Sensory HOLISTIC Treatment
© Silke Stupperich
My Method
I communicate with the deep strings of the human soul without verbalizing them.
Foreword
Touch absolutely deserves a separate discussion for the importance it assumes in the professional practice of massage. Contact represents a remote model of affective and social communication, lived and experienced by each of us since we were children that plays a role of significant importance for a harmonious growth both in men and in all living beings.
Unfortunately as adults this mode of communication as deep as it is intuitive is experienced with full consciousness only rarely although the need for physical contact with another person is a primary need in any season of life. Just think of how much pleasure a pat on the back provokes to express congratulations or the value of deep communication that embraces a friend strongly, without forgetting how rich the loving dimension is in kisses and caresses. Examples of communication that touch the deepest chords of the human soul without necessarily having to verbalize. Touch is not a sense confined to a single organ but extends over the entire surface of the body. In the context of care, physical contact has an extraordinary communicative potential, the sensations transmitted through touch represent relief, help and sharing. Touch is an indispensable tool for meeting the cognitive and affective needs of patients.
Unfortunately
as adults this mode of communication, as deep as it is intuitive, is experienced with full consciousness only rarely, although the need for physical contact with another person is a primary need in any season of life.
Sensory Holistic Treatment
It is a complete therapeutic path that is based on the holistic approach to the person, it is a massage that awakens the perception of the body as a unit, helping to overcome the sensation of fragmentation and promoting physical / energetic / spiritual harmony. In the course of the treatment, various techniques are used depending on the physical condition of the client, the goal is to gradually recover psycho / physical harmony.
The movements are defined and deep in a loving and respectful touch.
Feeling the operators hands, the massaged person regains the sensitivity of each area of the body and can integrate perceptions to form a more precise image of the self. The most used description of this particular treatment reported by the customer is:
"It is not a massage but an experience"
It has a relaxing, sedative effect, stimulates the nervous system, relieves fascial tensions and restrictions by improving mobility. Improves vascularization, improves vascular, venous, arterial and lymphatic circulation. Its reflex action is normalizing on organs and viscera, restores the energy flow.
The person learns to accept himself, to feel the his own body improving self-esteem and being more confident, he feels more loved and accepted by experiencing a state of trust and abandonment that allows you to listen to yourself in depth. We live a new experience often never perceived that transports us to a new corporeal dimension on the physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual level.
It is mainly through the body that we set up and expand our relationships: if there is a body that communicates, we necessarily need another that knows and wants to receive our signals, which allows us to "reach" it even when these seem to be difficult to access. When a person falls ill, the relational capacity of his body is altered, it becomes difficult, confused. In a pathological situation made up of suffering, of reduction of neuro-motor skills, the body is transfigured and relational receptivity is based on different channels. With different times and ways the patient accepts and endures what he considers a kind of external attack on his own body (as in the case of invasive diagnostic tests and bloody therapeutic maneuvers) while continuing to establish relationships.
Many of these relationships are forced, sometimes unwanted or unwanted. These are the reasons that should make those practicing a health profession reflect on the conscious use of body contact. The hands of the operator, nurse, physiotherapist, neuro-psychomotricist of the developmental age or other include gestures not only of a functional nature, but also represent relief, strengthening the helping relationship and predispose the patient to an increase in positive responses. , strengthening his physical and emotional sensitivity. The first who favored the study of physical contact with the patient was Cochrane, creator of the movement that led to EBM, (medicine based on evidence of efficacy and not on ideas) while Veldman studied for a long time the science of affect expressed through the contact. This study was later taken up by Marie de Hennezel who defined aptonomy (from the Greek hapsis, “touch” and nomos, “rule”).
It is a massage that awakens the perception of the body as a unit, helping to overcome the sensation of fragmentation and promoting physical, energetic and spiritual harmony.
Basically used at birth and in the first period of life, its application was subsequently extended to the last stage of life as those who approach death need to communicate, to perceive love and care with the sweetness that is dedicated to a child. Aptonomy does not base its concepts exclusively on touch, but instead evaluates the importance of the participation of those who care as the act of touching transmits the will to want to welcome, and to receive consciously, it means identifying and encountering not a body, but an individual. A psycho-tactile contact represents a consoling, reassuring and strengthening contact that has the strength to offer attention to the sick person, the possibility of restoring esteem, dignity, a sense of self as whole, and the perception of oneself as unique. A touch-massage can dissolve the feeling of blockage, constriction, can reorganize, repair the image of one's body, distinguishing the healthy and functional parts from the sick and unresponsive ones.
Many health workers for their professional practices are authorized to touch the patient body, a touch that can reach up to his soul, also exposing us to a deep and intense relationship, being masters of the ability to communicate closeness or detachment, openness or closure, encouragement or distrust. (Marsaglia C, Galizio M. The gestures of care. Beyond the hands. From: WorkShop at Hospice Casa Madonna dell'Uliveto, April 2002). Studies proven by the literature confirm that haptonomy (caring touch) is able to determine:
- optimization of the service
- the inner strength in one's abilities
- an increase in the perception of one's own value
- the improvement of the empathic relationship with the patient
- taking care of and considering the patient as a unique person.
A touch-massage can dissolve the feeling of blockage, constriction, can reorganize, repair the image of one's body, distinguishing the healthy and functional parts from the sick and unresponsive ones.
