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An Question of Ethics.
I had occasion to ponder this some time ago and thought It might be wize to bring it up here for debate. The working asumption is that those reading this are gifted as energy/light workers but NOT trained as Social Workers or in other forms of "Talk Therapy."
Several years ago I was giving a massage to a friend of mine whom I had known for well over a decade. She was psychicaly gifted and we were very comfortable interacting on both the energetic and 3D planes. She told me she had a "string of pearls" along her right IT band. The hurt for some time (over 20 years) but she had never been able to get them to release. I explained that there may be muscle memories lodged there. As I worked these "pearls' out of her IT band Information was released with them. This was highly personal information that as friends we had never shared. After the massage when my table had been put away. I asked her and she revealed the information and stated she had not given these matters any thought in some time. Later, on her own released these trapped emotions and her "string of pearls" slowly disappeared. Obviously the multi dimensional nature of this relationship made the whole matter fairly simple.
For many MT/Lightworkers energy is transformed into information. Most of this energy/information helps the therapist "overdeliver", accomplish work the client was in need of but may not have been specifically mentioned. As MT's we all accept that a certain amount of our work is sense related. Certainly clinical experience factors in. Here's the question:
Accepting that energy is translated into useable information and given to us in a non conscious way and accepting that this information is an intended communication, Is it ethical to respond to that information if it is not bodywork related?
Please feel free to add your comments.
Ruthellen
Several years ago I was giving a massage to a friend of mine whom I had known for well over a decade. She was psychicaly gifted and we were very comfortable interacting on both the energetic and 3D planes. She told me she had a "string of pearls" along her right IT band. The hurt for some time (over 20 years) but she had never been able to get them to release. I explained that there may be muscle memories lodged there. As I worked these "pearls' out of her IT band Information was released with them. This was highly personal information that as friends we had never shared. After the massage when my table had been put away. I asked her and she revealed the information and stated she had not given these matters any thought in some time. Later, on her own released these trapped emotions and her "string of pearls" slowly disappeared. Obviously the multi dimensional nature of this relationship made the whole matter fairly simple.
For many MT/Lightworkers energy is transformed into information. Most of this energy/information helps the therapist "overdeliver", accomplish work the client was in need of but may not have been specifically mentioned. As MT's we all accept that a certain amount of our work is sense related. Certainly clinical experience factors in. Here's the question:
Accepting that energy is translated into useable information and given to us in a non conscious way and accepting that this information is an intended communication, Is it ethical to respond to that information if it is not bodywork related?
Please feel free to add your comments.
Ruthellen
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Comment by Julie Onofrio on October 22, 2009 at 9:46pm
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I think it has to be done very carefully and with specific training on how to do it because it is so close to being out of scope but there are people who teach things like that. The thing is to keep it focused on the body and the physical aspects. Using tools like Focusing (Gendlin) and Somatosysthesis (Clyde Ford) can be helpful I think.
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Comment by Ruthellen Wood on October 20, 2009 at 3:10pm
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Gloria,
Thank you for writing. I agree wholeheartedly. However, many MT's discover thier gifts after they become therapists. Because of this, they either discard important information as ill gotten gain or some how "morally wrong" to use to the clients best advantage. Also I have met former MT's who left the profession and their gifts behind because they were never fully able to embrace and understand their gifts.
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Comment by Gloria Coppola on October 20, 2009 at 1:03pm
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RuthEllen, Great story and question!
Personally, I feel yes, it is ethical to respond to this information. Bodywork is energetic anyway you put it and information is going to be revealed on many levels, as you already know. It is our responsibility to process any and all information in an ethical way and never do any harm. As we are not social workers (most of us) or counselors we should have a great referral system in the event the person needs to process, so they are not doing it alone. I have worked with individuals who have survived many things in their life and always made sure in the event something further developed I knew where to refer them. We as therapists need to decipher clearly however, what is "real"information or intuition (that may not always be on the money 100%) and NEVER inflict our own feelings and beliefs into the treatments - for that would be extremely unethical in my opinion.
When healing is taking place on these multi-dimensional levels, those of us that provide this work and are gifted in this area - know that a higher wisdom is definitely at work here and who are we to question the work of the divine. We must be in the clearest state as possible when working on this level!
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