The still point is spaciousness.
It is timelessness.
When the still point occurs in the “yoga of daily life’, this apparently spontaneous cessation of the cranial wave is a moment of satori, of spiritual oneness, even ecstasy.”
Origin of the Cranial Wave:
Sutherland believed that the origin of Cranial Movement was the contractile properties within the brain itself. The brain cells , he believed, pulsated was the driving forc behind the rhythm. Scientific research has since proved this untenable.
In 1970, Dr. Upledger, while assisting in surgery to remove calcification of the dural tube in the cervical region, felt the rhythmic ebb and flow of the cerebral spinal fluid in the dural tube which was the same rate of movement of the Cranial Bones. using his palpatory skills, keen intelligence and intuition, and years of research with Zvi Karni and others from 1975- 1978 at
Michigan State University, he developed the Pressurestat Model. In short the driving force of the wave is the inflow and outflow of CSF through the water proof and relatively inelastic Dura Mater. The regulatory system for the rate of fluid is the stretch receptors located at the sagital suteres which communicate with the choroid plexuses which control production of the CSF at its blood brain barrier. Upledger was the first to link the movement of the cranial bones with the dural membranes and hydrostatic pressure of CSF.
However, the BioMechanical Model that Upledger presented cannot explain the nonlocal spiritual properties of the Cranial Wave. Milne developed his Visionary CranioSacral Therapy with the understanding that cranial bone motility is the movement of the fluctuating field…”This fluctuating field is the spirit. It is a field of information and of intelligence, a single unified system of energy, whose fundamental texture is expressed in the quality of feeling we call love… The spirit is a quantum field of energy.”
The ancient Chinese depicted the fluctuating field with the symbol of yin and yang energy dancing around a still center, the two perfectly overlapping. The ancient Hindus depicted the same dance as two serpents ascending intertwined of the kundalini. The Kabbalists recognized this dance as the intertwining of the male heaven energies intertwined with the female earth energies.
Fritz Smith provides us the energetic model of these universal energies through the bones and joints and brings together his Zero Balancing and gives structure to energy and brings energy to structure.
CranioBalance sees the Cranial Wave as the sum total of energy movement through the bones, fascia, and into all the cells, molecules and atoms. The electromagnetic field that is produced by the energy movement in the body is the Cranial Wave. The Cerebro Spinal Fluid, as the highest known element of the human body (A. T. Still) , is able to contain the ebb and flow of the cranial wave. In the words of Dr. Randolph Stone, founder of Polarity Therapy, “The Soul swims in the Cerebral Spinal Fluid”. In a similar way, the blood contains within it the ebb and flow of the spirit and the health of the organs. Like the Chinese Master who is able to pick up imbalances in the body/ spirit through a pulse diagnosis, the CranioBalance practitioner can tune in to the Cerebral Spinal Fluid and feel the state of being of his client.
Cranial Wave Contact: The 25 micron amplitude ( half the thickness of writing paper) of the cranial wave is so minute that we need different parameters to sense , feel, experience, and affect it. The Cranial Wave can best be felt in an expanded , meditative state of consciousness. In that state, we can “see” the movement of the cranial wave, we can “hear” the inner voice of the spirit being expressed, and feel the individual imprint of the soul flowing through the body.
The optimal contact is about 5 grams of pressure.
Be in passive , listening mode.
Allow the wave come in to your hands.
Blend in with the fluid component.
Be still, be silent , and be one with the core of the client.
