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Excerpt from:
SHIATSU-DOH, Improved Health and Enhanced
Living Through the Japanese Healing Art
Pgs. 136- 137
THE PRACTITIONER - PATIENT
PARTNERSHIP
I do not know the physiological reasons why, but shiatsu opens up
people’s creativity. When I treat someone, it is like cultivating
a plot of land and leaving it ready for the creative seed of the
patient’s choice. In entertainers, I have seen how a shiatsu
treatment can improve performance. That appears to be the case for
other creative activities as well. The best results come when the
practitioner and the patient are in agreement about their goal and
work together. The goal is health, but it is not a one-way street.
The practitioner works as hard as possible to get the patient moving
in a healthy direction, but the patient needs to be willing to do
what is necessary to facilitate that. We must explain to patients
looking for the instant miracle cure that shiatsu is not that.
It is, instead, a process. Patience and understanding are required
to participate in that process. Patients need to understand that
time is necessary and that they must have a strong will and a keen
desire to stay healthy. They need to change somehow, the parts of
their livestyle that led to their illness, perhaps by committing
to a healthy diet and giving up smoking. They might even need to
change their work situation or their own attitudes if that is the
way to gain real health. People coming for health maintenance shiatsu
treatments do not have to make a lot of changes in their lives but
just maintain the healthy habits they have built up.
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