Dear Steven—

I am working with a veterinarian in his 70’s who’s got two symptoms 1) head “spinning”, not vertiginous after lengthy neuro w/u in Boston for 7-8 years; 2) R arm flapping generally only after he’s fallen asleep for 1-2 hours, wakes him and may keep him up for 2 hours, can happen multiple times per night, rarely happens when awake, and again full neuro w/u inconclusive (no etiology found, and now 4-5 years duration, stable).  He just puts up with it; I’ve seen him twice in two weeks.  Weight bearing integrity was intact and midline was present but when I listened the first time at DERH, the flapping of his right arm began on the table, and resettled.  I did CVJ, and then followed the algorithm; every time I work on his sacrum he generally starts flapping, and last session during the sacral end of SDDS, he flapped quite violently (a repetitive tonic clonic movement of the R arm) that then spread to his L arm which is very unusual for him.  I felt like I was extracting an energy from him, but didn’t completely clear it.  He was wiped out after that visit, and had a rough 3 days after the session (poor sleep, worse flapping) and is now back at baseline, certainly not improved.  The first visit I also saw flapping begin the minute I made contact with the spinal cord doing Ariadne’s thread.  Really wild.  Anyway, I am setting him up to meet a skilled shamanic healer in the next week or so, as I feel he needs an extraction of sorts.  He expresses some concern that the energy work could shift his pattern to something more dysfunctional (like day time movements that would prohibit him from working); I reassured him this was highly unlikely, but this is at my edge certainly.  I would have liked to have worked more with his nervous system but haven’t gotten there yet.  Any thoughts about this?  Thanks,  John

hi john-
i am coming out of hibernation.  hopefully i won’t be too grumpy. 

this case sounds kind of gnarly and maybe i was postponing out of avoidance…?  anyway, seriously… this sort of presentation is not all that uncommon though.  kind of like a restless leg but in the upper extremity instead of the lower.  anyway… what is a restless or flappy or floppy body part?  what is the mechanism at work here?  my experience is that a body part mostly does this when it is exposed to energies that it does not have the resources or capacity to process… think of it like the nerves and fascia that are being exposed to and filled with more of a charge than they can conduct… so the system undergoes a a series of tonic/clonic contractions which i view as discharges of the excess energy in the way that a capacitor will discharge after accumulating energy.  the dance between potential and kinetic energy.
so the question really is about where the resources are obstructed, and where in the algorithm/map you need to go to support the restoration of resources.  yes?  in these sorts of cases some people will use those earthing or bio-circuit devices or the equivalent to try to ground them.  probably a raw hematite or black tourmaline or magnetite (lodestone) may help… if you wanted to go there… although it may not be necessary…  you have to feel your way here…

what i would need to know would be the data about what Breath and Flow were doing (and where) when he becomes excited.  i would want to really sit with Midline, dissecting and deconstructing alpha and omega to make absolutely sure that there were no aberrant sparks and that i was not missing some occult high level shock… then assiduously travel down through upper and lower coils, shape, diaphragmatic system (another potential log jam), and really study Breath in 3D and nerve motility centrally and in he extremities… etc…

it is really easy to get distracted by his flopping/flapping/discharges… but hold them as possibly the only thing in themselves that will lead you to their source.  too bad we are so far away.  maybe he would want to come to N Leyden in march one evening during the counterstrain course so we could see him together and use him as a learning tool.  do you know wendy halle in vermont as a shamanic practitioner?  i have had great success in referring to her.  ( her website is lucidpath.com i think and she has just released a workbook on Journeys to better access Guidance.)  i like her a lot.  if you can not find her number call my office if you are interested.
anyway… does this make sense?  the other thing that comes to mind is once you are permitted to go there, to really study the five pointed star and support its breathing to balance, and really seeing if the tentorium leaflets are fully breathing as well, because of the relationship of posterior star and tentorium to cerebellum (which often is related to weird movements and flapping, especially in kiddoes with athetoid cerebral palsy).

blessings…  keep those cards and letters coming!