Motivate Yourself It's a tough life. Some days its hard to get out of bed and get going. Why? How come our levels of enthusiasm seem to fall so easily? Why can't we get ourselves motivated? Simple really. We try to reverse the energy flow in a universe where all energy is radiating outwards. We try to break one of the spiritual laws. We are taught that winning and achieving is about getting and keeping, when the truth is that it is about giving. Winners are go givers not go-getters, and their definition of winning is not getting one over on the other guy, but overcoming their inertia and giving something of themselves to someone or something other than themselves. This reverses the flow of energy from outside in, to inside out, and as we all know, the deepest satisfaction in life comes from giving. While it is hard to fathom living a life of giving, when everyone else is on the take, there is an ancient law which ensures that if we did, we would never go without. I think you know what that law is. It allows you to be motivated in a completely different way. No need for any magical formulas or rigid belief systems ...try it today!! What you give is what you... This was taken from the great thoughtfortoday.org.uk website !!

Importance of Back Pain Self Help Exercises using Dorn

One of The Dorn Method's aims is to educate people to look after themselves. The role of the Therapist is to first treat the patient, i.e. look for any problems and help to sort these out, but then the role of the Therapist turns to that of educating the patient in order that they can continue doing for themselves what the Therapist started. This is vitally important and sadly something not addressed by most other therapies; if after treatment, the patient continues to do what caused the problem in the first place, then it is likely that the health problem will return at some time in the future.

Anybody having some sort of misalignment of the spine or pelvis area if not corrected will over time usually lead to some kind of health problem. If a person is very mobile, fit and active, very often problems won't occur or show themselves as the body will keep making adjustments to the body structure (through mobility and exercise) and therefore is more or less self-correcting. However for many people, especially those who are less mobile e.g. those sat in front of a computer all day long, any misalignments in the body structure will often end up manifesting as some sort of health problem.

After treatment, the body normally takes anything from 6 to 8 weeks or more to adjust to a new state initiated by the Dorn Therapist. This means for example, that if any spinal misalignments were found and corrected by the Therapist through treatment, then Dorn self-help exercises/further treatment should be continued for at least that time span for the full healing or the new state of balance to become the norm. The body simply takes time to adjust, and a little Dorn each day encourages the body to adjust to this new state - and then of course continuing with self help exercuses will help keep the body balanced and healthy over the long term.

The Dorn Method therefore teaches of a set of simple self help exercises which can be performed easily in a few minutes a day from any location, at home or even at work. These exercises are meant to help continue what the Therapist began during initial treatment, providing life long health benefits and also an awareness of the importance of keeping the body in balance to avoid all manner of health problems from occuring.

The Breuss Massage - Energising and hugely relaxing !!!

Dorn treatment can be combined with a very relaxing spinal massage called the Breuss Massage. This is a gentle massage that safely stretches, nourishes, aligns and energizes the Back. The Breuss massage can be useful when a patient for example has severe sciatic pain, where the massage then helps to take away some of the pain and tension, helping to make Dorn treatment more effective.

The Breuss Massage was developed by the late Austrian Healer Rudolf Breuss and combines perfectly with the Dorn Method. Rudolf Breuss said that there is no such thing as ‘wear’ of intervertebral disc but instead that the discs are ‘degenerated’, he was convinced that regeneration was possible.

The spine is like any other living organism, which is in a constant state of ‘stress and relief’. It not only needs nourishment and rest, but also the right amount of ‘stress’ in the form of active movements to maintain its strength and function. During the day our spine and especially our ‘discs’ are stressed and they need to fulfil their duty as shock-absorbers whenever we stand, walk or sit.

These discs are consequently squeezed and some of the liquid within gets out making the discs thinner. We are actually a little shorter in the evening compared to the morning after standing up. During sleep the spine relaxes and stretches out, and the discs can somewhat regenerate. This mechanism is altered in a negative way when our metabolism is not in balance or impaired for many different reasons.

The Breuss Massage actually stretches the spine, and acts rather like a whole nights worth of healthy sleeping. After the Breuss Massage, the Dorn Method is much easier to carry out because in this relaxed state, the spine can be more easily and painlessly re-aligned.

This combination of both Dorn treatment and Breuss massage provide a very effective tool to gently align the spine and joints, and regenerate the whole body system in a simple and very effective way.

What does a Dorn Method Treatment involve?

During the Dorn Method treatment you work together with the Therapist at all times. Treatment itself begins with a leg length comparison check; a high percentage of people suffering from back pain show a leg length difference often due to poor leg seating in the hip joint. Your Therapist will then make simple, safe corrections as necessary.

To help prevent future problems from re-occurring, you will also be shown how to carry out simple leg length corrections for yourself at home.

Next your pelvis is checked for any misalignment, followed by lumbar, thoracic (spinal column) and cervical vertebrae (neck) checks. Any imbalances or vertebrae found out of place are corrected as necessary using very gentle and safe techniques.

The following short video demonstrates some of the various Dorn Method techniques. As you can see, the moves are all very gentle and safe, but very effective.

All corrections in The Dorn Method take place in a dynamic way, this simply means you work together with the Therapist by moving the joint being corrected. In so doing related muscles are ‘distracted’ causing joints to slip more easily back into place, and it is this technique that helps make The Dorn Method so very effective and successful.

The Dorn Method History - how it all began

Dieter Dorn is a sawmill owner who was born in August 1938 in South Germany. Over 35 years ago he injured himself whilst lifting a heavy log and consequently suffered sciatic pain. A local old farmer helped to relieve him of his pain using some very simple and easy to use techniques. He asked the old Healer if he could also learn these techniques to which the Healer replied 'you already know them', implying how easy they were to learn and do yourself!
Dorn's first patient was his wife who for several years had suffered from severe headaches. According to some doctors, the transverse processes of her cervical vertebrae where too long and could be shortened by surgery but she refused to be operated upon. Dieter Dorn checked his wife’s neck and found that the vertebrae were only twisted and that the x-ray was not a correct reading. He gently pushed the vertebrae back into place and since then her headaches have been history. She has since became the most prominent patient of Dieter Dorn.

That was the beginning of the DORN METHOD!

Soon after, Dieter Dorn helped many people in the neighbourhood by correcting their unequal leg length and aligning their joints. To his surprise many other ailments like knee pains, heart problems, hearing problems and others also seem to have disappeared.

The answer to all this he discovered by coincidence in a book about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), where acupuncture and acupressure were among the techniques used to cure many ailments.

During the course of his treatments he observed that he was also addressing the meridians (nerve pathways) along the spine. Because of the connection between the spinal cord and the inner organs connected through the spinal nerve pathways, many problems disappeared when the misaligned vertebrae where corrected.

By meeting and assisting Dr. Thomas Hansen M.D., Dieter Dorn started to lean more about anatomy and physiology, and together, they explored the potentials of this new method for an extended period of time.

Some years later, Dieter Dorn decided that it was time to teach other people this wonderful method, and he started to give seminars. Many learned from him and are now following in his foot steps with equal success.
Today, more and more people from the medical field, like doctors, physiotherapists, massage therapists, non-medical practitioners and chiropractors, attend these seminars and are amazed about what they learn.
Dieter Dorn still has his sawmill, which makes him independent and his simple and very kind personality keeps on impressing his students.
He says there are three kinds of thought models in life: • What can I do for myself? • What can someone else do for me? • What can I do for others?
Dieter Dorn lives with the third one. “We are born for others, otherwise our life makes no sense”, is his opinion. This is a way full of ‘thorns’ (Thorn translates in German as ‘Dorn’). Maybe that is why the method is called “DORN METHOD”, he jokes. Nome nest omen! In German the spinous processes are called Dorn Fortsaetze, in medical terms, isn’t that a coincidence?

Some of Dieter Dorn’s early students, like Harald Fleig and Helmuth Koch, started to give DORN METHOD seminars on their own, thereby contributing in an important way to the speedy spread of the knowledge of this fantastic therapy.

Hildegard Steinhauser learned the Method many years ago and, together with her life partner, Helmuth Koch, a well known non medical practitioner in Lindau, South Germany. They are now at the forefront of the mission to make the DORN METHOD popular and acknowledged by the medical community. As a Reiki Teacher and trained in acupuncture, Hildegard Stein Hauser says that she thinks learning the DORN METHOD was a true milestone in her life as a Healer and thanks to Dieter Dorn, it now becomes a true blessing for humanity.
The above article was extracted from Thomas Zudrell’s book the DORN METHOD.

Why are Dorn Self Help Exercises so important?

One of The Dorn Method's aims is to educate people to look after themselves. The role of the Therapist is to first treat the patient, i.e. look for any problems and help to sort these out, but then the role of the Therapist turns to that of educating the patient in order that they can continue doing for themselves what the Therapist started. This is vitally important and sadly something not addressed by most other therapies; if after treatment, the patient continues to do what caused the problem in the first place, then it is likely that the health problem will return at some time in the future.
Anybody having some sort of misalignment of the spine or pelvis area if not corrected will over time usually lead to some kind of health problem. If a person is very mobile, fit and active, very often problems won't occur or show themselves as the body will keep making adjustments to the body structure (through mobility and exercise) and therefore is more or less self-correcting. However for many people, especially those who are less mobile e.g. those sat in front of a computer all day long, any misalignments in the body structure will often end up manifesting as some sort of health problem.
After treatment, the body normally takes anything from 6 to 8 weeks or more to adjust to a new state initiated by the Dorn Therapist. This means for example, that if any spinal misalignments were found and corrected by the Therapist through treatment, then Dorn self-help exercises/further treatment should be continued for at least that time span for the full healing or the new state of balance to become the norm. The body simply takes time to adjust, and a little Dorn each day encourages the body to adjust to this new state - and then of course continuing with self help exercuses will help keep the body balanced and healthy over the long term.
The Dorn Method therefore teaches of a set of simple self help exercises which can be performed easily in a few minutes a day from any location, at home or even at work. These exercises are meant to help continue what the Therapist began during initial treatment, providing life long health benefits and also an awareness of the importance of keeping the body in balance to avoid all manner of health problems from occuring.

CThA accredits the UK Dorn Method Centre workshops

I'm really pleased to anncounce that my Dorn Method Workshops have been accredited by the Complementary Therapists Association, one of the leading organisations representing Complementary Therapists in the UK and Ireland. The increasing recognition of professional bodies such as the FHT and CThA is very much welcomed and I hope this will help to promote The Dorn Method throughout the UK where we really need to see more Dorn Method Therapists to meet the demand of Back Pain sufferers.