Is it voodoo?
Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 11:13PM Even though I've now put my hands on several thousand people, most of them when I was worked at Morrisotwn Memorial Hospital's Integrative Medicine program as a hands on healer and have seen "stuff" happen under my hands, I still have moments of doubt about my ability or anyone's ability to effect change in another person.
Perhaps I am not really doing much. It certainly doesn't look like I'm doing much as I sit or stand very still and am mostly silent as I work with a person. Maybe when I put my hands on a person I'm simply giving their system a jumpstart, a gentle prod, a quiet wake up call. It's said by many healers that the body's desire is to be in equilibrium.
In Jin Shin Jyutsu, the hands are jumper cables, much like a car's starter system, giving one's energetic system just enough of a boost to get itself working more smoothly. And we can do that for ourselves.
In the Reiki healing system, the energy the healer transmits to the other knows right where to go. How is that?
It's like magic, right? Or voodoo? But if it helps a person to feel better, does it matter if it's voodoo?
voodoo in Jin Shin Jyutsu, hands on healing, reiki
Reader Comments (6)
The moments of doubt, of (self)reflection described are like yellow traffic lights at the intersections, right? Doesn't it seem to be easy to pass them with the normal, or even increased speed, as the change from the green ones just happened? What are we missing to recognize them as potential teachers along our pathway?
Similar, frequently, more a garden is appreciated for its beauty, rather than the gardener whose work facilitates the quality of the former as well. You're right, our perception should accommodate both the joy regarding the blossom of the flowers, as well the loving care provided by the later. A process of growth opens here...
Wishing you both the results of your work as well your-work-as-such are well recognized and valued.
Lev
Responsible Party,
That is an interesting comparison.
If one would deliberately choose between running a yellow light or not, (since there is time to deliberate) one could also say lets also run red lights. As long as we don’t get caught it isn’t wrong.
But that ignores that getting caught might mean having an accident or hurting a pedestrian, and not just a simple ticket.
OK, now you are saying this comparison is stupid and is taking a minor item from the previous thread.
But no this is a perfect comparison.
Running a yellow light and/or a red light is done on a risk analysis approach, however faulty.
When a person dose not make enough time to travel to one’s destination, and leave enough time to savor and enjoy the journey; they begin making foolish trade offs.
They think, “I can trade 90 seconds waiting at the light and recover travel time and all I risk is an accident, a $90.00 ticket (plus points) and possible maiming a innocent person.”
This is not solid life choices.
Perhaps saying “I won’t read emails so I can leave earlier and arrive with enough time to sit a breath in the car at the end of the trip” is the true solution to the yellow light question. Because having extra travel time means your not in a rush and you get to make better life choices. Leaving a moment to see a new restaurant or store or other intresting to discover, rather that making a journey with no moments to ponder other paths.
By make time and space for one’s self to discover their path and journey, the destination reveals it’s self as the ever present moment (and not limited to end of the trip).
Thus it is the magic of the planting, nurturing, emerging, awaking, blooming, living, resting and decaying that makes the gardener’s prize roses and vegetables the achievement. Comparing that journey to the fleeting moment of a flowers perfection, which is immediately followed by it’s decline.
One must find the true perfection in the choices made while enduring the journey, enjoying the journey, savoring the path. Ability and skill are the result. Ability and skill are the path and not the destination. If ability and skill are compared to destination (such as the apex moment of a flower) the they represent the end of the journey, the end of the practice.
It is the questions one asks of ones self, that define their skill level. The practical application of their art define ability.
Chill.
So it is the Quality of the Question,
rather than the Content of the Answer?!
(How can I charge more?
How can I get more customers?
How can I maximize my work time?
Or
Am I doing enough?
Is my work quality?
Am I working too hard and depleting my clients and myself?)
Dear (late?) author with the alias “Responcible Party”,
I think the three understandings differ in some points. Kerry Kay’s entry by April 7th shows reflections both about what she is doing, and as important on how she is doing. Taking this into account my reply on “yellow traffic lights” meant to see these as an invite to slow down because they may teach something. And in addition---in the picture with the garden---not only to see the result we frequently concentrate on.
You are wrong with your statement “the comparison is stupid and … a minor item from the previous thread.” In addition, your comment shows an initial interpretation like “well, if there is a way to cross the intersection under yellow light, to do so under a red light might appear as possible, too”. No, this is not what I meant. No, your list of what might be the consequences is too short, too: do not forget besides others, you self may be hit and injured, too---not to forget the interference this has to the ones who care for you.
Eventually you recognize the extra moment of time taken for the whole journey is not just for the end of the trip (as you initially note), however starts to see the benefits this may have for the time on the pathway. Let me suggest to you one addition: to take a breath before starting the journey. Regarding the example of the garden and your conclusion, I agree with you “if ability and skill are compared to destination … then they represent the end of the journey.” (please note the “n” added by me, however)---who would like to stop the flux? Indeed the initial sentence, either question or exclamation, by your added comment on June 9th reads like this. Why should the question count and not the answer as well? Do you just pile up inhales? A rain drop nurtures the rose, reaches the creek and the open sea, to ascend again in a new cloud, ready to water the next---a cycle. Permeability between the states; not, however, divisional separation of what needs the other to allow the wholeness to exist. Not only accommodate the modality of “either particle, or wave”, however the one of duality (“light”), too.
Don’t you feel the set of final questions (June 9th), even if embraced by parentheses, misses kindness to yourself?
Lev
Lev
You are a more superior writer than I am. I have clearly lost the message because of the complex and uninteresting details.
While some questions have no answers, some questions validate deeper thinking.
For example an ego-based question would be "Where is food".
An id-based question might be "I wonder if the others are also hungry"
So there is a hierarchy of questions.
And this would be situationally based.
The paradigm of the ego and id questions changed by situations;
Compare
a) A hungry moment at work.
b) A hungry moment lost at sea.
In trying to make a simple suggestion (to validate KK’s question) decorated by ideas, I have destroyed the ability to communicate the idea.
Thank you for correcting my misbehavior, I will endeavor to keep my ideas to myself.
Dear Responciable Party
I agree with you, for the exchange here numerous details like if the ticket for running too speedy is $90 represent side tracks just hiding the view to "the" points.
It is more of importance to open for moments of awaken pauses and reflection in our daily life (including reflection about ourselves, our journey) like KK’s sketch.
To keep things in flux and growth, we need awakened pause and walk/transient states. We need recognizable borders that are permeable.
Is your first ego-based question incomplete? Instead of “Where is food”, was your aim to write “Where is food (just/solely) for me?” Does “id” stands for “identity”?
What if my actions include this aim: to seed and support growth of good around me, in the ego-based sense of “to trade well and fair for my environment may open up to be beneficial for me again”? Like a “what goes around, comes around”?
Ideas growth by communication---keeping them away from other minds refrain them, you and others to flourish. Therefore this invite: What would have been your initial comment on KK’s question, i.e. without my earlier lines? As you still have them, share it!
Lev
levgoldstein@yahoo.com
P.S.: The RSS subscription to KK’s blog does not work (yet) and caused this delay, however an email about this issue is on the way to her.