Accessing Self-Healing Power
Jian Hong Chen (Dalian, China)
September 21, 2011
In the last two years, I have been “tracking” down Conrad Ho, to take lessons from him, in Touch for Healtha and in Brain Gyma. Gradually, my body started to “speak” to me, and only then did I begin to really see the actual “me” as it was.
I met some difficulty in my own birthing process. The doctor at that time had chosen to clamp on my head and pull me out. As a result, a huge blood clog formed on my head and my left neck muscles were hurt so that my head was pulled toward the left. As Conrad had put it, I experienced extraordinary stresses in my coming to the physical world and stayed in such a state from then on. Only after joining Conrad’s classes was I able to come out of it bit by bit.
In fourteen years of age, I had an operation to adjust my left-turning neck. Parts of the left neck muscles and tendons were slit and everywhere from my chest up, except my face, was sealed in plaster for a whole month. I looked quite OK afterwards, but in all photos, I still carried that little bit of neck deformation.
In 20-22 May 2011, I joined the first three days of the “Motor Development” course in the “Basic Life Skills” Series of Workshops (Editor’s Note: the whole “Motor Development” course spans 8 days). In 5-7 August, I joined again the same three days of course but this time, I went with my daughter. In the morning of 07 August, when I was sitting in the toilet, I could feel my head quietly and slowly slanting toward the left shoulder. This had continued for about 20 minutes and the neck slowly relaxed. It was tiring! I crawled back to bed, lying there in the fetal position, right side down and calmly felt my left chest, shoulder and neck warming up. Another 40 or so minutes had passed and the heat subsided. I had joined a somatic therapy workshop before and had the experience of sensing self-healing power in action under the guidance of the facilitator. I knew said process in that morning was the spontaneous act of the body to heal itself.
On 06 August, in the balance of the centering function (Editor’s Note: the exercises of facilitating muscles to organize themselves around the body’s axis), we had played for a long time the game of balloon volley ball using our heads instead of our hands. A lot of neck movements were embedded there. This had probably stimulated my neck back into function. At the beginning of the “Motor Development” course, Conrad said in the introduction that this course was not for repeated drillings, but more importantly on reconnecting relevant parts of our whole system, feeling for their existence and actions, re-establishing inter-communications. Such reconnection enables the healing system to function and self-healing power will spring into action automatically when the need arises.
In these three days, we did six balances on the “foundations” of motor development, including the grasp of the body gravity line. Before the workshop, I had no idea what a body gravity line was, no feeling at all. The positions of the head, neck, shoulders and the spine were not clear to me. In the last two years, I had been using Touch for Health balances and fostering my self-awareness. Together with the trainings from these two classes of “Motor Development”, I eventually got a clearer sense of my own body. I could feel my body gravity line.
Thanks to Conrad and his “Basic Life Skills” Series of Workshops! Also thanks to myself for ceaselessly pursuing and exploring my own body!
