Healing the spine
My daughter called me from the emergency parking lot of Vanderbilt’s hospital in tears. “Brian nearly drowned, they think he broke his neck and hurt his spine. Only one person is allowed to go into the ER with him so Jaime is there. What do we do?”
It had been Brian’s birthday and their group of friends decided to spend the day at a nearby lake floating on a pontoon boat and swimming. It was a gorgeous day and everyone was having fun. Brian took a dive off the side while everyone else was turned away talking and laughing. Fortunately, people in a nearby boat saw him dive in, but not come up. They quickly came to his aid, diving into the water and pulling Brian to the surface. He had hit his head on the bottom and suffered some kind of back injury. He couldn’t feel anything.
They were able to get him onto a boat and to the dock where an ambulance that had been called was waiting. As he rushed off to Nashville with his friend, Jamie with him, My daughter followed behind. Now Brian was with the doctors and being treated for a serious spinal cord injury. He couldn’t feel the left side of his body.
My answer to most everything seems to be Jin Shin Jyutsu. I’ve had experience with spinal cord injuries before and knew it was important to start working with him as quickly as possible. I relayed to my daughter what Jaime needed to do for Brian as quickly as possible. It was a combination of touch that we call Opposite Fingers & Toes. One by one, Jaime was instructed to hold the fingers of one hand individually with the corresponding toes of the opposite foot. Thumb and pinkie toe. Index finger and ring toe, Middle finger, middle toe, Ring finger with index toe and Pinkie finger with big toe. I urged her to have Jaime to spend two to three minutes on each placement then move to the next. When complete, he would repeat the sequences for the other hand/foot combination. I also relayed that Jaime should do this as much as possible for as long as he was able to be with Brian and teach anyone who was able to be with Brian to do the same. Brian agreed to let Jaime give it a try, hoping it might help with the pain.
Later that afternoon Jaime reported to my daughter that Brian said that the holds were really relaxing and he liked them a lot. Jaime continued to do them as much as possible and taught the holds to Brian’s father when he arrived the next day. “What else can we do?” said Brian. He asked my daughter for more Jin Shin Jyutsu to help himself. He was beginning to feel his left side of this body come back.
I made a video to send to Brian with the Main Central Self-Help flow. This would continue to help the energy of the spine and give him the energy he would need to heal. He began to use this daily in bed.
It’s been more than a year now and Brian has almost completely recovered from his injury. He had lots of help from friends, family, and the medical community on the way, as well as Jin Shin Jyutsu. He has some weakness still in his left side but it is indistinguishable to others. He continues to use Jin Shin Jyutsu self-help and feels it made a huge difference in his recovery.