I finally caught up with my neighbor today to find out how her hands are doing.
She told me that the swelling went down, and she was not hurting at all. She told me that she could feel with her fingers, and that the problem had completely gone away. Wow!
When I got back from MFR training in February, I had set up a series of bodies to work on, but problems on their end caused a lot of cancellations. I never did get the practice I wanted. I do a lot of this work with my 14 year old client that has migraines. But other than that, I don’t do very much at all. So, when I do it, I am not too intuitive, and I feel strained and drained. I keep wondering if this is something I’m supposed to be doing.
I have even felt that this work could be something good for me, but the nearest advanced practitioner is a massage therapist in Orlando, two and a half hours away. I was starting to see her once a month, and she was making changes to my stance and such, but she told me what I really needed was to have a week of intensive therapy. This would mean getting worked on twice a day (or more) for a week. One problem with that is that to drive back and forth, I would undo a lot of what she does. It would also mean closing the shop for a week. When I asked her if seeing her once a month was doing any good, she told me that it was better than nothing. Unfortunately, even her reasonable rate of $80 per hour is not affordable now, at least not for something that is better than nothing. Since she is a massage therapist and not a physical therapist, I could never get a doctor to prescribe the work, and could never get any money spent reimbursed by the insurance company.
As far as practice goes, MFR offers a week of training in their Sedona, Arizona or Paoli, Pennsylvania offices where the student goes in and works with the therapists there. They work on client in the center, regular therapists, and even get worked on themselves. They have to put in 40 hours during that week. This training is to be taken shortly after the initial training of MFR1. It sounds like a great opportunity, but the cost of this training is $1,100 plus meals and lodging and the cost of getting there. If John Barnes is there during that week, the student gets worked on by him, but the cost of the week goes up to $1,700.
An MFR session (one hour) at either of the centers is $270. Of course, most of the people working there are physical therapists. That has some bearing on the cost. Physical therapists go through a lot more training than massage therapists.
The problem is that I am starting to see dollar signs go before my eyes when I look at MFR, not dollars coming into my pocket, but rather going out of it. This concerns me, obviously. Let’s see, I can’t get the hang of it, and the cost of training and getting worked on are extremely expensive.
Yet… the times I have had to use it, especially in emergency situations, it has worked wonders. So, maybe there is something to this after all, and maybe I need to keep working at it.