CranioSacral Therapy and Teens
Posted by: Brenda on: October 7, 2008
CranioSacral Therapy can help your teen become more balanced. We all know that today’s teens are under pressure at home, school, work and socially. When your teen is out of balance they experience pain, suffering, overwhelm and turmoil that persists. Habits can turn into obsessions. They struggle with being scattered, tuned out, unaware or over sensitive, angry and perhaps hurtful and sarcastic.
Teens spend a lot of time with external stimulation. Their senses are constantly searching through music, telephones, and computers. Some teens appear to thrive on being constantly busy and multitasking but what is going on inside? The time spent with searching externally needs to be balanced with time going within where sensory stimulation is minimized. This centering process brings to you a sense of feeling grounded, feeling comfortable in your surroundings and in your body.
CranioSacral Therapy is one way to help your teen learn how to slow down and quiet the mind. Turning their focus inwards on body tensions and discomforts helps them to recognize the difference between tension and being relaxed. They become more aware of how tension affects them and their emotions. The therapist objectively supports this by reflecting back to them the difference between holding on and letting go. This helps them learn to listen to what their bodies are communicating to them. As one of my instructors noted you can find the soft marshmallow center under even the hardest teenage armour.
What a wonderful resource-to learn how the world affects us when we are out of balance and be able to let go of our tensions. This brings us home to a more natural calm state. CranioSacral Therapy brings one back to that wonderful place of being that we thrived in before the world told us differently.
Copyright 2008 Brenda Rosenberg, CST. All rights reserved.
3 Responses to "CranioSacral Therapy and Teens"
http://www.starlightcanada.org/WhatWeDo/OurPrograms/onlineprograms.htm
I thought that this was a neat link. Resources for families and teens with chronic conditions in Canada and obviously a network b/w Children’s hospitals, too.
Had to put it here for you. Still another way to release tension is to speak with others in like situations… And this is great. Uses all of the computer savy that teens have, but lets them talk and be themselves in a monitored environment.
JZ
Daniel Goleman in Social Intelligence says:” Full attention, so endangered in this age of multitasking, is blunted whenever we split our focus. Self absorption and preoccupations shrink our focus, so that we are less able to notice other people’s feelings and needs, let alone respond with empathy……….. Listening carefully, with undivided attention, orients our neural circuits for connectivity, putting us on the same wavelength. That maximizes the likelihood that other essential ingredients for rapport-synchrony and positive feelings-might bloom.” CranioSacral therapy is the ultimate setting for creating rapport.
1 | Susie
November 5, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Excellent.