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Now What?: Beyond 10
Now what? We've found our way through the ten sessions, and you still feel restrictions in your body. This is not uncommon. Some people ascribe to the belief that a person needs one series and is set for the rest of their lives. I do not believe this. Every day we do things that unbalance us. Every day we find uneven strain in our bodies. Hopefully you are much more aware now, but the idea that your body, mind and heart is done and healed and through with needing anything else may seem absurd to you as well.
Chances are that during our 10 sessions you have discovered areas in your body that needed attention more than others. There is a possibility that you could still use more work in these areas. Some people recieve a 10 series every year. It's wonderful not just as a healing journey, but as an assessment tool. By working everything, we sometimes discover pain and restriction that we were not aware of before we dug it up, so to speak. Many times after the series clients will return also for preventative maintenance, or to keep the freedom they have found.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, sometimes what is held in the body, is really being held in the mind or heart. Sometimes it is associated to old memories of a painful time. Often times the body will continue to revert to its' old patterns until the mind or heart lets go of past trauma, and there is no timeline for letting that go.
I myself had a rotator cuff injury about 8 years before I first had any structural integration work. In class my teacher touched an area and proclaimed, to the entire class that was watching the demo, "that's the tightest teres I've ever touched!" I figure it was pretty tight, since he's also the one that taught us to use more gentle words, such as "slightly tight" or "a little bit tight". Being that type of person, I told him to go for it, I knew I needed the work after all. He worked through it and I gritted through the pain, but I'd been restricted for years and wanted to be free. After the demo I lay crying on the table, half from the physical sensations, half from the emotions that were bubbling up around it.
Over the next week I had amazing dreams and vivid memories going all the way back to childhood, and realized many habits I had around my left shoulder, that had in fact set it up for an injury long before the actual injury I thought was the cause. I was lucky, it all came the first time. Many times it takes numerous sessions before the real cause is made known. There is no telling when someone will be ready to let go of what they're really holding inside, and until then, the physical symptoms may continue to manifest between sessions.