SHEN© Therapy

SHEN© Therapy is used by massage therapists to unlock the physical ailments of their patients by addressing their emotional needs. Many methods of massage therapy seek to end the hold that pain has over patients purely through physical means. Unfortunately, this ignores the fact that many physical ailments have roots in emotional issues. These emotional issues can include resentments, stresses, depression and other distubances. SHEN© Therapy includes physical treatments to release emotional disturbances. A patient can then be restored to both physical and psychological health.

SHEN© therapy is similar to Qi Gong therapy in that it focuses on energy and uses energy as a means to heal. SHEN© therapists uses electromagnetic fields that surround the bodies of their patients as well as that are present in their own hands to release emotional issues. They apply their hands to their patients in order to find areas of disturbance and then use motions and movements to release those disturbances. At times, SHEN© practitioners physically touch their patients in order to manipulate energy fields. At other times, those energy fields can be manipulated without touch becoming necessary.

SHEN© stands for Specific Human Emotional Nexus. It was first developed by Richard Pavek as a means of recognizing how important human emotions are to the overall well begin of the human body. The four tenants of SHEN© are emotional relief, emotional unfolding, emotional grounding and emotional empowerment.

Medical practitioners can recommend that their patients seek SHEN© Therapy in order to resolve underlying issues that may be the cause of physical ailments that cannot be explained through traditional medical means. At times, patients can experience extreme pain, fatigue, joint aches and many other issues that seemingly have no physical cause. Because enlightened medical practitioners realize how powerfully ailments of the mind can affect the health of the body, they can recommend that their patients seek methods such as SHEN© Therapy in order to experience an overall improvement in health.

If you are interested in entering into massage therapy, you must first understand that SHEN© Therapy is not typical massage therapy in that the physical contact between practitioners and their patients in only a light touch meant to release emotional issues. More well known massage techniques such as deep tissue massage are not a component of SHEN© Therapy, which focuses first on the metaphysical before addressing the physical. However, many SHEN© therapists recognize that after emotional disturbances that have been releases, more aggressive physical massage may still be necessary in order to fully restore patients to physical health. It is not uncommon for practitioners to train in different styles of massage therapy so that they can provide the best possible care for their patients, specific to the patient’s individual needs.

To pursue SHEN© Therapy training, you need to be aware of the intensity of the program, which consists of almost 700 course hours. Depending on how much time you are able to devote to SHEN© training, it could take several months or even a year to finish training.

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