Hello everyone, I am a Norwegian therapist using various treatment modalities in my work. I have heard that JW's are against the use of touch in therapy, and I am wondering if this statement is correct? Or does it only apply to bodywork where the therapist has a "spiritual intention", for example by asking silently for answers to specific questions?
I am trained in myofascial release techniques (deep tissue massage), and here I mainly detect contracted tissue by looking at the client's posture and performing range of motion-tests. I have problems seeing how this could be forbidden by the Bible. It is simply body sculpting.
Some of my other techniques, however, are far more subtle and of a more "listening" character. This is especially true of craniosacral therapy, which is based on mechanical principles but, as the manual pressure is extremely light and the goal is to follow the direction of ease in which the client's body moves, it can be reminiscent of meditation. The therapist must be very quiet and tune in to the minute movements of the client. This work can have profound emotional effects and give both the client and therapist visions, for example of the accident wherein the touched body part was injured.
Personally I believe in biointelligence and tissue memory - it does not seem far-fetched to me that information can be received from another individual by experiencing their electromagnetic energy field, which permeates and to a certain degree extends beyond the human organism. (By the way, it is this field that MRI, ECG and EEG scans monitor - the field's existence is proven beyond doubt.) Does it not sound reasonable that the sense of this field is a sixth sense, comparable to sight or hearing? The blind rely on more than just their hearing to visualise their surroundings. An active use of this sense is, in my opinion, what allows some people to feel what is troubling people they have never met before. The information is stored in their bioenergetic field. Have you never felt stress or "bad vibes" from a person passing you on the street, even though you didn't look at him and therefore couldn't read his body language?
I have a friend who is a JW, and she is warning me against using these subtle techniques. But I cannot see how it can be a bad thing that I am helping people with loving intention. I'm not asking angels for help while I do my work, I just follow the client's movements, letting the client "unwind" himself. The client has to repair himself. All I do is offer some external energy (my own energy) in order for the repair to start. It is very difficult for me to imagine working as a therapist without doing my best, so it is frustrating when my friend tells me that many of my best techniques will only bring trouble. What does the Bible say regarding this matter?
I believe my intuition comes from knowledge within the client's biomechanism - not from demons. Past life experiences (which none of my clients have had thus far, I might add) can be explained with the fact that fragments of one's ancestors are in the DNA. How can it be bad to try doing good? I don't get it.