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Journal WolfElvendar's Journal: Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast. 21

Journal by WolfElvendar
Enough with the politics for now for me, at least in my JEs. One fan gone, another gained. I think it's amazing though how when you get people riled up like that... That was the most comments posted on any of my JEs. Heck most only get 3 comments, that last one has 19 right now. Amazing what a little political fanaticism will drum up.

I have had trouble finding stuff to write about lately, writer's block I guess, so I may start using some quotes and stuff like that to get me started. I really need to write to keep the mind working and developing.

Lately I have been thinking about going back to school again. I know it wouldn't happen till at least my oldest daughter is 18 and in college herself, but I might. That is only 5 years away. I was thinking about getting a degree for a Physical Therapy career. I enjoy Massage and CranioSacral therapy, but want to be able to do more, and there are so many fights anymore over scope of practice. Even if I have been trained in certain techniques and am the best around here in it, some other branch of therapy wants to claim it as theirs exclusively. PTs seem to be the main ones trying to get all the goods, but it would also help with collecting more from insurance also. I could still do the therapies I do now, it would just add a lot more to what I could do.

Anyway. I will probably go back to teaching some and do more of it. I am waiting a couple months till other personal stuff settles down and then I will start pushing the massage school for a position, probably 2 or 3 days a week. Pay is good, and it's steady income, but really it's because I love teaching. I have a knack for it, and most students that I have had for even one day classes come to me later when they see me and tell me how influential I have been to them. It is very rewarding.

Gee this is boring stuff, no wonder there are so few comments...lol!

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  • no offense, sweetie, but i want the licensed PT folks to have the scope of practice. I don't think either of us has any illusions about just how useful the AVERAGE new age healer really is, OR how misguided even medical professionals can get. When it comes to performing therapies that can heal or damage for real, i want you to need a license and i want you to have to study for it.

    Yeah, i know not all of them learn anything. But that's still how i feel. And when you're licensed or certified in the actual sc
    • There are many times that I would take a "new age" healer over a medical professional any day.My experience is that the alternative medicine folks care a lot more about what they are doing and truely understand the body's energy. Sure there are quacks, but you get that in the medical profession as well. JMHO

      Wolf, I think it's wonderful that you want to increase your education! What wonderful aspirations!And teaching...whew glad it's you and not me :) My brain doesn't work like everyone elses and I just end

      • meh. It's an ongoing discussion, i know wolf pretty well and know that he knows what he's doing and cares about it for real. It's one of the things that i like best about him. We've been having this discussion for years, and it won't be done any time soon. My biggest argument with it is that, despite the insistence on faith and mystery, it's actually the scientific approach that seems to allow for mystery- the new age fields are full of explanations, meanings, and not leaving anything unexplained. And i don
        • "I'm ALWAYS open to discuss it and i will try never to insult anyone's intelligence over what they believe"...

          And I hope you didn't think I was insulting yours...I've just had better luck with alternative medicine. I get tired of the doctors throwing up their hands and saying "dunno" when it comes to my FM. It gets old fast. Reiki has worked for me, as well as massage and acupunctuture. My acupunturist is a little "out there" but she does good work and she IS an MD.....just slightly "looloo". She has all

          • i have secondary fibromyalgia as a result of my sjogren's. So... yeah, docs sometimes still don't know. But i see an excellent Rh and he's one of the best in the country- it's rapidly becomong not a mystery any more, but the info itself is slower to spread. There won't be a breakthrough cure, but we can reasonably expect some much better treatments over the next five years. They make small discoveries every week, like the one on vitamin D deficiency. Problem is there's so much money in spreading FUD about i
            • lol me and the easter bunny have issues. I agree that just because something's been around for a long time doesn't mean that it's true or even healthy. But, I also think that just because something may not have scientific proof doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't work or should be mistrusted (note that I said necessarily, there are a lot of really kooky methods of "healing" out there). I think there is so much that we don't understand and that we may never understand...and I'm ok with that. As long as
              • What quantifiers/qualifiers do you use to determine energy unbalancing?
                • I don't know you at all but just from these few posts I don't think that you would agree with any way that I may answer that :) There aren't any quantifiers to determine energy unbalance...not unless you live in a lab :) I can feel when my energy is unbalanced...I stay very in tune with my body....but as far as giving you a provable way to feel it I can't do that. Sorry

                  • Actually, that was kinda my point. It's irrelevant whether i would agree, because the point is not to end the conversation in agreement... the point of discussion is not agreement, but just discussion itself. We talk about things, i fine-tune my beliefs and views, you fine-tune yours, we both benefit, and wolf considers banishing me until i stop badgering his guests (Please accept my apologies if i've been heavy-handed.)
                    • lol not at all. no harm done. BTW I replied to you on my journal entry....I had to delete the whole thing because of something but my reply to you is there.
                    • actually, i don't see it anywhere. i got the note of a reply but when i clicked it, it said 'nothing to see here, move along' Did i say something to make you delete it? (curses inability to go back and edit comments to be nicer)
                    • no...actually I said something to make me delete it and then I reposted the original journal entry with my reply to you (probably why you got the nothing to see here message)....so technicallly it doesn't have a parent so that's why you haven't gotten a message. It was nothing earth shattering anyway :)
            • Ok, Doctors can tell you some things and not others. True. But is it any different with alternative medicine. Sometimes it IS about the results even if we can't prove why. MagicK is that way also. It works, and is believed to be due to undiscovered natural laws, but it works.

              Take migraines for a minute. Doctors have no clue how they happen. They have no clue what physiological process causes them. They also don't know how the medicines that work on them work. They have theories, but they are not

      • CranioSacral Therapy uses gentile (normally 5 grams of pressure, about the weight of a nickel) manipulation of the tailbone and the different bones in the head to stretch and release restrictions in the dural tube, the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. It works to help with many different disorders, like migraines, learning disabilities, post-traumatic stress disorder, birth traumas, seizure disorders, and more.

        As I know it will be asked, yes, there is a LOT of proof it works. Dr. John U

        • Wow that sounds really intersting...I'll have to do some research on that. But how can you manipulate the membranes when the skull doesn't move....nm I'll do research...You don't have to answer that :)
          • Actually that is a common misconception, even among the medical community in the US and Britain. The bones of the skull do have some movement.

            The misconception started in Britain. While examining embalmed and dried skulls there was no movement present, so they assumed there was no movement ever. If you take a sample of a suture from the skull (the place where the bones join together) on an unembalmed, "fresh" skull, from like brain surgery, and examine it under a microscope, you find nerve tissue, fibro

            • lol...if you write this much when I tell you that you don't have to answer I'd hate to see what you'd write if I actually asked you a question!!

              This is all very facinating. I will definitely do some research and will probably have some questions for you...as long as you promixe not to write an essay :) jk

              • lol. Part of it is if I know someone else may have the same questions, I will explain. Didn't mean to make it too long for you ;)
              • lol...it wasn't too long. It was very informative and interesting...you can defiitely tell that you're a teacher though!! :)

    • Um, I do have certification both by the National Massage Board and by the Virginia Board of Nursing, I had to go to school for it plus go through the certification testing, and I do way over 4 times the amount of continuing education I have to have to keep my certification. I work in a medical office and would not call myself a "new age healer." I also have a professional business license due to my certification.

      I think this is the first time I can ever accuse you of not listening.

      My beef with the PT co

  • Heck, your life is pretty interesting. If you think it's boring, read my journal. It's all about ... rocks. Sometimes, I gritch about multiple sclerosis. Sometimes, I gritch about my ?partner?roommate?friend? Vikki. Mostly, though, I talk about rocks. Cutting rocks, polishing rocks, wearing rocks, looking at rocks, thinking about rocks. Oh, and once in a while, I talk about my cats.

    That's how DBO (dull, boring and omnipresent) my life is these days. Yours is exciting, not boring.

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