So, I guess I will talk about craniosacral therapy. I guess I have to start back to why I got into doing homeopathic things to begin with.
Well, a few years ago I was training to be a surgical technologist and I started getting migraines. Before that time I would get migraines once maybe twice a month (any at all is too many in my book, but anyway...) when I was training I started getting migraines 3-4 times a week. I went to the doctor and got a sample of a drug that they told me they usually give to people who have to stay on their feet during a migraine. I figured that was the one for me since a surgical tech is on their feet all day long. So, the next time a migraine came on I took one of the pills. WORST MISTAKE EVER!!!! Sure, the pain was gone from my brain, instead it was relocated in my arms and legs. It was like having menstrual cramps multiplied by 1,000. (I know, you probably think I'm exaggerating, but it hurt so bad in my arms and legs that I could hardly move them).
Also by this point in time to help keep migraines from coming I was avoiding "trigger" foods, which for me meant all dairy, chocolate, orange juice and other citrus items. If I ate cheese at all it was a guaranteed migraine within thirty minutes.
My husband had a co-worker who was a craniosacral therapist and he told my husband that I should go see him, because it might help my migraines go away. By that point in time, I figured anything was better than getting a migraine so I went and had a few sessions. By the time I was finished, which really was only about a month at the most, I got to where I only had one migraine about every six months or so. I'd go have another session, and I was good for another six months or more. A wonderful thing was that I could eat dairy products, chocolate, and citrus fruit again.
Another great thing is even if I do feel a migraine coming on, which doesn't happen very often, I can take a regular pain reliever and the bulk of the headache doesn't happen. No writhing on the bed in agony feeling like I'm going to die, no nausea, no vomiting, just a small headache that I can get to go away with menthol gel on my forehead, temples, and back of my neck(what they use for muscles and things, I like biofreeze). Most of all, I can function. So, I guess you could say that craniosacral therapy got me started on the road to homeopathic treatments for things.
This picture is a pretty good image of what a craniosacral therapist would do when they first start on the physical part of your session.
Craniosacral therapy in a nutshell is basically feeling the flow of your cerebralspinal fluid (or in simpler terms, the fluid that circulates from your head, down your spine, and back up), and getting the flow of the fluid to go the way that it's supposed to by releasing the areas where it is blocked. A craniosacral therapist does this by holding certain pressure points and getting them to release the blocked area. For me it was very relaxing. For others it can be a very emotional experience to have those areas released, because of the memories/emotions that the body has tucked away there.
So, here is what would happen when I went to a craniosacral therapy session. The first session I went to we went over a lot of my medical history. It was a lot like going to a doctor for the first time. He explained what craniosacral therapy is, and also what he would be doing. There was a massage table in the middle of the room, a relaxation fountain, a small fridge full of bottled water, chairs, pressure point charts, and a small stereo. Once we were done with my medical history, he had me lay down on my back on the massage table. He turned on some relaxing music, dimmed the lights, and put an essential oil on my wrists. It is very important for the client to be able to relax or the body will have a difficult time releasing anything. The first thing he did was ask my body permission to work on me (they do this a lot in homeopathic things, it's a pretty critical thing), and then he would sit there at the head of the table and "feel" the flow of my cerebral-spinal fluid. After he did that he knew the areas that needed to be released and he would proceed to go to those areas and hold the areas with his fingertips until they would release.
Like I said, for me this was a very relaxing thing, and it helped my migraines to go away. I would recommend it to anyone!!
Craniosacral therapy in a nutshell is basically feeling the flow of your cerebralspinal fluid (or in simpler terms, the fluid that circulates from your head, down your spine, and back up), and getting the flow of the fluid to go the way that it's supposed to by releasing the areas where it is blocked. A craniosacral therapist does this by holding certain pressure points and getting them to release the blocked area. For me it was very relaxing. For others it can be a very emotional experience to have those areas released, because of the memories/emotions that the body has tucked away there.
So, here is what would happen when I went to a craniosacral therapy session. The first session I went to we went over a lot of my medical history. It was a lot like going to a doctor for the first time. He explained what craniosacral therapy is, and also what he would be doing. There was a massage table in the middle of the room, a relaxation fountain, a small fridge full of bottled water, chairs, pressure point charts, and a small stereo. Once we were done with my medical history, he had me lay down on my back on the massage table. He turned on some relaxing music, dimmed the lights, and put an essential oil on my wrists. It is very important for the client to be able to relax or the body will have a difficult time releasing anything. The first thing he did was ask my body permission to work on me (they do this a lot in homeopathic things, it's a pretty critical thing), and then he would sit there at the head of the table and "feel" the flow of my cerebral-spinal fluid. After he did that he knew the areas that needed to be released and he would proceed to go to those areas and hold the areas with his fingertips until they would release.
Like I said, for me this was a very relaxing thing, and it helped my migraines to go away. I would recommend it to anyone!!
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