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nilchanceFeeling very small and hunted and overshadowed today. Apparently the solution to my being stressed, and therefore stressing out students (?), is to stress me out MORE.
Looking at icons is cheering, to some extent, as is talking to a certain cabal on gmail. I want to go home and paint my fingernails.
TCM acupuncture was a better experience than my few appointments with 5 Element acupuncture. The practitioner was a chubby pale guy who had a very calming, gentling presence. Apparently I am a mess, and he told me we'd start slow because I'm too exhausted to do much healing right now. So he put pins in my hands, legs and feet, trying to bring some warmth back to my limbs, and left me alone in the room. God, that felt nice, just chilling out and feeling safe. I have a bad habit of tensing up when I'm on a massage table, even when I'm getting rubbed. The limb in the other person's hand will relax, but everything else tenses to compensate. Anyway, the pins helped warm me up so I felt less like I HAD to stay tense. (To react to an emergency? To take care of someone else? No idea.)
After the pins, the practitioner (we'll say J) had me turn over, and he rubbed my back to warm the muscles there before he tried acupressure on my spine. He seemed surprised that I could take the deep pressure, with the fibro and all, but ha. He should try touching my arms, where the allodynia seems to live. The end result was a nice humming relaxation that lasted until I came in to work this morning. *snerk* Go figure. I'm due to see J again next Tuesday.
I did like J's comment that spinal acupressure points are the reason why chiropractors are helpful (by accident?) and I loved that he was happy to answer questions about his technique. He's good people, I need to get T in to see him.
I find it interesting that very warm hands are the major physiological change I feel when giving reiki. Energy is energy is energy.
Looking at icons is cheering, to some extent, as is talking to a certain cabal on gmail. I want to go home and paint my fingernails.
TCM acupuncture was a better experience than my few appointments with 5 Element acupuncture. The practitioner was a chubby pale guy who had a very calming, gentling presence. Apparently I am a mess, and he told me we'd start slow because I'm too exhausted to do much healing right now. So he put pins in my hands, legs and feet, trying to bring some warmth back to my limbs, and left me alone in the room. God, that felt nice, just chilling out and feeling safe. I have a bad habit of tensing up when I'm on a massage table, even when I'm getting rubbed. The limb in the other person's hand will relax, but everything else tenses to compensate. Anyway, the pins helped warm me up so I felt less like I HAD to stay tense. (To react to an emergency? To take care of someone else? No idea.)
After the pins, the practitioner (we'll say J) had me turn over, and he rubbed my back to warm the muscles there before he tried acupressure on my spine. He seemed surprised that I could take the deep pressure, with the fibro and all, but ha. He should try touching my arms, where the allodynia seems to live. The end result was a nice humming relaxation that lasted until I came in to work this morning. *snerk* Go figure. I'm due to see J again next Tuesday.
I did like J's comment that spinal acupressure points are the reason why chiropractors are helpful (by accident?) and I loved that he was happy to answer questions about his technique. He's good people, I need to get T in to see him.
I find it interesting that very warm hands are the major physiological change I feel when giving reiki. Energy is energy is energy.
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Date: 2009-05-07 05:55 am (UTC)The time with J sounds good. I've been considering acupuncture for pain my arthritis is currently causing. Sounds as though I might need to do some research though.
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Date: 2009-05-12 02:48 pm (UTC)