Hi,


I'm not sure how to answer your question. What do you think causes
the lockup? The bone level or the membrane level?

I performed NCR (the "balloons up the nose" technique) on myself a
coupel of hundred times over about a 3-month period. I haven't done
any balloons for a couple of months now, but my skull bones
still "move and groove" during yoga postures or at other times.

My facial bones moved quite a bit, and my temporals were REALLY
moving for a while (my hearing got a lot better), but now I think
there is a deeper underlying tension toward the back of the head that
has not fully released yet. I don't have the skill yet with my hands
to feel what's going on. I am thinking about taking Craniosacral I
training next month.

The last couple of times I did the balloons, I used a tremendous
amount of pressure, but nothing moved. There is something deep that
is either leting go slowly or not at all (yet). When I first started
the balloons, a single balloon would cause all kins of movement, but
at the end, 14 balloons and all my hand strength could get nothing to
budge.

about 17 months ago, I was lying down on my back, extending my head
and neck, when something suddenly "gave way" and I could suddenly
hear all kinds of high pitches that I couldn't 1 secound before.
This opening process has been going on ever since, with the balloons
being just a way to speed it up (I don't live near anyone who does
NCR, so I decided to try it myself.).

I fell and hit the corner of my mouth on a coffee table when I was
four. I am guessing that particular fall caused my septal and jaw
misalignments (based on before and after pictures--before that fall I
had a straight nose and my jaw hung straight).

mike

--- In craniosacralnetwork@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Cook" <mail@h...>
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> What do *you* feel, Mike?
> The parietals aren't there on their own... what about the
tentorium/falx an dall the rest of the
> cranium?
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> > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:52:09 -0000
> > From: "michael grogan" <tropical@r...>
> > Subject: Re: a Question
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> > Hi,
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> > My question is, had anyone seen a case wher there werew
symmetrical
> > bulges in the parietal bones, but with the parietals themselves
still
> > having relatively good freeedom of motion? In other words, is the
> > presence of those bulges proof of the lack of motion in the
parietals?
> > Thanks!
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> > mike
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> > --- In craniosacralnetwork@yahoogroups.com, "michael grogan"
> > <tropical@r...> wrote:
> >> Hi,
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> >> A craniosacral practitioner in my area said my parietal bones
> >> were "stuck". I have these bulges in my parietals on either side
> > (they
> >> are symmetrical, not too big), and I have a ridge from my crown
> > running
> >> forward about 2 inches to he mid-frontal, not quite to my
hairline.
> > I
> >> am 29 years old, and have a VERY slightly deviated septum, and
my jaw
> >> tends to hang slightly to the right. I have gotten some help
from
> >> Craniosacral work.
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> >> mike
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