New member response to Caroline's questions about bodywork/hypnotherapy

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Hello everyone!I just joined this list yesterday and look forward to conversing

with anyone. I am not a practitioner, per say, however, I have studied bodywork

(Reiki and Reflexology) and use it on myself and family. I am also knowledgable

in herbology and body cleansing. I'm 37 year old female and I live in Western

New York state. I read a lot of books about body/mind healing and think there is

definitely a link between the two. I work on myself constantly with the help of

an NLP programmer who also practices TimeLine Therapy (this is a strange therapy

but let me tell you..it works!!) Any way, I wanted to answer Caroline's

question that I personally wouldn't mind the hypnosis along with bodywork, but I

would prefer to have a woman working on me vs. a man. I just would feel much

more comfortable and probably get more out of the hypnosis knowing I didn't have

to worry about potential inappropriate behavior. Also, Caroline, there is an

article about this exact same thing in a magazine called " Healthy and Natural

Journal " Oct 99 issue. The article is about SOMA body/mind work. For more info

they give the following website: SOMA-institute.com. Hope this helps you out.

Talk to everyone later..Jackie

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jackieman wrote:

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> Any way, I wanted to answer Caroline's question that I personally wouldn't

> mind the hypnosis along with bodywork, but I would prefer to have a woman

> working on me vs. a man. I just would feel much more comfortable and

> probably get more out of the hypnosis knowing I didn't have to worry about

> potential inappropriate behavior.

 

I wanted to address this to you and make my opinion known about

this... I can well understand why people have a reluctance in this

area, but it is no safer to assume that just because a therapist is a

woman she will not do anything inappropriate or sexual to you.

 

And just because a therapist is a male does not mean he will.

 

Sorry if I've scared you off entirely, but it's true. I've been hit on

by female therapists and clients. It happens. I get a little het up

over this issue because I am a nurse and have taught in massage

school, so I've worked with many very fine professional male

therapists and nurses (I'm married to a great professional male

massage therapist LOL) and I try whenever possible to educate people

to stop looking at their therapist as a set of gonads but as a person.

 

Anyway, enough said. Sorry I used you as my soapbox. You have every

right to do what you like, but if I were you I might like to explore

why I might be afraid of being taken advantage of. Is it just old

stuff from my programming, or detritus from a bad experience? Etc.

 

> Also, Caroline, there is an article about

> this exact same thing in a magazine called " Healthy and Natural Journal " Oct

> 99 issue. The article is about SOMA body/mind work. For more info they give

> the following website: SOMA-institute.com.

 

Dang, I couldn't get this to go anywhere. I tried putting the " http "

and " www " on it, too. Hmm. Guess I'll just have to try to get the

magazine somewhere. Thanks.

 

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Blessings,

Crow

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