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SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2017

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your client's arm; in other words, she is hurt because her arm got hit hard. Your palpating, stroking, and massaging are physical activities to free your client from the physical charges carried on the force or energy wave. If you want to speed up healing, you can further analyze the effects of this physical force. There are several factors involved in force-based healing. The first is that when a force initially strikes the body, it causes an entry wound. After creating this impact site, one of two events follow. The force either continues to rush through the body, creating a pathway of injury and then popping through the body, thereby making an exit wound, or it gets stuck somewhere in the body. An exit wound can be felt as a painful or sore bodily area that is usually located opposite the entry site. For instance, if there is bruising on one side of an arm, the exit wound is most likely on the opposite side of the arm. However, exit wounds can vector into nonlinear directions once inside the body. That twisted shoulder might actually be an exit site. Perhaps the physical force entered the body, crashed into bone, traveled upward, and jettisoned out through the shoulder. You generate physical energy miracles by working not only the entrance wound area, but also the pathway, congested areas, or the exit wound, if one exists. If only physical energies impact a client, the recovery can be relatively swift and physically based. However, there is another factor that complicates matters, which is that of subtle energies. Physical forces can be just physical, but they might also carry subtle energies. Forces can also be primarily created by subtle energies, which are hard to perceive or track. 94 m a s s a g e & b o d y w o r k s e p t e m b e r / o c t o b e r 2 0 1 7 As expressed, subtle energies might be emotional, mental, or spiritual. They can be comprised of memories, dreams, goals, or desires. Let's return to our wounded client and I'll show you an example of how subtle energies can be force-based and so powerful that they can create bodily and other types of damage. SHIFTING SUBTLE ENERGIES Return to the batter swinging the bat, and imagine the batter was angry that day. The anger infects the force formed by the bat and the ball, and not only does a physical force impact your client, but so does the anger. The subtle energies of the anger are now going to remain littered in the entrance wound, strewn along the force- based pathway, and fester in the exit wound. The truth is that subtle energies can convert to physical energies and vice versa. I have found that when subtle energies linger within the body, they begin to transform. Thus, they can "become," and attract everything from physical inflammation to disease states. They can also trigger other deeply held subtle energies, causing them to flood the body. In turn, the stuck physical charges can stir or formulate additional negative ideas and challenging emotions. Bottom line, we have to address the charges carried into the body by both subtle and physical forces. I worked exactly this way with a client years ago. Guess what? She'd been struck by a ball during a baseball game. Three years later, her arm was still tender, her shoulder was frozen, and her moods were erratic. She'd undergone a lot of physical care, including massage and chiropractic bodywork, and was now considering surgery for the shoulder. When I focused on the entry-wound area, my client started to feel sad and angry. The same feelings reappeared when she focused on her shoulder. She had known the batter that had hit the ball three years ago and remembered him as an angry young man.

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