Intention and Non-Doing in Therapeutic Bodywork.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pike, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Massage therapy.

Alternative medicine.

Massage.

Complementary Therapies.

Physical therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Massage.

Complementary Therapies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

Exploring the Buddhist/Taoist concept of non-doing and intention in relation to bodywork, this book focuses on how the therapist should approach their client without agenda and meet them where they are at. This requires the therapist to pay attention to their own surfacing intentions and leave assumptions behind so they may focus on simply 'being', which is a profoundly active, non-reactive expression of presence, rather than a passive state of resignation. The ramifications of sub-conscious doing and wilful intention can negatively impact expressions of health and so the author explains how therapists may skilfully navigate between intention, attention and embodied non-doing whilst treating clients, and how this creates the foundations for safe relational touch.

Contents:

Intro

Intention and Non-Doing in Therapeutic Bodywork

Cover

Of related interest

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Wholistic Awareness

1.1 Beyond the dot

1.2 The movie

2. Feeling Safe

2.1 Setting the scene to notice the screen

2.2 Familiarity with space and stillness

3. Intention

3.1 Ramifications of intent

3.2 Intention prevents insight

3.3 Types of intent

3.4 Ground intention, access attention and invitation

4. TI/ME Passing

4.1 TI/ME

4.2 Noticing

4.3 Change

4.4 Arising and passing

4.5 Equanimity

4.6 Curiosity

4.7 Ice, liquid, steam

5. Entering Stillness

5.1 No permanent separate self

5.2 'No I', or 'I AM'?

5.3 Binary simple, complex and non-dual simple

5.4 Accessing original nature

5.5 Flop, freeze, flight, friend and…freedom

5.6 Calm intensity

5.7 Beyond the placebo

6. Calm In-10-City

6.1 The ten characteristics of a 'city' with no gate

6.2 Non-doing versus progressive approach

7. Access Attention

7.1 Access attention

7.2 Philtrum

7.3 Breath-fast, lung-ch and su-purrr

7.4 Sensory balance

7.5 Subtle sense awareness

7.6 Access to natural fulcrum expression

8. Insight Field

8.1 It is 'This'

8.2 Present in all fields

8.3 Felt-sense of another

8.4 Revelational realization

8.5 Seeing patterns with embodied non-doing

8.6 Five factors to help SPEND TI/ME

8.7 Elemental insight

9. Equanimity and the Grey Zone

9.1 The importance of equanimity

9.2 Distraction

9.3 Tides of tantalization

9.4 Good/bad 'energy' trap

9.5 Potency awareness versus energy manipulation

9.6 Insight, the distinction between calm intensity and dissociation

10. Engaged Non-Doing

10.1 END principles

10.2 Dissolution of TI/ME

10.3 The non-doing sage.

10.4 Insight-primed primal midline

10.5 Warrior wu wei versus wimpy wistlessness

10.6 Choice, insight and choicelessness

10.7 Subatomic and molecular touch

10.8 Four chambers of non-doing orientation

10.9 Felt-sense connection

10.10 This Is,

10.11 Socially reactive versus pro-relational

10.12 Co-regulation versus co-reliance

10.13 Client resourcing

11. The Doing Client

11.1 Falconer and falcon

11.2 Controlling the breath

11.3 Moving the body

11.4 Subconscious tension

11.5 Asking the therapist to 'focus' on specific areas

11.6 Asking the therapist for a wide perceptual field

11.7 Talking to distract from deepening

11.8 Client transference

11.9 Projecting the therapist as a guru

11.10 Trauma

12. Cranioga

12.1 Cranioga: process of intentional attention leading to non-doing

12.2 Cranioga treatment

12.3 Cranioga process in a nutshell

13. Loving Presence

13.1 Insightful love versus conjured love

13.2 Mettā (loving appreciation)

13.3 Karun.ā (compassion)

13.4 Mudita (altruistic joy)

13.5 Upekkha (equanimity)

13.6 Tonglen

13.7 Altruism

Appendix 1: Process of Sensory Conditioning and Insight of TI/ME Passing

Appendix 2: Foundations for Feeling Safe and the Crescendo of Calm Intensity (Feeling HAPPI)

Appendix 3: Meditation

Glossary

References

Endnotes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-78775-899-0

OCLC:

1273977570