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"You are a masterful genius and your fingers execute your magic. I have not felt this good in over 3 months!! The back pain disappeared this afternoon and, knock on wood, has not returned. I really do feel human and not depressed for the first time in so very long. THANK YOU! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!! I am just going to have to figure out how we can import you to South Carolina." Karen K, real estate
Linda,
I am writing to say that I began having body work done around 1988--acupuncture, then an occasional massage. Had had some chiropractic work before then and subsequently, as well. And I had experienced the subtle work of osteopathy and its miracles, too. By the time I started having regular weekly massages with you over 2 years ago, I had become more educated to the benefits of how much better I felt when I got "regular" body work -- but work still came first, meaning that I would postpone or cancel an appointment if I even thought work might intervene. There are many things my body and I have come to appreciate over the last 2+ years:
1) how much better my body and mind feel when I have massage every week
2) how much better I function in the world when I put the needs of my body first
3) how much easier it is to appreciate that everything is cyclic--feeling great, feeling down, feeling up, feeling awful, feeling mediocre, feeling aches and pains, exercising and not exercising, eating well and not eating well, sleeping enough and not sleeping enough, breathing deeply and hardly breathing--and not permanent
I have learned to pay more and more attention to the little aches and pains, the little upsets--to see the clues my body is giving me about what needs to change in how I'm living my life.
I've come to appreciate that both you and I have our "full of energy and sharing" days and we have our "in and quiet days" and sometimes they match and sometimes they don't and that we grow in relationship with others as we can just observe when we're in sync and when we're not and enjoy this life journey we're on together. I so appreciate our ability to laugh together; your ability to find music that works for me or no music at all when quiet is better.
When you added lypossage work to your training and, with my permission, began to practice the strokes on me, that work awakened my body and opened it to deeper work than it had ever been willing to accept before. It has made major changes in my being--as has your insistence on doing some breathing exercises at the beginning or in the middle of massages.
Yours is the kind of work that I am proud and pleased to promote as CEO of SharingWellnessInfo.com.
Sincerely,
Gail Coffey, CEO
SharingWellnessInfo.com
