Cosmescu Cristiana – Second degree practitioner Yumeiho Therapy

The Yumeiho therapy is defined by the triad: symmetry- verticality- equilibrium. The symmetry, a decisive factor in the building of our being, esthetically, biomechanical, mentally, is determined and defined by the health of the spinal column. In turn, the spinal cord is the one that generates and sustains the verticality of the human body in the gravitational field, during movement as well as in time of rest. The verticality of each individual depends on where the gravitational attraction forces concentrate their action, meaning the body’s weight center. Equilibrium is obtained when each individual lives in harmony with the inside and the outside of their own being. But what do we do when this equilibrium is perturbed? We check the symmetry and the verticality.

Neurasthenia is the disease of exhaustion and overload, determined by mental causes external to the patient, which cause an imbalance; it is a psychogenic condition, a stress disorder. The backstage elements observed attempt to separate it from the depressive form namely distimia. Normally, neurasthenia is manifested as an irritable weakness, or it is popularly said “the nerves are leaving him”, meaning, at the smallest excitement the world is hard to bear, everything becomes annoying (public transportation on the street, beating the carpets, the flowing water, door slamming etc.). Subjected to these small pushes, the patient explodes.

The manifestations of the explosion may be impulsive, destructive or crying. Therefore, we are dealing with irascibility, fatigability, fatigue, and then with the conflict. Everyone is screaming around you inside the house, you are lying in bed, you take another pill. The tiredness continues, becomes physical, everything hurts, most especially your head. The patient becomes restless, indisposed, anxious, angst. It feels like a carrousel; you’re searching for quiet and you isolate yourself which in turn leads to lack of movement. Meaning you are not in the mood for anything and it causes a headache, you’re staying in bed and that in not recommended.

In the case of men, the angst becomes somatic, most frequently precordial or digestive; in the case of women I’s respiratory, with a feeling of suffocation, like a nod in the throat. The burnings are rapid, large consumption of oxygen, but with a sufficient intake so all these reactions take place. The emotions are easily produced, a look or one word are enough to unleash the storm. The patient realizes that he/she can no longer control himself/herself, so he/she’s crying more easily, but he/she can also laugh more easily, so he/she either cries or laughs, reactions that are exaggerated concerning the quantity. In this faze, the patient doesn’t take serious healing steps, does not address the specialist, he only becomes alarmed when there are symptoms concerning the knowledge processes, which in turn makes him distracted. The people at work believe he/she is drinking, he’s in love, anyway, they don’t know and don’t realize what’s happening, he’s not able to concentrate, he appears lost, bewildered, forgetful, doesn’t keep his word after making a promise, he messes things up, there is no more efficiency at the work place.

We must be aware that the bewildered impression is given by the spontaneous attention which has gained ground in front of the voluntary attention – paraprosexia, the patient has a rushed manner of perception of the outside environment, meaning he is not calm enough to observe, to hear, to see; suffering from angst he does it all in a hurry and this will bring outside and inside disorder. This disorder that he creates himself every day is considered by the patient to be gases on his bewilderment, on his memory; he even accuses a decrease in memory in his learning capacity name and date remembering.

As it has been said before the work capacity is decreased not only objectively, but most of all is exaggerated subjectively, the description being by metaphors such as: “I can’t do it anymore, I’m down, I’m beat”.

We will add to the Kraindler triad (irascibility, fatigability, fatigue,) insomnia. There are thousands of insomniacs, people who live with the fear that they will not sleep enough at night, leading to consequences like toxic mania by medical dependency. Another symptom is dizziness. This is scarier than the headache. The neurasthenic becomes anxious, doesn’t leave the house so that nothing happens to him, and so he doesn’t get anymore exercise. Sport isn’t even an issue, because they are not energetic by nature, which is way the Yumeiho therapy suits them so well, they are horizontally seated but it’s like they’re running for ten kilometers.

We add to the list of signs the parasitical development of all analyzers, at the top of the list – seeing disturbances. Of course the patient believes he needs glasses – so the drama begins with the ophthalmologists that can’t satisfy him “they saw me only in a superficial manner, they were in a hurry”, when it comes to owning glasses, “no way am I getting Zeiss”, he doesn’t wear them anymore because he’s suffering from neurosis. The ORL doctors have more trouble with them due to the weird descriptions that don’t fit in their schematics, the outer ear is normal, the inner as well, but they wish to have their ear troubles treated, as well as the dizziness. The paresthesia follows, which belongs to neurology, therefore we have an entire pathology from degenerative diseases to tumors. Having accused dizziness, cold limbs, intermittent limping, a decrease in muscular strength, an unevenness of the central body axis, the patient presents the highest healing potential by Yumeiho therapy.

Concerning digestive pathology they accuse aerogastria and aerocolita, which isn’t easy. The aerophagia determines night suffocations and the patient believes he is a cardiac, overwhelmed by diets given by internists, they don’t know what to eat, so they stop eating all together, they continue to lose weight, losing energy. In women the colecistic pathology is frequent, bile dyskinesia, accompanied by fear of liver stones, hepatitis. They subject themselves to dangerous interventions, but they have tubing done, x-rays, they are much explored invalids. Let’s not forget renal pathology, functional, frequent urinating, imperious, and last but not least gynecological pathology. Dysfunctions, disorders, with no organic substrate, all this amounts to nothing but the waste of enormous amounts of medicine world wide.

Most of the times we have a patient with premorbid personality, al least one of the parents has developed neurotic psychic reactions and the child being more sensitive by nature, more scared of the novelty of the environment, more prudent, more dependent will introject the parental behavior, therefore we have this semiology.

The neurasthenic is a suffering man, in pain, has the nostalgia and the wish of normality. He is the ideal patient, because he wants to get better, but he is lost and in difficulty to express his suffering. The therapist must not degrade his condition; having not yet gain trust through patience, empathy and professionalism, the patient will self blame and will incapacitate himself.

We have established a Yumeiho therapy program for those who wished to achieve the prophylaxis of neurasthenic neurosis. The final objective – a good control over your own organism by applying a series of manual therapeutic procedures that strive for the regaining of the organism’s equilibrium affected by the bad conditions to which it is subjected every day. For those who are already suffering but also prophylactic, the program has been extended throughout several months, one session a week.

During each session we have applied all 100 fundamental Yumeiho therapy procedures, after having measured the degree of symmetry of the form, the tonus, the movement and body pose. Along the way the data has been stocked and compared to follow the evolution. After the first session, there have already been signs of positive effects by the enlargement of joint movement, meaning liberty in motion. The muscle rigidity has gone, which has brought the patient a pleasant, comfort state. Having removed the fatigue, the patient has more time for himself and for others, meaning familial and professional relationship have been improved.

Conclusion: neurasthenia is a state determined by a profound lack of trust in ourselves. The Yumeiho therapy helps to recover that trust.

References:

1. Iga Sorin, Class notes, president of the Romanian Yumeiho Society, therapist instructor degree 6, international representative of Practical Preventive Medicine from Tokyo-Japan, Timisoara, 2008.

2. Romila Aurel, Psychiatry 2th ed. Revised, Free Psychiatrist Association from Romania Publishing, Bucharest, 2008.