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It is possible to have health and happiness even in this world with all
its stressors - the secret is in adapting to the stress successfully.
If we do not learn to adapt to our circumstances we end up with
disease and unhappiness.
Our evolution during our lifetime into individuals capable of living with
the stresses and adapting to them is something that is up to each
individual to accomplish - it is a matter of understanding what is going
on and developing the power to act with common sense.
We are at the beginning stages of learning that many common diseases
are due mainly to mistakes in our reactions to stress - a different
reaction would result in a different final outcome.
SO WHAT IS STRESS?
Illustration of stress and strain using a spring:
[Use an ordinary spring - place various weights on the spring - see that
the spring stretches to a specific length when a weight is put on it - this
is the principle of the spring scale - see also that when too much weight
is put on a given spring - it stretches beyond its elastic limit and will
thereafter not return to its original length and it will give faulty readings
of weight after such stretching.]
When Hans Selye came into Canada and began his research he was not
aware of the usage of the words Strain and Stress as used in
physics.
In physics the word Stress means any force that tends to cause a
change in a material.
As an example - when a weight is hung on a spring this would be
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SIGNS OF STRESS:
Some self-observable signs of stress:
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Migraine headaches.
Premenstrual tension or missed menstrual cycles.
Pain in the neck or lower back.
Loss of - or excessive - appetite.
Increased smoking.
Increased use of legally prescribed drugs.
Alcohol and drug addiction.
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Psychoses.
Accident proneness.
Do you attempt to fight the bear off with a stick you can pick up from
the ground - in this way saving your food supply?
Do you climb the tree that you are camping under?
The threat is a physical one.
You decide to climb the tree - the bear leaves after a while - you now
hang your food from a tree - still trembling - and you finally relax.
You have just experienced a classic Fight or flight response.
How did your body prepare you almost instantly to deal with the
situation?
In the first few seconds your heartbeat quickened to pump more blood
to your vital organs - part of this blood came from the peripheral blood
vessels near the skin - just under the outer layers.
The heartbeat is quickened by the adrenalin that is poured into the
blood from the adrenal glands just over the kidneys.
You now have cold - clammy - hands as a result - as well as cold feet.
If you were injured at this moment so as to break your skin - you
would not bleed as much as you would in a relaxed condition.
When the pulse rate rises the blood pressure in the body rises - this
puts more blood into the muscles and brain - this will help you react
more quickly and think more clearly.
The liver pours sugar into your system.
The adrenalin allows quick release of energy from the sugars strengthening the muscles.
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Blood clotting chemicals are mixed into the blood so that an injury
causing a break in the skin or an internal injury will control the amount
of blood loss.
This can be risky since - if the blood vessels are narrowed by
arteriosclerosis - there is a possibility of a clot forming - leading to a
coronary thrombosis - and this will cause a heart attack.
At the same time the digestive system shuts down so that its action will
not waste any precious energy.
More red blood cells are produced so the body can utilize additional
supplies of oxygen for the production of energy in the muscles.
To make a long story short - within the first few seconds the body
goes through some 1400 changes related to the fight or flight
situation.
Bear stories are dramatic - and we can all see how there might be an
uproar in the human body over such a serious threat as possible
mauling or even death by a bear.
The emergency is over almost as soon as it started - what does the
body do with the 1400 changes to defuse the situation and return the
body chemistry to normal?
This episode is less dangerous to our long-term health - provided that
we escape the bear - than the everyday wear and tear stress that we are
all subject to every day of our lives.
The fight or flight response developed over millions of years of
learning to escape danger - it was with us when we still lived in caves and for that time and place it was less dangerous in its long-term
effects than the present fight or flight situations.
When our mind perceives a threat - this is communicated to the body and the body cannot tell the difference between a real threat to life and
limb and an imagined one - they are identical to the body.
Whenever we think about an event about which we have some feeling and it is true that we have some feeling or emotion about just about
everything - we begin to react to that feeling.
Here are some everyday examples.
First thing in the morning - going to the refrigerator - you are planning
to will make cereal for the family breakfast - there is no milk - the
system elevates as a result - what should you prepare now?
Taking the car out of the garage - slippery street - fish-tail on the driveway - the system elevates.
On the way to a test that is to be held in one hour - you try to anticipate
the questions - and the answers - they dont come easily - you feel you
should have studied more - the system elevates.
You get to the school - drive around the block three times hoping to
find a parking spot - see a spot and make a dash for it - just then a car
passes and slides into the one vacant spot - your foot hits the brake you feel sudden rage at the inconsiderate wretch who took your spot system elevates a lot.
All day long the housewife - the farmer - college student - doctor contractor - secretary - teacher - everyone in fact - find their lives and
days filled with events that cause mental and emotional responses - and
stress.
This is true also of watching television - the situations that the writers
and actors are portraying are meant to grip our feelings and turn our
minds to romance or fear or compassion or anger or envy or hate 9
You will use this memory of how your hands feel when you are not
placing them in the aura of another person - [as you do in healing] to compare with how your hands feel when they are within the aura of
the healee.
After all - bed rest - to give the body an opportunity to recuperate - has
been well-known throughout history.
Who could have known that these experiments would in half a century
become the basis for a new approach - a new model - we now call such
a new model by the name paradigm - for the understanding of disease
and its processes.
Suddenly it became clear that the immune system was affected by such
stressors, and the breakdown of the immune system led to the intrusion
of disease into the organism.
It became useful to think of the disease bacteria and viruses as always
there in the body - but impotent - as long as the defenses of the body that is to say - the immune system - is intact.
Since Hans Selyes work we do not so much think of the bacteria and
viruses out there as causing disease symptoms - but rather - we think of
the disease as manifesting because the immune system has been
somehow weakened.
Learning to live with disease germs inside the body but without getting
the symptoms of the disease is one form of a process that we call
adaptation.
It was also found that there is a limit to the amount of adaptation that
any organism can sustain - in other words - the living being is much
like a spring which can return to its original length only if the stress is
not too great or persisting for too long - after that - the spring will not
return - and the living organism will no longer adapt to intruders but
become symptomatic.
To become symptomatic is to begin to show the symptoms of a
disease.
For this reason the ability to adapt has been postulated as being in the
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Normally - when you reach for a pencil or a glass of water - or car keys
- or whatever else you intend to contact and sense - you do so with the
fingers - usually the tips of the fingers.
Begin to sense things now with the palms of your hands - become
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aware that you can do so - and focus on the sensations that arise in
your hands - especially the palms of your hands - when you contact
something.
Begin to feel the antennas reaching up out of the wells of your palms and sense the item you are reaching for with these antennae.
When you reach for a toothbrush - sense it first with your palms.
Remember that you do not stop at your skin - so - when you reach for
the handle of your coffee cup - or when you reach for a glass of water or a towel - or a knife - spoon - or fork - your energy field will interact
with the energy filed of the item you are reaching for.
See if you can sense these items first with the palms of the hands even before the palms touch the item.
You will find that the sensations are not like a blaring trumpet - they
are exceedingly subtle and gentle - and you may have to be in a most
quiet and centered state to detect these sensations.
Your whole body in this centered state will appear to be listening in
a most peaceful and quiet - yet attentive - state.
You may want to listen with your palms to groups of flowers - or
other plants - or listen this way to a pet animal - cats are good for
this - as you pet them - or even a bird.
Where plants are concerned - an aloe vera plant will do wonderfully for
the work of developing this subtle sense of touch.
Hold your hands out straight - parallel to the floor - one palm
up - one palm down.
Quickly open and close hands about twenty times.
Reverse the palms.
Again open and close twenty times.
Now open palms slowly and slowly bring palms together from
about two feet apart to a few inches apart.
You should be able to feel a subtle ball of energy between your
palms - maybe even a sensation of turning - if you tune in
closely.
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The breathing process functions both automatically and voluntarily unlike the flow of our blood or the beat of our heart - we are able to
change the rate and pattern of our breath whenever we wish.
Through controlling the way we breathe - we can better regulate the
needs of our body - because the breathing process is so intimately
connected with our every thought and action.
By mastering our breathing we can continually monitor and improve
our health - vitality - and emotions.
Initially you may find yourself becoming somewhat obsessive about
your breathing - this will soon pass.
Once you train yourself in proper breathing it will rapidly become
second nature.
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We must learn to recognize and deal with the emotions that cause us
the greater part of all the stress that we will feel in our lifetimes - stress
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that has more to do with how long and happily and healthily we live
than any other factors - including diet.
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Few things earn you more goodwill and love than the gift of always
being yourself.
Unaffected simplicity is one of the most likable traits.
This was so well understood in the ancient past that it was even
emblazoned on the temple at corinth - in the famous words - man -know thyself.
Corinth was a place that many individuals went to for their medical and
healing education - as well as for personal healing.
The mere fact of knowing what hurts has an inherent curative value we have been able to demonstrate this truth in psychoanalysis.
Once we can understand how previous experiences from very early
childhood - often hidden from us in the subconscious part of ourselves
- can be made harmless and even advantageous to us - we can become
whole and healthy again.
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energy fields.
Check for heat - cold - vibrations - rough areas in the field anything that you can sense with your finger-tips or your palms.
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Stress quotient
FIRST EXERCISE IN MODULATING HUMAN ENERGY TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING HUMAN ENERGY DIRECTING AND DETECTING:
In this exercise you will direct energy down your arm and into your
hand chakra - if you are the sender.
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receivers palm.
The receiver now listens for the energy in the palm of his
hand.
[This energy will be very subtle - very low - somewhat like
bubbles in flowing water - or it may be a very light tingling
sensation.]
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When the receiver can detect the energy flow consistently sender and receiver should exchange places and do the
exercise again.
With practice it will become possible to control the energy flow quite
accurately - this is called modulating the energy flow.
When energy can not only be sent - but sent into the right places in the
right amounts - this is called modulation of the energy.
It comes from the word modify which indicates the ability to change
or control something in some way.
SECOND EXERCISE IN MODULATING HUMAN ENERGY TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING HUMAN ENERGY DIRECTING AND DETECTING:
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When the sender can both visualize and feel the effect of the
color he/she then directs that feeling or inner sensation to the
area of his/her right shoulder.
Now the sender brings those associated energies down the arm
and into the palm of the receiver.
[The sender should have a well-defined feeling of jumping the
gap between the hand chakras - and should feel the impact
that the jump makes on the receivers hand chakra.]
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The receiver now also feels the impact and notes what she/he
feels for the color.
The same process is repeated several times with the three
colors in any order - until the receiver feels that she/he can
detect the differences between the energies of the colors sent.
When the receiver feels ready - the sender sends a color without
first identifying the color to the receiver.
The receiver now guesses the color that was sent.
This process is repeated several times to get an average of
correct guesses. (one out of three is just chance so there should
be more than one correct guess out of three tries to be better
than chance.)
It does not matter whether the receiver guesses the color
correctly every time - only that this should happen more than
one time out of three tries.
Sender and receiver exchange - and the exercise is done again.
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But the ability to project this energy from one human body to another is
dependent upon the amount of experience that the projector has in this
process - for this reason it is most important to project energies - and to
detect energies - wherever and whenever this can be done - whether
relatives or animals or plants are used to aid in this detection and
projection is immaterial.
Practice is essential!
Different materials have different effects on the energies of the life
fields of our being.
Here is an exercise to assess the properties of cotton in relation to the
life fields:
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Your left hand should be open in front of you with the palm
upwards.
Lay a piece of cotton on your left hand.
Hold your open right hand with the palm downward over the
piece of cotton in your left hand - but two or three inches above
the cotton.
Begin to focus on the field - your personal space - just beyond
the palm of your right hand and cotton.
Now that you are aware of and focused on the field - begin to
visualize that you are reaching down with the field of your right
hand - reaching down into the palm of the left hand.
Move the right hand slowly and steadily nearer and then farther
from the cotton - up and down - and also in a small circle.
Do this for a full minute.
During this minute make a mental note of any sensations that
arise in either hand - sensations such as heat - cold - tingling or
bubbling - pressure - pulsations - electric discharges - or any
other sensations that you experience.
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Now - give your piece of cotton to someone else - and take that
persons piece of cotton.
Now repeat with this new cotton what you have just done with
your own - reach down with your right hands field again - all
the way into your own left hand through the cotton.
Focus on what you detect - become aware of any sensations
that arise - compare what you experience with your neighbors
cotton with what you experienced with your own.
You will find that the energies of your life fields go right through the
cotton - and you will feel the tingling - heat - cold - pulsations - electric
shock - whatever it is that you sense - moving through the cotton into
your left hand.
As you have also just seen - cotton acts as an absorber and holder of
life field energies.
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Pause for a short time - think of your life in this physical world
- is there an issue of personal relationships that has been
troubling you - some interpersonal interaction that is not going
as you would like it to - some conflict that is causing you pain or some issue of rejection - or of loneliness.
Imagine this issue as healed for you - imagine your life with this
issue healed - imagine your life strongly with this issue healed.
Walk on and become aware of an altar of yellow crystal amber - topaz.
Pause for a short time - think of your life in this physical world
- is there an issue of personal power that is troubling you - do
you find yourself unable to say no when it would be better for
you if you did say no - do you carry fears for the future - do
you wonder whether you can overcome the many difficulties
that keep coming your way.
Imagine these issues as healed for you - imagine your life with
these issues healed - imagine your life strongly with these
issues healed.
Walk on and become aware of an altar of green crystal emerald - tourmaline.
Pause for a short time - think of an issue of the heart that has
been troubling you - do you find yourself unable to love as you
would like to love - unconditionally and completely - do you feel
that you have not been and are not now loved in the way that
you would like to be loved.
Imagine these issues as healed for you - imagine your life with
these issues healed - imagine your life strongly with these
issues healed.
Walk on and become aware of an altar of blue crystal turquoise.
Pause for a short time - think of an issue of speaking out that
may have been troubling you - perhaps you feel that it would be
better if you could express your feelings more forcefully and
effectively in certain situations - not speaking out is painful and speaking out also creates pain because of fear of speaking
out and asking for what you need.
Imagine this issue healed for you - imagine your life with this
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issue healed - imagine your life strongly with this issue healed.
Walk on and become aware of an altar of indigo crystal - lapis
lazuli.
Pause for a short time - think of an issue of perception that may
have been troubling you - perhaps you feel that your life and
the lives of those around you might improve if you were able to
perceive the thoughts and emotions of others more clearly perhaps it might lead to less conflict and pain - perhaps the
keener perceptions of others of your feelings would improve
your life.
Imagine this issue healed for you - imagine your life with this
issue healed - imagine your life strongly with this issue healed.
Walk on and become aware of an altar of violet crystal amethyst.
Pause for a short time - think of an issue of your own
spirituality that may have been troubling you - is there an issue
of confusion as to your path in this life - is there a fear that you
may somehow miss the mark in your life - are there issues of
guilt or faith.
Imagine these issues healed for you - imagine your life with
these issues healed - imagine your life strongly with these
issues healed.
At your own rate - in your own time - leave the temple floor and
walk down the temple steps into the here and now.
This time we will begin the lesson with an exercise instead of with a
theoretical discussion.
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Direct the flow of energy in this way for two to three minutes.
Exchange your piece of cotton with that of another participant choose a partner - doing this same exercise.
Tell your partner what color you were storing in the energy
field of the cotton.
[Your partner tells you what color she/he has stored for you.]
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will not tell you the color she/he was storing - you guess the
color.
[If you are using three different colors in the exercise - then it
is only necessary to guess correctly more often than once out of
three tries.]
The human energy field is invisible - except under certain conditions
for some people.
As you now know - there are ways of detecting where a field exists.
This field can even be shrouded so as to make it seem to disappear.
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Let each person from the group take a piece of cotton batting in
her/his hand - in a separate place.
[Pick up the piece of 100% cotton - and place it in the open
palm of your left hand - let it lie there loosely.
Strongly visualize one of the emotions - love - hate - anger envy - jealously - fear - physical pain - anxiety - an emotion
that you have felt strongly in your life.
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Direct the flow of energy in this way for about ten minutes.
Do not tell anyone what the emotion is that is being imagined.
Each cotton is then placed centrally - by turn - one piece at a
time - on a chair or other stand.
The other participants now sit around the cotton in a circle only the imprinter goes aside.
The participants in the circle quiet themselves and put out their
hands towards the cotton on the central chair - but not quite
touching.
Then - listening and feeling very carefully for the subtlest
energies - they attempt to identify the emotion that has been
placed on the cotton by the imprinter.
After about 5 minutes each sensor tells the group what has been felt which of the emotions the cotton was projecting - this impression is
checked with the imprinter.
After all have expressed their perceptions the imprinter tells the group
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And yet - when and if we analyze our lives - most of us get the feeling
of merely muddling through - of drifting aimlessly from one day to
another.
Just staying alive - no matter how comfortably and securely - is no
adequate outlet for our vital adaptation energy.
Though comfort and security make it easier for us to enjoy the great
things in life - they are not in themselves great and enjoyable aims.
It is a very fundamental human need to work for some reward - and we
tend to judge the degree of success by the amount of reward that we
can accumulate by these efforts.
How can we know whether we have accomplished enough to be secure
and happy?
The lessons of the laboratory regarding stress and its relief have been
vaguely understood and felt by almost all people in all ages - hence the
tendency of religions to incorporate and expound these truths.
The instinctive wisdom of our emotional lives has always dimly
perceived that we must put effort into worthwhile endeavors - these
being endeavors that produce the right kind of stress for a long and
healthy life.
It is gratifying to learn that much of what religions and philosophies
have taught as doctrines to guide our conduct is based on scientifically
understandable biological and psychological truths.
Is the need for self-expression the common denominator of mankinds
ultimate aim? - do we always look for rewards because we need some
cumulative indicator of success which tells us to what extent we have
accomplished self-expression?
No matter how acute they may be - the pleasures of the flesh are
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If you have earned your neighbors love you will never be alone.
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The projector does not tell anyone what the emotion is that is
being imagined.
The participants in the circle quiet themselves and put out their
hands towards the person in the central chair - but not quite
touching.
Then - listening and feeling very carefully for the subtlest
energies - they attempt to identify the emotion that is being
imagined by the projector.
After about 5 minutes each sensor tells the group what has been felt which of the emotions the projector was projecting.
After all have expressed their perceptions the subject tells the group
what she/he was imagining.
It is possible and desirable to learn to sense the emotions of others without words being needed.
AGING:
Aging - particularly premature aging - is due to the constant and
eventually exhausting stresses of life.
Aging - at least true physiological aging - is not determined by the time
elapsed since birth - but by the total amount of wear and tear to which
the body has been exposed.
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TENSE-RELAX EXERCISE:
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Now be aware of how the muscles in your toes feel as they relax
to the limit.
[You are trying to become aware of exactly what it feels like to
relax the toes - what the letting-go feeling is like - so that you
can learn to do this quickly and on demand - without the
tensing.]
[You want to form an association in your mind and memory
between the letting-go feeling and complete relaxation.]
[After you have tensed the muscles and allowed them to relax
suddenly - the muscles continue to drift towards relaxation in
stages - you want to know what those stages feel like - so that
you can reproduce that feeling at will - and quickly.]
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[Note how your entire body feels - see if any tension that you
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Be powerful: power for its own sake - fame - the applause of the
masses - the acquisition of generally accepted status symbols security - often sought through the acquisition of power - this
usually comes from a great and morbid feeling of insecurity.
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Get joy: there are also the real hedonists who think of nothing
but their own pleasures - no matter by what means.?
How strongly do these ideas impress you as good reasons for you to be
alive
Can the attainment of any of these purposes above give you - yourself a really good feeling about being alive?
IMPORTANCE OF SELF-ANALYSIS
AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING:
The search for a satisfactory philosophy of life must begin with selfanalysis - we have to answer for ourselves as honestly as we can what do we really want from life?
To give meaning and direction to life we need a lofty long-range
purpose: that is why our natural ultimate aim must have two salient
characteristics - it must be something that requires hard work
(otherwise it is no outlet to self-expression) and its fruits must be
sufficiently permanent to accumulate as life goes by. (otherwise it
would not be a long-range aim)
Philosophical - religious - and political ideals have long and effectively
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When you feel that it is time to begin the exhalation - keep your
eyes closed and slowly begin to raise your outstretched hands
off the floor - bringing them up over your head - keeping the
fingers pointed straight out the entire time - until the hands
come to rest at your sides as you finish the exhalation.
[Let your fingers guide the hands.]
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[After the last exhalation just keep your eyes closed until you
are ready to open them.]
[During this time you may find yourself dreaming or sleeping with a profusion of images floating before your eyes.]
[Upon awakening - you may wonder where you are or where
youve been - the relaxation here is deeper than most forms of
meditation.]
Below is an important addition - we will not do the self-awareness
breath again at this time - but you may wish to do this breath again
whenever you have a question that you have not been able to come to
any conclusion about
At the end of the last exhalation just let your arms rest by your sides as
usual.
Oftentimes the answer will come during the rest period.
The breathing cycle helps clear away much of the mental clutter and
confusion that often blocks us from making clear - definitive decisions
- and it allows us to become more in touch with our intuitive selves.
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Pick a partner.
Confer with your partner and decide who will be the sender
and who will be the receiver.
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The sender will nod when she/he feels that the emotion is being
strongly felt
The receiver will then attempt to receive the emotion from the
sender - place the hands just above the shoulders of the sender
- with just 2 inches or so between the hands and the shoulders.
The receiver should be as aware as possible of any images that
come to her/his mind.
[These may be in the form of visual images - such as pictures or
colors.]
[They may be in the form of sounds - words - music - noises.]
[They may be in the form of tastes - smells - and so on.]
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The power of the mind to effect change in our lives is very great.
This is the power of imagination - which is always used both in
acquiring and releasing the tensions that cause our dis-eases.
SENSITIVITY BREATH:
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Sitting down - close your eyes and slowly inhale the total breath
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Hold the breath for twenty counts - visualize the head of a
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detecting.
We are quite well acquainted with the way our sense of sight - our eyes
- and our sense of touch - our skin - may fool us if we do not know
their limits well enough - and so a knowledge of how our sight and
sense detectors fail us at times is clearly valuable.
When we hold our hands in cold water for a while and then place them
in slightly warm water we may find that our hand sensors now tell us
that the warm water feels hot to us - and such misinformation is
common when coming from any of our sensors.
When we leave a dark cave and come out into the sunlight we may
perceive the light to be unbearably bright for a little while.
But we all know that after a while the sensors will again become more
reliable - and we can allow for this - so that in this case the selfknowledge of what our sensors have experienced in the recent past
may lead us to accept the temporary aberrations with equanimity - and
to compensate for them.
But what about our sensors for sound - our ears - and for taste - our
taste buds - and our sensors for smell - our noses - do they also fool us
at times?
I think we can all say that they may do so.
What about our emotional sensors - might they fool us in the same
way? - might we find that if we have just been through a harrowing
experience this will skew our perceptions in such a way that what we
perceive of the emotions of others - or our own emotions - might also
fool us.
Our perceptions are clearly not to be trusted unless we learn how to
account and adjust for our own emotional states.
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Our eyes see a tiny spectrum of the light that is available all about us our ears hear only a narrow band of air vibrations - the rest are too
slow to affect the ears as sound or too fast.
Insects can see light that is beyond our range - dogs can hear - so can
bats - sounds that are beyond our own range of audio perception.
The fields of life that are the true structure of our bodies would be seen
as light if our eyes could perceive the rates of vibration at which our
life fields vibrate.
The life fields either are electromagnetic fields - or they are fields that
can affect electromagnetic fields - and we are usually unable to
perceive them.
The life fields permeate and surround our bodies - sometimes reaching
out beyond the solid part of our bodies to greater - sometimes to
shorter - distances.
Rooted into the life fields - and extending out beyond the life fields are energy transformers known as wheels or chakras - the sanskrit
term for wheels.
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It will take about half a minute to scan the back - the same for
the front.
From the starting point at the top of the head - keeping your
hands near the spinal column - begin a steady motion with your
hands though the energy field of the healee - continuing this
motion down the neck - then the shoulder area - then the upper
back and the lower back - until your hands are near the
healees tailbone.
Now bring your hands in a gently sweeping motion back to the
lower neck area near the spinal column - then sweep your
hands in unison outward from the spinal column along the top
of the shoulders until your hands are in the area where the
arms begin.
Sweep your hands back to the spinal column - move down the
back a few inches so that your hands are just below the area
where you made your last sweep out to the arms - then do
another sweep until your hands are again at the area of the
healees arms.
Continue these sweeps all the way down the healees back until
you are sweeping across in the region of the tailbone.
If the healee is lying down continue to sweep in this way all the
way down to the healees feet - if the healee is sitting it may be
more practical to move around to the front of the chair to
continue this assessment.
If your hands seem to be attracted to a particular area - or if
you feel there is a concern anywhere - do not stop until the
entire energy field of the healee has been scanned by your hand
chakras.
[You need to get a sense of the healee as a totality - as an entire
unique being.]
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SCALE EXERCISE:
not at all.
once in a while.
frequently.
almost always.
all the time.
Rating:
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field.]
Note: [There have been measurements of healers hands - using
sensitive thermocouples that can measure to thousandths of a
degree - but none of these measurements have ever recorded the
increase or decrease in temperature that the healers and the
healees experience.]
[It is clear that the energies that appear as heat and cold in the
healing process are of a different kind than ordinary heat and
cold as measured by instruments that we have developed up to
the present time.]
[This does not mean that we will never be able to do so - we
may eventually be able to detect the energies that make up the
life fields directly - who knows?]
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with a total score over 300 became ill at the rate of 49 percent of the
sample - while those with a total score of 200 to 299 got ill at the rate
of 25 percent.
Of those who had a total score of 150 to 199 - only 9 percent became
ill.
Although these are startling numbers - it must also be remembered that
there is a great deal of individual variation in the response to stress many cope much better than the above figures would indicate - and of
course - some do even worse.
The scale is certainly a valid guide to the general idea that stress results
in illness - especially stress that is not handled well.
If we had long periods of time in which to recover from stressful events
before being stressed again - the statistics would no doubt look very
different.
And the items measured in the stress scale above are not the only
stressors in society - often it is the small and steady but constantly
annoying events that do the most damage.
And what causes stress differs from person to person - it is true that
times of happiness can cause us a great deal of stress also.
Such things as preparing for a wedding - planning a graduation celebrating a victory or an event - playing a game of cards with money
or prestige riding on the outcome - all these can activate the nervous
system and overload it.
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The mind breath puts the body and mind into a focused - quiet - and
meditative state.
In this way our way of thinking can be reoriented away from the
exterior to our own interior processes.
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4.
Close your eyes and focus them toward the bridge of your nose
- slowly inhale the total breath for ten counts - breathe in a
refined fashion - the breath should silently enter and leave the
nose.
Hold for twenty counts - during this retention let the body and
mind become quiet and still.
Slowly exhale for ten counts.
Repeat this breath ten times - afterward you may wish to keep
your eyes closed for several minutes and use this time to
examining your own thoughts or to keep the mind pleasantly
empty.
3.
Now direct the energy along from the upper - the hip joint along the bone and into the pain site - and on into your left
hand.
[The bones act as a sort of a conductor - more or less like the
wires in an electric circuit.]
[Remember to use your dominant hand chakra to send the
energy along the bone from the position nearest the head of the
healee - we call this the upper joint - into the less dominant
hand chakra - you will have to learn during these exercises
which hand is your dominant or sending hand.]
4.
Check the hand chakra at the lower joint - the receiving chakra
- to see whether the intentional energy flow is moving into it.
[Listen - become sensitive - to any increased energy flow into
this chakra.]
Tthis whole process could be likened to playing catch with just
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your two hands - from the dominant - the sending chakra to the
receiving hand chakra.]
5.
6.
Now place your sending or dominant hand from the upper joint
to the lower joint - at the same time move your receiving hand
to the next lower joint and continue the process of sending
energy from the new location at the new upper joint.
[In the example above - move your sending hand to the knee
joint and your receiving hand to the ankle joint.]
7.
As you did before - wait for the flow of energy to be reestablished - until you can feel the energy flowing from the
upper or sending hand chakra at the knee into the receiving or
lower hand chakra at the ankle.
8.
You can repeat the above for any location in the thigh area or
the shin area or the feet.
[Simply start the process one joint above the location of the
pain.]
9.
If the pain is not gone after the procedure has been done once repeat the procedure - then a gentle smoothing of the energies
from the upper joint to the lower extremities - toes in this case may help.
10.
If the healee still does not experience relief from the pain then
start the energy flow from an area of the trunk of the body near
the spinal column and again work your way down to the
extremity.
[Do not extend the effort beyond a time of twenty to twenty-five
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12.
The power of the mind to effect change in our lives is very great.
This is the power of imagination - which is always used both in
acquiring and releasing the tensions that cause our dis-eases.
Here is a little exercise to confirm the power of your imagination:
4.
5.
6.
Stretch out your right arm straight to the side of the body and
parallel to the floor.
Keep your mind focused - think of your arm as a piece of warm
- wet - spaghetti.
Have someone put her/his right hand over your right wrist and
push downwards - resist this force with all your might with your
spaghetti arm.
Now - again stretch out your arm in the same way - imagine
that your arm is a fire hose through which water is flowing with
incredible force.
Have the same person attempt to force your arm down.
Exchange places with your partner.
The word placebo comes from a latin root that means literally I shall
please.
In modern medicine it refers to a medicine or procedure that has no
active curative ingredient - but rather is given solely for the purpose of
calming or pleasing the patient.
Most researchers have tried to eliminate this effect from their studies considering it a nuisance and more likely to confuse than to enlighten
the researcher.
These researchers have tried to get to the true effect of a drug or
procedure as separated from its placebo effect.
Many researchers now believe there may be no such separation
possible - it is likely that the placebo effect will need to be included in
the effectiveness of any procedure or medication.
The placebo effect can present us with some of the most dramatic
examples of the power of the mind over the body - and tends to
confirm the metaphysical and now modern physics insistence that the
body/mind is really all of one piece.
The dalai lama has stated that healing - the effectiveness of buddhist
medicine - consists of three interrelated facets:
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Now Ive come to understand that the effects of this simple technique
- combined with a persons deepest personal beliefs - can create other
internal environments that can help the individual reach enhanced
states of health and well-being.
This combination of the relaxation response technique with the
individuals belief system is what benson calls the faith factor.
This is not an entirely original concept.
It should be stated that the faith referred to here is not a specific
religious philosophy.
When jesus encouraged his disciples to use the faith like a mustard
seed to move yonder mountain he was not talking about a specific set
of rules or dogmas.
He was saying that what counts is to have simply the faith that the
universe is constructed in such a way that if we believe that something
can be done or can happen - then this will be our experience.
Relieve headaches.
Reduce angina pectoris pains and perhaps even eliminate the
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Recognize the limits of what your approach can do for an individual supplement with other modalities - remain open to all avenues
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Restlessness.
Irritability.
Increasing anxiety.
Pain or hostility.
Also - it is very useful to have the healee rest for ten to fifteen minutes
after the session - this will stabilize the energies.
If the healee falls asleep after the treatment - consider it a job well
done.
Never work for more than half an hour at a session.
Center.
Place the dominant hand at the shoulder joint - the upper joint and the other at the next joint - the elbow joint.
From the energy center at the shoulder direct the energies to
the elbow.
When you sense the energy leaving your sending hand and
entering your receiving hand wait until the flow is smooth and
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strong.
Now move each hand down one joint and continue as before.
[Place your sending hand at the elbow and the receiving hand
at the wrist.]
Center.
Bring your hands up to the level of your ears - about five inches
from your ears.
Set up an energy field between them.
When you feel the build-up of energy - move both your hands to
the left at the same instant - so that you right hand is now one
inch from you right ear and your left hand is nine inches from
your left ear.
[The exact distances are not important - they are just for the
sake of the illustration.]
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7.
Still maintaining the field - move both hands to the right at the
same time - so that your left hand is one inch from your left ear
and your right hand is now nine inches from your right ear.
Continue this back and forth rocking motion for about thirty
seconds - at moderate speed.
Pay attention to what is happening to your ear drums.
You will likely find that your eardrums begin to respond to the moving
field - being pulled first one way and then the other.
What might this feel like to a baby with an ear infection?
Try this on yourself sometime when you have a head cold.
It seems that all body fluids are very sensitive - especially the
electrolytes - to moving energy fields.
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Also - another caution - do not let yourself become too open in human
energy interactions - you may find that your energy is being taken
without your consent - some people are known as energy vampires knowingly or unknowingly they can sap the energy of the healer.
Especially people who talk a great deal - they use the spoken voice as
a conduit for the energy that they take in from whoever will allow this
to be done.
Whenever people ask for your attention they are in the process of
draining your energy - whether this happens on the phone or in face-t0face interactions.
Ideally - when you practice therapeutic touch consistently you will feel
more vital and vigorous and integrated.
to be near a tree.
The liver may cause problems by increasing the sugar in the bloodstream.
The sugar levels of the threatened individual may go out of control
because the pancreas is also involved - and stops producing the insulin
to metabolize the sugar.
And the intestines may swing over into a condition such as divirticulitis
or unstable bowels - or irritable bowel syndrome - diarrhea or
constipation may result from the threat that induces fear into the
individual.
This is why a fearful individual - especially a child - may be helped to a
more balanced and less fearful condition by the application of
therapeutic touch to the solar plexus area of the body.
limitation.
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You may find that this may often prevent illness in your own body - by
doing this check-up before there is a full-fledged crisis.
HEALING BREATH:
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4.
5.
Lie down - close your eyes and breathe the mind breath ten
times - this will put your body in a quietly alert state.
Now - begin breathing the total breath very slowly - let the
breath set its own rhythm.
Keeping your eyes closed - mentally begin to look over your
body - starting with the feet - move up the legs - the torso - the
arms - until you reach the head area - as you mentally scan the
body - imagine a stream of white light starting at the feet and
making its way through the entire body - further imagine this
stream of light bringing good health and vitality to every part of
your body.
If you happen to be sick - concentrate the light on the particular
area where you are unwell.
When you have finished this process - continue to lie with your
eyes closed until you feel it is time to arise - continue the total
breath throughout the exercise.
SELF-HEALING:
Your first duty as a healer is to become healed in your own being.
This self-healing is an on-going process that will require your attention
as long as you are alive and healing.
Healing involves the conscious engagement of the healers own
energies - and the channeling of cosmic energies - but these are really
the same thing - given the ultimate interconnectedness of all creation.
Dolores krieger ph. D. Rn. Puts it this way:
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To heal another person - in one sense the healer interposes his or her
own energy field between the healee and the illness.
From another point of view - however - the healer sensitively draws
upon the universal energies that are the backdrop of all living events
and within which both the healer and the healee are figures sharing a
unitary nature.
Energy fields are non-material - nevertheless - you do have physical
access to them.
This is readily understandable if you recognize that human emotions
are a form of human energy.
speak under the direction and under the instruction of the creator.
What the ancients knew - about how all things affect each other
because they are connected in a deep and direct way - is again
becoming the new age knowledge.
The healing by means of touch and compassionate thought is proving
to be as effective as it was always thought to be - during the ninety
percent of the time since man first kept records that we can read.
No doubt the records - once we learn to read them - and believe what
we read - will go back much - much farther.
Humans have been on this earth a very long time.
They have been healing each other by touch for as long as they have
been here.
2.
2.
When the change begins to happen the healee must accept the
change.
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5.
6.
The healer who stands behind the healee now places one hand
over each kidney.
[The kidneys are on either side of the spinal column and just
above the hips but inside the lower ribcage.]
[For comfort the healer in front may wish to kneel or sit.]
7.
8.
The healer at the feet of the healee places her/his hands in such
a way that the energy centers (chakras) of the healee in the
bottom of the feet just under the arches - are accessible to the
hand energy centers (chakras) of the healer.
The healer at the back then begins to send energy through the
healee from the kidneys and down into the healees feet - and
out through the foot chakras of the healee.
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The healer at the feet focuses attention on the energy fields near
the foot chakras - and the flow of the energy from the healees
foot chakras.
[The flow is influenced by the healer at the back - and this can
be checked by having the healer at the back interrupt the flow
of energy by focusing on this for a few minutes - the healer at
the feet will be able to detect when this is being done.]
10.
11.
After this has been done - and the flow and cessation can be
verified by both healers - change positions with the healing
partner - and redo the exercise.
The person at the feet becomes the new healee - the healee
becomes the healer at the head - and the healer at the head
becomes the new healer at the feet.
The exercise can be done again - until all the participants have
verified for themselves how the energy flows can be detected by
the chakra systems in the hands - perhaps also the feet.
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People may have back problems for more than one reason - there
may be a history of accident - or there may be a history of relationship
problems - or there may be a history of neglect and lack of affection.
If the person is unwilling to heal the relationship that is causing
physical pain - then the pain cannot be healed except by superimposing some powerful pain-killer.
Sometimes it just dont hurt that much - when the alternative is to let
go of anger - or some other pet emotion.
If the sufferer feels that there has not been enough love in her/his life there may be a life-long attempt to get the attention that was not given
to the child by becoming an invalid over whom others may tut-tut
before they move on to other more interesting things.
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Not at all.
Once in a while.
Frequently.
Almost always.
All the time.
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state of centering in preparation for healing are exactly the same by any
measurements that can be made.
It is for this reason that meditation and healing must always be thought
of in the same breath - so to speak.
If the healer goes off center during the healing - both the healer and
the healee will become aware of this - and the healer should gently
return to the state of centeredness without self-rebuke.
As this centering becomes a habitual way of life with the healer there
will be a new awareness of the internal processes - and a new
recognition of facets within the self that have not been apprehended
before.
This centering act is also one of the cornerstones of creativity - it is the
insight into the self that brings forth the creativity - that allows the
inner life to become actualized in outer activity.
The healer must have the ability to confront her/himself.
The healer must be willing to confront her/himself.
It is the unwillingness to confront the self that keeps most individuals
who want to heal from actually becoming healers.
The intentionality of the healer means that the healer has a goal that is
to be accomplished - and also knows what is going to be done - how to
go about the process of the healing - this knowledge allows the
focusing to take place.
The healers motivation for healing can be many things - it might - for
instance - be an ego thing - motivated by the needs of the ego of the
healer - such an individual would not become a strong healer.
The motivation must be there to help the healee without regard for the
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EXERCISE - CENTERING:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Become aware of how your breath fills your lungs - try to sense
the flow of the energy of the breath into all the tissues of your
body.
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6.
As you become more aware of the very faint energies of your own
mind-body - note that you also become more aware of the energies of
others around you.
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2.
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response.]
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6.
Therapeutic touch reaches and heightens the effects of all these natural
allies.
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and evenly.]
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In the very quiet state of mind in which you now are - you can become
aware of the energies of the persons next to you - notice now how you
become aware - the process of becoming aware.
As you go more deeply into yourself - and become more completely
aware of yourself - notice that you at the same time become more
intensely aware of others.
You will become aware of a state of stillness that seems to envelope
you - and you may go into a timeless space - a place where it becomes
impossible to gauge the passage of time.
This is the same space that you center into as you gently fall asleep in
the normal manner - or when you first wake up out of a restful sleep.
Descartes saw the universe as a giant machine that had been wound up
to run like a clockwork train until it expended all its energies and
stopped on its tracks.
This was a strong paradigm and it was picked up because of its
success in explaining the motion of planets and the forces of electricity
- and applied to the human body in the form of medical practice.
So we ended up with a mechanical system of physical medicine as it
applied to healing - or rather curing - where the parts of the body were
thought to be in need of repair the same way that a machine might need
to have parts replaced.
There are three types on energy concerned with the health of the
individual.
The first of these is the prana energy.
[This energy underlies the organization of all life processes.]
3.
4.
The East Indian belief is that the prana flows through its nadis - and
that as it makes its circuits it acts as a carrier for the functions of will
and emotions and intelligence functions.
It is the functions of will and emotions and intelligence that puts us into
contact with our environment through the senses of the body.
The main channel or circuit for these energies is thought to be the
hollow core at the center of the spinal column - which is like the
thread through the eye of a needle - in the East Indian terminology.
It is this hollow core or tube that is the remnant of the hollow tube from
which we in the west believe the brain and spinal cord to have
developed in the evolutionary path and which still is the pattern for the
development of each embryo.
You will almost always in your healing be doing more than one thing at
a time - below is an exercise to develop the ability to do so in a
centered state.
5.
the body - and also to the blood system. It also regulates heart function
and the circulatory system - it is intimately connected to the hand
chakras.
The energy of this chakra is love - and its demonstration.
The fifth chakra - the throat chakra - is thought to come in blue - it is
the energy of communication and compassion - its power is in
controlled sound - found in the throat.
This chakra is related to the akasha - the continuum of consciousness and to the skin through which we feel the vibrations of sound.
The sixth chakra is the brow chakra - sometimes referred to as the third
eye.
It is found in the middle of the forehead - between the eyes but a little
above them.
This is the seat of the subtle perceptions - of intuitions and higher
knowledge - it comes in indigo - it functions as a unit with the crown
chakra at the top of the head.
The seventh chakra is the crown chakra - it comes in violet sometimes thought to come in white or perhaps purple - a combination
of red and blue - and it is found on the top of the head and to the back.
It is sometimes represented by the thousand-petalled lotus.
The lotus is anchored in the waters of the earth - but has its petals in
the medium of air.
This chakra is symbolically represented as the link between the
personality of the individual existing in the space/time world and the
higher functions of the self.
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The colors of the chakras must not be taken too literally - people who
see chakras will describe their appearance in different ways - but there
is always the idea of rotation and color.
Some writers have referred to rainbow colors of the chakras.
They can also be thought of as transformers of the energies of the
cosmos - just as we use transformers in electrical circuits to adjust the
power of the electric current to the devices that will use them without
being injured by the power.
You might - also - think of the chakras as composing a prism through
which a white light is shining - a triangular piece of glass will break up
the white light into its component colors - as all of us have seen in
science class or in our own experiences with light when it refracts
through oddly shaped pieces of glass or plastic.
If the cosmic energy is thought of as coming to us in the form or what
appears to us as white light - which is really an even distribution of all
the colors of light - then the prism in breaking this light up into its
constituent colors is transforming it in such a way that each of the
aspects of the human being is being energized with the particular
energy that it is capable of absorbing without danger to itself.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Inhale again.
You are there! - it is this state between breaths which you are
now experiencing that is the centering experience.
Just at the point - after you have inhaled deeply - and just as
you are beginning the release of the breath in an outbreath and continuing during the outbreath - the state of balance is
most profound - and this balance is the centering.
At this point the quietude is most apparent.
In this space time ceases to exist for you - and images form of their
own accord without any effort on your part to think of any specific
thing - an hour may pass - or two minutes - and you cannot tell the
difference in time between the hour and the two minutes.
When you get into this stillness within you - you will find it easy to go
into a state where you become so receptive that personal insights may
suddenly come to the surface of your mind - like a stick that has been
dropped into the water and bobs back to the surface after a short time.
Every technique that is used to center your consciousness will have as
its main element a sense of great stillness and calm.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Center.
Review the information that you can recall about chakras realize that the information that has come to us from the east
over the last four thousand years has been validated by modern
research.
For this exercise choose your heart chakra.
Review what you know of its functions.
[The heart chakra is well-known to connect with the ability to
love unconditionally.]
5.
Place your dominant hand over the chakra that you have
chosen - within the energy field of the chakra.
[If you have chosen the heart chakra to investigate - then place
your hand over the heart chakra.]
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10.
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12.
13.
14,
15.
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17.
18.
In the same way you can use what you know of the other chakras to
gain more insight into how your own energy field interacts with your
own thoughts and emotions.
You can use what you know of the functioning of the root chakra to
gain insight into your relationship to providing for the physical needs of
your life and your desire to live in the body.
You can use what you know of the fear that is resident in the solar
plexus - just below the heart - to gain extra knowledge that you can use
in your healing.
You can use what you know of the function of the throat chakra - and
its relation to grief and compassion - to learn more there.
This will empower you to become proficient at gleaning the maximum
amount of information from the chakras of the healee when you do the
assessment of the energy field.
In the exercise below - use what you have learned about your own
heart chakra to assess the heart chakra of the healee.
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[Any other chakra may also be used - just be sure that the chakra that
you work with in the healee is the same as the chakra that you worked
with in your own self-assessment.]
1, 2, 3, 4
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
The healer who is standing behind the healee now places one
hand over each kidney.
[The kidneys are on either side of the spinal column and just
above the hips but inside the lower ribcage.
[For comfort the healer in front may wish to kneel or sit.]
7.
8.
The healer at the feet of the healee places her/his hands in such
a way that the energy centers (chakras) of the healee in the
bottom of the feet just under the arches - are accessible to the
hand energy centers (chakras) of the healer.
The healer at the back then begins to send energy through the
healee from the kidneys and down into the healees feet - and
out through the foot chakras of the healee.
[To do this - visualize as strongly as you can - by firmly
focusing your attention - that the energy is flowing from the
hands into the kidneys and down the legs and into the feet into
the foot chakras - and from there out into the other healers
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hand chakras.]
[You may want to increase the energy flow by matching your
breathing to the energy flow that you are visualizing - the
energy flowing in rhythm with your outbreath - or whatever
works.]
[Be careful to remain in a centered state - the flow will be
effortless - and the mind and body of the healer will remain
relaxed.]
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The healer at the feet focuses attention on the energy fields near
the foot chakras - and the flow of the energy from the healees
foot chakras.
[Any changes or differences in frequency or intensity of energy
flow are noted.]
[The flow is influenced by the healer at the feet - and this can
be checked by having the healer at the feet interrupt the flow of
energy by focusing on blocking the energy for a few minutes the healer at the back will be able to detect when this is being
done.]
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After this has been done - and the flow and cessation can be
verified by both healers - change positions with the healing
partner - and redo the exercise.
The person at the feet becomes the new healee - the healee
becomes the healer at the head - and the healer at the head
becomes the new healer at the feet.
The exercise can be done again - until all the participants have
verified for themselves how the energy flows can be detected by
the chakra systems in the hands - perhaps also the feet.
Holding the hand chakra over the heart is also a good practice in
hospice care for the dying - if they will accept it - which most do very
readily.
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Center.
Place your sending hand over the chakra of the healee.
Bring your own chakra into use by calling forth from within
yourself the mind-set that incorporates the energetic qualities of
the chakra that is being balanced.
Look for a response from the healees energy field that is in
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not due to contact or radiation - but seems to come from deeper within
the tissues - and this warmth can be felt through chairs and plaster
casts.
Another system that is fairly responsive to therapeutic touch is the
collagen system - so that the various forms of arthritis can be helped
with touch - but other collagen disorders such as lupus are not helped
to a great extent.
The glandular disorders are also affected to a limited extent - thyroid
conditions are helped and the adrenals can be helped - and certain
problems of the reproductive systems can be helped - especially in
females.
The results with pancreas problems - such as diabetes - and the
pituitary gland have not been found significant.
It is known that paraplegics may report that they can feel the healing
hands - even though the skin is not being touched - although they
would not be expected to feel such a touch.
In wounds that have raw sensory nerves exposed the healees have
reported that the sensation of the healing can easily become one of pain
if the hands are not moved often.
When healers do therapeutic touch with people who have
psychological disorders the results can be mixed - people with manic
depression have been helped - especially during the manic stages.
There are also numerous successes reported with individuals who were
catatonic - and it is remarkable to note that some of the catatonic
persons could identify the individuals who had been doing therapeutic
touch with them during the time that they were unconscious.
Hyperkinetic children have also been helped.
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The same can be said for people who suffered cerebral vascular
accidents - otherwise known as strokes - these also - when they came
out of their comas - were able to say who had been treating them.
On the other hand - people with schizophrenia have not been
significantly helped with their specific problem.
In the case of aids - the success has been more in the area of alleviating
the effects of the accompanying opportunistic infections such as
pneumonia and elevated temperatures and the restlessness that often is
part of the syndrome - and also the lungs can be helped to clear.
It has also been reported that kaposis sarcoma can be cleared
sometimes.
Parkinsons and alzheimers have been treated with only limited
success - but the accompanying agitation has been successfully cleared.
People who work in hospice situations often report that the pain of
cancer can be successfully treated - and in the final stages before death
there is often a serene acceptance of the transition of consciousness.
During the earlier stages of cancer - the chemotherapy and radiation
treatments - there is often success in stabilizing the persons with the
cancer.
It has been found most useful to start with therapeutic touch about a
week before the beginning of these treatments - and continue the touch
about two to three times a week during the series.
This appears to stabilize and support the healees and they experience
less nausea and vomiting.
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The experience of strong pain is not easily forgotten - pain by itself can
even kill - anyone who has ever suffered through a kidney stone or
birth can attest to that.
It brings with it the memories of the pain - and these will be emotionladen.
Even thinking about pain and its possible recurrence may bring on
severe psycho-physical results.
If pain can be relieved the focus on self that is so characteristic of
people in pain will also be alleviated - such people who get relief from
pain again become interested in others and their experiences.
So the release from pain is good for the sufferer and for those who
have been involved in the emotional consequences of the pain being
suffered by the patient.
To the person giving therapeutic touch the presence of pain will usually
be experienced as congestion of the energies in the healees field - or
like a kind of stiffening or hardening of the field - as if the hands were
immersed in a very stiff jello with ripples or bumps or swirls in it.
There may be a feeling of confusion in the field of the healee.
If the pain is severe and prolonged - then the healees energy field in
the area of the solar plexus chakra may be much disturbed.
Some healers actually feel the pain - rather than just the ripple effects
of it - or the nausea or fear may be experienced by the healer.
For the healer the recognition that the discomfort is not her/his own
will go far towards allowing the healing to progress without undue
interference.
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Center.
Recall the wavelength of energy that you associate with the
color blue.
Sense the level of this energy in your own field - the same way
that you would sense calmness.
Fully experience the blueness of the color for a while.
Project the blue energy as you gently unruffle the healees
energy field around the site of the pain.
Starting from the site of the pain move the congested energy
toward the outer edges of the healees energy field.
[Do this slowly and deliberately - intentionally - let the
congestion dissipate at the edges of the healees energy field.]
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Place your hand chakras over the healees solar plexus area.
Send the blue energy to quiet the healees emotional reaction to
the stress of the pain.
[Do not continue beyond twenty minutes of treatmen.t]
[If the pain can be helped by therapeutic touch it will have been
done by twenty-five minutes of treatment.]
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homework.
[The healee can be encouraged to imagine being on a beautiful
seashore at high tide - watching the waves - noticing how the
waves are carrying away any residual pain as they come to
shore and then recede into the ocean - and the tide ebbs.]
It is especially important to break the cycle of pain and the fear of pain
that in themselves bring on most of the pain that is felt.
If you can break the pain for even so short a time as two minutes - this
is of immense value to the sufferer.
Having said all the above - it must still be repeated that therapeutic
touch is not a miracle cure for illnesses - there is always healing - but
there may not be cures
ANXIETY:
Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension and dread brought on by a
prolonged state of fear.
Awareness of this fear may be blocked by a defense mechanism - and
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Tachycardia.
Dyspnea.
Tremors.
Excessive perspiration.
Nausea.
Muscular tension.
Restlessness.
Unconscious breath-holding - resulting in light-headedness.
There are several types of anxiety - but the main cause of all of them is
stress.
When an individual suffers an energy overload that has removed its
rhythms and patterning - irritability will result.
An energy overload has the same effect as - and may even manifest as pain - usually mental - and this is counter-acted after a while with the
usual response to pain - anger.
Irritability is a milder form of anger - it can be treated along with the
anxiety that is usually the cause of the pain.
The anxiety - a fear or apprehension of something awful that is going to
happen keeps the individual in a constant state of fight-or-flight - the
adrenalin just keeps pumping into the body and this is where the energy
overload originates.
Center.
Use the blue color over the throat area to help it to stabilize.
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Place the hand chakras over the heart and solar plexus areas.
Sense the fear in the solar plex and send love and peace into
the heart and solar plex.
When people are anxious for a long time they may easily come down
with psychosomatic illnesses.
Whenever you sense that someone is chronically anxious make the
effort to refer that person to someone who can help the healee to lead a
more balanced life-style through techniques such as meditation imagery - or psychotherapy.
Shiatsu and acupressure can also help women with pms - as well as
therapeutic touch - relieving the sense of anxiety that some feel during
this time.
Center.
Unruffle the energy field to help release the congested energies
and release them.
[This unruffling will also reshape the energy field and lead to a
more controlled pattern.]
[The healee may express the idea that she/he feels too
controlled as it is - this feeling is the result of chaotic energies when these are brought into a useful pattern the feeling of
confinement will go away.]
[Spend only a few minutes on the unruffling initiall.y]
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Place your hand chakras over the solar plexus area and the
heart area and use the blue energy to heal.
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Center.
Place hand chakras in the energy field overlying the breasts.
Gently unruffle the energy field to disperse the congestion of
the field.
Visualize the color blue and send healing of that wavelength
into the area.
Center.
Work over the liver.
Visualize an emerald-green color as you work in this area send energy of this color into the liver area.
[The liver controls the electrolyte balance - and therefore the
distribution of fluids in the body.]
[Electrolytes are especially amenable to treatment with the
human energy field.]
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Center.
Unruffle the aura.
Send blue energy into the solar plex area.
[This will help reduce pain and discomfort.]
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Work to move the systemic energy flow to and through the foot
chakras.
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Center.
Unruffle your own energy field.
Place the hands over the upper abdomen - above the position of
the fetus - in the region of the breastbone.
Turn the palms of the hands outwards to the sides of the body.
As you exhale slowly - sweep and direct any congestion of
energy outwards from the inner part of the energy field.
Make a few sweeps starting lower down on the abdomen.
Center.
Place the hand chakras over the mothers heart and send love
and support.
[When the contractions become really uncomfortable - do the
following.]
[It is easy to try to do too much at once - do the following one
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After the birth - there are some things that can be done with therapeutic
touch.
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Hold the baby against your shoulder and use your dominant
hand to unruffle and soothe the babys energy field.
[If the baby cries and you can find no clear physical reason for
the crying - such as an open pin or other discomfort ... then:]
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Place the baby against your body with her/his head on your
shoulder.
Walk - or sit and rock.
Do therapeutic touch.
[It is very likely that the baby will stop crying suddenly - she/he
is likely to open the eyes wide with a surprised look on its face she/he will then characteristically fall asleep - probably still
burping.]
Center.
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Check the area between the spleen and the liver for energy
flowing between them.
Move the energy with slow and gentle rhythmic motions away
from the liver area with the non-dominant hand to dissipate the
toxicity.
Place the dominant hand over the spleen and send energy into
the area while continuing to waft the energy away from the liver
When the energy feels more stabilized place your hands over
the kidneys and send in energy.
Place the hands over the solar plexus to encourage stronger
energy flow into the area and throughout the system.
Unruffle the healees energy field.
Encourage energy flow out through the feet by the methods of
bone conduction that were demonstrated earlier - start at the
adrenals - move to the hip joint - then the knee joint - and so on
out of the feet.
Have the healee lie down for ten to fifteen minutes after the
treatment.
[This will give the opportunity for the system to absorb energy
from the surrounding life fields.]
Center.
Go over the steps that were given in the exercise on using
therapeutic touch for lethargy.
[Then - add the following steps.]
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[As you do the massage direct the energy of blue from your
hand chakras into the healees neck muscles - this will help to
release the stressed muscles.]
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SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:
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Loss of appetite.
Unusual overeating.
Breakdown in the sleep cycle.
Unexplainable irritability.
Fearfulness.
Free-floating anxiety.
Vague physical pains.
Unprovoked crying spells.
Inability to concentrate.
Memory problems.
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As you are engaged in the above activities - check to see what your
hand chakras tell you - and your solar plex chakra - as well as the other
chakras.
Becoming aware of the activities of these chakras - even when not
actively thinking about them at all - this knowledge of the gut or
heart is the essence of sensitive living as a healer - and it can improve
the healing even as it protects the healer.
Emotional burnout of healers is rarely reported by therapeutic touch
practitioners - most healers find a heightened sense of well-being from
helping others in need.
But- people do practice all their lives how to modify the energy fields
of others - even though this is generally done at a subliminal level in
such a way that neither the manipulator nor the one being manipulated
is consciously aware of the energy interactions except as vague
uneasinesses.
I dont trust that person - I dont know why - I just feel something
uncanny about her/him - cant put my finger on it - this is how that
interaction is often felt and expressed.
The healer needs to recognize this feeling and identify it - and then
protect against the sapper.
As stated earlier - people who talk incessantly are generally energy
slurpers - they use the agency of their voice and the demanding of your
attention as ways to make you vulnerable to giving up your energy to
them.
Center.
Remind yourself to become unattached to the results of the
healing interaction - that you have no personal investment in
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4.
Work over the heart chakra - bring a sense of deep caring - this
is not sentimentality.
[The depressed person must be allowed to work through the
depression if it is a result of some traumatic event in the recent
past.]
[If the depression is long-standing there must be
encouragement to come to grips with the internal problems in a
personal way.]
[Relief from the depression may require that the individual
sufferer make some changes in life-style or conditions - these
changes may need courage that seems beyond the individuals
strength.]
[It must be made clear to the depressed person that she/he is
not alone.]
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REFRAMING:
Reframing is looking at a situation as something which has meaning in
a certain context - and can have a different meaning in the different
context.
As an example: we generally look upon pain as something to be
avoided - and this is certainly the purpose of pain - that is - pain is
there to tell us that something in our lives needs changing and to give
us good reason to change.
But the pain itself does not have negative intentions - it is there as a
warning - and so it is a positive force in our lives - if we allow it to be.
If we heed the warning - and the healing takes place - and the pain is
relieved - then the purpose of the pain is fulfilled - and it was a good
purpose - therefore a positive effect can result from the pain.
If you start out with a negative attitude towards your pain - seeing it as
something without a useful purpose - that is one frame.
If you begin to think of the pain as something useful - then it can begin
to have positive outcomes - and your new way of seeing the pain is the
new frame in which the pain appears different than before.
To deal with the origins of the pain it is necessary to go back to the
time when the pain first originated - to the incidents that took place at
that time and which resulted in the pain that you now feel.
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When we are less afraid of pain - and know that we can handle
whatever pain is coming - the pain tends to be experienced as less
severe than if there is fear of pain added to the actual pain.
It helps to focus the attention into other areas when pain is being
experienced - focusing on the pain will certainly increase the
experience of it.
Pain partly depends on certain muscular and mental tensions for its
existence - so - if these can be eliminated - the pain cannot hit with full
force.
Just relaxing will decrease the pain experienced.
If we can remember to change our breathing the instant that the pain
hits - this will not only eliminate much of the pain - but will also free
the mind from fear and tension.
Usually the sudden onset of pain has a tendency to take the attention
from other things and divert it toward the pain - but this may be
dangerous - since there may be an emergency situation connected with
the pain - and it may be very important to be able to keep the mind on
what is going on around the individual who is experiencing the pain.
There may be some immediate danger that requires complete alertness.
The stop-pain breath is useful in such circumstances:
STOP-PAIN BREATH
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The healer who stands behind the healee now places one hand
over each kidney.
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[The kidneys are on either side of the spinal column and just
above the hips but inside the lower ribcage.]
[For comfort the healer in front may wish to kneel or sit.]
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The healer at the feet of the healee places her/his hands in such
a way that the energy centers (chakras) of the healee in the
bottom of the feet just under the arches are accessible to the
hand energy centers (chakras) of the healer.
The healer at the back then begins to send energy through the
healee from the kidneys and down into the healees feet - and
out through the foot chakras of the healee.
[To do this - visualize as strongly as you can - by firmly
focusing your attention - that the energy is flowing from the
hands into the kidneys and down the legs and into the feet into
the foot chakras - and from there out into the other healers
hand chakras.]
[You may want to increase the energy flow by matching your
breathing to the energy flow that you are visualizing - the
energy flowing in rhythm with your outbreath - or whatever
works.]
[Be careful to remain in a centered state - the flow will be
effortless - and the mind and body of the healer will remain
relaxed.]
[By focusing the attention on the end result - that is - the energy
flow from the foot chakras of the healee into the hand chakras
of the healer in front - this flow takes place easily.]
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The healer at the feet focuses attention on the energy fields near
the foot chakras - and the flow of the energy from the healees
foot chakras.
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After this has been done - and the flow and cessation can be
verified by both healers - change positions with the healing
partner - and redo the exercise.
The person at the feet becomes the new healee - the healee
becomes the healer at the head - and the healer at the head
becomes the new healer at the feet.
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If you are suddenly startled and your breathing becomes quick and
shallow - chances are youll not be able to handle the situation - and
you may freeze from fear.
Take yourself in hand - acknowledge the fear - and begin to breathe for
it.
You may shake and shiver as much as you want - if your breathing can
be calmed down you will be in control.
As soon as your breathing settles down your perception of the situation
will change dramatically.
When breathing for fear the attention should be directed to the
inhalation - making it as even and slow as possible.
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[Keep the breath under control and you will be able to act with
logic and without fear.]
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It can also help with restoring fluid balances in the body - swelling can
be brought down.
Therapeutic touch also reduces the sting of injections.
Center.
Unruffle the aura.
Send blue energy into the solar plex area.
[This will help reduce pain and discomfort.]
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Work to move the systemic energy flow to and through the foot
chakras.
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Blessed are the hospice workers - for they stand in the doorway - and
in this doorway shall they meet god.
And God himself shall bless their efforts and their love - it goes right to
the heart of the creator.
To live without fear in the sight of God is the highest calling - and it is
its own reward.
When you do therapeutic touch on anyone who is in the dying process
- the fact of the dying is not the important fact.
It is the healing that can take place under such circumstances - the
healing of the dying individual as well as the healing of all those in the
immediate or extended circle of the one who is dying.
For this reason - family members need to be taught therapeutic touch they can do so much to alleviate suffering and take away guilt and
anger - which under the circumstances are especially prevalent and
damaging.
It is also good to do therapeutic touch on members of a dying healees
family - they are being traumatized by the events unfolding before
them.
Then - if they can be taught therapeutic touch - they will also be able to
experience and appreciate the unique intimacy that this affords them and the growth that they can manifest in sensitivity which will stand
them in good stead in interpersonal relationships in the future.
It is also good for the family members - when they know that the dying
person is ready to let go - to give permission for the dying person to
let go and leave this plane.
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Center.
Sit or stand quietly as the time for the transition approaches sitting is advised since the process may take some time.
Touch the healees hand chakra - left or right - while at the
same time also touching the area of the heart chakra.
[There is a strong connection between the heart chakra and
physical touch anywhere on the body.]
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The healer needs to be the emotionally stable one - this will give others
the energy to bear their own feelings.
This is a service to the living as well as to those who are entering
another dimension and level of consciousness.
And as you walk along and observe the many gardens - begin to look
for the garden that is your own.
And now - as you continue your peaceful walk along the path - see in
the distance - a garden that has a very special attraction for you - it is
very familiar to you - you feel that you know just how it will look - as
you approach it along the path - and you recognize it - even before you
reach this garden.
It is your very own garden - the garden that you planted so long - long ago - and this is the garden that you have been tending - sometimes
with greater care - sometimes with less care - through the many ages of
time - since you became a conscious being.
And now - you have reached your very own garden - the garden of
your past.
Now - still in a state of comfort and rest and peace - find a place in the
garden - sit or recline - as you wish - continue to be very comfortable begin to lose your awareness of the garden about you - and begin to
move back in time - back - with every breath - in ... out ... back - back.
Move back in time - even as you continue in a state of comfort and
peace - regress now - year by year - decade by decade - regress until
you are an infant again - to some time when you were less than
eighteen months old.
Imagine yourself surrounded by a healing white light.
You are less than eighteen months old now - look down at your hands see your hands - feel your hands - tiny hands - reach out and touch
something with your hands - touch many things.
How does it feel to touch things with your hands.
Look down at your legs - stretch them - bend them at the knee - how
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peach - gnaw the way you did when you were an infant - how does it
feel to eat and yet have no teeth.
How does it feel to make a mess - peach all over your face - juice
running down your chin - hands sticky and slippery from the juice of
the peach.
Imagine that you are taking a nap in the middle of the afternoon - a
music box soothed you to sleep - it is still going.
Wake up now - imagine yourself making cooing sounds to yourself as
you play after waking.
Imagine yourself with a bottle of juice - a stuffed animal in your arm imagine that your eyes are closed - place the nipple on the bottle in
your mouth and drink the juice through the nipple.
As you do this exercise - what do you feel - does it feel easy to suck
the juice - does it feel difficult - does it feel comforting - does it feel
lonely.
Again - pause - and see yourself as the adult you are at present.
Consider now that the infant carries pain - just as you carry pain - but it
also carries joy and wonder - and a sense of newness.
In the exercises you have just done - what have you learned about your
infant self - and about how you continue to carry these traits of the
infant with you to this day.
Consider for a few moments your feelings about intimacy - do you
welcome intimacy - do you fear intimacy.
Do you feel any shame - any sense of being unworthy of love.
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Remember - if you lack trust - this is not something you were born with
- you must have experienced a lack of trustworthiness in your
caregivers - and this was experienced by the infant that you still carry
within you.
But consider also - that you are now an adult - and that part of you the infant self - that part of you that still carries the fear and the shame
- whatever the feelings may be - that part of you is separate and distinct
from your present adult self.
As an adult - you can now respond to the discomforts of the infant self
- and work to heal the wounds that were incurred in infancy.
And it is time now for you to meet the infant within.
Return your awareness now to the garden of your past - spreading all
around you - and take the time to become familiar again with every
aspect of this garden of your past.
Again surround yourself with the protective white light - see it as a
glowing white sphere spreading in all directions from you - as you sit
or lie in your garden.
Note the smells and colors of the garden - feel the sense of peace and
safety.
Become aware now that there is another presence in the garden with
you - and your attention is directed to - and you become aware of - a
beautiful wooden cradle.
Look into the cradle now - and see a baby.
Realize and recognize that the baby is your own infant self - the infant
within you.
Pause and notice your feelings.
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Do you sense the total vulnerability of the infant - lying there in the
cradle.
What is the infant doing - is it sleeping - is it crying - is it cooing - or is
it lying there quietly waiting for someone to appear and take notice of
it.
Reach down and touch the infant.
How does the infant respond to your touch.
Is there anything that the infant needs - see if there is something - and if
there is - try to discover what it is that the infant needs.
Do not use words - since the infant does not understand language - but
try in some way to convey the knowledge to the infant that you are its
future.
You will be able to do this telepathically - if that is what you want to
do - or you may be able to use body language - or the sensations that
come to you intuitively.
Try to inform the infant that you are the proof that he/she has survived.
Tell the infant that you will help it to heal - to rescue it from any
loneliness and fear that it may be experiencing.
If you - as the adult self - have any fears about closeness with others or any shame about being so vulnerable - or any worries about being
abandoned - this infant in the cradle is carrying those feelings.
Spend a few moments with this infant within you.
When you are ready - assure the infant that your work with its pain is
now beginning - the hurt is over now - he/she will not be left alone
again.
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Pause for a short time now - and - think of yourself - or see yourself as the adult you are today - sitting at a writing table of some sort - with
writing materials of your choice before you.
Write whatever seems appropriate to write - no one but you will need
to see or know what you have written.
When you have written all that you wish to write at this time.
Turn your awareness back to the infant in the cradle - and gently
continue communicating with the infant - remember that the infant is
the child within you - and that the answers to all questions that you
might wish to ask are to be found within.
Ask your inner infant what his/her favorite color is - a favorite story - a
favorite lullaby.
Now - see yourself looking out through the infant's eyes - look around what does the infant wish to touch.
If it is safe to do so - reach out and touch.
Now - ask your infant within to tell you about his/her pain and fear of
being abandoned - about feeling unsafe - about feeling unprotected and
afraid.
Ask the infant what he/she needs most from you right now.
Ask the infant how he/she feels about you - does he/she feel abandoned
or ignored by you - if so - why does the infant feel that way.
Explain to the infant that you are going to reclaim him/her - and that
this means that he/she will never be alone again - that you will make
sure that the basic needs are met.
Explain to the inner infant that he/she will be able to develop trust in
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you as the inner adult - that you will keep him/her safe and protected.
Ask your baby whether it likes to be held - whether it is tired or hungry
or wet.
Find out whether there is anything that the inner infant wants to know
about you.
Continue the communication for some time - if you wish - asking
questions and having questions asked of you.
You may wish to sing a lullaby - or play some simple game with the
baby - do whatever you wish to do - for as long as you wish to do so.
Really get to know the child within - the baby that is less than eighteen
months of age.
When you have done all that you wish to do today - return your
awareness to the garden of your past around you.
Spend a few more moments in the garden of your past - reviewing what
has happened here - and - when you are ready - you will find yourself moving - at your own rate - and in your own time - forward into the
here and now - and as you move - realize that you will feel very
energized - very peaceful - very comfortable.
And as you come back fully into the here and now - you will be ready
and eager to continue the work that must be done - and you will feel in
every way ready to continue the work.
HEALING - ONE-ON-ONE:
FIFTH SELF-EVALUATION THERAPEUTIC TOUCH
SCALE EXERCISE:
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DISCUSSION ON MODULATING
HUMAN ENERGY FIELDS:
Color is often used in therapeutic touch for the modulating of the
healees energy field.
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1.
Blue:
[Cool - quiet - composed - waveless - peaceful - orderly coherent - tranquil - in a state of grace.]
2.
Yellow:
[Vitalizing - highly mobile - invigorating - a pure energy stimulating - active - quickening.]
3.
Green:
[Equilibrium - dynamic stability - organized - balanced.]
4.
Pink:
[Affectionate - tender - loving - sympathetic - gentle - giving a
sense of enfoldment.]
5.
Violet:
[Blessing - exalted - devotional - aspiring - dedicational.]
6.
Clear light:
[Clarity - accessibility - translucence - permeability unobstructing - unconditional.]
Your mind can become focused on pure color rather than scattered
thoughts.
[As you inhale - visualize this green entering every muscle bone - and nerve cell of your body - bringing radiant color to
your entire body.]
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6.
Hold the breath for ten counts - let yourself become dissolved in
the colored mist that now surrounds your body and is also
being held within.
Slowly exhale through rounded lips.
Repeat three times.
DECISION BREATH:
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5.
Slowly inhale the total breath for ten counts - aim the breath to
the very center of the forehead.
Hold for ten counts.
Exhale for ten counts.
Continue this rhythm of breathing.
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When the film ends - keep you eyes closed for another minute.
[If you wish you may take a look at another situation - or
review the one you just looked at.]
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The white blood cells - (the eaters of the diseased cells and also of the
carriers of the disease into the body) - may themselves be the vessels in
which the aids virus takes up residence when it enters the body.
In this way the first line of the bodys defense system is compromised
before there is even an outcry from the immune system - which has
already been weakened by excessive stress.
This stress can be physical - or mental and emotional - anything to
which the body will respond with fear - with the flight-or-fight
syndrome - any perceived threat.
It is interesting to note that any perceived threat - which should be met
with strengthened resistance against the threat has the side effect that it
weakens the systems that might respond to the threat.
These factors are under the control of the individual - there are threatreducing measures - meditation comes to mind here.
Therapeutic touch seems mainly effective in treating the secondary the opportunistic infections that result from full-blown aids - and even
these have not always been very successful.
The immune system of aids sufferers is immensely overworked.
Such sufferers are very fatigued - and they can only absorb small
amounts of prana energy - the vital life-force energy.
Therapeutic touch is best done in short and frequent sessions with
these individuals.
Aids is the tragedy of our times - working with people with aids will
test and tax every quality of the healer.
The emotional and spiritual resources needed to deal with the extent of
the suffering are far out of proportion to those needed for other
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Elevated temperatures.
Nausea and vomiting.
Diarrhea.
Headache.
Center.
Moderately unruffle the energy field.
Use blue energies to modulate the entire energy field.
Use cotton pads charged with healing energy - same as you
would use cool compresses.
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Center.
Lightly place the palm of one hand on the healees forehead
and the other at the nape of the neck to inhibit retching.
Get the healee as comfortable as possible.
Modulate the energy field of the healee in the solar plexus area
with blue color energy.
[Tthis will stabilize the area.]
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10.
When the electrolytes become unbalanced in the body - the fluids will
also unbalance - and in severe cases this will show itself as diarrhea.
The convulsive gastrointestinal spasms will exhaust the patient of aids.
Center.
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2.
3.
Stabilize the solar plexus chakra with blue energy into the
healees energy field.
Send blue energy also into the liver and spleen areas.
[This will help to lessen the spasms also - just as step two will
do.]
4.
Center.
Lightly unruffle the energy field over the head of the aids
healee.
Unruffle the field over the eyes - the neck - the shoulders.
[Use short - rapid - gentle movements of the hands.]
4.
Rest your hand chakras over the eye sockets very lightly for a
minute of two.
[This works best if the healer can stand behind the healee while
doing this.]
5.
6.
Send energies in the blue color into the neck and shoulders.
Lightly massage the neck and shoulder areas.
[This will help to relieve congested energy flows.]
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7.
Use energies in the blue color over the solar plexus chakra.
[This is especially necessary if the headache has been
prolonged - or if there is nausea as the result of the headache.]
8.
9.
6.
Cut two wire coat hangers in such a way that the curved handle
at the top and one of the sloping sides are removed.
Straighten out each cut hanger so that the sloping side and
bottom wire are at right angles to each other.
Take two 3x 5 cards - roll each parallel along its longer side
- now tape so that you have two cylinders 5 long.
Slip the cylinders onto the shorter arm of each of two metal
right angles that you made with the coat hanger wire.
Bend the tips of these sides that come through the cylinders at
right angles - so that the hangers will stay in place inside the
cylinders.
Now have your partner lie on her/his back in a comfortable
relaxed position with hands at her/his sides.
[You may have your partner stand at ease if that is more
desirable for both of you.]
7.
Pick up one of the rods in each hand - with your hands over the
cardboard cylinders.
[The cylinders are meant to keep the hands free from any
pressure you might inadvertently apply on the rods.]
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8.
Hold the rods lightly in front of you with your arms slightly
extended - so that your elbows do not rest on the trunk of your
body.
[The long arms of the rods should point directly in front of
you.]
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10.
The rods will cross over each other - or point at each other if
they are held too far apart - at five specific parts of the body.
[These parts of the body are: - the forehead - the throat - the
solar plexus - the knees - and the ankles]
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12.
13.
Now - keeping your hands and therefore the rods in the same
position - slowly and steadily move along the side of your
companion toward his or her feet - remembering to keep the
long arms of the rods parallel to the floor.
As you move down the side of your partner - note whether the
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rods cross each other over the areas noted above - they do in
about 80% of the cases tried.
Physiotherapy.
Massage therapy.
[Both of the above go well with therapeutic touch in the
alleviation of stress-related problems - tension headaches - low
back pain - circulatory problems - constipation.]
3.
4.
Shiatsu.
Acupressure.
[Both of the above go well with therapeutic touch in the
treatment of sinusitis - digestive problems - muscular cramps insomnia - menstrual or menopausal problems.]
5.
Yoga:
[Works well with therapeutic touch for - bronchitis - asthma varicose veins - high and low blood pressure - extreme fatigue and anxiety reactions.]
6.
Homework exercises:
[Therapeutic touch works well with imagery exercises for
- hysteria - depression - panic syndrome - and during
labor and delivery.]
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5.
So - attempt to detect the energy fields of all living things about you humans are good to work with - so are pets - and trees - especially
conifers and eucalyptus - or aloe vera plants.
Your garden and your home will provide you with a great deal of
experience in detecting energy fields - if you will make the effort.
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Centering:
[This is the entry point for the healing process - the state of
consciousness that centering produces is one of deep inner
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Assessment:
[Provides clues to the healees problems - these clues depend
upon who you - the healer - are.]
[Others may pick up different clues - to the same or different
conditions.]
[No one healers perceptions are necessarily more right than
those of any other.]
3.
Energy rebalancing:
[The aim of rebalancing is to support the energy system of the
healee - and to guide the healee in facilitating the healees own
energy flow and revitalizing the healees own immune system the healee in fact heals her/himself.]
4.
Energy modulation:
[In the modulation process the healer is mainly dealing with the
healees energy system - it is a process of damping down - of
toning down - or of vitalizing or strengthening the energy system
- or of stimulating the flow within the energy system - or else a
new rhythm is established - or the pattern is changed in some
way.]
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5.
Energy unruffling:
[During this phase the healer is attempting to clear turbulences in
the healees energy field - this is a process of smoothing clearing and freeing the energy so that it can flow in a clean
unruffled motion.]
[The whorls and whirlpools and roughnesses in the field are due
to emotional stress - to ambivalence about decisions or actions to anxiety - or to fear.]
[If untreated these unevenesses in the energy field may become
psychosomatic generators of conditions such as hypertension.]
[This unruffling can be explicit - as the movement of energy out
of a congested neck - if it has become stagnant - and moving it
out via the spine and then down the long bones - and out of the
foot chakras - or laterally into the periphery of the energy field
where it can dissipate.]
painful and require healing at some deep levels of the healers being.
When we go within we become aware that there are many levels to our
inward being - and these levels correspond to levels of consciousness.
HEALING - ONE-ON-ONE:
SIXTH SELF-EVALUATION THERAPEUTIC TOUCH
SCALE EXERCISE:
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Here we are now on a little platform - and it has a little shop on it and this shop - lets see now - it must be accommodated into the thick
outer layers and the bark of the tree - somehow - strange.
of winding stairs.
And we continue down the steps now - ten steps again - we count them
- ten - nine - eight - seven - six - down and down - five - four - three two - one - and here is another little platform - and another little shop.
And this shop is a small - a tiny - general store - with its battered old
counter and roll of paper - the string for tying up the packages - an
ancient till - complete with ornate designs in dull metal color - with
the handle askew.
And there are shelves stocked with containers of sugar and spices cinnamon and vanillas and lemon pie fillings - and wooden containers
with raisins and dried plums - and apple-boxes - bags - jute bags rough to the touch - and with the smells of the rough fibres - and
flour - and one or two with some quaint colored designs on them - and
knapsacks also of leather and jute.
And we may take from this shop what we think that we might need on
our healing journey - we may take what we wish - it is free to us - we
make sure that we choose at least one knapsack - of a size and style
that we feel comfortable with - and strap it on our back now - and put
whatever food and other provisions that we feel that we may need on
the long journey ahead of us.
And we thank the attendant - and continue on our way - leave the shop
and continue down the steps now - ten steps again - we count them ten - nine - eight - seven -down and down - six - five - four - down and
down - three - two - one - and here is another little platform - and
another little shop.
And all of this is stored in our memory to be recalled very clearly
later whenever we wish to do so.
And this time we are in an old curiosity shop - a most extraordinary
variety of items from long ago - mugs and patchwork quilts - and
fireplace cooking pots - and pails - and fireplace tools - old kitchen
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utensils of every kind - and there is a wonderful smell of old things the smells that carry the memories of bygone days.
Some of the items may bring a tear of recognition to our eyes - may
remind us of someone or something long ago - or there may be great
happines stored within some of the items - and we feel a wonderful
sense of re-connecting with things in our past - or becoming one with
this past once again.
Here and there an item may remind us of something painful from the
past - something that needs to be accepted and forgiven - and - we
lovingly accept and forgive - it is in the past - it is only a memory now
- and it can be let go so that we can be free.
We take what we need here also - again it is free - it may be something
to remind us of bygone days and lifetimes - something that we handled
and knew long ago but had forgotten about in the world that is so far
above us now.
We will put what we will take with us from this shop and place it
carefully into the knapsack that we carry on our backs - and then - we
thank the attendant and leave this shop.
We continue down the steps now - ten steps again - count them - ten nine - eight - seven - down and down - six - five - four - three - down
and down - two - one - and here is another little platform - and
another little shop.
This shop is an old-fashioned apothecary - what might now be called
a drug-store.
In the window and on the shelves are masses of clear and colored
bottles filled with colored liquids - great bottles and small bottles - in
blue - amethyst - gold - bright red - orange - yellow - and there is the
fragrance of woodland herbs hanging in the air.
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And the bottles are stoppered with the most amazing variety of
stoppers - ornately shaped glass stoppers - and corks of many sizes
and shapes and textures.
We are free to take any bottle or package and open and sniff and taste
- it is all in our imagination - anything is possible here.
There are bottles of fragrant and sometimes pungent herb concotions
- elixers of many kinds - there are simple labels on the bottles that we
may read to find what each of the liquids is useful for and what it
heals or what condition it improves.
And there are packages also of dried herbs and leaves and roots of so
many kinds - and again there are simple labels to explain the use and
the dosage of each - and we may read them if we wish.
There are powders of many colors - and again the packages are
labeled.
But the intriguing thing about this apothecary shop is that we can
sense the purpose of each preparation - whether in liquid or dry or
powder form - and by just putting out our hands over the bottle or
package we can tell just what condition it will improve in our bodies
and minds.
We may take what we wish and try each and see what effect it has on
our sense of well-being.
And again - we may take freely whatever we think that we may need
on our journey - herbs to keep us in top health and feeling wonderful and vitamins - and elixers - they are here free for the taking - they are
all in our imagination.
We thank the attendant and leave this shop - now.
And we will remember everything with great clarity for later when we
wish to recall what we have seen and heard and felt.
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We continue down the steps now - ten steps again - count them - ten nine - eight - down and down - seven - six - five - down and down four - three - two - one - and here is another little platform - and
another little shop.
And this shop is a barber-shop - the old-fashioned kind - and we can
see the candy-stripe sign out front - and through the window we can
see the barbers tools - his combs and his shears - and the oldfashioned hand clippers - also the leather strop and the razors shining and twinkling in the light - and the quaint barbers chair - the
old mirror and the hair brushes.
There is the smell of pomades in the air - and shaving creams and we
can see the bottles and vials of hair oils and the shaving mugs and the
shaving brushes - and we can smell them sweet in the air - the smell
mingling with the smell of the rough-hewn wood floor.
We may sit down in a quaint old barber chair - and the barber pumps
the chair for us to adjust the height.
We can get our hair cut here - and washed - and styled or permed whatever we need for our further journey to feel as good as we can
feel - and it is all free for us - we have simply to ask for what we want.
When we have our hair looking glossier and thicker and more
beautiful than it has ever looked before - we spend a moment just
admiring the wonderful effect of beautiful hair - and we raise our
hands and touch the hair and feel its body and it gloss.
Then we thank the attendant and continue our journey.
And we store it all in our memories - for very clear and complete
recall later.
We continue down the steps now - ten steps again - count them - ten
nine - down and down - eight - seven - down and down - six - five four - down and down and down - three - two - one - and here is
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nearer still we become aware that this effect is caused by the sunlight
as it plays over the spray of hundreds of fountains.
We walk in through the massive and ornate gates of the palace and
our eyes are unaccustomed to the interior light - for a moment it
seems almost dark inside.
And then our eyes adjust to the light - so different from the glittering
exterior of the palace - and we can see that this is an exquisite interior
- a museum - and the cool greenish light reveals - gallery after gallery
- corridor after corridor - hall after hall - all filled with unique and
priceless relics of the past.
Here are objects that we may have seen only in pictures - or perhaps
we have never seen anything like them before - some there are that
may remind us of patterns in sands on the seashore - and some may
remind us of concrete objects.
We are filled with awe at the care that such an exhibit must take to
gather and to keep intact - we marvel at the love for the past that it
must take to want to preserve so much history.
We befome aware that this is the storehouse of all the memories of all
the lifetimes that we have wandered on this earth and on other planes
- the beautiful experiences and the painful one - they are all preserved
here.
The silence is so complete that we can even feel it - and the lighting
seems to come from the luminescent walls themselves - for there are
no shadows here at all.
The proportions of the chamber that we enter now are vast beyond
our everyday experiences - and they are richly decorated with ornate
and rich tapestries.
- and they tell the stories of our many lives - in richest embroidery
and the most precious of materials.
And we may spend some time - now - gazing at the past - our past - as
we walk from tapestry to tapestry - some tapestries that are long and
tell the story of a long life - some rich - telling the story of rich and
rewarding lives - some rouch textured and with images that reflect
much pain and sorrow - but all - as we walk on and on - all showing a
progression to finer and finer materials and higher and higher ideals
as we progress through the millenia of our past lives.
There is much joy in this vista of our existence - of the eternal life that
flickers low at some points and then rises to true grandeur at others and yet - and yet ...... and yet .........
There are patterns of consistent growth in spiritual power and
understanding and acceptance and ...... love.
And there is something curiously restful here - a quietness so
profound - and it has a most soothing and peaceful effect on us soothing and comforting - altogether lovely.
As we breathe in gently and deeply - and out in a long breath - we find
a faint perfume in the air - perhaps an ancient and exotic incense.
There are large and luxurious chairs here - many of them - and we
can sink into any of them - and we do so now.
As we sit here for a moment we begin to feel a gentle drowsiness from somewhere there is coming a faint and mysterious music - the
perfume of incense is in the air - we allow ourselves to drift into a
gentle state - aware only of the quiet and the feeling of comfort peace - and safety.
We continue in this delicious state for a few moments - so it seems . . .
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We realize in this dreamy state that this is a place that we can go to or one like it - whenever we find that the work-day world about us is
pressing in on us too hard.
Here we can always find new strength to go on - we have come so far
- how much farther can it be? We have suffered and enjoyed and
loved so much already - how much more can there be to endure and
savor before we reach the end of our journey - before we fulfill our
destiny?
This is a place all our own - costs only a few minutes of our time - but
in these few minutes it knits the two halves of our brains into a unitary
state - so that we are more able to deal with the world and its stresses.
We feel mentally alert - we feel mentally and physically refreshed - we
feel mentally and physically invigorated.
We will remember all that we have seen and heard and felt here - it
will go with us from this day forward until that last day on which we
meet and fulfill our destiny - until that day and moment when the
plans for all our lifetimes have been fulfilled and completed.
Now we begin to feel ourselves beging to rise gently from where we
are sitting - up - up - up - lightly and smoothly - higher and higher feeling better and better - more and more alert - up and up and up as we move - at our own rate - and in our own time - and we find
ourselves sitting on our chairs - fully alert and feeling wonderful and
refreshed and rejuvenated - just as we started before the beginning of
this healing journey - and we are feeling wonderfully refreshed and
invigorated now - mentally clean and ready to continue with the work
of the day.
Group healing:
SIXTH SELF-EVALUATION THERAPEUTIC TOUCH
SCALE EXERCISE:
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Almost always.
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