In our daily work the client comes to us with a problem of his body and he/ she also brings his psyche with him. We are trained to diagnose the structural and functional problems of the body. The psychological side we tend to see as not our terrain. The current situation in Osteopathic Medicine is that we study and treat tissue which we can touch and see (3D). The Cellular level, Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF), Electrical Fields and Time (4D) are not a part of Osteopathic Medicine. If we want to treat the brain, we need to include these phenomena.
When we follow Still’s first principle: the bodily human is a functional unity, we have to aim to unite the emotional and psychological issues, with the body and to see its origin in the body. This is were the Electro Magnetic Fields come into play. These fields are an important way in which the body transfers its information to the brain for further processing.
Following Damasio’s and Brown’s work we see that the emotional side of the psyche, the proto-self originates from the body. The impulses from the viscera of our organs are transmitted towards the brainstem. The haemodynamics, aerodynamics and electrical/ electromagnetic dynamics are means to transmit information from the body towards the brainstem. From here the information is transmitted towards Limbic system en later the cortex. In the cortex the information is translated into images. This way the body is incorperated into the brain. Our subconscious is 90 % of the information we have, this resides mostly in the body. We are only conscious of a small part of the information that come to us. Our conscious processes a small amount of bits of info, while our subconscious processes millions of bits. According to Brown this microgenetic movement takes places every 20 msec. Also this movement recapitulates the Phylontogeny.
Now that we have a four dimensional picture on different planes of what we have under our hands we come to the next level:
What is Consciousness, Being Aware, Mindfull?? This is important in our work as Therapists.
Also from Quantum Mechanics comes the “observer principle”. What we palpate and the Mental Images that come to us, are influenced by our own back ground: “Know thyself, before judging another”!! Is the origin of this sensation mine or the other?? This “Mindsight” process takes us into the depths of ourselves and the others.
This makes it possible to follow Anthony Chilla’s motto: Once the hands are on the body, the body is in command. We need to trust our subconscious, our hands and the mental images that come to us.
We have to live Osteopathy. It is not a 9 to 5 job, but a way of seeing the world around us and ourselves.
Sander Kales, D.O.
Location:Hamburg, Deutschland
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