Back again after a travel "sabbatical" to see that all is "as usual" on this forum! No, I am not at all anxious that others will read the MFR thread as Barrett is hoping. I do not think that MFR practitioners are hiding behind anything and from a patients perspective I certainly do not think they should hide - on the contrary - spread the word of how effective this treatment is. I know that you folks hate to hear this but for the patient it is still the end result of treatment that matters and there seems to be agreement that the approach is successful. Time will deapen our understanding of MFR and all the other treatment methods we use in therapy.
And, just to correct one misunderstanding: MFR is NOT done with the purpose of releasing emotion - it just sometimes happens just as it happens with other hands-on treatment methods. I hope that therapist who work with human beings understand that emotion, be it laughter or tears or anger, is part of who we all are and that when someone - a therapist - shows his/her patient empathy and is allowing the patients to express what they feel it will further augment the healing of the body which is hopefully the end-result we all want for ourselves as patients or for our patients as therapist.
John Barnes does NOT teach his students that emotional releasing is the purpose of the treatment; he teaches his students to treat the fascial restrictions and he teaches that emotional releases CAN occur and that if it occurs to let the patient alone come to conclusions of what happened. Is it not amazing to think that so many people in our culture still feel that a human being can be devided into a physical body and an emotional body and that those two sides have nothing to do with each other - just like the right and left side of the brain was viewed in the early days of science.....
And, just to correct one misunderstanding: MFR is NOT done with the purpose of releasing emotion - it just sometimes happens just as it happens with other hands-on treatment methods. I hope that therapist who work with human beings understand that emotion, be it laughter or tears or anger, is part of who we all are and that when someone - a therapist - shows his/her patient empathy and is allowing the patients to express what they feel it will further augment the healing of the body which is hopefully the end-result we all want for ourselves as patients or for our patients as therapist.
John Barnes does NOT teach his students that emotional releasing is the purpose of the treatment; he teaches his students to treat the fascial restrictions and he teaches that emotional releases CAN occur and that if it occurs to let the patient alone come to conclusions of what happened. Is it not amazing to think that so many people in our culture still feel that a human being can be devided into a physical body and an emotional body and that those two sides have nothing to do with each other - just like the right and left side of the brain was viewed in the early days of science.....
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