Acupressure is so much more than body work. I’ve been working with some new modalities that really bring the emotional component into the work. There is no “counseling” as such, I don’t get tearful confessions, or even know the issues: it isn’t important to what I am doing. But people shift, attitudes adjust, and often the client is able to move out of a pattern that has ceased to function effectively. The most startling example is that of a woman who came to me with a myriad of symptoms – pain here or there, depression over a fading relationship that she’d been stuck in for about a year. Her job was unsatisfactory and she had lots of “stucks.” One of the first corrections that came up was for ‘vivaxis,’ which is a person’s connection to his/her place of birth.
Because we have an energetic connection to our place of birth, when we live far from that place, we sometimes experience a vague sense of not belonging or dislocation. I asked where she was born (out of state) and whether she suffered from homesickness, or any desire to return. ‘No, not at all,’ was the reply, and it was somewhat emphatic.
We did the correction, which is a strange process, and one I hadn’t done many times. In all, she did less than ten sessions over a period of a few weeks.
She called a few weeks after the last session and told me she’d spent a week with her family in her home state, she’d broken off with her boyfriend and had found some job opportunities near her folks. She would be moving as soon as she could pack. She sounded more animated than I’d ever heard, and she said she felt at peace and that this was what she’d been needing. She thanked me and told me she knew that the Body Talk (the modality I’d used) had helped a lot.
If a doctor told you to get acupressure therapy to decrease the healing time for a broken bone, it would decrease that healing time, and it wouldn’t be a pill that would cause mood swings or stress your heart, in fact it would help those issues. That’s why I do acupressure.
