Dyslexic child cured

 

Ella came to sessions initially to help with her frequent panick attacks. Slowly as time progressed she learnt to feel the strength and anger in her body, and to say what she wanted to others to stand up for herself. Her energy became much less withdrawn and flightly. She was going through a profound transformation and coming into her power as a woman and an adult, and she realized that her previous lack of awareness had affected her children – s0 she asked me to help them. It’s interesting to note that her husband was also seeing me for sessions and engaged in his own awakening process, so the whole family began to work as a more integrated dynamic when the children got involved.

 

Ella asked me to work with her 10 year old daughter Martha who was struggling extremely at school and seemed just unable to engage with academic work at all, despite being obviously talented and bright. The school was saying she was “dyslexic”. She was also hyperactive and emotionally distant. I first observed Martha at a children’s party and realized that she was so terrified and flighty I would have to start by just playing games with her, and letting her be herself.

 

In the first session we played a board game, and she delighted in beating me. I had to give her a lot of space and just provide total acceptance, whilst letting her feel that I could feel her, and it was ok to be frightened and not relating. By the end of the session she was visibly calmer and her face looked more relaxed. Without pressure to be any certain way, she even let me hold her feet for a few minutes whilst sitting, as a start for the cranio work.

 

In the second session we did some homework together, in an equally playful mode. She needed to feel that I accepted her completely and that she was in control, especially that she was allowed to be inventive and creative. I gave her the space she needed, and then suggested 10 minutes of cranio at the end. She lay down, and after holding her feet, she let me hold her head. For just a few minutes she allowed herself to become peaceful and feel her body, before jumping up and declaring the session over.

 

But it was enough to affect her central nervous system and release significant amounts of tension. The next week her mother reported that she had started to be able to read on her own. After the third session her class teacher at school spoke to the parents to ask what had happened to her because she had been able to read out loud without shyness in front of the whole class… Her parents were really surprised, and Martha couldn’t really grasp it either.

 

 

From my perspective as practitioner what we had done was give her soul or essence the sense that it was safe to come out and engage with life again. That had happened through a combination of deep acceptance, understanding and bodywork. At the same time her mother was also making a major shift in healing the same behavioural pattern in herself, and this made all the difference.

 

The success in treating Martha was partly through the connection I was able to form with her personally, so she trusted me and dared to integrate and ground a part of herself that had probably become dissociated in very early childhood. The rest of the support for Martha came from her mother’s determination to look into herself.

 

 

Later we did one session where I encouraged Martha to fight me with her full physical force, and let out her rage. She enjoyed it very much and really came to life. After that her tendency to hold back and withdraw pretty much evaporated.

 

Since then Martha has become motivated at school, good at maths, reads for fun, is designing her own fashion collection, horse-riding and much more. This is a far cry from the shy introverted girl she was who had been labeled as dyslexic and lived in a floaty, dreamy state unable to engage or make friends. She still needs plenty of quiet time on her own as she is very sensitive, and prefers to eat mainly fruits and vegetables! Yet she is confident, well balanced, energetic and at peace with herself. She is an inspiration to be around, as are her parents. When parents support their children by setting and example in this way, their kid’s limiting patterns are no longer upheld and really big shifts can happen.