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I tried this exercise and I feel something in the back of my leg, where the leg joins the pelvis in the back (in my hip and butt, basically), not the front. It still might be worthwhile, but I'm not sure it's working the muscles it's supposed to be lengthening. Brivati-sensei, Is their anything scientific about cranio-sacral massage? Can the pressures on the brain you mention be measured?

Where is the line between real healing and quackery?

That's a really fascinating exercise. I just tried it and there is obviously a lot more tension or something in my left leg than in the right. Certainly the tension in the left leg seemed to ease a bit after the 5 minutes of the exercise.

Now I'm doing my practise and the Bach sounds a lot better than last time though that might be more through luck than anything else!

I used to go to a Chinese hairdresser in Vienna and after they washed your hair the boss-guy would give you a scalp massage - without exception I'd be asleep/out of it in only a couple of minutes and 20 mins later he'd touch my face to wake me up. Never had anything so invigorating or intense before or since. You felt so relaxed yet full of energy. Amazing.

Greetings,
Corwin, I know all too wlel the feelings you have about quackery versus scientific. All I have ever bene able to do is explore , ask questions and sometimes ad da litlte faith;)
Very often science is veyr slow in catching up with truth because many people labelled as scientists or scientific are two narrow minded to ask questions or explore except within the limts of their own egos. This happened in the case of cranio sacral which , although it is actually quite mainstrema now, was streneuously resited by the medical profession (often the least scientific becuas eof the money and prestige involved) who insited thta the skull was a solid entity that ha dnothing to do with bodily function. Recent high tech scanning machines and so forth have shown that it is a number of parts operaitng in coperaitve vibration and that any blockages result in dysfuntional nervous system, free flow of chemicals, messages down the spinal chord and so forth.
Quackery occurs for me in two ways. First when shallow people embrace somethign such as cranio sacral as the be all and end all (the first sin) and then don`t have the integrity or courage to actually train properly. A one month course at a retreat in the blue ridged mountains of Virginia does not make a healer. My doctor has trained for many years and calls himself a beginner. He takes two months off a year to travle to America and work as an asisstnat with the leaidng expert in this particular field. The other quacks I epxerience dat three diffenret hospitals here twoyears ago. Each one diagnosed me witha diffenrt and uttelry disparate disease (including cancer) using a plethora of high tech machines. The one question they didn`t ask me as a real person at any time was `How are you feeling mentally? What@s going on in your life?
That was quackery under another name: malpractice. I am, incidentally, very healthy ;)
Doesn`t matter if you fele the stress on top of below- somehting need ssome work...
Cheers,
Buri Sorry, the last bit wa s addressed to Karen. Scalp massage? I don't even go to hairdressers because I can't bear to have my scalp massaged - it's very sensitive and I hate the way hairdressers yank at it.

Anyway, tension in various parts of the body is definitely disastrous for my body. I'm slowly relaxing myself out of the habit of holding my breath during difficult passages...

I'm actually in a great deal of agreement with you Mr. Brivati. I've had medical journeys of my own, and one thing I know from personal experience--we're a total working system, not a sum of parts. One cannot hope to do more than put a plug in the crack of a damn which is about to break without considering the entire scope of the working system. Greetings,
Kimberlee, sicne when have you been calling me Mtr Brivati a sopposed to Buri?;)
Now I need a prune bowl,
Cheers,
Buri