Satnam

How it is given: Seated II — Face, Jaw, Ear, Sinus
What it is used for: Seated II — Face, Jaw, Ear, Sinus

Satnam — सतनाम

Satnam — one continuous line from the brow to the neck. Stages 1 and 2 on the front — six draws to the hair from the brow centre, then out along the brows to the temples with six clockwise and six anticlockwise — then stage 3 as one unbroken route from the temple along the edge where the skull bone ends to the cervical vertebra, with the two places the instruction forbids letting go, and the continuous sheet of tissue that explains the route.

This treatment is very effective for headache. It has the following stages. (Figure 19.5)

1. Stand behind the patient, supporting their forehead against your own body. With your palms, cover their head so that both thumbs are behind the forehead and the remaining fingers are near the start of the nose — the Ājñā chakra …

… Taking support with the thumbs, use your fingers to press the tissue and skin beneath and draw them upward, one by one, toward the hair of the head. Do this 6 times.

2. After this, from the Ājñā chakra, press the fingers inward and, rubbing, take the skin and the nerves above both eyebrows out to the sides, near the temples. On bringing them to the side, without letting the muscles go loose, use the soft middle part of your thumb to rotate round and round 6 times in the direction of the clock's needle, and 6 times in the opposite direction. Even now keep holding the muscles — do not release.

3. Immediately after this, on both sides, drawing the muscles from behind the temple, take them along the edge where the skull bone ends, and carry them back to the cervical vertebra of the spine and set them there. Only after all this is done are you to relax your hands.
4. Repeat this whole process 3 times.

Another form of this same treatment is equally effective:

Standing near the patient's back, place the palms as above. Then, with the fingers of both hands, draw the muscles and nerves from the middle of the forehead out to the side, and through the temple, without stopping, take the tissue to the back part of the head and release. This also gives relief.

After this, standing at their side, with one palm grasp the neck well, below the skull, and knead and release. This may be done three to six times.

Place the palm so that the four fingers are above the forehead and the thumb is near the left temple. Then, pressing your thumb well, with pressure draw the nerves from the temple and bring them to the middle part of the neck. Then do the same on the right side.

This is very beneficial for headache and for the eyes.

Patient's position	Seated, the therapist standing behind, the patient's forehead supported against the therapist's own body Seated
Where the hands are placed	Palms covering the head, both thumbs behind the forehead, the remaining fingers near the start of the nose (the Ājñā chakra). Then: the fingers draw the tissue and skin upward toward the hair; from the Ājñā chakra the skin and nerves above both eyebrows are taken out to the temples; the soft middle part of the thumb rotates at the temple; then the muscles are drawn from behind the temple, along the edge where the skull bone ends, back to the cervical vertebra of the spine, and set there. Second form: palms as above, muscles drawn from the middle of the forehead through the temple to the back of the head and released; then one palm grasping the neck below the skull, kneading and releasing; then four fingers above the forehead, thumb near the left temple, drawing the nerves from the temple to the middle part of the neck, then the same on the right Both sides Left Right
Duration and repetitions	Stage 1 6 times; stage 2 6 times clockwise and 6 times anticlockwise at each temple, without releasing the muscles; stage 3 once, continuous; the whole process 3 times. Second form: kneading the neck three to six times, then the thumb-draw on the left side and then the right × 3
What it is for	Very effective for headache; the second form is very beneficial for headache and for the eyes

The forehead against your own body is the detail that makes the technique possible. Every draw pulls backward — brow to hair, brow to temples, temple to neck.

The hands are a cap, not a clamp. The thumbs anchor so the fingers have something to draw against; the muscles are not let go at the temple, and even now keep holding after the twelve rotations; the hands relax only at the neck. And the second form states its own order: left temple first, then right.

What lies beneath. Over the top of the skull runs a broad flat sheet of tendon, with a muscle belly at the front in the forehead and another at the back above the nape, continuous at the sides with the fascia over the temple. It is one sheet. So a hand drawing tissue from the brow centre out along the brows, round the temples, along the ridge at the back of the skull and down to the neck follows a genuinely continuous plane of tissue — crossing the nerve exits above the eyebrows, the nerve in front of the ear and the large nerve of the back of the scalp, and finishing where the nerves of the face and the neck arrive on the same cells. That is the best explanation of why a treatment beginning at an eyebrow should end at a neck.

A CASE FROM PRACTICE

The retired schoolmaster who had stopped his drops

A composite, assembled to teach the correction rather than taken from one patient's file.

Vasudev Kelkar · 66 · retired schoolmaster · Belgaum · came with daily headache across the forehead and behind both eyes, about a year

What he said. "It sits here" — the flat of his hand across the brow — "from about noon. My eyes feel tight. The doctors have only given me eye drops, and I have been putting those for three years and the headache is no better, so last month I stopped them."

What was observed and palpated. A dry, deliberate man who had thought about this carefully. Brow tissue tight and not sliding under a finger; both temples tender; the tissue at the base of the skull thickened on the right. His reading glasses had needed changing twice in two years, and he had no idea what the drops were for.

Several findings read as one picture — and one that did not belong to it. The headache read as an ordinary tension-type pattern: a whole year, both sides, no warning features, brow and temple and nape tight together. The drops were a separate matter and far more serious. Three years of daily drops from a hospital eye department, in a man of sixty-six whose glasses had changed twice in two years, is glaucoma until proved otherwise — and he had stopped them because they failed to cure a symptom they were never given for.

Which reports mattered. A lipid profile and a thyroid test, both normal, changed nothing. What mattered was the name on the box of drops at home.

The choice made, and why. Nothing was given on the first day except an explanation and a telephone call. He was told plainly: those drops are not for your headache; they are for a pressure inside your eye that does not hurt, takes sight slowly, and does not give it back. Restart them tonight, see the department this week, and then we treat the headache. His daughter-in-law was in the room and heard it, which is why it happened.

Session by session. He returned nine days later having restarted the drops; pressures had risen in both eyes and the field test showed changes he had not noticed. The headache work began — Satnam in its first form, three repetitions, twice a week, with Sinus Point before it. (30) Lacrimal duct was given for the watering he then admitted to, explicitly alongside the drops and the clinic.

What was done when the first approach failed. In the fifth week the headache returned in full for ten days. He was giving Satnam to himself at home in front of a mirror — sitting, unsupported, nobody behind him — so the point had become a forward pull on his own neck. It was stopped, the home work changed to the Teeth Points shape of instruction, and the headache settled inside a fortnight.

What went wrong because something was withheld. He did not mention stopping any medicine until asked directly: "what have you been prescribed, and what have you actually been taking?"

What this case teaches

A patient who stops a medicine because it did not cure a different symptom is in real danger, and will not tell you unless asked in two parts.

(30) Lacrimal duct is given beside the eye department, never in place of it.

Satnam cannot be given to oneself — it is built on a head supported from behind by the therapist's body. A point handed to a patient must be one their own anatomy can perform.

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Plate — Satnam, stage 1: the head supported, the hands a cap · PLATE — AND THE PROMPT TO REDRAW IT Caption: Satnam at the first of six draws.
What the face adds to the seated rules Seated II — Face, Jaw, Ear, Sinus
Two treatments here finish at the neck — Satnam and its second form — and both are governed by it.
Questions students ask Seated II — Face, Jaw, Ear, Sinus
Satnam is exhausting to give.
Introduction Seated II — Face, Jaw, Ear, Sinus
Give the four sweeps of Sinus Point and the full sequence of Satnam — both counts, both directions, and the hold that is never released between stages.
Bell's Palsy / Facial Point Seated II — Face, Jaw, Ear, Sinus
Nothing was given — no facial point, no hammering, no Satnam, no head or neck contact at all.
The master list — every treatment point, by the position the patient is placed in The Shorthand
Code Full name / Hindi Where it is taught in this wiki Medulla Medulla oblongata Seated I — Brain, Medulla, Neck; graded series, The Medulla Family Mesencephalon Midbrain Seated I — Brain, Medulla, Neck Dorsal Dorsal (thoracic) Seated I — Brain, Medulla, Neck Raman (proper name) Seated I — Brain, Medulla, Neck · Cranial Nerve and Brain Formulas Mukha Dhauti मुख

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Satnam

Satnam — सतनाम

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