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BOWEN ……NO DIAGNOSIS NECESSARY
At the end of this article is the list of issues that serve as the intake form at Bowen Wellness. (Health Intake Form) Other diseases that are not listed here can also benefit from the body reorganizing itself around its original blueprint of health. When filling out the intake form, on the average women check 15 items and men about 10. Go figure. Remember that Bowen is wonderful as a preventative and also for athletic enhancement even if you have no specific current needs.
Also in England there are many Bowen therapists working in surgical centers because the work reduces edema, bruising and speeds recovery. Please take a glance at the form now and if you find items that apply to you, than Bowen may be able to help.
Bowen does not do or rely upon diagnosis. How is that possible? Doesn’t a physician/therapist need to know exactly what is wrong so he/she can fix it? In every other form of medicine yes, there is a heavy reliance upon it and an equally correlating frustration over it.
With Bowen the couple of dozen procedures are like puzzle pieces to the problem. In the first session the basic three put the edges around it and then obvious choices are used, all with no harm or pain. This alone may be all the body needs to swing into the desired action. If results are limited then additional choices are made that may be anchoring compensations that the body put in place to deal with the original issue.
At its best diagnosis can catch problems that have a known remedy or in the cases of progressive disorders direct changes that will mitigate and prevent things from getting worse. Bowen directives are very clear about seeking medical opinion when necessary. When diagnosis makes the precise connection between symptom and cause and action to correct it, it is worth its weight in gold. But get an arms length diagnosis that misses the mark and often times the cure can be worse than the disease. Even given our most advanced medical approaches we often only get a snapshot of the complexity of the ever changing interactions of the trillions of cells that make up the body. Then throw in the wild cards of the non measurable energetic interactions, emotions and perceptions of reality that effect our function and it seems almost absurd to think we could know and manipulate everything that needs to happen for fully integrated healing to take place.
Diagnosis isolates conditions and promotes symptomatic relief rather than cause resolution. We appear to be in a world of symptomatic trade-offs. TV ads promote the relief of one problem as long as we are willing to roll the dice with the possibility of developing other symptoms in a different area of our bodies. When in trouble the body finds many ways to express itself.
At its worst diagnosis is the easy handle for a doctor to grab that implies that they know more about what is happening to you than they really do, just by throwing around a little Latin. It’s called “arms length diagnosis” when a doctor sits across the room and in ten seconds decides what is wrong and what will fix you. Diagnosis encapsulates a specific protocol that is often carried out by people who are not qualified to diagnose so unless there is a solid feedback loop that verifies it, time and money and misery are at stake. Or there are the cop out diagnosis’s like “your not getting any younger, or the ever popular “it’s probably arthritis.” This leads to many cases of “I don’t know, you’ll just have to live with it” or “let’s wait and see” thus rendering no or inadequate care. Don’t even get me started on the fact that 5 doctors will have 5 different opinions. Ok, one more and I’ll get off my soap box, the “shotgun approach” of buying time with pain relievers, anti-inflammatories, and muscle relaxers when musculoskeletal issues are involved in hopes that a healing response will somehow kick in.
Medical science has gone miles in it’s understanding of how the body works but no matter what drug or surgery or therapy is employed there is still that moment when the provider stands back and says “OK, now we have set everything in place so it should heal”. If it heals or how fast it heals is the factor that can not be addressed in that micromanaged environment. This is where Bowen steps in and creates an element of cooperation in the entire body, activating and accelerating the healing process.
Bowen procedures connect directly to the body’s internal intelligence that knows exactly what needs to be done to facilitate repair. It is a message that must not be associated with pain that alarms and sends it running for cover. It must not try to take that job away by replacing it with an external manipulation that does the work for it or the body will not be engaged in the process. When the body learns a more efficient pattern through Bowen activation it is integrated at its very core and not only do the results stick but you have a high speed recovery pattern in place when needed again. This is seen clearly when an athlete gets another concussion and bounces back more quickly even without another Bowen session. (We believe that every move is actually touching the brain) Bowen works for the items listed below either with complete resolution or the reduction of symptoms of disease elements that are beyond the capability of the body to handle and has no adverse interactions with any medications being taken.
Will Bowen be effective with your problem? The honest answer is “let’s try it and find out”. But it is my experience over the last four years that if you give Bowen five sessions or less you will be telling your friends and family that there is a painless, inexpensive way to get rid of those old nagging problems and get on with a better life.
So even if you are convinced that modern medicine will eventually figure out every nuance of every molecule and then be able to manage and alter them until we are healthy, for $45 to $60 I will show you that you already have a body that is capable of that. When it comes to your health ask not what someone can do for you, but what you can do for yourself.
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