During the years, he got more and more gentle and shifted his focus more and more to listening to the system of the client with his hands. In this way he discovered, that the client actually already had an “incorporate” plan for the treatment, and that it was ready – when the client was ready! He said that the practitioner should “Trust the Tide”. – The Tide being the self-regulating mechanisms, which the body naturally has.
Cranio-Sacral Therapy Biodynamics is based on embryology – being the theory behind creation of the fetus.
In the Cranio-Sacral Therapy Biodynamics, they presume that the energies that control the creation of the fetus are the same energies that heal the body during our life. An assumption supported by scientists. The same energies control the growth and development of the child and regulates our system, when we are healthy.
It is known that our genes are not very active during the first six weeks after the conception; nevertheless, many things are going on during this phase. Most of the structures and organs are already visible and for the rest of the time in the womb they mature and develop themselves.
What is it that controls the development of the fetus during this period? In the Cranio-Sacral Therapy Biodynamics those mechanisms are calles The Embryonic Forces (TEF). Those forces control the development of the fetus – together with the genes. Michael Kern, London, teaches Biodynamics and has an elegant way of describing this. He says: “The genes decide if you get blue og brown eyes. The Embryonic Forces decide if you get eyes at all.”
That meant that TEF actually stands behind the development of the body – and hereby of course, also behind the different systems, the body consists of. The nervous system, the hormone system, the vascular system, the lymphatic system, the immune system, the organ system, the muscles and the skeleton – all systems of the body are created following the instructions of the TEF.
This gets especially interesting when talking about helping the body. Because now we all of a sudden have two very different ways of contacting the body – we could focus on treating the sick system, or instead we could contact the constructing forces, that lie behind the development of the system itself. In the Cranio-Sacral Therapy Biodynamics, the focus of the practitioner lies on activating those forces that have conducted the forces already since the prenatal phase controlling the creation, growth and regulation – those forces have a template, which is used to create the body.