Bienvenue le printemps

Avec l'avancement des saison (selon le calendrier chinois) je me permets de vous conseiller aujourd'hui une cure d'huile essentielle de Citron.
SVP seulement en cas que votre santé n'est plus atteint par une maladie!

C'est une remède fantastique pour dynamiser votre énergie vitale stocké dans le méridien du Foie.
L'énergie du Foie est celle qui nous permet de démarrer les projets / idées / rêves.

Le matin, encore à jeun, vous avaler une cuillère à soupe d'une huile végétale qui vous convient avec une seule goutte d'huile essentielle de Citron.
10 min après vous pouvez prendre votre petit déjeuner comme d'habitude (boire du thé/café, manger etc).
Vous faites ça 1 fois par jour le matin pendant 5 jours.


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Erdsaison im Anklang

Gemäss der Traditionellen Chinesischen Medizin beginnt die nächsten Tage die
fünfte Saison (Erde).
Um den Übergang zwischen den Saison zu erleichtern und uns zu erden.

Um diesen möglichst harmonish zu gestalten, gibt es ein natürliches Hilfsmittel: das ätherische Öl des Salbei.
Ich empfehle 1 Tropfen auf den Punkt Mi6.
Das hält doppelt gut!
Zuerst rechtes Bein, sanft einmassieren im Uhrzeigersinn, dann links. Dreimal täglich, über drei Tage hinweg.

Ihre Hormone werden es Ihnen danken.


Marcus SOMMER
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Saison Terre s'approche

Saison Terre s'approche
Dans la médecine traditionnelle chinoise l'intersaison "Terre" arrive ces jours.
Pour faciliter la transition entre 2 saisons.
Pour nous reconnecter à la terre.

Pour la supporter l'huile essentielle de Sauge Sclarée (Salvia Officianalis) est un merveil.

En applicant 1 gouttes sur le point 6 RP, la massant doucement dans le sense des aiguilles du montre d'abord sur la jambe droite. Après la
jambe gauche. 3 fois par jour pendant 3 jours.

Votre système hormonale va vous remercier mille fois.


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Earth calling

According to the Traditional Chinese Medicine the 5th season, Earth season is approaching again.
Reconnecting us to the energy of Earth.
Easying the transition between two seasons.

For support the essential oil Sage (salvia officinalis) on the acupuncture point Spleen 6 will be a feast.
As usual to be applied first on the right leg, 1 drop massageing gently clockwise, and after that the left leg 1 drop massageing gently clockwise.

Your hormon system will greatly thank you.


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3 - 2 - 1 .. Nard d'Himalaya

3 .. 2 .. 1 .. Nard d’Himalaya

L’année 2009 fut une année difficile pour tous.

Autant sur le plan économique, qu’émotionnel et professionnel.

Une année qui a perturbé nos croyances les plus profondes.

Dans la médecine traditionnelle chinoise nos croyances profondes sont liées avec l’énergie de l’Eau. C’est l’Eau qui coule toujours vers le plus bas. C’est aussi l’eau qui est à la base de toute vie.

Mettant en oeuvre l’idée de l’effet miroir dans le déroulement de la vie, cette année nous a permis de mettre en conscience ce qui est vraiment utile et nécessaire.

De retourner sur des bases solides pour en ressortir en pleine force!

Une huile essentielle qui correspond beaucoup à cette image des racines qui donnent leur force à la fleur, c’est le Nard d’Himalaya (Nardostachys jatamansis):

racines épaisses, tiges fines, petites fleurs.

Pour tenir bon durant toute cette année 2010, je conseille une cure de 3 jours: une goutte de cette merveille sur les plexus solaire et cardiaque 3 fois par jour.

Ce sont principalement les composants biochimiques des sesquiterpènes qui lui apportent un effet fortement calmant (Wabner). En le massant sur le plexus solaire et cardiaque on en profite triplement: la biochimie, la localisation proche aux plexus et l’odorat.

Prof. Wabner (www.etherischeoele.de) introduit cette merveille comme:

“La plus précieuse de toutes les huiles de baume dans l’antiquité, c’était l’huile de Nard.”

Il est par exemple indiqué de l’appliquer directement sur des zones attaqués par le psoriasis (sauf proche aux yeux qui est la contre-indication générale valable pour toutes les huiles essentielles).

Nardostachys Jatamansi - Nard de l‘Himalaya

Partie De La Plante: Racine

Pathologies:

Anémie

Insuffisance Ovarienne

Psoriasis

Staphylococcie

Tachycardie

Varices - Hémorroïdes

principes actifs:

Acides

Aldéhydes

Cétones

Coumarins

Monoterpènes

Oxydes

Phénols

Sesquiterpènes

Sesquiterpenols

Propriétés thérapeutiques:

Anti-bacterien

Anti-epilieptic

Anxiolytique

Calmant

Cardiotonique

Ovaristimulant

Phlébotonique

Sédatif

Contre-indications:

Pas connu

références:

• formations d’aromathérapie par Elske MILES et Michel ODOUL à l’Institut Français de Shiatsu www.shiatsu-institut.fr
• “l’aromathérapie exactement” par Pierre FRANCHOMME et al, Ed. Roger Jollois 2001
• “Aromatherapy for Health Professionals” Shirley & Len PRICE, Ed. Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier 2007
• “Aromatherapie” Prof. Dietrich WABNER Ed. Urban & Fischer 2009

10..9..8.. Spikenard

Year 2009 had been a difficult year for all.
On an economic scale as much as emotionally and professionally.
A year that has shaken our deep-rooted beliefs.


In Traditional Chinese Medicine our deep-rooted beliefs are intimately linked with the Water energy principle. It is water that will flow always downwards. It is water as well which builds the base for organic life.


Putting into action the idea of mind and life mirroring each other, this year has made us aware of what is really useful and necessary.
Returning to our solid base in order to head off strong.


An essential oil that corresponds much to this image of strong roots empowering the flower is the Spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansis):
thick roots, fine stem, small flowers.

For having a good start into 2010, I recommend a 3-day cure:

1 drop of the essential oil of Spikenard onto the solar and cardiac plexus 3 times a day.

Prof. WABNER (www.etherischeoele.de) introduces this marvel as:

"The most precious of all balm oils in antiquity has been Spikenard."

According to him it is mainly its strong calming effect are mainly due to the combination of sesquiterpenes.
Massaging it on the solar and cardiac plexus gives us a tripple benefit:
+ biochemical
+ application close to the nervous plexus
+ smell


It's quality as a balm oil are displayed in the fact that it is one of the few essential oils that may be applied directly onto the irritated psoriasis skin (omitting any area close to the eyes as being the general rule for the application of essential oils).


Spikenard characteristics


plant part used: roots


pathologies


anemia
ovary insufficiency
psoriasis
staphylococci
tachycardia
varicose / hemorrhoids


actif components


acids
aldehydes
ketones
coumarins
monoterpenes
oxydes
phenols
sesquiterpenes
sesquiterpenols


therapeutic effects


anti-bacterial
anti-epileptic
anxiolytic
calming
cardiotonic
ovary-stimulating
phlebotonic
sedative


counter-indications


none known


References


- aromatherapy courses by Elske MILES and Michel ODOUL at the Institut Français de Shiatsu www.shiatsu-institut.fr
- "l'aromathérapie exactement" by Pierre FRANCHOMME et al, Roger 2001
- "aromatherapy for health professionals" by Shirley & Len PRICE, Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier 2007
- "Aromatherapie" by Prof. WABNER, Urban & Fischer 2009

Professionalism in CAM: Psychology

The art in CAM is not knowing.
It is to make the other understand.

To put yourself in the other's shoes (tx @ankenn) AND to lever your "language" to the world of the other. Speaking frank is easier than speaking understandable.

A basic understanding of psychology will thus be necessary. Thus it needs to be included as early on in any class that claims to be a professional health formation.

Just too often I see it included in courses to teach people how to sell better their product. A way of manipulating the other to your ends.
This is not what it is about!
It is not about applying 7 habits, understanding any number of personality types in order to become richer, more famous, more loved.
It is to do your job as good as you can be.
And in the health sector, this means making the other understand that s/he can act, can change.
Whether to become healthy again, maintain her/his dignity while ill, stay in form, prevent imbalances.
Offering choices and giving back the other the will & responsability to choose.

This will make a significant difference between doing a health profession and being a health professional.


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Professionalism in CAM: education

To further my previous blog,
Professionalism in CAM : Image
in order to adapt to the current established system here in the West, professionalism should start in the education of any CAM discipline.
Certainly through the quality and standards in the technique itself.
In order to fit here in the established society in the West, for the practitioner to stay level with his clients and collegues and to enable a flow of communication, a basic understanding of anatomical and medical terms needs to be included in the education of a CAM practitioner.
Thus "extra-disciplinary" subjects like anatomy and physio-pathology need to be rather "inter-disciplinary". Approached and implemented from the disciplinary side, well understood. No need to make it a 2 year training.

CAM carries the term complimentary. Hence in order to be such, touching frontiers between various fields needs to be there. A puzzle works only if the pieces have borders in common. Being a practitioner of a complimentary medicine includes the capability to put the pieces of the puzzle together. A basic knowledge of the biochemistry inside the human body and mind is part of it.
No matter whether we approach the well-being of our client from an Ayurvedic, TCM, or other way: it shall always manifest inside his body & mind, influencing his hormonal / emotional balance as much as flesh & bones.

No, this does not mean to adhere to the same principles.
Yet this allows to communicate in a common language.

All this to build on what makes CAM powerful : the capability to synthesize from a multi-point of view to reach a large picture of the patient without neglectig details. Trying rather to include than to exclude.

Survival of the fittest, not the strongest. Who adapts best, not forces most. From a multilevel perspective.


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Professionalism in CAM: image

If you visit your physician: how many Buddha statues do you see there?
And at your dentist's office: did he ever invite you to hum a mantra before drilling?

In the Westen hemisphere we are accustomed to a certain kind of image of what a professional health practitioner should look like: clean, sober, neutral.

Besides different personal points of view upon that matter: there is nonetheless a reason behind. This setup stands in our culture for cleanness of mind, neutrality with the aim of serving best the well-being of the patient, putting aside at a first stance all products of faith & believe and basing itself on palpable facts / results.

This ain't bad. As a matter of fact this represents the inner state of mind demanded by a professional health practitioner of CAM:
- no judgement
- neutrality
- efficiency (in a harmonious way)

And images are powerful. A first impression given by the place & person him-/herself. Even before opening the door.
Just what we all were doing when grooming our loved one for the very first time.
(a little more colorful so)

So why not representing outwardly what we shall carry inward?

In my life & work as a practitioner of various techniques of CAM I have learned to appreciate the importance of such a state of mind during my sessions.
right intentions

And learned further that indeed they do not end there but rather serve as a starting point to penetrate my whole life.
This centredness gives me the capability to adapt to the situation given by the patient & the moment in order to find the most harmonious approach for her/him.

This has nothing to do with being impersonal in a sense of cold & distant. Being open-minded, charming, compassionate will be the effect of your personality. If it is there, there won't be much need to add more to it.If it ain't, no colorful posters, candles or statues will add it.

Adapt and not compromise. There should be no need for the latter.



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Anger management

I've read several articles on how to "express" your anger, be it via exercising, shouting, dancing and more.
This represents the external, the yang part of this important task. Important as to learn to deal with this feeling of anger. Being aware of the fact that it can, needs to be expressed.
Facing, accepting anger is the first step of changing our behaviour towards it, the others and ourselves.

What's next?

I haven't met anybody yet who felt well after he got angry. It often leaves a bitter taste inside. This "something ain't right" feeling. Being outside ourselves.
Our energy being drained deeply, as TCM explains well.

Where does it come from, this bitter, acidy taste?
Is there a way to avoid it next time?

Besides the external stimulus, I find often culpability, anger against oneself more than against others, being the steam underneath these volcanos.
A knowledge of not having acted at our best.
Not feeling right in our skin (place).
And if this heat cannot erupt, it will burn inside. Appearing cool from the outside it will "kill" inwards.

Thus learning to look honestly at ourselves, with heart & mind, needs doing. Which apparently is difficult. Our ego giving us ten thousands reasons why not to. Being inside a forest and not seeing it because of so many trees around us.

Sometimes the talk of a person close to our heart will do.
Sometimes we might need to appeal to a professional.

In shiatsu and aromaherapy the practitioner's work is to guide you to a lighting inside this forest and thus to reconcile your conscient and non-conscient parts in such a harmonious ways that indeed no harm be done.
By working with you and the flow of your vital energy Qi in your meridians in a way respectful to you and your surroundings on a large scale. Giving you choices. Making you feeling more comfortable within yourself. Helping to make the inner picture of ourselves becoming clearer. Thus calmer, inside and outside.

Because the fear we are not looking at ALWAYS appears much bigger than it is in reality.
Fear, living in the shadows of our souls, is just that: a shadow itself. And the shadow always appears bigger than that what is actually casting it.

Henceforth be courageous, talk to your good friend, and if that does not bring you further, try a session with a professional shiatsu or aromatherapy practitioner to have a look inside.

Carpe diem
And a resourceful weekend

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Tricks of the Mind

or the ego cannot fail

Having giving in recently into numerous "trick or treat" threads, I am blogging here about a different one: the big voice within.
Let's call it iEgo

Always present it is giving advise, reason, padding our shoulders, unnamed, unasked for.
Impressively clever, cunning, smooth or tough, it carries yet a major flaw:
by design it is giving only egoistical advise & counsel. It is not concerned about the other.
Whether the other is the guy/gal in the car in front, our partner, a group or even the environement doesn't strike any difference to iEgo.
All the same: different from me!
No chance for win-win situations. The other always looses.

Wait a minute: that can't be. No one always wins.
Yes, iEgo does.

At least that's what it wants us to make believe.
Why?
Because by it's very nature, it may not do one thing: admit to have made a mistake.
And believe me, it will do ANYTHING to make you believe that the obvious mistake is actually none. That there is a very good reason why this is much better this way, and not the other. That this little scratch in our heart is not really hurting. The lost blood not so important. It ALWAYS finds a reason.
Even if it has to lie!

Not a good counselor really, is it?

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Aroma: immediate response

"a remedy that works needs to taste bitter!",
a German proverb says.

As this might be true with some medications, it it certainly NOT with essential oils.

One of the wonderful facts of using aromatherapy is the possibility to gain a "touchable" response for the patient immediately: it's the smell!

Not just a tickling or warming sensation as might be found within shiatsu for example. Sensations still appearing strange, at least in the beginning.

Nope, here we feel something very concrete and direct (smell being the only of our 5 senses where the nerve receptors are wired directly into our brains).

When in doubt how to approach the energetic imbalance in the patient, I'll just let him take the perfume of the oils pre-chosen. It will be his nose that shows the way. It is his personal preference in this very moment that will build the syntheses of his past experiences and his current state, leading towards a more equally balanced life.

This is true for single essential oils.
Always a pleasure seeing how some people prefer lavander oil over camomille as a lullaby (which one leans more to his feminine/yin, and which one to his masculine/yang side? ).

This is even so more true for mixes of essential oils, as here not only the overall effect is accounted for. I find it surprising how some people immediately smell (prefer) one ingredient over the other, ALTHOUGH it might be a minor part in the mixture. It's like the famous dot had been placed on the "i".

Just that, here, it is YOU who acts, who takes the reins for your health.

Which is not more nor less than any practitioner is wishing for

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Tu as raison

Est-ce qu'on n'utilise pas souvent cette phrase quand justement on n'est pas convaincu. Un peu comme "Oui mais.."?

Il y a un doute.

C'est souvent le cœur qui nous signale il y a quelque chose là qui cloche dans nous.

Peut être seulement qu'on espère bien que ça serait tout à fait pas correcte, plus facile, plus doux, plus romantique, .., pour nous.

Ah, la facilité! C'est quoi qui rend la vie si dure ...


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Thanksgiving remedies:

Thanksgiving remedies:
Peppermint & Basil essential oils

Throughout the year there are days of regular diet, balanced to one
essential needs, and there are days of feast.

Thanksgiving belongs to the latter :-).
Wrappig us in warmth of hearth and heart. News and chatter everywhere.
Accompanied by delicious food and ale.

All this is necessary and welcomed for all our senses.
Away from the daily clic & clac, tic & tac.
Diving right into it, nourrishing so many needs, feeling lovely, being
loved.

Yet it has to be digested as well!

Helping our little and big internal friends, our organs, and
especially the digestive tract, to keep up with all this splendor, we
might give them a hand:

1 drop of essential oil Peppermint + Basil onto a small cube of sugar
(of course a coffee-spoon of honey or olive oil would be better, just
stay away from the gravy for his one :-) ).
That's it.
What a simple and powerful remedy.
You will feel its wonderful aid IMMEDIATELY.

Have a warm & joyful Thanksgiving.

Marcus SOMMER
Shiatsu Aroma Do-In
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Superman inside

Superman inside

How often have I felt the "magical power" flowing inside?
And how much (too) often it has put me astray, has fueled my vanity
rather than the veins of my patient?

During a session an open, honest dialogue may only develop if my
client and I are residing on the same level, that there is no
judgement between us.

This comprises certainly the "you are bad" way of judging.
Less evident, this means as well the "Oh you poor fellow human, let me
do it for you" judging.
Me, "leaning into" my patient, showing itself in a posture distorted
in a similar, "leaning" way.
Which is asked for often enough by patients nonetheless.
Such shouldn't be mistaken as compassion.
Such is the mantle of pity!
Meaning "I am capable of doing and you are not."
Depriving my client from his own capacities.
The opposite of what my work should give.

Our work is much about humility and compassion, not egoism and pity.

Superman must die ;-)
(inspired by a song from "God" aka Eric Clapton :) & more )

Marcus SOMMER
Shiatsu Aroma Do-In
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At the lookout for Love

At the lookout for Love

Which we all are, aren't we, always?

Longing for this romantic touch, glimpse, chill.
We try to
Hold it
Embrace it
Grap it
Attack it
Neglect it
Keep it ours, for now and ever.
Indeed how we try to do it shows much about who we are, our character,
our nature.

And where we might find a part of the problem why it ain't always
working. How that?
It appears in such innocent powerful words like "always" or even just
"hold". They express a fear.
A very human fear. As a matter of fact, it is unique to the human
kind: fear of loosing, not having.

This fear will make that famous game of love a loser's act, a
competition without end (that cursed word "always" cutting both ways
here).
Fear makes us unconscious, ignorant.
Despite our differences in character or nature, fear acts all the same.

Remembering a moment in my life that I felt hugged by love, when I
appreciated that single drop in time, I don't recall fear holding my
heart.
Yet when fear grimped after my heart, had I been able to appreciate
the moment?
Fear coming, try to breath deep in, closing my eyes, remembering love
inside, and with it the courage to face what I fear. What a
difference. Becoming conscious again of myself, my surrounding, habits
I've taken leading to reflexes which are NOT in my best interest, i.e.
to advance in life.
Which is the underlying current of all life.
Fear working against it.
Love embracing it.

Marcus SOMMER
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Five Easy Steps To Draw In The Crowd

reading the post Mashable’s 5 Ways to Attract and Empower Your Crowd, something Helen Rubello said in her “Introduction..” post about what her customer wants from her and vice versa (The Shiatsu Zone: An Introduction....), Gina Loree’ Marks’ remark of not being judgmental as a therapist (Grace in Gravity - Better Living Through Shiatsu - Blog - The Morality of Healing) and last not least Rob Blackburn’s “4 quadrants of Wellness” post (Rob's Shiatsu Pages: Four Quadrants of Wellness) gave me the juice of trying to merge it.

Five Easy Steps To Draw In The Crowd

1. Focus on The Need. What our customer/client/patient wants from us is the bottom line. Nothing more and nor less shall be given. It includes listening with many senses (ears, eyes, hands, ..) and being careful, i.e. respectful of the other person. I’m still thinking with shudders on my first sessions where I had been overwhelming my clients with so much I wished to give yet what they hadn’t been asking for. No need to tell you that those customers usually neither came back nor were “miraculously” cured.
2. It’s Not You, It’s We. In our school Institut Français de Shiatsu Michel ODOUL reminds us of the importance of the “Carré B”, square B. He uses a 4 quadrant setup very much like Rob Blackburn yet with different analogies. They represent the 4 different relational levels possible between 2 people meeting. The only fruitful one being “Square B” where practitioner and client reside on the same level. No “saviors”, “victims” or “bullies” in this room. Only if I manage to interact with the other person in a way that he/she doesn’t feel neither looked up or down at, I maintain a respectful position for him/her and me.
3. Determine Your Touchpoints. Easily to be understood in regards to shiatsu, isn’t it. This includes simple questions like 
1. “who am I in relation with?”, 
2. “what kind of relationship are we trying to establish here?”, 
3. “Where will it take place?”, 
4. “and when?”, 
5. “how?” and 
6. importantly “why?”
4. Set Clear Goals. Summarizing the 3 steps beforehand should give us a clear picture of what we and the customer want to achieve during this session. A “must” for maintaing a healthy relationship with the customer from which finally all parties may benefit. 
5. Let Go. As usual, the most simple sounding one at the end. Open my heart and let go. Reaching the zen meditation state where limits start to disappear and I touch the other person as much as me. Where I ain’t doing good and just follow the flow without bending.

My challenge to you: I’d love to know from you how you approach your clients, stay centered, being anchor without holding back, guiding hand without squeezing.

Prep X hiver

L'hiver s'approche selon la médecine traditionnelle chinoise (8
nov)

L'énergie de l'Eau va commencer à reculer, reposer.
Pour nous recharger.
Allons-y l'aider.
Je recommande l'huile essentielle Epinette Noir sur le point 1R pour
faciliter l'entrée de l'énergie dans le méridien.
1 goutte pied droit, 1 goutte pied gauche, 3 fois par jour pendant 5
jours. Ça va nous faire du bien!

Marcus SOMMER
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Winter is coming

Winter is coming
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine Nov 8th the seasonal
transition for winter begins.

The water energy will flow low, retreat.
In order to recharge us, our batteries.
Let's help it!
I recommend putting essential oil black spruce onto the acupuncture
point Kidneys-1 to facilitate the transition.
1 drop right foot, 1 drop left, 3 times a day for 5 days max. That'll
do as good.

Marcus SOMMER
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Winter schneit heran.

Winter schneit heran.
Gemäß traditioneller chinesischer Medizin am 8.November.
Die Wasser Energie geht in die Tiefe, zieht sich zurück.
Um unsere Batterien wieder aufzuladen. Und das haben wir sicherlich
nötig.
Um diesen saisonalen Übergang behilflich zu sein, empfehle ich das
ätherische Öl Schwarztanne auf dem Akupunkturpunkt Niere-1. 1 Tropfen
pro Fuss, rechts zuerst, 3x täglich für maximal 5 Tage.

Marcus SOMMER
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