How to get to the next level of letting go.

As you read last week, one simple trigger point struggle taught me how to let go and surrender so I could better help clients release difficult tension patterns. In the same way, I later learned how to overcome an even more stubborn tension by getting clients mindfully involved in their own healing process.

I had been using Craniosacral Therapy (CST) to release muscle tension for quite some time when it happened. I was confidently zipping through tension releases in a CST treatment until we got stuck. Very stuck. I engaged into the holding pattern with slight pressure – nothing. I changed how I observed it with my zones – nothing. I asked the client to take some deep breathes into the tension – nothing. Ugh.

As I scrolled through CST techniques in my brain looking for the key to this release, I could feel there was nothing I could do. This one had to come from the client. But how do I get my client to do the release? How do I get the client to do the “heavy lifting” here? Uhhhhh (blank stare), then 💡, oh! (Which is a perk of being neurodivergent…while I suck at grammar and putting away laundry, I excel at problem solving and formless thinking.) If I need them to do the work, I’ll teach them to do their zones.

I walked the client through the CST zones just as my instructor did for students as a class warm up and eureka, it worked! From that point on, I was no longer the only practitioner in the room during 1-on-1 treatments. Session after session, I guided clients through their zones or CST rhythms, whatever was indicated for the situation. Clients released more quickly and also learned how they could become their own healer.

Soon clients came in saying, “My back gave out last week and I did that thing we do in sessions. It helped a lot!” Some said that practicing the zones was the first time they ever felt like they could successfully meditate even though they didn’t think they could be still. Others would say that they used the zones to calm and reframe an emotionally triggering situation which allowed them to respond in a way they felt really good about.

So if you find your practitioner isn’t able to get releases to the level that you want, it might be time to unleash the healer within and bring 2 practitioners to your next treatment. You’d be amazed at the results. I’ll break down, step-by-step, how we do it in our Observatory sessions in the next email. Stay tuned!

Here to unleash the healer in all of us,

Aimee