Would you classify this as "occult healing" or just another "natural health" resource, or even a bit of a sham (homeopathy)?
I hadn't even heard of it until I went to see my (private and alternative, but nonetheless qualified to practice medicine as a GP) doc (also homeopath, LOL).
I didn't research it before I went and just asked questions while I was there, felt what was going on and then did a bit of research when I got home.
Before I get down and dirty with my experience, I wanted to know everybody else's schema. Nosey much?
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tunes are all we are.
I had never heard of it until now and had to go and ask dear old Wikipedia what the heck it was.
Imho, based on the concept of the therapy of manipulating the plates or bones in the skull, I would choke any doctor to their knee's if they were to try it on one of my children. Physics dictates it's an impossibility in an adult because the plates are fused.
I don't buy into actual manipulating of the plates. I however would buy transferring energy from the therapist to the patient with the therapist believing s/he is manipulating the plates.
"Health and wealth are my birthright, success my tool, kindness my standard."
From that Wiki article:
Patients often report a sense of deep relaxation during and after the treatment session, and may feel light-headed. This is popularly associated with increases in endorphins, but research shows the effects may actually be brought about by the endocannabinoid system.[24]
Yah,save money and just smoke some weed.
I highly doubt it has any efficacy other than endorhin stimulation and placebo effect.Which is pleasant I admit,but there are easier and often more cost effective other ways to achieve these.
I 'd also choke anybody who tried to manipulate my head,let alone them getting anywhere near my kids skulls.
It reads as very strange Science,very strange indeed.
"He lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel."
Wow, for a bunch of supposedly openminded occultists you guys are coming across as kinda critical. [smile2]
I've had cranial sacral treatments. I get them from my witchdoctor; a friend of mine who is an R.M.T., and a.b.d. his Doctorate in Osteopathy. He has put Da WIfe and I back together from various injuries over the years with remarkable success, and his massage treatments always end with a bit of cranial sacral.
Obviously, in adults, one is not going to have one's cranial plates moved about. However, a gentle massaging pressure along the fused sutures is actually quite pleasant and relaxing. What it does for me is provide me with a sense of realignment in my upper vertibrae and the part where the underside of my cranium attaches to my neck.
With kids my understanding is that it helps with reshaping of the cranium following malformation during the birth process. For us, it was a bit of that or having my kid running around in a hockey helmet for 6 months. No harm done. In fact, the little fellah's quite the promising young evil genius! [eek]
TheSeeker wrote:Wow, for a bunch of supposedly openminded occultists you guys are coming across as kinda critical. [smile2]
Not really. Opinions were asked for and offered. No real malice was meant in the opinions offered. Keep in mind all of us follow what makes sense and works for us. I for one took what I read in it's literal sense because that is all the info I have on the topic. In my mind, playing with the skull of a child is a dangerous thing to do, thus I wouldn't permit anything of that nature to be attempted on my child/ren. It's possible playing with the sutures on an adults skull may manipulate some meridians related to pressure points unknown of at this point in time. Being versed in pressure point manipulation, I would still hesitate to allow this to be done to me because I know some of the painful and sometimes permanent consequences to manipulations. Btw, there are very painful pressure points on the skull so it's highly likely there are meridians unknown to me. These points also encompass the facial area.
The methods proposed don't work for me. Beliefs based on Christian faith also don't work for me yet they work fine for others. If the methods of the topic work for you, that's cool. By all means continue using them. [happyface]
"Health and wealth are my birthright, success my tool, kindness my standard."
There was no malice at all on my part.Meh,I reserve the right to be critical,while also being as open minded as I can,across all areas of my life.
I remain sceptical about this,after reading up on it and my smoke related comment was jokingly put,but serious.Prices hereabouts for CS start at£55 [and upwards] per session.So it is indeed cheaper,in Glasgow, to stimulate the endocannabinioid receptors in another way. [thumbup]
If it works for you that's fine,I have no desire to test it personally,to many head and back injuries in my youth for me to feel comfortable with anyone touching or moving around any part of my head.I have put up with it from medics,on occasion,but it irritates me and it's rather dicomforting to say the least.
Is this practice regulated by Government? I 'm curious,hereabouts,from what I 've read so far,it seems to be based in salons and private clinics and practised mostly by those who do not have much in the way of orthodox Medical qualifications.
"He lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel."
Just a short bit, I asked a similar question to someone who does craniosacral therapy, I had asked her to explain it in comparison to Reiki, and I was told that it's essentially spinal-fluid massage. There's no energy healing involved, no channeling, just massage of the spinal fluid. Learning involves a lot of anatomy study and practical work. The quasi-esoteric angle she gave was that it re-aligns the spine, and from there the positive effects of the alignment go on to the rest of the nervous system, but I believe it's mostly a physical therapy.
Nosey much?
