Ortho-Bionomy®: A Gentle Technique Gives
Comfort and Lasting Relief
“What is Essential is invisible to the eye.”
—The Little Prince
It was the pain that initially introduced me to Ortho-Bionomy®.
Thank Goodness! Doctors and surgeons were advising me to
participate in a third Lamenectomy, to which I delivered
an absolute "No."
Eight OB sessions later, my life was changed. Most of my
pain was gone, and thus launched my journey into OB-land!
Each time I began to compose this essay, the meaning of
Ortho-Bionomy® would continue to change, so
I would press the pause button and "wait" until I could
decisively express its impact on my life. It didn't take
me long to figure out that the "waiting" would never end,
for Ortho-Bionomy® was forever changing
and evolving in me. It is difficult for me to separate the
influence and impact that Ortho-Bionomy®
has had on my personal and professional life, for they
have become so intertwined.
In the beginning, it was about helping me. Then it became
important to help others. Now I discover there is little
if no difference between these two. I change myself, I
change everything around me. With this in mind, I find
myself increasingly more conscious of my patterns in
thought and action. Am I engaging in ease or resistance?
What kind of relationship am I having with myself?
Ortho-Bionomy® heartens me to examine,
evaluate, and release pre conceived notions and beliefs in
and around the world in which I reside. It fosters self-
reliance, self-recognition, release, relief, and
re-organization-- in body, mind and spirit, and it compels
me to share these principles with others. I watch myself
now, with a different eye, with a different sense of "I",
with a different sense. When I remember to monitor my
movements -emotionally, physically, mentally, and auricly,
I am also reminded I have the authority to shift any and
all of these aspects.
With this in mind, I can transform what is right in front
of me, as well as something a universe away. I become
increasingly aware that I cannot be in this world without
affecting it, and being affected by it. How I act, think,
present, and perceive, has a ripple effect that is vast
and immeasurable.
Ortho-Bionomy® serves as a vehicle for
my self-expression, a dance of self-exploration, and a
place where I can dream and imagine endless possibilities.
It has become a place of refuge, where I connect with
myself and others in a most remarkable way. Its principles
whisper reminders in how to be full of delight, wonder,
and joy. It is a place where I can play, create, and bask
in the ever present spirit of fellowship.
Reminiscent of a magnificent Zen Koan, Ortho-Bionomy®
provides more questions than answers. It summons me to
re-examine such ideas as order and chaos, balance and
homeostasis. Sometimes I wonder if I am really "helping"
anyone at all: I am present, with an OTHER. I look, I
touch, I lift, and I observe change. Sometimes I don't
even touch. I just "look" and something happens. Sometimes
I am not even looking. I am just Being, and through Being,
something emerges, transforms—within them, within me, and
perhaps, worlds beyond my consideration.
—Elizabeth Mixon Summers

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—Rilke

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