No, I'm Not Asleep - I'm Sensing

Craniosacral Therapy is all about feeling the subtle rhythms and messages that your body is sharing. To sense those subtleties, I need to focus in a different way. It's important that I shut down that analytical Massage Therapist mind that wants to track and follow what makes sense to my soft tissue knowledge of the body. That is not what I want to bring to your Craniosacral Therapy session.

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Instead of tracking  I  need to pause and listen to what your body is sharing with me. What your body's priority for the session is. I want to sense and feel where the fascia is restricted throughout your body, what your cranial rhythm feels like, where the body and cranium is shifting and turning to accommodate restriction and  lack of mobility.

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So no, I haven't fallen asleep. I'm closing my eyes to limit distractions and enhance my other senses, mainly my touch sensitivity. I want to really tune in to the person who is in or under my hands, make all of my touch senses available to what I'm feeling and sensing.

​Your sense of vision is the more dominant of your five senses and can actually shadow your sense of touch. 

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I am also likely to remain with my hands in one place and my eyes closed. The time ensures that I've picked up all of the rhythms and messages your body wants to share for that session. It also allows me to wait for and feel those subtle shifts once change has happened. It often takes time and patience for your body to respond and I don't what to miss it when that happens. Taking that time makes the outcome of your session better.

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The same is true for younger clients, actually moreso. Little ones are unlikely to lie quietly as adults do for their sessions. There will be movement and there will be noise and I still want to have the same level of sensitivity happening in my hands. So yes, my eyes will likely be closed during a little one's session as well.

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It is kind of like listening to music with your eyes closed. Do you notice that you pick up on more of the rhythms and words to a piece of music when you close your eyes and just listen? By limiting your sense of vision  your auditory senses can take prevalence and are enhanced. 

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Limiting one of the 5 senses to enhance the others can also create new neural pathways in the brain. In limiting one of the senses you're training your brain to learn more from another or other senses

Try this: close your eyes and pick up an object. Use your sense of touch to notice how it feels, what the temperature is, what the weight of the object feels like in your hands. Take your time and allow your brain to process this new information from touch instead of sight.

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Next with eyes closed, try touching the arm of someone you know. Just a light touch. Notice the temperature of the skin, the texture, can you feel a pulse or rhythm? Take your time and the more your brain moves to sensing through touch the more details you will notice.