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MICKEL THERAPY®
Mickel Therapie® was developed over 25 years ago by Dr. David Mickel in Scotland and has since been practiced worldwide. With Mickel Therapy®, symptoms are viewed as messages from the body. Typically, these messages are not decoded and understood correctly and symptoms therefore persist for years or decades.
BODY
INTELLIGENCE
Most therapies for ME/CFS, Long Covid and Fibromyalgia do not focus on why symptoms are present. All energy is often spent on getting rid of the symptoms as quickly as possible. You can try to reduce a fever with fever reducers, but if the pathogen that causes the fever (symptom) is not eliminated, the fever will return as soon as the medication wears off. The fever (symptom) is unpleasant, but it has a purpose. That is to raise the body temperature and to “cook out” the pathogen. The body sends the symptom as an intelligent response to the pathogen, so the symptom is important and has a meaning and purpose. However, if you try to "switch off" symptoms of CFS/LongCovid or Fibromyallga, as is the attempt in conventional medicine, it doesn't work very well. Over time symptoms usually come back, often more severely, or a completely new symptom appears. This happens because the body is still trying to tell us something. Symptoms of chronic conditions persist until the root cause is addressed.​
BODY
COMMUNICATION
Let's look at another familiar example of how the body communicates with you. If you haven't eaten all day, you'll eventually feel a growling and possibly even an aching feeling in your stomach. Your body starts tapping you on the shoulder, trying to get your attention. It does this by sending you feelings of hunger. If the body's message is ignored, in this case the message is "You need to refuel urgently", sooner or later you will experience an increase in symptoms in the form of stomach cramps, nausea and possibly lightheadedness or Feel physical weakness and even faint. If we had never felt hungry before, we probably wouldn't know what our body wants from us in this situation. We feel pain and discomfort (so we focus on the symptoms and not the trigger) and decide that we will try to control the symptoms with medication and painkillers. Of course, since you're familiar with hunger, you know that taking anti-nausea medication or painkillers won't have any real effect. This can alleviate the symptoms in the short term, but since you still haven't eaten and have worked on the basic trigger, you will become increasingly weaker. It's clear why: your body doesn't need medicine at this moment, it needs food. And it is also clear that the symptoms subside immediately after eating.
WISDOM OF SYMPTOMS
Here's what makes Mickel Therapy® different. Mickel Therapie® views symptoms as valuable and even important.
This may sound paradoxical, as you probably feel that your symptoms are your enemy.
Let's look at an example: What would happen if your body didn't communicate with you? A well-known way our body communicates with us is by sending us feelings of hunger, thirst, cold or heat. If your body didn't do this, you could pass out from exhaustion, get chilblains, or even suffer heat stroke. That doesn't sound very tempting, does it?
Mickel Therapy® is based on the belief that the sensations sent by our body are not a bad thing. On the contrary. Our body is highly intelligent and does not make mistakes. The sensations (symptoms) emanating from our body help us, if we know how to interpret them correctly, to navigate safely through the world and always stay healthy. Mickel Therapy® teaches exactly that. How we can correctly encode our body’s messages. Once the underlying cause is addressed, symptoms disappear on their own. Just like your stomach stops growling after eating.
RESULTS
In Mickel Therapy® you will learn to speak the language of your body and understand what your body wants from you when it sends you symptoms of ME/CFS, Long Covid or Fibromyalgia.
The insight and knowledge that Mickel Therapy® provides brings great empowerment as you learn to understand what your body needs from you in order to no longer have to send out symptoms.