As part of my marketing campaign to raise awareness for my business, I have been learning to get to grips with facebook for networking. I already have a personal page which enables me to communicate with friends and family. The thing I like about it most is that it has enabled me to actually interact with some of the nieces and nephews and young people who would probably have never thought to speak to me. With the marketing of my business in mind I opened up another account and have been adding friends through this, and soon discovered an email from a young man, claiming to be a medical student.
He asked me a couple of questions which I am assuming connected to the ‘complementary medicine’ aspect of the name of my business.
I realise the science profession on the whole turns its nose up at anything which seems to challenge conventional stuff. Having a science background I have to admit the energy aspect of my work, intially took some accepting, but I kept an open mind and also along the way questioned everything from a point of logic and found I got really compelling answers and arguments. I understand that I am applying my own perspective to the mix, but placebo or otherwise I work with one aim and that is to encourage in patients mental attitudes that lead to their self empowerment. I use physical bodywork techniques to address anomalies of fascia or connective tissue, encouraging ease in the body. A body at ease and not undergoing stress is a healthy body.
Its all about the patient. Its arrogant to assume that a therapist or medical practitioner can cure a body, like we were God….healing is profound and its amazing, but its the territory of the individual. With Reiki and Colour Healing I channel, with Craniosacral therapy  I intend an outcome of ease to the body and work with the body to that intention. With Visceral Manipulation, I get to feel and listen to what the body wants, and basically do what it asks of me. I do hear many people in my profession take the attitude that they are curing a problem in someone else and its sad because while someone begins to understand the reason why their body is in dis-ease, they also begin to take on board that they have the power within, (all be it with some help)  to choose to change the pattern which the body has so far adopted. If we as ‘healers’ display that level of arrogance then we take the opportunity of their own growth and development from the patient and instead promote dependency and awe.
I wish the medics would recognise that often their drugs (with their many side effects) and disclaimers cannot do what self empowerment, raised self awareness, a change in thought patterns, an attitude of happiness and love can do to promote health. In an ideal world people like me ought to be working alongside conventional medicine, because its not about us, its always about the patient.
If that were possible the philosophy, which the east has advocated for longer than the bible has been around, would be available to everyone. But I realise, when drug companies have so much at stake in keeping us sick, so they can try to fix us, that that is just an impossible dream. When I see the numbers of Doctors learning Craniosacral therapy and Visceral manipulation I take heart that maybe one day perspectives on healing might change.
On balance there is no question of what the medical profession is capable of and its miracles too, are pretty profound. But no one way, is ever the only way and if the patient is the one that counts, dont we owe it to them to open our minds to possibilities and different perspectives? I think we do
I was recently doing some research into using the treatments of my clinic for Parkinson Disease and came across a helpful website. It connects Craniosacral therapy which I mentioned earlier to possible improved life quality in sufferers of Parkinsons disease.Â
Thankyou for reading
Shehnaz
, but for me regardless of the fact that this is the industry I work in, my answer would be ‘my health’.