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
Shiatsu Aroma Do-In
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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.


Marcus SOMMER
Shiatsu Aroma Do-In
www.eden-shiatsu.com


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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.


Marcus SOMMER
Shiatsu Aroma Do-In
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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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l'Animal qui est en nous

Michel ODOUL va apparaître dans l'émission du Bien-Être au Direct8, le 7 octobre entre 10h - 11h.

Je suis certain que nous allons bien nous reconnaitrer dedans :)

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