Dr Andrew Logan

WORKING WITH CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY:

Like any doctor or surgeon I have always wanted to erase pain and heal using my hands. Through training in craniosacral therapy and projected touch I am able to successfully treat most of my patients within I to 2 consultations. I can erase pain, relax fascia muscle and tendons, align bones, open up lymphatics, release trapped nerves, stop phantom limb pain, and wind down the autonomic nervous system. My craniosacral work covers releasing tissue memory of trauma, sports injuries, whiplash, back pain, TMJ syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia and stress management.

Most of my craniosacral work is releasing tissue memory from around scars from surgery, violence, car accidents etc that is causing pain, tissue tension, restriction of movement and lymphatic congestion. It amazed me as a therapist to sense through a listening touch, a scar remembering the pain and terror of surgery, causing local fascia and muscle to flinch creating pain. Simply through listening to traumatised tissue and projecting energy into it I can release the memory, triggering fascial unwinding, evaporation of pain and muscle relaxation.

Tissue memory of injury plays a major part in any sports injury and contributes to maintaining a memory of pain long after the injury has healed. This can confuse a physiotherapist into overtreating an injury. I always prefer to treat any sports injury before physiotherapy in order to erase pain remembered by local tissues of the original injury, and to relax guarding by local muscles. This creates a clean slate for the physiotherapist to assess true injury and tenderness rather remembered pain of the original accident.

I have also trained in Visceral Release, an advanced form of craniosacral therapy that enables me to release trapped emotion from organs restoring their inherent motility. The heart stores heartache, lungs grief, stomach anxiety, spleen envy, gallbladder resentment, liver anger, kidneys fear, and pancreas terror. The body eliminates these emotions through organ motility, but if an emotion accumulates to excess within the organ it stops moving and the feeling surfaces.

I use visceral release for a wide body of work- post traumatic stress disorder, stress management, fatigue, anorexia, peptic ulcers, post chemotherapy recovery and soul retreat. (See Examples of my work) The vast majority of this is releasing fear from the kidneys, anxiety from the stomach, and terror from the pancreas. This emotional emptying of organs has a profound effect in these conditions leaving the patient feeling deeply relaxed, grounded and energised.

Soul Retreat is a common problem in the NHS, where a soul is terrified out of their body retreating up into their higher chakras. We have 15 chakras as part of our soul, 7 within the body and 8 ascending above us to 42” above our head. In acute shock, rape, attempted murder, cancer diagnosis, road traffic accidents, cardioversion, comas, major surgery etc, the soul disengages from within the body and escapes through the head leaving us feeling anxious, numb, difficulty thinking, spacey, ungrounded and exhausted, with difficulty sleeping.

For a soul to fully return inside a body the fear in both kidneys, anxiety in the stomach and terror in the pancreas needs to be released before the autonomic nervous system will wind down again. Soul return using visceral release has a profound affect on wellbeing, elevating mood, calming the mind, restoring energy, boosting immunity, and winding down the autonomic nervous system. It amply demonstrates the calming, reassuring, energising effect a full soul/chakra presence has within the body, and is successful in post traumatic stress disorder where the stored level of fear, anxiety and terror is crippling and disorientating.