FSR Therapy

Every week I see Sharon for FSR (Forceless Spontaneous Release). She places her hands on either side of a part of my body—usually my right foot or ankle, and holds it gently but firmly until she feels a release of energy in that part of the body. Then she moves her hands to another area. She sometimes holds the same area for most of the hour-long session. Fortunately, she is calm and patient. We usually talk, and I have opened up to her with some very personal stuff.

Sharon is a massage therapist who specializes in Shiatsu. She learned FSR by my request from J.J.’s (Janice Walton-Hadlock) book downloaded from the PD Recovery website.

            According to J.J:

The original cause of Parkinson’s is two-fold. The one of the causes is a perfectly normal foot injury. The second part is dissociation from pain to the extent that the injury cannot heal. This combination leads to permanence of a perfectly logical variation on the normal [energy] channel pattern – a variation that is only supposed to be activated for a short time. This variation should only preside until the injury heals enough for normal Qi flow to resume. In Parkinson’s, the injury never heals because of dissociation.

            The technique of FSR is supposed to heal the old injury and allow the flow of Qi to be corrected. After that there is more work to do, but that is the beginning. The issues that caused there to be dissociation need to be addressed for a complete recovery. J.J. and her PD Team have seen many recoveries since they began their work. I hope I will be one of them.