep! 
blogging has been a bit low in my list of priorities, so guess I will have to get to it when I can.
At this moment in time, life is hectic but, oh so much fun…….everyday I am proving to myself that aspirations are possible and the only things that stop us is the ‘taking action’ part, ‘feeling the fear and doing it anyway’. I am finding inspiration in books, films, other people, quotations as in the title of this post. “Faith is belief in the absence of proof”.
We generally think of faith as religion, Christianity, Judaism, Islam…. religions which put their faith into texts of old and practice without questioning, the words of those texts and of their respective religious leaders.
But faith can be belief in a theory or philosophy, in an individual, but probably and most importantly, in my own thinking, faith can be belief in oneself. In ones own abilities and strengths to achieve and accomplish, to complete and arrive wheresoever ones choices take them. Of course belief in ones abilities to accomplish, cannot be subject to testing scientifically and so by default proof of ability is absent. Track record becomes the benchmark.
What is it to have sufficient faith in oneself, blind belief that their dreams or aspirations are within their own reach? Some might call it delusion or wishful thinking, or having your head up in the stars. Maslow called it self actualisation and Jung referred to it as individuation.
History has given us Einstein, Newton, Mother Theresa, Margaret Thatcher and Barack Obama and many countless more who started with an idea, a dream or an aspiration. Whether you are the first female priminister of Great Britain and turned out to be an iron lady, or you are the first black American President in a country who would until 147 (January 1st 1863) years ago been considered a slave. Whether you were Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandhi or Nelson Mandela, this world has seen huge amounts of belief in the absence of proof, and thank God! ( if there is a God) that these people did believe and did fight for freedoms and dreams. Imagine what this world would have been had we stood down to the mass murderers and dictators of time gone by.
The human spirit is a powerful thing, but humans on the whole are pretty cool, full stop!! Consider for one moment the way we tick and what puts us out of sink, simply complicated…not a man made machine to compare, nor a species of intelligence able to match. Humans are truly unique and that uniqueness expresses through to us individually, even though we are made up of common components.
This brings me to what I work with… the human body…in states of pain…physical, emotional, psychological. Conventional professionals (not counting the open minded ones, obviously!) berate the work of my kind and tell us it is without scientific foundation and yet countless patients walk through my clinic door and amaze me in their ability to work with their own healing. Colleagues all over the country report similar experiences and each time I encounter such events my belief becomes stronger. My faith in my work and in the human spirit is reinforced. My faith in Fascia is bound without scientific proof. This simple but beautiful structure, compliant and yet specific in its mechanics and memory, supporting our body’s structures from skin to internal organs is truely a thing of wonder and when felt or sensed and complied with can take a person from pain to health, from misery to joy, from a life without quality to a life of endless potential and possibilities.
From a common cold to a potentially terminal illness, I believe the cure is in the individuals own body, to re-address health and fitness. It is by no means an easy task and does require enormous, unflinching belief and as with all things the human spirit is its key.
I was out shopping last Thursday, and met a patient who I had worked with a year ago. A woman who suffered anxiety, heart palpitations, panic attacks, she saw the whole world as her enemy, she felt herself unliked and unwanted, she was prone to carrying the worlds burdens on her shoulders and yet when she saw me she greeted me with the most beautiful of smiles and her posture was changed dramatically, her words were all positive. she paid me a compliment by telling me she “could never have done it without me”. The truth is actually the reverse of that, when you consider she had been doing whatever she had been doing for a whole year, without seeing me. My reward was in observing her so changed, so healthy and so vibrant. What I learn from that is that proof doesnt always have to be measurable, it can as easily be seen, to be believed.
Craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation, myofascial release therapy and manual lymphatic drainage are powerful aids to the body’s own healing capabilities. If you have questions or concerns related to health matters you can email me directly on shehnaz@touchofhealing.co.uk or visit my website www.touchofhealing.co.uk
thankyou for reading
Shehnaz