IHM & Energies!

[Kithara]

Hello all,
This is my first post to the IHM forum.

I haverecently started doing the VTCT Diploma in Indian Head Massage. I have performed 2 full treatments on clients now. After both of these treatments, I felt very emotional to the extent that I was in tears pretty much all evening. I had no reason to be upset. I even started to feel really insecure.

The course is an intensive course, so I was working on each client for 4 hours on and off each day, which probably didn't help. I know with IHM you are working with energies and that the treatments possibly drained my energy or I took on negative energy from the client.

In the past, I have learnt how to ground and protect myself but this takes me about 5-15 minutes as I do not do it very often. Grounding & Protecting yourself at college before a treatment is very difficult, and as such I did not do this before the treatments.

Do any of you ground/protect yourself before a treatment and what methods do you use that are quick and effective? Have any of you experienced feelings like this after a treatment?

Any advice/feedback would be great
Thanks

 

[JellyBear(L)]

Hi Sarah,

I'm really sorry for the delay in answering your question- I've seen it twice and haven't yet had the time to answer...

First off, welcome to the IHM forum! Nice to have you here[sm=hug.gif]

It is quite unusual to have such a strong emotional reaction to giving an IHM as you have, so my first question would be what's going on in your life right now? Do you generally feel happy? balanced? If you do, and you haven't got anything in particular stressing you out, then I'd say almost for certain that- as you suspect- you mightnot begrounding & protecting yourself enough. This needent take long-1 min should be plenty. The grounding technique I use for healing (and other treatments) is really simple but effective:

GAPP/GASP:

Ground. Standing behind your client, become aware of your feet on the floor, and see yourself firmly attached by visualising roots spreading from your feet and through the ground.

Attune. (If you've not done any healing before or don't feel comfortable with this one, just miss it out.) Attune (become at- one) to Source, and feel yourself connected to the healing energy.

Sacred Space/Protect. Visualise yourself surrounded in a bubble of protection (any colour.)

Permission. Mentally ask permission to step into your client's space, and then stand behind them. Visualise a figure of eight in an electric blue coloursurrounding you both, but separating you at the same time (the client is sitting in the top circle and you're standing inthe bottomcircle.)


It's a little while since you first posted, so maybe you've done a few more treatments? Let me know how you're getting on and I'll do my best to help.

Hope things are going OK,

Azalia.

 

[TM Zombie]

Thanks Azalia for the information.
To be honest, I haven't done any treatments since - It kind of put me off. I do have to do case studies though which I am starting on Monday, but I want to make sure I don't feel like that again.
I have had experience with grounding and protecting myself but it does take me a while to do - I know you said that it would take only a minute, but I feel that I won't be fully protected as I would be rushing it - maybe thats because my visualisation isn't as good as it could be and does take me a little longer than others.

At present, my life is going really well and I am the happiest I've been in a long time. I have had a difficult time in the past with finances, relationships etc, but all have been resolved now.

I don't feel that I received negative energy from the clients as such - one of them was my boyfriend! Maybe i was just drained.

Lavandula

 

[Campbell]

Yes,especially if you were doing them in the evening.

I guess the only way to work this one out is to have another stab at it! In regards to the grounding & protection, why don't you take your time doing it in the morning and then when you come to the treatment, hopefully it shouldn't take so long because you're just re-affirming the connection you put in place earlier.

Good luck!

 

[h56781]

last night i gave four mini i h m during one i felt a little weepy but i know my client was upset but on the whole i felt energized by doing these treatments i find i get out of these as much as my clients