Listen

18 November 2022

“Genuine listening requires that you willingly bare witness to what someone else needs to say while simultaneously sparing them of your own solution, defence, dismissal, alternative, reality, rebuttal, counterpoint, comparable story or more extreme example.

This kind of listening is a very “active” part to play in a conversation.

You have to believe for those moments that none of the things you might say could possibly be as valuable as hearing someone out.

You may need to employ every ounce of your strength of character to actually pay attention and not butt-in with your own bit.

That kind of attention paid to another is powerful medicine.” Gil Hedley

I absolutely love this quote and try my best to adhere to it in my CranioSacral Therapy Clinic. In life with friends and family I try but it is definitely more of a challenge!

So many of my clients come to me after an exhausting round of Doctors, Specialists etc, they have tests, scans and medications but their chronic back pain, chronic neck pain, pelvic pain, stress, anxiety (to name a few) is still having a huge negative impact on their lives.

I always recommend a longer 90 minute initial appointment where I allow you to tell me your story and I try my best to listen. This then continues during the session on the body using my ‘listening’ hands.

This allows for feelings to arise, to be borne witness to, without judgement, without advise, for tears to be shed, to allow you to discover the answers by yourself.

I believe the answers are within you, the pain is the messenger. CranioSacral Therapy will help you to gently, slowly, safely explore what is happening in your body to find the underlying cause of your chronic back pain, chronic neck pain, pelvic pain,stress, anxiety. It all starts with listening.

If you would like more information on how CranioSacral Therapy can help you please get in touch, I offer a free no obligation 20 minute discovery call.