Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy

Yesterday I started a program of study in a healing massage modality called Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy (VHMT). It is taught exclusively at the World School of Massage in San Francisco. I have no massage experience, but I am fascinated with working with the body's energies for balancing and healing.

On our first day, we began to learn about the principles of VHMT. Fundamentally, the technique is working with energy flow in the body. VHMT is based on a model which views the body as completely fluid, and so a critical aspect of VHMT is moving energy through the body in a fluid way, as well as helping the practitioner and the receiver become conscious of their bodies as fluid mechanisms. To this end, in class we learned about a particular pattern of energy which flows through the body, and we practiced moving this energy through each other.

In our first exercise, we worked with another student to simply feel their energy flow without actually touching them. I was surprised and delighted that both my partner and I picked up significant information about each other from this exercise alone. In the second exercise, we practiced moving the energy again, but this time by hands-on work on joint segments. For example, we held one hand on the receiver's ankle and the other on their knee. This process continues on joints throughout the body. It sounds mild, but it is surprisingly relaxing and effective.

Your Problem is Already Solved

As I've written in previous posts, I'm a huge Caroline Myss fan. Lately I've been listening to podcasts of her archived radio shows from Hay House Radio, and they are magnificent. This woman is so incredibly wise, insightful, and brilliant. One of the things I've learned from listening to her is a method she recommends for dealing with any frightening or stressful situation, including illness. Her advice is to see the situation as already healed by God. She emphasizes the importance of accepting that everything is as it should be, even if we can not understand why. Accept that, and then view the issue as already healed.

This can be a difficult exercise to perform, especially because our rational mind makes us believe that we must try to figure out why things are the way they are, and that we need to remain frightened until the situation is resolved. Yet the power of surrendering to God is enormous, and it is not a rational process. Our rational minds are certainly important and useful in our everyday affairs, but we are mistaken if we believe that the rational mind is useful for every situation - especially a spiritual crisis. A spiritual crisis calls for a different approach, a spiritual solution rather than a rational one. Try it for yourself - see your problem as already healed, and have faith that it is.