“What did you do to my patient?

I often spent my days at the cancer center moving between seeing patients in my treatment room, the chemo clinic, and at the hospital bedside. I tried to respond as quickly as I could to nurses’ requests to see the patients in hospital under their care. It always pleased me that I was one of their “go-to” therapies for their patients, especially when traditional medicine didn’t seem to be helping.

Lisa often called me with her unique patient issues. This day, the call was for a patient that had developed sciatica. The pain was severe and medications weren’t offering much improvement. Her patient felt groggy but not relieved.  I immediately went to visit him.

Jack was receptive to the idea, mostly out of desperation. I asked him to describe the pathway of the pain for me. Pain has a description. It can be localized and throbbing, shooting, electric, random and more descriptions than I can write here. Jack described this pain as traveling straight down his mid back to the hip, and directly down the back of the leg into the foot. I know this pathway well. Jack had described a specific energetic pathway and I felt fairly confident that Jin Shin Jyutsu might offer some relief.  Jack said he’d agree to treatment after getting the ok from his physician. Two day later he had the go-ahead and I came to his room for the session.

Jack’s wife was sitting on the couch when I arrived. I explained exactly where I would place my hands on Jack’s neck and ankle, finger and toe to complete the steps. Simple enough. I grabbed a nearby rolling stool and started. Jack became very relaxed and in just a few minutes fell soundly asleep. As often happens, his wife also became relaxed and had to catch herself at one point from tipping off the couch. 

When I finished both were asleep. I never woke people to see how they felt after a hospital session. Instead, I just assumed a positive outcome and hoped to catch up with them the next day. I didn’t hear from the nurse or Jack in the morning. Instead, I found an email in my inbox from his physician. “What have you done to my patient? He is completely out of pain.”

If a symptom is new, often with Jin Shin Jyutsu it can be harmonized back into balance quickly. This was the case with Jack. In general, more long standing symptoms can also experience improvement, but it may take longer as the energy has been committed to the disharmony longer, like a river that has created a canyon through which it’s been flowing for centuries.

Jack’s pain pathway was more recent, like a small stream from melting snow.