Case Study Summary: Understanding the Sensations of Stuck & Freeze

1. Goa seminar 2009 Dr Sunil Anand

2. Working summary of caseImportant Themes • Its easier to talk about the physicals, the emotions are more difficult • My shoulder blades tighten(HG) • Talk about tighten • Feel it in my neck and it restricts my mobility(HG) • It just freezes up as I am stuck in this range of motion

3. Elaborate on ‘stuck’ • Stiff and tight • More on ‘stiff’ and ‘tight’ • Its locked • My muscles like to tense up

4. Doodle 1 • Do a doodle with ‘stiff’, ‘tight’ and ‘locked’ • A re-bar • What is the sensation? • Train track of steel-no give • Difficult to penetrate

5. My father is alive but no emotional connection • Wear my heart in my sleeves • It’s a defense mechanism • Severed relationship with elder sister • Talk about ‘severed’ • Like cutting off a limb

6. Doodle 2&3-Conection and Disconnection • Connection- Heart and the connection inside and two circles connected • That becomes a part of my sleeves and a part of my armor • You need the armor for a rainy day • Disconnection- fight with sister • Little piece of black cancer • Left a part of my heart

7. Connected Disconnected

8. More on experience and sensation of backache? • Stuck forward • Could lead to paralysis after an extreme movement • Say more • One wrong move and you will be stuck

9. Back to doodles • Re-bar-steel, difficult to penetrate • What would be the opposite? • Sponge- pores, can be squeezed, air flows through it and its light Talk more on freeze up Locked and stuck Phenomena in nature that is locked and stuck? An icicle

10. Icicle • Say more on icicle • Its like my knots- like an icicle being created • Say more • Its going to snap • It comes back to ‘ if I move the wrong way, I am going to be paralyzed’ • I am stuck with it being iced

11. Say more on ‘snap’ • My neck is going to be snapped off and stuck in one position if I just move too far one way • So it snaps first and then gets stuck? • Yes • More on ‘snap’ • Like a tree limb which is coming apart from the tree trunk

12. Arbutus tree • Why does it appeal to you? • It has a thin bark that you can peel off • It is huge, beautiful, evergreen but delicate • Say more on ‘delicate’ • Not fragile but not strong and sturdy • The wind may blow off the bark

13. Fragile and Delicate • Say more on fragile? • Fragility of a child or emotions • Say more on fragility • Its like porcelain • Like my grandmother who died • She was so delicate and fragile

14. Image hunting- Birds and Sponge • A sponge is delicate, absorbent. • With Spongia there would be multiple sensations- issues of Calcarea and Silica and Carbo veg • Victim aggressor- She didn’t have intense hatred and that someone is trying to get her. • No drained out issues • There are no issues of birds too

15. The feeling is for 25 years I tolerated that abuse because I wanted that connection. Puppet or a slave, the puppet has the control or connections, it’s through the connections the puppet moves. I’m not going to have that anymore.

16. But in this case…. • You see the sensitivity • You see the ability to feel hurt • The ability to adapt • The ease with which she gives opposites • So this is a plant kingdom case

17. But which family? • You see certain sensations like caught, stiff,stuck etc • looks like the Anacardaciae family. Probably - Rhus Tox. • But when we confirm further in her case it is that something will snap and then she will get stuck.

18. Significance of Doodles • The doodles are encouraged at appropriate parts of the case • It is like a by-pass • It helps the patient to explore her inner sensations when she faces a block • One cannot prescribe on the doodle alone • One had to ask the experience and sensation while looking at the doodle

19. When probed in this way we understand that… • The fear is that one wrong move & that it will snap and will get stuck. • She also talks about fragile emotions. • Source word: Porcelain, fragility of a child, hard interior but soft exterior, bark peels off . • She gives us the opposite polarities easily.

20. Conifer family The opposite polarities - • Steel/sponge, Heart connected/heart broken. • Polarities confirm the deeper sensation.   • In this case it is the sensation of the Conifer family.

21. Which miasm? • She says …. • I have high pain tolerance • I cannot control my pain without help • I was always older than my age • Does things in extremes • Dreams- running but no where specific, without sign posts • Falling off a cliff. • There is a cancer within me.

22. Recap • Kingdom- Plant kingdom: sensitivity, I wear my heart on my sleeve, emotional, she’s trying to adapt to the situation. • Conifer: Connection/disconnection, fragile, delicate, scar tissue that can snap, tree limb that can snap anytime, the need to stay in one place and freeze, one wrong move and paralyzed for life. 

23. Sensation-stuck, freezes up, stiff, tight, locked,snapped, stuck, like a tree limb, with one wrong move (that’s very cancer miasm like)   • Carcinosin words: I grew up too early. Not as desperate as Carcinosin. • I was a good girl. Control. Perfection. Beyond one’s capacity.  • A strong family history of Cancer

24. All this suggests

25. Potency • Sensation confirmed at all levels. • Strong person with strong vitality.   • Sabina 1M single dose.

26. Brittle and its synonyms • The sensation ‘brittle’ is prominent in the remedies from the Conifer family • Some synonyms of brittle are- • Fragile • Broken • Pieces • These make the picture of the family complete

27. Cut off and Disconnected • At a deeper level, this sensation can be understood as isolation and emptiness • The sensations emptiness, brittleness and lack of connection are linked to each other • The feeling of brittleness and fragility is due to the inner sensation of emptiness • Things which are brittle crumble into pieces • Once it breaks and crumbles the connection is lost

28. Connected Disconnected

29. Main Sensation-like an egg shell • Emptiness • Brittleness • Separation • Cut-off • The picture that comes in mind is of an egg shell • When the egg is empty the shell is fragile and brittle • Once it is broken the continuity is lost and it crumbles to pieces-a break in the whole

30. Differentiation

31. Scrophuliaraceae

32. Scrophuliaraceae- • The sensation of dissociation has a subtle difference- • When two separate things are associated and then they come apart and the bond is broken • The bond is made and then torn loose • The bond is between two separate entities joining or adhering together • So the rubrics would have the sensation of adhesion and tearing loose

33. Malvales

34. Malvales • Main sensation is of attachment and detachment • Attachment is two entities coming together • One becoming part of the other • Like a mother and her new born

35. Leguminoseae

36. Leguminoseae-Pea family • The pods have different components together • They need to separate in order to spread • The pods split open along the sutures and the seeds scatter • At a human level, the self is made up of various parts bound together • Feeling that the parts could separate and fall to pieces • There is an external factor splitting them up

37. Arbutus tree-Ericaceae • Also known as the strawberry tree or the evergreens • A tough tree needing little nourishment-Wikepedia(source) • Its bark peels off very easily • While talking of this tree what comes up is delicate again taking us to the Conifer family

38. Sabina and Cancer Miasm • Female: Cancer: uterus (Complete) • Chest: Cancer: scirrhus, mammae (Complete) • Dreams:falling: high places, from: men are killed by falling from a height(Complete) • Dreams: excelling in mental work(Complete) • The above rubrics indicate its use in cancer • The depth of action is reflected in the dreams

39. Sabina-proposed feeling and miasm • In control even when broken, disconnected or cut off

40. E mail FU 1 after 2 months • I was sleeping really well after the remedy • My weekly workouts have been more geared towards stretching and opening since the remedy, I think that’s been a bonus. • My daughter broke her collarbone, a bit of a stress. 4-5 marriage breakdowns in families that we know, daughter’s friend. Internalizing some stress. • I haven’t felt anything bad or extreme, it’s been positive.

41. Range of movement with your neck? • It’s been fine. I carry my stress there. There is so much scar tissue. I measure it on range of motion and riding my bike. Going on bike it’s awkward if you have a tight neck, and it was great, I went on and didn’t come off….It’s a solid 8/10. • What were you before? • The lousy time was 3 or 4 out of 10. Then it would get up to maybe a 7 or 8 if I’ve had a lot of treatments but probably was surviving on 5 or 6. I have improved. Also no low back. The core and being able to sleep on my stomach, that part is doing well.

42. You said before you felt paralyzed? • Yeah when it was acute, 3/10. • That is gone? • Yeah. Even when I’ve pushed or compromised myself. No disc injuries. I play more conservatively now. I’m not diving and rolling and doing dumb things. • How are your knees? • 8/10. Good. Maybe never a 10 again.

43. Is there anything you’d like to see improve still? • I feel pretty good from the health perspective. I don’t wish for a 10/10 on my neck, an 8/10 is great. • It’s been a really positive experience.   • Plan - wait 

44. FU after 6 months • I’ve been well. • I didn’t take notes, was in summer mode. • My husband would like to pass on some things. He thinks there’s been a calming of my personality. He would say I’ve had lesser lows on the emotional roller coaster. Taken away that edge.

45. That and posture wise, once I went to chiro, the back and neck tension is in good position. That’s significant and positive. • Before you said the neck was 8/10 better. • It’s probably stayed the same. Certainly no worse. A good 8 out of 10. I played ultimate Frisbee all summer long. There’s not a lot of cushioning by the end of summer. I sailed through that though. My vertebrae feels loose, I have movement. When it’s tight I feel like it’s blocked. I don’t have the blocked feeling anywhere.

46. We will give you some of the remedy to have on hand in case of injury (Sabina 30c) , as recommended by Sunil.

47. FU after 1 year • How have you been? • Pretty good. • What about your knees? • Great. Physically no problems. • Not playing Frisbee? • No. I run home from work one day a week. Get one training day in and one other workout. Three things a week for myself. Wish it was more.

48. How are you coping with your emotions? • I’m more mature about it. It passes faster than getting in a rut and staying there longer. Found the solution, drive on. I feel rested, kids let me sleep in. I’ve been getting 5-6 hours sleep. Plan- Wait