What happens from the door to the door, and the reason for each rule
Patients want to know what will happen to them. Tell them, in this order, before they lie down. (Figure 1.8)
What a session looks like, from the door to the door. Eight steps, each with its reason.
Where needed, small treatments at shorter intervals may be given through the day — and these are taught to the household, so relief comes more quickly.
Two of those steps carry reasons worth giving out loud, because a patient who knows the reason keeps the rule. The emptier stomach: the patient must lie straight, turn onto the side, lie face down, and so on by turns, and with heaviness in the stomach that is difficult. The breathing: long and unhurried through the nose, so the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide goes on properly in every cell. The more relaxed you remain, the more benefit you take — muscle braced against you is muscle you are working through rather than with.
