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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Shake it up suggestions from Bianca
Bianca, our posterwoman for Parkinson's Healing has a great blog supporting the many who turn to her for mentoring during their healing. Bianca's ChiChat - an open forum for those actively engaged in the pursuit of wellness with a special focus on management of Parkinson's symptoms.
This from a recent post:
That's my suggestion for the month. Break it up. Shake it up. I retrained my brain through hours of daily qigong practice. Now I notice how the changes ripple outside my body and into my life. Challenge your comfort zone, but make the challenge itself a pleasurable reward. Have breakfast for dinner, but make it Eggs Benedict, not toast. Go paintballing, try a new recipe or cooking style, rearrange a desktop, a room, a schedule. In the process you may help re-arrange your brain. Enhance the internal process with some external inertia.
This from a recent post:
That's my suggestion for the month. Break it up. Shake it up. I retrained my brain through hours of daily qigong practice. Now I notice how the changes ripple outside my body and into my life. Challenge your comfort zone, but make the challenge itself a pleasurable reward. Have breakfast for dinner, but make it Eggs Benedict, not toast. Go paintballing, try a new recipe or cooking style, rearrange a desktop, a room, a schedule. In the process you may help re-arrange your brain. Enhance the internal process with some external inertia.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Practicing with death
Here is a bit from Vivienne's recent note to her students, for the full letter there is a link below the excerpts. Haola Vivienne.
This summer I got a call from my brother letting me know that my mother -- already blind and crippled -- wasn't doing well. She lived alone as a hermit in the foothills of the Pyrennes in a one-room house she'd built of stone.
... It was perhaps the most amazing experience of my life. ... Something opened up between us, and our time together became moment-to-moment precious. I wrote in my journal, "Caring for my mother is the best thing that's ever happened to me. Life has become meditation, a crash-course in being present."
... I did little formal practice. I did informal practice all day long. Constantly organizing the chi field, chanting the organ sounds and the essence mantra as I washed up and cleaned up and went shopping. I practiced with the intention of "opening my heart as big as infinity, dissolving all karma between us."
... Every afternoon I'd organize the qi field with my mother ... I kept postponing my flight home. ... Every day, my prayer was, "May it all turn out for everyone's highest good."
... Two weeks after I'd arrived, my mother was having a good day. She wanted me to visit a church nearby ... I stood at the pulpit and sang the 8 verses in Chinese at the top of my lungs, organizing the chi field. It felt so good, I did it three times. ... I lit a long white candle for my mother and placed it in front of the madonna and I prayed as I never have before. "May my mother have a quick and easy passage and may I be present."
Three days later, my mother died. It was quick, easy and I was with her. ... I could feel my mother leaving. ... And I began silently singing the 8 verses, feeling the expansion of our physical bodies into our energy bodies, expanding into openness, into spaciousness, feeling the expansion continuing all the way out into the universe, into infinity, all old conditioning, all karma dissolving, all contractions of the heart and mind melting into the bright light, connecting with all existence, feeling the freedom, true liberation, as we expanded into Oneness. While I sang, I watched my mother's breathing slowing as we progressed further and further out. On the last line, "Zhou Shen Rong Rong", she breathed out her final breath.
The room filled with her consciousness. The room became a cathedral filled with peace beyond all understanding. A profound silence. I sat holding my mother's hand for an hour or so, my mind completely still. And then the thought arose. "She's gone."
I immediately heard, "You silly goose, where do you think I've gone? I'm everywhere." My mother hadn't called me "silly goose" since I was a young girl.
A while later, I heard, "Don't do what I did -- live in the head. It IS about the heart. Only it needs to be embodied. It has to be lived." I felt the energy of my heart moving down into my dantien, filling my womb. A delicious feeling. ...
Love, Vivienne
For the full text of this beautiful experience: LINK
This summer I got a call from my brother letting me know that my mother -- already blind and crippled -- wasn't doing well. She lived alone as a hermit in the foothills of the Pyrennes in a one-room house she'd built of stone.
... It was perhaps the most amazing experience of my life. ... Something opened up between us, and our time together became moment-to-moment precious. I wrote in my journal, "Caring for my mother is the best thing that's ever happened to me. Life has become meditation, a crash-course in being present."
... I did little formal practice. I did informal practice all day long. Constantly organizing the chi field, chanting the organ sounds and the essence mantra as I washed up and cleaned up and went shopping. I practiced with the intention of "opening my heart as big as infinity, dissolving all karma between us."
... Every afternoon I'd organize the qi field with my mother ... I kept postponing my flight home. ... Every day, my prayer was, "May it all turn out for everyone's highest good."
... Two weeks after I'd arrived, my mother was having a good day. She wanted me to visit a church nearby ... I stood at the pulpit and sang the 8 verses in Chinese at the top of my lungs, organizing the chi field. It felt so good, I did it three times. ... I lit a long white candle for my mother and placed it in front of the madonna and I prayed as I never have before. "May my mother have a quick and easy passage and may I be present."
Three days later, my mother died. It was quick, easy and I was with her. ... I could feel my mother leaving. ... And I began silently singing the 8 verses, feeling the expansion of our physical bodies into our energy bodies, expanding into openness, into spaciousness, feeling the expansion continuing all the way out into the universe, into infinity, all old conditioning, all karma dissolving, all contractions of the heart and mind melting into the bright light, connecting with all existence, feeling the freedom, true liberation, as we expanded into Oneness. While I sang, I watched my mother's breathing slowing as we progressed further and further out. On the last line, "Zhou Shen Rong Rong", she breathed out her final breath.
The room filled with her consciousness. The room became a cathedral filled with peace beyond all understanding. A profound silence. I sat holding my mother's hand for an hour or so, my mind completely still. And then the thought arose. "She's gone."
I immediately heard, "You silly goose, where do you think I've gone? I'm everywhere." My mother hadn't called me "silly goose" since I was a young girl.
A while later, I heard, "Don't do what I did -- live in the head. It IS about the heart. Only it needs to be embodied. It has to be lived." I felt the energy of my heart moving down into my dantien, filling my womb. A delicious feeling. ...
Love, Vivienne
For the full text of this beautiful experience: LINK
Saturday, October 29, 2011
look within
"Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart...
only when you look into your heart...
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks within, awakens!"
Who looks within, awakens!"
- Carl Jung
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Energetics Explained
There are certain audio files that I come across that I wish all of us teachers could hear, even if we weren't present at that particular lecture, practice or retreat.
The first explains the energetics of SBM in a manner easily repeated to our own students, a engaging QnA with the other teachers present and a nice practice with the Dig.
The second was recorded at Esalen and discusses energetic gates and points in more detail than we often receive.
Enjoy!
| Here are two of these: Link to files | |
The second was recorded at Esalen and discusses energetic gates and points in more detail than we often receive.
Enjoy!
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