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From: sachin
Date: 21 Oct 2008
Time: 12:45:05 -0500
Remote Name: 123.239.32.149
People who take up the role of "healers"- must be totally integrated and 'whole' themselves (or at least moving in that direction). Totally at ease with themselves. Many PWS will benefit just by the company of such people: calm, accepting, compassionate. Next, beyond techniques, the wise healer will be able to lead the client on an inner journey (by asking intelligent questions) - a journey of trying to understand the meaning of our "personal" suffering.. The healer may have to ask himself / herself, what meaning has s/he given to her/ his own suffering? What has s/he made out of it? This helps you to understand the client from inside -rather than from outside (the clinical assessment). There was a saint in India, who use to turn people's perception radically by asking just one question: Let us not worry about who God is. Just tell me who are you? In every religion and culture, there is a belief in an inner (super-sensuous) world.. Similarly every disease, every suffering has an inner meaning for the person: if you can change that, if you can help a child view his stutter in a different light- then 'techniques' have a better chance of success.. There are many such so-called "eastern" practices, which are quite non-sectarian and which can be practiced just like "bouncing" or "prolongation": For example, you could ask children in a group therapy session, to close their eyes and be quiet for the sake of those children who want to say many things but cant speak.. and follow it up with a discussion, on how it felt? etc. Similarly, you could ask them to sit down and watch their breath going in and coming out..and then discuss, what it did to their attention, breathing etc.. These approaches do not ask a child to believe in Mr X or Ms Y, in the past life or afterlife.. These approaches only ask children to observe their minds and body and think about it rationally.. In final analysis, I think, much more than children, it is we the grown up, who need to challenge our notions of sickness, healing, culture, religion, purpose of life etc etc.. Thanks for the enquiry! sachin