From Patient to Therapist
A Personal Story
By Menachem Mendelovitz
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THE 5 CONCEPTS
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Introduction
"The idea of restored health is almost inconceivable to the muscular dystrophy patient who sees his body wasting away. It is nearly impossible for such a person to accept the idea that these muscles could be rebuilt and their strength restored. Only by demonstrating that this can be done and how it can be done we change the world." (Self-healing - My life and vision, Meir Schneider)
An attempt to describe the series of events that made me decide to take a course in Jahara® aquatic therapy using the Concepts might seem a bit artificial. Human decisions are not necessarily made in a linear, sequential process. Decisions are made based on emotional factors, an accumulation of interim decisions that were made at a given moment, and while under the impact of external forces that affected us at that moment, such as psychological, social, and environmental factors.
In fact, looking back and trying to gain insight into and analyze all the elements that came together at a given moment so that I could make the decision, I could not help but notice the similarity between the dynamics of a Jahara® session (Raising the Cone of Power) and the steps that led me to the decision and its implementation.
Just as the structure of Raising the Cone of Power served me as the appropriate framework for the process, the principles, Concepts, and foundations of Five Basic Elements of Chinese philosophy and medicine serve me as the "language" with which I shall attempt to describe and explain the physiological (body perception) and psychological (mind perception) changes I underwent last year - from the first Jahara® therapy session as a patient to my first sessions as a beginning therapist.
Nevertheless, in my attempt to describe the Jahara® Concepts and their impact on the decision made, it cannot be helped: I will have to take you, the reader, on a short tour into the world of a person who suffers from a certain kind of muscular dystrophy.
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Me during integration course
Establishing Contact - (Assessment)
Establishing contact is an essential stage of every form of therapy. It is particularly important in therapies such as Jahara®, where therapist and patient engage in "one-on-one" situations, including physical contact. In this initial stage, the therapist introduces the patient and his awareness to the nature of the therapy and the elements it involves. In Jahara®, there are three participants: patient, therapist, and water.
Establishing contact is an essential stage of every form of therapy. It is particularly important in therapies such as Jahara®, where therapist and patient engage in "one-on-one" situations, including physical contact. In this initial stage, the therapist introduces the patient and his awareness to the nature of the therapy and the elements it involves. In Jahara®, there are three participants: patient, therapist, and water.
Support (Metal)
"The sense of cooperation (between therapist and patient) is a feeling of joint research. It is a constant study of a higher level of vitality that can be created in the body."
(Self-healing - My life and vision, Meir Schneider)
In Jahara® therapy, the stage of contact establishment includes the introduction of the central foundations that the entire therapy is based on, which is expressed in the concept of support, whose role is to physiologically bring the patient's body to a physical-skeletal structural alignment by creating inner stability through increasing the tonus of the core muscles.
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