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Healing/Wholemaking – An obvious connection to massage and bodywork. The process of receiving treatments, and the goal of these sessions is to facilitate healing on many levels. |
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Maverick – Many bodyworkers come to the profession as individuals who stand apart from their peers, often through unique experiences and belief systems, or injuries of their own. They sometimes "march to a different drummer" and can bring an eclectic perspective to their clients. |
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Quest – A journey of seeking the truth. Bodywork and energy work can uncover imbalance and conditions that are often the root cause of dis-ease. Therapist and client can be thought of as on a quest together to bring harmony and balance to the body's energy. |
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Guide – Another obvious connection in the sense that the bodyworker is not trying to "change" the client, but rather help lead them to their own ability to heal themselves.
On a more subtle energy level, many bodyworkers feel they channel their own healing or spirit "guides" who help them do their work. |
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Key – Zane B. Stein states, "What is most important about a Key is the recognition of its existence. Before one realizes a Key exists one may not believe there is any solution to a problem – or, one may not even recognize that a problem exists. But once the Key is discovered the first step in the solution has been taken. One who has the Key actually also has control. He can keep others from opening a door, and therefore keep them from solving their problem."
This is why it is particularly important that the therapist only take on the role of "guide" so that the client has the opportunity to discover their own key. We can facilitate and channel, but the key to healing lies with the receiver. We cannot always know why someone holds onto their pain, and we have an ethical obligation not to slip into trying to control the healing process. |
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Doorway – Chiron and it's archetype represent the doorway between the inner and outer, structure and spirit, between all that we hold in our bodies and muscles and bones and cells and the benevolent, loving cosmic energies of the universe... between the wound and its healing. The doorway belongs to neither world, or both. |
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Chiros – "Timeless time", the eternal moment, such as one reaches in meditation. It can be thought of as being present in the moment, the suspension of time during a bodywork session when client and therapist do the healing dance together. |
Here are some other words and phrases for Chiron:
Teacher, Guru, Mentor, Fosterparent, Turning Point, Now, Catalyst, Bridge, Link, Steppingstone, Passageway, Common Ground, Union of Opposites, Holistic, Balance, Mediator, The Passage from Dependence to Independence, Turning the Corner, Therapy, a Koan [in Zen Buddhism], A Wound that will not Heal, Synergism, Essence.