Re: X technique

February 7, 2004

> cindyc,

> What's the difference in the complete X and the half X ? --Other

than using 4 points of contact or using 2.

> Is one preferred over another in certain situations?

> CindyH

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Technically, the X is done with one finger of each hand. The V

Spread in cranialsacral is done with one finger of the " sending "

hand and two fingers (hence the V) of the other or " receiving "

hand. The four point " grip " that Cindy shows in the one picture

isn't really mentioned as such in the books I have used. I have

seen illustrations of a variation of the X where a spot is " cupped "

between the palms and the sending/receiving focus becomes the palms

rather than the finger tips. But that " grip " technique is one that I

have kind of adopted on my own because I have found it to work,

particularly when dealing with joints like the elbow or knee. You

could also consider it to be a double X.

As to preference, one versus another in certain situations, the only

thing I can really say about this is to do what feels right to you

at the time. I can not stress enough the importance of " listening

to your hands " and going with your intuition. I have lost count of

the number of times I have simply and suddenly just shifted my hands

to a spot without making a conscious decision to do so. I just did

it because it " seemed the right thing to do. " And very frequently

when that has happened is when the results kicked in.

Energy work is not just about the physical placement of your hands.

There is also a very large and very important element of intention

and intuition as well.

The full scientific basis for why this works is obviously not

clearly understood yet, but there is a growing body of very

suggestive research on it. It is a scientific fact that the body

has an electromagnetic compenent to it. It is also a scientific fact

that electromagnetism involves vibrations and energetic waves. In

addition, it is known that a person's state of consciousness

(alpha/beta/theta) changes that person's brain waves. Studies have

also been done which clearly demonstrate that the electrical

energies given off by the hearts of two people in the same room,

even when separated by several feet of distance, will in a matter of

minutes, synchronize with each other.

There is growing evidence that what happens is that the heart and

brain waves of the practitioner/client-patient synchronize or

entrain with each other and thereby set up the conditions by

which " energy medicine " does its thing. And this is the reason for

all the emphasis on grounding, centering, focusing, intention, and

intuition.

February 7, 2004

Thanks Mike for saving my butt. I was sitting here trying to figure

out how to explain the intuition. Some how your hands, eventually,

will just know where to go. You have to leave the brain out if it.

You'll start by placing them where you are suppose to, but at some

point, they want to go somewhere else instinctively. It's like the

body your working on is letting you know where you need to go. The

pain might be in the knee, but one hand wants to go to the hip. I

don't question it. Let your fingers do the walking, not the brain.

I tend to use the two finger method more that the four finger or the

cupping. The energy feels stronger to me that way.

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Different words, maybe, but exactly right and well said. The body

you are working on does, in some fashion, tell you what to do.

Sometimes it is intuitive on your part and other times it can be the

person actually asking you to move your hands (like I did when you

were working on me) or even physically grabbing your hand and

putting it someplace.

As for the pain being in the knee but one hand goes to the hip,

remember what I keep saying: identify the location of the pain and

look elsewhere in the body for the cause. Whether it is a trigger

point involved or a fascial restriction, the cause of the pain is

very often not where the pain is felt. Using the knee-hip as an

example, the problem might be a fascial restriction in the hip that

is causing a stretch or pull AT the knee, hence pain in the knee. If

that is the case, you can work on the knee all day long and not get

relief. You have to go to the source, which in this example, would

be the hip. Look at the postural assessment we did on your hubby Dan

while I was in Detroit. The posture is laterally rotated feet with

pain in the knees but the likely cause is fascial restrictions of

the pelvic floor transverse fascial plane. In plain English for the

rest of the list, most of the fascia in the body runs up and down

but there are several " diaphragms " or " transverse planes " that run

across the body.

I also tend to use the two finger method more often than the grip or

cup method for the same reason. I tend to have a higher sensitivity

to the energy that way. On the other hand, there will be times when

it just seems like the two-hand hold is what is needed and I do it.

February 7, 2004