With kind permission I include this story here, which illustrates how receiving and practising the Metamorphic Technique within a family can offer the opportunity for a deep releasing of patterns between family members. In this story we see a beautiful unfolding connection between mother and son.
It also illustrates the tremendous support the Metamorphic Technique can offer in times of crisis. With this practice at our fingertips, anywhere, anytime, we are no longer helpless.
With kind permission I include this story here, which illustrates how receiving and practising the Metamorphic Technique within a family can offer the opportunity for a deep releasing of patterns between family members. In this story we see a beautiful unfolding connection between mother and son.
It also illustrates the tremendous support the Metamorphic Technique can offer in times of crisis. With this practice at our fingertips, anywhere, anytime, we are no longer helpless.
I just want to feel safe!
A 10 year old, who was born with a damaged kidney, and his bowel and bladder under-developed and fused together, had undergone a number of operations as a small child, and was having to rely on medication to go to the loo, and facing having to learn to self-catheter. He was also at an age when he had become conscious of his difference in relation to his peers and to the rest of his life. He was anxious, unhappy and ill at ease with himself. It would seem he had fallen into a depression. He no longer wanted to participate at school, or in his previously loved music lessons. He would say to him mother: ‘Mum, I just want to go home!’ ‘What do you mean?’ His mother replied, ‘you are home!’ ‘I don’t know, I just want to feel safe!
I first started with offering the mother an impromptu taster session at home, as she was reluctant about her son having ‘yet another intervention’, and didn’t feel he would want this. I suggested she put her foot on my lap so that she could experience the touch for herself. She soon experienced a relaxation and an opening around her head.
Right timing
‘As it happens’, the boy and father, who had been out, arrived home just then, and walked in on our session. After some expressions of surprise by both father and son, the boy announced that he wanted to watch the rugby on television. The perfect setting for offering the Metamorphic Technique in a non-threatening way! I asked the son if he would like me to touch his feet in the same way while he watched T.V. He immediately said yes. As I gave him the session he leant into me, and asked to hold his mother’s hand.
I was later told that shortly after the session, the boy put down his knife and fork, and said ‘I feel peaceful’. He then said ‘Mum, can you learn what that lady was doing?
The boy’s mother came on my next workshop, and at the end of it experienced a big release of emotion. She realised she had been holding on to the belief that she was responsible for what had happened to her son in the womb. With this recognition, came release of the belief.
A boy re-engages with life
After his first session with the Metamorphic Technique, the boy experienced a shift, and with the continued support of his mother at home giving him sessions, he re-engaged fully with his life and schooling. Two weeks after her attendance at my workshop, the family were going to their son’s appointment at hospital, where he was to learn how to self-catheter. Travelling on the tube in London, feeling anxious, he reached out his hand to his mother, so that she could support him with the Metamorphic Technique.
He was able to take on the new procedure without any problems.
Unity within the family
His mother wrote:
“ As his mother I had felt powerless to help him with this heavy burden, but after learning the basics and attending a weekend course with Hélène, I feel able to help in some little way, and equally important to me, to offer the same light touch and opportunity for oneness and peace to his sister as well. I cannot really put into words how much Metamorphic Practice has smoothed and oiled our day to day living on many different levels.”
Because of his challenges his mother had over the years had to focus a lot of her attention on her son. Now here was a practice which she could equally share with her young daughter.
