The Power of Touch (Part 1)

(Many times, when I said that I treat by offering light, gentle touches on the body of my clients, people would just walk away in disbelief. Little do they know that compassionate human touch heals; and it heals very deeply too.

Thus, I'm posting the series of "The Power of Touch" written by my teacher, Michael Shea to all those who have never thought touching someone can bring about such tremendous transformation to another human being.)

The Power of Touch (Part 1) by Michael Shea

For thousand of years, people around the globe have relied on the healing power of human touch. Without nurturing touch, a baby is taumatized, the human heart aches, and the brain is damaged. In modern health care, diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical treatment have largely replaced "hands-on" care. Our body's tremendous capacity to heal remains largely untapped.

The Biodynamic Craniosacral Model

All life expresses itself as motion. In the human body, all cells subtly move together in rhythmic waves that travel throughout the body's fluid systems. The study of these rhythms began over 100 years ago, with biologists and embryologists but especially an osteopathic physician named William Sutherland. After years of study, Dr. Sutherland theorized that these rhythms were generated by a life force carried in the fluids. He called this force the Breath of Life, and the slowest and most stable rhythm that springs from it he called Primary Respiration.

Like the eye of the hurricane, motion is oriented around a core of stillness. In studying the human embryo, scientists have observed that all growth and ordered fluid motion is related to a center of stillness. All around this stillness, Primary Respiration guides the formation of the embryo and continues to work throughout our life to maintain normal balance in the structure and function of our bodies. When Primary Respiration is expressed in fullness and balanced to other important fluid tides in the body, a sense of wholeness and a perception of well-being are more fully able to manifest.