Aftercare
Energetic reconnections are reestablished instantaneously but take a while to manifest physically. I’ve seen this integration period range anywhere from a few minutes to a few months, but one to four weeks or so is typical and your body will generally specify the precise amount of time necessary at the conclusion of the session.
I recommend a few simple practices to aid the body during this period, not much more complicated than drinking water, eating food, sleeping, and allowing emotion to arise unimpeded. I recommend that you abstain from bodywork and further energy work during this period and for a multitude of beneficial reasons also recommend a daily mindfulness meditation practice. Please feel free to download these recommendations as Word, PDF, Pages, OpenOffice, or Google documents:
I recommend a few simple practices to aid the body during this period, not much more complicated than drinking water, eating food, sleeping, and allowing emotion to arise unimpeded. I recommend that you abstain from bodywork and further energy work during this period and for a multitude of beneficial reasons also recommend a daily mindfulness meditation practice. Please feel free to download these recommendations as Word, PDF, Pages, OpenOffice, or Google documents:
| colins_aftercare_recommendations.docx |
| colins_aftercare_recommendations.pdf |
| colins_aftercare_recommendations.pages |
| colins_aftercare_recommendations.odt |
"This body that we have, this very body that's sitting here right now in this room, this very body that perhaps aches, and this mind that we have at this very moment, are exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, and fully alive. Furthermore, the emotions that we have right now, the negativity and the positivity, are what we actually need. It is just as if we looked around to find out what would be the greatest wealth that we could possibly possess in order to lead to a decent, good, completely fulfilling, energetic, inspired life, and found it right here."
—Pema Chödrön
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