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As gratifying as it is to my ego to read some of the backpats that

has been throwing my way lately, I do feel I need to clarify

a few things.

- I am not a faith healer

- I am not a wizard

- I don't do magic

- I possess no supernatural powers

All I am is a relatively highly trained bodyworker.

All I possess is a somewhat higher level of training than your

average practitioner or therapist.

More importantly, my training has been multi-disciplinary, with a

fairly solid Western based footing in things like Kineseology,

Anatomy and Physiology, balanced by an equally solid Eastern based

footing in basic Ayuvedic (Indian) and Chinese traditions.

Of equal importance, I have had enough cross-training in some of the

more specialzed modalities to be able to more readily integrate the

two sides of the coin when I am treating someone, whether I am

blending two or more " western " modalities or blendilng west with

east.

I have no pretensions - I am not an expert in any of the modalities

I practice. I personally know experts in every one of them who could

individually stomp me into the ground.

But in fairness to me, I know very few who come even close to me on

breadth of training. My Polarity instructor is not only an expert

in Polarity, she is also certified in specialized Lymphedema work.

She has also had more training in Cranialsacral than I have. She

does not, however, know how to do Acupressure. One of my Jin Shin

Do instructors is a PT, highly qualified in Neuromuscular work, Jin

Shin Do Acupressure and Visceral Manipulation. But she doesn't know

how to do Polarity or Lymphatic Drainage. My Cranialsacral

instructor doesn't have a clue about either Acupressure or

Polarity. I think you see my point here.

And I will readily admit that, for someone not familiar with it,

energy work can seem a bit like voodoo at times. Nothing could be

farther from the truth. Everyone of you knows, and I mean KNOWS,

that the human body has an energetic component. I have said it

before - where do you think EKG's and EEG's come from? All these

are are measurements of the electrical activity of the heart and

brain. And you all have certainly, with your own hands, felt the

rhythms given off by the blood pulse and respiration.

Why is it so difficult to accept that these are just two of many

rhythms in the body? Why is it so hard to grasp that if you can feel

or sense these two fairly robust rhythms, you can also be trained to

feel some of the more subtle rhythms? That is, once you know they

exist and learn what to feel for. The ones I can personally sense

or feel are the blood pulse, respiration, lymphatic fluid waves,

cranialsacral rhythm, and the energy flowing in the meridians or

chakras. And there are even more than that that I have not yet been

trained to sense.

I am about to violate my professional code of ethics by sharing some

of what happened while I was working on last week. If you

have been following 's posts, you already have a pretty good

idea of what confronted me when I got there - a kid on crutches and

in obvious pain. And I have no doubt that, to , it did look a

bit miraculous when got off the table after three hours work,

with her leg function fully restored and being TOTALLY pain free.

This is especially true considering the number of doctors who had

already examined the poor kid without either diagnosing or fixing

the problem. I haven't bothered to figure out yet whether it was a

ligament or tendon involved, or which one. ly, I don't care

and it doesn't matter. But the sense that I had while working on

her was that one of the two had in some way gotten kinked or trapped

under the lateral edge of the patella. The impingement was

obviously causing pain. Furthermore, when the leg was placed in

just the right position, it compressed the nerves and blood vessels

in the posterior knee region - cutting off circulation and causing

the leg and foot to turn purple.

It does not surprise me that this was not picked up by either Xray

or MRI. It's a little bit like my dashboard lights and my mechanic -

if they aren't on the fritz when he has it in the shop, he can't

figure out the problem.

At any rate, I used a combination of modalities - nothing magic,

nothing supernatural - just a little bit of almost everything I have

been trained to do. Cranialsacral to look for any " energetic "

blockages, Jin Shin Do Acupressure to open up her meridians,balance

her body's energy in general and relax her, myofascial release to

take care of a couple of fascial restrictions around her scapulae,

polarity to stimulate the actual joints, lymphatic drainage to flush

the cellular wastes and toxins out of the knee (thereby reducing

inflammation and felt pain) and something called directed energy to

stimulate the knee itself and get the (whatever it was) to release.

And that is exactly what happened. Whatever it was that had gotten

trapped let loose with an audible snapping sound, at which time her

actual patella started sliding back and forth by itself, readjusting

its position. It might have looked like magic, but it wasn't.

At any rate, while I do appreciate the pats on the back, I don't

want them to leave any misconceptions about what actually happened.