Acupressure or Reflexology: Sensations During a Session
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When giving an Acupressure or Reflexology session to another person, you may expect to immediately be able to feel energy. In time, most people can feel the qi, or vital force, moving through the receivers meridians or collecting in the receivers acupoints, but you need practice and patience. Take heart: Giving a session can open your awareness to your own energy flow, causing interesting sensations!
An electric current and other common sensations
When you hold two acupoints together, you may feel as if a current is running through your hands and youre connecting a circuit. Although this analogy is useful, strictly speaking, its not whats happening. Your energy isnt flowing into the recipient, and her energy isnt flowing into you. What youre feeling is a process called induction.
Try this experiment: Turn on a fluorescent light and hold another fluorescent light bulb tube in your hand. Bring the light tube near the fluorescent light. Youll notice that the tube begins to emit light even though it isnt connected to electricity! This isnt because electricity has jumped from one lighting tube to the other. Rather, the light tube receiving electricity has started vibrating the fluorescent ions inside the tube. When you bring the second fluorescent tube within the vibrating field, the ions in the second tube begin to vibrate as well. Vibration in one induces vibration in the other when their fields overlap.
The same is true in Acupressure. When you feel the electric feeling of energy moving, it isnt someone elses energy moving into you. Its your energy moving in response to the excitement of your energy field. This can work in both directions, and people youre working on may say things like: Wow! When you touch me I get an electric surge. Remember that theyre feeling their own surge sparked by your vibrating field of energy!
Here are some additional sensations you may experience as the giver of Acupressure or reflexology:
* You may feel hot or cold throughout your whole body.
* You may have tingling in your hands.
* You may experience the same type of body jolt that the receiver does.
Basically, any sensation you have is normal. The body is simply interpreting energy movement.
A connection with the recipient
When youre giving a session, your body changes too! You may notice that as your recipient relaxes, you relax; as your recipients brain wave states change, your brain wave states change. This is called entrainment and happens when energy fields interact with each other.
Entrainment is a term physicists use to describe the effect that similar frequencies with different rhythms have on each other. For example, when you first put two grandfather clocks in the same room, they each have a similar frequency (one beat per second), but their pendulums are usually swinging in their own rhythms. When you leave them together, eventually they coordinate so that the pendulums are swinging in sync with each other. They have become entrained to each other. This happens to the body rhythms of people, too, including brain wave states.
Usually during the course of a session, as the receivers energy becomes calmer and flows more evenly, yours does too. This principle works in both directions. If you find the receiver is wired and having trouble relaxing, relax yourself and settle your own energy to help entrain the receiver and promote greater relaxation.
Your own imbalance, activated
You cant catch someone elses imbalance, but if you have a similar imbalance, you can activate your own pattern by giving a healing session. In this instance, the principles of induction and entrainment are working when we wish they werent.
If after giving a session you find that you feel sick or tired or have the symptoms of the person you were working on, youve either activated your own deep patterns of imbalance or youve become overly invested in the session. How do you avoid this?
* Do your own work. The more aware you are of your own issues, the better you are at giving a good session and the less likely it is that your own imbalances become activated. However, if you find yourself going downhill during a session, take a break.
* Remember the principles of Chinese healing. Whos doing the healing? The receiver, not the giver! If you find yourself taking on the symptoms of the receiver or feeling depleted after sessions, youre overly invested in the outcome. In effect, youre trying to heal the person by taking his symptoms away or giving him your energy. The best way to help someone heal is to stay neutral and let his body do what it needs to do. His job is to do the healing; your job is to offer support.
Article from: Dummies.com
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