How often do you listen to your craniosacral system?
Rollin E. Becker, D.O. presented the following instructions and mediation as part of a lecture given in 1976 at the Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The title of this portion of the lecture is “Sitting With Your Mechanism”.
“Now, sit in your chairs with your feet on the floor, straighten your spines, and shift forward slightly so you’re sitting on your pelvic bones and not leaning in your chair at all. Then, quietly, for a moment, with your eyes closed, think of a potent cerebrospinal fluid expanding and contracting rhythmically. This is an internal feeling – quietly within yourself try to feel a body of fluid that comes to a still point and expands, comes to a still point and ebbs, comes to a stillpoint and expands, comes to a still point and ebbs, rhythmically every five to ten seconds. Fuse that feeling with the to-and-fro rocking of the reciprocal tension membrane by focusing on the straight sinus, the fulcrum of the reciprocal tension membrane. Don’t worry about the ends of the levers, look to the fulcrum. Focus your attention, not your mental brain but your awareness, on the reciprocal tension membrane at the Sutherland fulcrum. Quietly. Quietly. Still…be still and sense this life in motion.” 1.
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Notes:
- “The dural membrane system was called the “reciprocal tension membrane” by Dr. Sutherland.” 2.
- “The movement of the membranes has a natural point of balance, or a fulcrum, within the straight sinus where the leaves of the falx cerebri and tentorium cerebelli meet. This natural fulcrum was considered so important by cranial practitioners that it became known as Sutherland’s fulcrum.” 3.
References:
1. Becker, R.E., Life In Motion, Rudra Press, 1997
2. Sills, Franklyn, Craniosacral Biodynamics, Volume One, North Atlantic Books, 2001
3. Ibid.
Illustration by Tad Wanveer, LMBT, CST-D, Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved
