BENEFITS OF CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY- INSIGHT AND REPAIR
Healing is weird. The word "healing" is weird. The healing arts are WEIRD. Can anyone show us how to leave the present behind to find a different future? How does healing happen, and what makes a good therapeutic relationship?
Excellent CST or myofascial work encourages a softening into ourselves, followed by a more subtle, mild, and distinct relationship to our boundaries. Knowing yourself happens through insight, which is linked to fascia releasing. This process creates a wide range of internal perceptions by loosening the fibrous matter to help shed tension or disorganized energetic patterns. That is what I would call healing. Your body becomes more open and engaged in the front. Future possibilities change while trying to remain present becomes part of the past. Who we are and what we want becomes more fine-tuned, yet at the same time, our bodies become less concrete. We feel more stable and know ourselves deeply while welcoming fluidity into the rhythm of our lives and the tissues in our bodies.
How do we know who can teach us to meet ourselves more intimately?
A solid therapist is soothing to be with. Some of my favorite mending happens in the mundane or regular feeling connections. The natural rapport between equals fosters openness and makes space for bonds. Energetic fields between a therapist and client can meet instead of compete. In the past, I tried to find help by seeking out the best teacher or the highest-skilled therapist. Genuflecting to another betrays our internal sense of authority. I unknowingly sought competition.
This person knows best and will work on me- an equal works with you. The most effective therapists are not impressive. They are with themselves thoroughly, thereby genuine with others.
Highly adept techniques and impressive knowledge can be sneaky ways for a practitioner to leave the connection. Training matters, but it is secondary to being. That person leaves himself when feeling too close to something he does not like. Some healing can happen, but the amount of progress or potency is limited. The relationship can also reinforce unhelpful energetic patterns under the guise of therapy. When you sit with me looking for help, I know how to stay with all of it until we reach the other side. Repair is collaborative, not a function of me or you, but we.
Excellent CST is about experiencing space and sensation. You find energy, emotion, thought, and movement- then melt into the table. Myofascial release can feel similar as well. The most effective mending happens when energetic fields meet, and the therapist has internalized the difference between letting go versus attempting to be present. The prior happens by sinking into yourself, whereas the latter is more about trying to be centered- this is someone who fights himself. With the right practitioner, CST is magic. It helps me arrive at something new or something old in a different light. Insight is central to becoming more acquainted with the human process. Finding new internal states is most helpful when developed incrementally, not in some momentous leap. What you want and what you can sustain may not be the same. The day they meet, you become less polarized, and what you previously repressed fills the recesses to help you function more harmoniously. Life feels fluid.
