“Tell me about the joy you keep in the hollow spaces between your bones” for all bodies know how to heal themselves given enough time.
Dr. Assagioli, the ‘father’ of Psychosynthesis, stressed the importance of the human ‘impulse towards wholeness’. In BCST, a key healing modality is to orient to the whole body, and not treat things in isolation. This allows receivers of cranio to experience themselves fully. Within wholeness, we can acknowledge and tangibly feel all that is functioning and healthy in the body, alongside whatever concerns or health issues we are dealing with. Tuning into the presence of health can have a very therapeutic effect physically and emotionally, by building confidence and gratitude for all our bodies do for us.
Generally, medicine and health are designed around something called “normal,” and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better or worse – but always changing. This is a fact so ordinary, and yet not something many of us routinely pause to ponder and work with. Cranio provides a space to ponder our individual body and the stories it holds.
Sessions can be experienced as an assisted meditation—a gateway into one’s interior world in the supportive presence of a therapist to act as witness and guide.
Often in today’s busy world full of external stimuli, we don’t have access to our own interiority, but ultimately everything we do in life is with the self. So, if we are not in touch with ourselves, we run into problems.
BCST offers a way of reaching into oneself and being curious about what’s up with me?
As C. G. Jung said, “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”