Kfar Izun Concept

What are the benefits of the alternative treatments in Kfar Izun?

♥ Mostly full body massage and shiatsu treatments are asked for

♥ When asked how the treatments influence the patients in Kfar Izun I was given the following answers by the patients:

♥ It connects the body with mind

♥ Most of the time we are in the mind and psychosis, which has nothing much to do with the body, we forget the body.

♥ All the treatments given are mostly on intellectual, analytical level and the body is neglected.

♥ When we get the body-treatments we are able to connect to here and now, not on illusions of the mind.

♥ The fact that the therapist is there only for me is an important factor in the treatment.

♥ The therapist gives me confidence that he knows what he is doing and I can relax and let go.

♥ The therapy is very calming for the mind.

♥ I can feel that I have body parts and that they are connected to each other as one body: I have a leg, an arm, a hand, I can feel them through the touch of the therapist and it makes me aware of myself, without needing to think.

♥ It relieves pain on the physical and therefore also on the mental level, I sleep better.

♥ It is something to look forward to.

♥ I can feel the changes immediately after the treatment and changes happen, like better sleep, better bowel movements, lesser appetite, less need to smoke.

♥ It connects me to the earth and I feel less floating.

♥ The touch of the therapist and the smell of the oil used in the treatment is very pleasant.

 ♥ The massage treatment is like a caress of a caring person, it reminds me of being a child being caressed by my mother, it makes me cry.

Often the patient is being identified with his/her disease and the real person behind the disease is almost forgotten. We treat people for their varying ailments, and forget that this person was a somebody once and still is a somebody also today with a soul and character of his own, with a personality he/ she has formed throughout life, with an education and knowledge of his/her own.
When we are faced with a psychotic patient these traits and personalities are hard to recognize and we tend to treat the patient as a patient only as we see him/her today in the state of psychosis, we do not relate to him as an individual.
We often tend to patronize patients of this order, since we fail to connect to his/her real self.
When we turn to the manual treatment of the psychotic patient, it does not really matter what the state of his psychosis is, we treat the human body which is there and gives us the indication as how it wants to be touched. .
If there is physical or mental pain it is translated into the physical body, for the therapist to see, and feel when he treats the patient.
He does not have to ask the patient what he/she thinks about the pain and where it comes from, but simply treats it.
The relative simplicity of the treatment gives confidence to the patient, relaxes him/her and grounds him/her to the here and now, to the reality of his human body.

Since we know that the physical body is interrelated to the mind and spirit we also reach the other levels of reality, i.e. spirit and mind through the body in the same treatment, and therefore we do not deviate from the holistic aspect of the alternative/ complementary approach towards the patient.
As we treat in the same manner the patient should also be given the opportunity to take responsibility as well through other measures, such as
♥ recognizing the benefit of the treatments through making him/her aware of them,
♥ Thereafter he/she should be allowed to ask/demand/choose the kind of manual treatment preferred,
♥ he/she should get involved in changing his/her nutrition under tuition of a trained nutritionist,
♥ to get involved in physical exercise programs,
♥ etc.

What comes to mind is the following sentence written by a chiropractor:

“I have never failed to find all remedies
In plain view,
And on the front-shelf
In the storehouse of the infinite…
The human body”

links: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2005/s1323331.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2005/s1330249.htm