Franklyn Sills: Reflections on Suffering
People end up both deeply yearning for intimacy and deeply afraid of it. For some, the closer a
relationship becomes, the more threatening it becomes. Because of this, it seems that the deepest
healing processes are those that occur within the context of relationship. In the cranial field
we consciously create a relationship that holds open the possibility that trust in intimate contact
can be renegotiated. This must occur within a nonjudgmental field of presence and respectful
listening. There must be a fundamental intention to create a safe and meaningful relational field
within the context of clinical exploration.
Most of us, most of the time, tend to see the present through filters of the past. But if we can
find a way to truly live in the present, in the present time-ness of things, then there is the
possibility of not suffering. There may be pain, but there needn't be suffering. Within the cranial context, it is seen that suffering is relinquished when the system truly aligns with the present time-ness
of things. It is an alignment to something else beyond the fear that seems to hold our sense of
selfhood together. It is a realignment to a universal, an Intelligence much greater than our human
mentality. It orients to something still, yet potently present. This occurs when the oppositional
forces of our past experience are reconciled within us, in states of balance and stillness. Within
the Stillness known only in this present moment, something else can occur beyond the suffering held.
-Franklyn Sills, Craniosacral Biodynamics, pp. 4-5
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