\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t So, after about an hour, the boy\u2019s strength deflated. At that point, holding him on the mattress, I started touching his neck for a very\u00a0long time. As a reference of this approach, I would like to cite the book of\u00a0Earhart Tolle\u00a0\u201cThe Power of Now\u201d, page 62\u00a0which states: The\u00a0feelings are generated in the places where the mind meets\u00a0the body and these areas are the shoulders and the neck. This is the reaction of the body to the mind, or we could explain it as the refection of the brain to the mind. This approach gave the 12-year old body more\u00a0reason to relax. \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t In\u00a0order to show how important it is for a\u00a0parent to be present and\u00a0PARTICIPATE in the session through his\/her interrupted attention towards his\/her child, during the therapy session, I would like to refer to a third case. A boy, 15 years old, with ashberger syndrome and autism, asked by himself\u00a0therapy sessions and laid down on\u00a0his own on the bed where the\u00a0therapy takes place. At a\u00a0certain\u00a0point in time, the boy managed through the help of Participatory Reflexology, to overcome a body block mechanism, which in turn reflected also in a emotional blocking mechanism. At the moment that the boy felt that he managed to overcome this problem, turned his head to look at his father,\u00a0expecting to receive an approval sign from him, which in turn could change a lot in their relation. His father though, who was present-absent, was completely immersed in his tablet from the beginning of the session, till its end and thus he did not understand anything.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sougiareflexology.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/123.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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\nIt was essentially the only to work on his neck area, where they are based one of the major blocking mechanisms in this boy, because my hands were busy to keep the boy immobile. The possibility of tying this boy on\u00a0the first therapy session would be catastrophic and it\u00a0would have shaken up the confidence of the boy and of the mother towards myself and towards my technique
\nIf it was possible to\u00a0continue the effort of confronting this boy\u2019s problem in another way, I would have proposed it at a certain point in time, because at that time,\u00a0there was trust\u00a0established between myself and the boy.
\nThe most important thing is that the boy would have accepted to participate in this approach, because the trust that he started having with me, had to be returned to me in the form of self-discipline. These two senses, trust and self-discipline, which started getting morphed\u00a0inside the 12-year old boy, gave home for my objective, which was the awaking of his participation and his curiosity towards the outside world.
\nTaking advantage of this awaking and his curiosity, after a a few sessions he let me put a few auto-acupuncture needles on his ear to treat the subject of his\u00a0aggression. The boy accepted\u00a0the\u00a0acupuncture\u00a0needles and from what his mother and his speech therapist told me, he was careful as well, so that these needles do not leave his body.
\nThe result was that starting with the next session,\u00a0the boy was coming to the room, took his shoes off, opened on his own the mattress and jumped on the mattress on his own, waiting for me.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\nIn all the therapy sessions with this 12-year old boy, I worked with him in the mattress and very carefully, because at any point in time, he\u00a0could have hit me very hard.
\nWe had 12 sessions in about four months.
\nThe boy in the session before the\u00a0last, was laying on the mattress and\u00a0was looking at me in peace and I was simply touching him very softly at the base of his chin.
\nAt that time, the difficult to shallow and the continuous salivation had almost stopped. The last time that I saw the boy, as I was talking to his grand mother, he came close to me, he hugged me and he kissed me on the cheek.
\nAnother example, was that of the 4-year old boy A., who was already autistic. I was called, because the boy had a muscle problem in the pelvis, he could not walk and he spent the whole day in the baby stroller as the infants do. The\u00a0parents were not accepting that the 4-year boy had autism, and they described his problem\u00a0with other words, at the same time though they could\u00a0not explain this boy\u2019s behavior.
\nI tried to put this boy on the mattress on the floor, but this\u00a0attempt did not succeed, as the boy was very difficult to keep tight control of. If I wanted to keep tight\u00a0control of him, I would have\u00a0to apply disproportionate force to his body, which would have been disastrous. In order to accomplish my objective, I followed a different path: I put him on my shoulders.
\nHe liked it very much and he was insisting on touching my face with his small fingers. This allowed me to work with relative ease on the bottom of his feet exclusively in\u00a0the first few sessions. \u00a0Slowly the boy started getting more relaxed and he started letting me touch in other areas of his body. He also started trying to formulate words and speak in a coherent\u00a0manner, because he was not talking until then, One day, at the end of the session, the family offered to me a desert and I sat down on the kitchen table to eat it. The boy came and sat next to me and on his own asked to eat something as well.
\nHe started looking at my eyes, examining my face, and moving his head to the left, to the right, so that he can see my face from different angles. From\u00a0what his mother told me that he was doing that with other people as well. Despite being very young, the boy A., was used to computers. Eventually his\u00a0behavior changed and when he was seeing the home computer on, he would shut it down and he would go play outdoors.
\nIn another circumstance, he saw me at the\u00a0entrance of his house and when he saw me, he came close to me and offered me to\u00a0drink water from his glass and in fact he insisted to hold the glass himself as I was drinking.<\/p>\n