Do you analyse trends in hara diagnoses?

I have been keeping simple logs of the hara diagnoses for each of my clients. So apart from the full treatment write ups I have a simple table in the back of my diary that looks like this:

20/03/2007
K+/H-

11/04/2007
Lu+/SI-

01/05/2007
SI+/Lu-

Jitsu is represented by + and Kyo by -
Recently I had the idea to go through each […]

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Learning to say no to find balance

Yesterday I was musing on how important it is to learn when to stop treating a client if they fail to respond to shiatsu. This feeds indirectly into my quest for more balancing in my life as they are about setting boundaries and learning to say no.
I have a lot going on in my […]

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Tempation to keep giving shiatsu treatment

As a shiatsu student I am under pressure to complete 100 treatments before I can graduate from the course. When I start to practise full time I will be under pressure to give as much shiatsu as I can to support myself.
There are always personal and financial reasons why we want to continue giving […]

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Balancing act

This weekend we drew diagrams to show where we give as shiatsu practitioners and what we receive to support us. For most of the students there was a lot of giving and a real need to more support and for me this imbalance is why I am finding life Exciting and stagnant.
But it was […]

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Exciting and stagnant

I am going through a strange time that is both very exciting and stagnant.
I am really enjoying my third year studies. Getting the clinic running with its thoughts of advertising and marketing. At the same time thinking about how I want to run my own practise. Even the thought of losing my […]

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How to be a more relaxed blogger

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One of the items that I drew onto my Ki balance diagram represented this blog. I drew it as both a drain and resource of energy.

It is a drain because I have set myself a target of writing an article everyday. When my shiatsu was very new that was achievable. I wanted to share my experiences with everyone and the feedback I have received over the past year has been great. That is where I have drawn much of my energy and that is one reason why shiatsublogger supports my shiatsu training and practise.

I am now spending more time concentrating on the demands of my final year course. But in addition to that I want to improve the articles that appear on this site. Those articles will come as I become more involved in my project work and develop my practise. But for the time being my writing is stagnating and that increases the pressure of my self imposed blogging schedule.

It is now time to change. I am not stopping, just slowing down. I am becoming a more relaxed blogger and not insisting that I produce an article a day. For the immediate future I will be writing only when I have something to say. That will probably be once or twice a week but I will think about the new schedule over the next couple of days and post about it on Wednesday.

I hope that you will understand my reasons and continue to visit or subscribe to ShiatsuBlogger.

Tony Brown @ December 3, 2007