I'm a bit surprised that no replies have come from JW's. I thought this was their forum?
cstherapist
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Healing touch - the line between good & bad
by cstherapist inhello 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?
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Healing touch - the line between good & bad
by cstherapist inhello 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?
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cstherapist
I am aware that many people are skeptical of therapists who mix religion into their therapeutic practise. It seems a bit freaky to me as well. I am not trying to summon divine power or anything like that. My work is based purely on physics, or at least that's how I see it. But I can understand that it sounds new age to someone who hasn't read the scientific theory behind energy work. (I am here referring to Oschman's book, which I can heartily recommend to any therapist. A heavy read though!) It is not quite correct to say that massage therapy isn't an energy type modality - a big part of the effects of massage can be attributed to the piezoelectric effect which results from compressing tissue. Massage, acupuncture and directing energy all create piezoelectricity, resulting in myofascial release amongst other things. Massage therapists, and especially Rolfers (who focus a lot on fascia as well as muscle) are also reported to have visions/hunches when doing bodywork. It is not the modality that makes a treatment "energetic", it's the therapist's ability to listen. I usually keep silent about the energetic aspects of my work and give a purely mechanical explanation of what I do, which avoids collision of belief systems. Is this wrong? I have no qualms about it because of my own beliefs - and it's so much easier than to start talking about quantum biophysics - but I guess that from a JW perspective it would be quite provocative.
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Healing touch - the line between good & bad
by cstherapist inhello 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?
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I am sorry that there are no line breaks - I tried making them but they disappeared...shucks
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Healing touch - the line between good & bad
by cstherapist inhello 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?
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cstherapist
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.