stretching

[Maria Bohle]

Tried it yesterday morning. So simple but felt the beneficial effects immediately.
Will keep it up.
I reduce a little activity in Karate, but can feel the after effects. This removed some pain and stiffness immediately and I had a very comfortable day.
Thank you Ellen.
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[Ellen Madono]

Anything that lets go of tension helps in any sphere.
I feel that our homeopathy interviewing is the same. We are primarily interested in helping the patient to let go of tension so they can talk with us. To do that, we need to let go of our own tensions. Physical tension is one form. I work on that through Aikido.
Homeopathy is yet another area for work. With the Japanese, I am in a situation where few people are getting useful information about homeopathy. So, I have decided to primarily be a kind of air cleaner. I take in the suffering, process it inside myself and blow out the feeling without all the tension that illness adds to emotion. The result is I am not talking about homeopathy, no really taking a case in the way I have been taught. Just taking in and cleaning off the tension and blowing out reflections of pure emotion. Give up case taking and all the tension that the way I believe I should be taking a case involves. When the patient is ready for homeopathy, I am hoping they will let me know. In other words, I am not a therapist in any form that I know, just an emotion processor/cleaner. My hope is, my understanding of case taking will change. If that never happens, I am still ok. Just an experiment.
Blessings
Ellen
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[Victoria Mashevsky]

Ellen, this is very well said! May the force be with you ; !

​Victoria ​




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[Ellen Madono]

Hi Victoria,

Taking in suffering and blowing out pure air is a Tibetan Buddhism meditation preparation practice called Tong Long. The idea is we experience the suffering of past lives and this life and use the breath of this life to purify that suffering. We can do this transformation process because we have experienced it before and recognize past experience. Doing it as preparation for meditation is one thing, but doing it as we talk with someone else is another situation.

Today I was practicing the stretching and I noticed that meditation practice loosening of tension is very different when you do it as part of movement (Tai chi, yoga whatever). But movement is closer to everyday life. Harder than being still for meditation if the object is to release tension. You become preoccupied with the movement and thus less aware of the tension than you would be if you were still. There is apparently, easier tension release because you fool yourself by skipping to the next moment of tension. So, you have to really slow down.
Talking with another person, you become preoccupied with communication and then less aware of the tension. You focus on the words and skip then tension that you are releasing. Again slowing down is important.
I always worry the other person is bored, etc., if I am too slow. If I am going deep, this should not be the case.
Blessings,
Ellen Madono



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