The Power of Movement

Lu Yue, Mar. 21, 2015, Xuzhou, China

Y is a primary student. Initially, he came to me for balancing to deal with his timidity. For example, he would vomit outside the school on the first day of school. He would be afraid to go home if someone in his community passed away. He would stay with his grandma and would only go home when the funeral was over. He procrastinated in doing homework; made mistakes in math problems, scored poorly in comprehension, performed worse than before in English…..

At that time, his mother went to consult a psychology teacher in a reputable university in the locality. The teacher said that the case was complicated since the child had physical symptoms. So the treatment would require many consultation sessions, which cost RMB$1,000 per hour. Y’s mother was daunted by what the teacher said, and was also terrified by the high consultation fee! And so, she thought of me. My balancing fee was RMB$200 per hour (I was not a professor and thus was less famous). I was quite sure that initially Y’s mother only wanted to try out balancing.

After they had come intermittently for six months, the child did not vomit any more, was no longer afraid of teachers, and would not be scared if someone died. He showed improvement in maths and comprehension. On the whole, he was more open and cheerful. Of course, there were still a lot of rooms for improvement.

When Y came for balancing, his mother was more concerned than he was (I guess most mothers are like that.) During this period, I kept communicating with his mother. I told her what I was doing, and how best she could help her child back home. Y’s mother became more relaxed emotionally. When she saw Y’s improvement, she was more willing to do home exercises, like crawling together with her child at home (When Y’s mother crawled for the first time, she had such a bad headache that she wanted to throw up. Finally, she experienced what I said about the power of movement). She was more active in getting her child to do movement. She had also learnt one thing – letting go!!

The goal of this morning’s balancing was already set by him several days ago. This meant that he could be more proactive in requesting balancing. Unlike previous goals which were always of remedial in nature, the goal became more of facing the future. He began to face the imminent major revision exercise for progressing from primary school to junior secondary school.

I used “Positive Points” and “Lazy 8” to ease his tension in today’s balancing, and used cross crawl for integration. The first picture was drawn before balancing to show how he felt about facing the imminent increasing number of tests. The second picture was drawn after balancing to show how he felt about facing the imminent increasing number of tests.