Use of Trance/Dropping Out
Do your clients ‘pass out’ on your table? There are a couple of valuable opportunities in those moments.
What is the best thing to do with them when they drop out? Do you think they just need to rest? OR Do you think clients need to be awake to benefit from bodywork? Do you wake them up with some more vigorous techniques or do you let them “sleep”. Are they really sleeping? Is there a purpose to those ‘drop outs’?
I find those moments VERY VALUABLE.
Here’s what’s happening. After stimulating the body with release techniques you may notice the client tending to slip into unconsciousness. Sometimes it means their body is ready to make the internal changes that your techniques have been asking for and Conscious Attention, the watchdog, is in the way.
The body makes most of its changes in the unconscious state. It will even continue to change in the nothing time of the night.
Cellular level changes are not a function of consciousness. Often consciousness is a hindrance to the body changing. Our fears and preconceptions can prevent change.
Sometimes dropping out can also indicate sensory overload, too much information for their processing system to take in all the new stimulus.
Conscious Intention toward a desired outcome will influence the outcome. (Author and public speaker and researcher, Larry Dossey MD, gave that definition as the definition of prayer.)
Support the body, or the limb, in the desired or optimal position that you have reached with your work, always in a position of NO PAIN. Micro-Vibration or pulsation can provide further information to the body’s tissue without requiring ANYthing of consciousness. The client remains asleep.
When the body finishes the process of letting go, your client will wake up. The end of range fear and resistance will be gone and comfort restored. The body did it all. All you did was support it and give it space and time (and silent instruction).
Try it. You’ll be amazed!
[Neuromuscular Reprogramming Network]
