Chinese Energetic Medicine by Grace

[serenac]

Hi Noises! Oh that's so sad (I think, my opinion only) about your illness.

Although I'm sure someone out there would be able to find "the silver lining" in the cloud of you having this disease. And I suppose the lesson you're supposed to learn from it, whatever that might be.

It's great that you're keeping in shape as much as you can and enjoying the amazing natural sights of Australia!

So for my entire life, walking has been getting progressively difficult and more painful for me. I haven't been able to run since I was about 15, I have a lot of trouble going down stairs, but I can bound UP stairs two at a time. Crazy, hey?

Actually that's actually not so crazy. It IS easier to climb up than down, going down needs you to support a lot more weight in your knees and legs than climbing up.

My legs get much, much worse in the cold (I've been reduced to crawling a few times, simply because my legs were too frozen up and were shaking too much to stand on.)

So which part of Australia do you live in? You're so lucky to be living in a country with tropical regions, you could also have the possibility of moving to tropical Australia.

It's true that lots of times when people are just born with something it's karmic. I'll be able to (if I ever get around to finishing it and get to be any good at it ) check into that for you when I finish the course, but in the meantime.......... Sigh! (I'm on lesson 4, wow! Keep my fingers crossed.........)

Well in the meantime, well that doesn't mean that both you and your brother would have the same karmic debt. Although that's always a possibility too! Who knows, maybe you and your brother did something together in a past life, and now you must pay the same karmic debt and you decided to do it together!

But in fact, well let's say there are 5 people with the same condition. They most likely have 5 different reasons to be suffering from the same condition. For example maybe Person 1 does have a karmic debt, Person 2 wanted to know what it felt like to live a life of disability, it was an experience he had never had before and he wanted to experience it, Person 3 maybe had been trying to learn a certain lesson for many lifetimes without success and maybe he figured he needed something extreme to get that lesson into his head, like a disability or something, etc. Well you get the idea.

Since we choose our family and we have to choose a family with the right genes, well, I guess you and your brother found that your family had the right genes for you both this time round!

Anyways if it IS karmic (and we have no idea at all if it is) and you've already paid off your debt living with the disease until now, I suppose the possibility always exists that maybe one day you can be healed! Not to bring up false hopes, we have no idea about the real reason behind you being born with this.

A documentary came out a while back about a town in Bosnia which is like Lourdes, people go there and get faith healing. Just as happens at Lourdes some people get cured and some don't, and no one knows why some people are chosen and others aren't. I suspect maybe it might have something to do with the people who get healed having already paid off their karmic debts or learned the lessons they were supposed to learn, and therefore no longer needed the condition in their lives.

Oh venting is so great! Vent all you want, Noises! Sometimes I want to scream, not just vent!

Yup, we've all got stuff that sucks in our lives to scream about.

Well keep going anyways, Noises. Not much else we can do in life, I think. (Okay so that's not very encouraging, maybe...........)

[noises]

I moved to the tropics about 14 years ago, because the warmer climate is much better for my legs and I've noticed the yearly "progression" of the disease or "deterioration" of my mobility, depending on which way you look at it, seems to have slowed down a great deal, compared to how quickly it was changing with each winter down south in the cold.

[noises]

Back is feeling great, still a minor twinge and some nagging pain there but 95% better is a lot to be thankful for, as anyone who's had back pain will attest

[Ayurved]

Hi Noises!
I haven't been here for a while...but I wanted to pop in and send you heart felt well wishes and healing energy. I'm glad your back is better...I ripped something once...and know how crazy painful back injuries can be. I'm glad you are getting the great blessings of Grace, and Serenac.

On another area of forum, Kevin talks about how he has been getting fantastic insights and spiritual growth during a most difficult time after his accident...I hope you are finding your 'gems' amongst the rubble...gifts we can scratch out of even the worst situation. For me, these last few years have been extremely difficult...amougnst it all, effects of mercury poisoning including temporary blindness and now autoimmune wackiness....but I've also found the greatest blessings and help...including here, my amazing advanced teacher....and my practice is starting to go places I never dreamed possible.

If there's anything I can help you with via Ayurveda...just PM me...and I'd be happy to talk to you. Also, I don't know if you know anyone who does jyotish astrology...but that can answer a lot of karmic questions.

Serenac...good luck with finishing your course work!!!

Love and Blessings,
Nancy

[Grasshoppa Sarah]

Greetings

Hello, everyone!
Hi, Grace!

Making my presence known. I just signed up. Let this be the first of many replies!

I'm waiting for a new(ish) computer to come into my life so I'll only be checking whenever I can.

Love and Light!

[Grasshoppa Sarah]

Romantic Relationships

I recently learned how to do CEM corrections. Sometimes I get so stuck in my mind that it helps to write in my journal so as to get all the jibber-jabber out. It's the start of the journey where I examine it, where it comes from and why it's there with the goal of finding what I call "a gold nugget"-the true issue which needs correcting. However, knowing that the subject of Romantic Relationships is one which affects many others, I decided to post on the forum so that others could receive corrections and relief as well.

It's probably one of the most puzzling subjects which has been weighing me down during the past...week...decade...eons, maybe? and I would absolutely love to be free from it and completely neutral to everything which comes up as a result.

At this time in my life, I'm placing more value and importance on my independence (spiritual, karmic, financial, you name it!). Behaviors and thoughts which I begrudgingly accepted from myself in the past have no place in my life now for I am looking to a way in which I can be a more responsible "woman in my power", as I like to term it.

Noticing that I have placed so much emphasis in the past (and currently) on finding my soul mate; being in a secure, healthy, and joyful relationship with him and having amazing children forces me to identify with the emotion of never having those things in my life which arouses downright agony.

Furthermore, I'm questioning the need for any of it at all; including physical and emotional intimacy which I particularly enjoy. And here's where more duality comes in: part of me thinks none of it matters and part of me still wants it very much.

So what to do? I face it and I draw a blank.
I know what I want but I think I shouldn't want it.

[ImBill]

So what to do? I face it and I draw a blank.
I know what I want but I think I shouldn't want it.

I think the trick is to know what you want but remain unattached emotionally from the getting (at least in a negative way, like anger, frustration, sadness, that what you want hasn't arrived yet). No harm in being joyful about the prospect of receiving what you want. Be grateful that what you want is on its way, do the things you feel in your heart may help the process, and let it happen. After all, you ARE the powerful creator woman!

Oops, I forgot to address part of your post. You are never forced into identifying with a feeling or emotion. You are making a choice to do that. You can only be in emotional agony because you chose to be in it. It may help to try to get to a place where you can realize that everything is perfect just the way it is and that you can choose to be happy no matter your circumstances.

[Grasshoppa Sarah]

Thank you for your response, Bill.

One of the places I was getting stuck is that my rational mind was saying "that's ridiculous! of course I'll have that family life I want" but my emotional side was still very connected to it never happening. I was able to correct myself to the "agony" I mentioned earlier and therefore not identify with it. I do feel differently about the issue now. When I look into the future, not only can I not see it not happening, I am completely neutral to it-whether it happens or not. I am also neutral to the person which may or may not be my partner.

Emotions are integral to our lives. They exist to give us messages and to guide us. It is when we identify with the emotion that we are able to identify the need for a correction. CEM says to "follow the weakness" and it will lead us to the correction. My identification with "agony" for example was an indication that a correction (or several) had to be made.
To me, it's not a matter of choice. I can choose to wear a red blouse or a green one. I do not choose to be sad about a specific issue. I simply feel the emotion, acknowledge and identify with it, get to the root of it and correct the energy which lead me to identify with it in the first place. Then, when I try to identify with it again, I am unable to because the issue has been resolved and will not resurge. It sounds complicated but it really is very simple.

As humans we are in the habit of suppressing our emotions, however, suppression does not lead to freedom from the emotion. Just because one can't see the termites or one turns a blind eye to them (suppression) doesn't keep them from eating one's house away. Acknowledging the termites and doing something about them ensures that the integrity of one's home is intact.

Here's another angle: lets say that you inherited a house with termites from your ancestors. Is it your fault that the house has termites? Did you do something wrong to deserve the termites? Are you choosing for this house to have termites? Of course not! Notwithstanding, the termites still have to be dealt with. Sometimes we need to correct issues that are left over from our ancestors. I would not say that I was choosing to feel certain ailments when in reality it was my ancestors who needed the corrections. Our ancestors nag us into correcting things for them. Once those things were cleared, I no longer suffered from the ailment; and now not only am I free but they are too.

No harm in being joyful about the prospect of receiving what you want.

I humbly disagree, for being happy with something also indicates being tied to it. If my happiness is tied to something that means that its loss will cause me grief. Therefore, I need to be neutral to it. Neutrality in and of itself will lead me to contentment.

You are completely right though, everything is perfect just the way it is.

Thanks again...Oh! And extra thanks for emphasizing gratitude!!!

[ImBill]

Thank you for your response, Bill.

Thank you for yours!

One of the places I was getting stuck is that my rational mind was saying "that's ridiculous! of course I'll have that family life I want" but my emotional side was still very connected to it never happening. I was able to correct myself to the "agony" I mentioned earlier and therefore not identify with it. I do feel differently about the issue now. When I look into the future, not only can I not see it not happening, I am completely neutral to it-whether it happens or not. I am also neutral to the person which may or may not be my partner.

That's great! I'm very happy for you that you were able to work your way through it.

Emotions are integral to our lives. They exist to give us messages and to guide us. It is when we identify with the emotion that we are able to identify the need for a correction. CEM says to "follow the weakness" and it will lead us to the correction. My identification with "agony" for example was an indication that a correction (or several) had to be made.
To me, it's not a matter of choice. I can choose to wear a red blouse or a green one. I do not choose to be sad about a specific issue. I simply feel the emotion, acknowledge and identify with it, get to the root of it and correct the energy which lead me to identify with it in the first place. Then, when I try to identify with it again, I am unable to because the issue has been resolved and will not resurge. It sounds complicated but it really is very simple.

I understand what you are describing here. However, I still think choice is involved to some extent. Sure, we all have triggers that cause us to react emotionally. However, you made a choice to deal with the source of your reaction in the situation you describe above. You could have chosen instead to be angry, depressed, or agonized. A lot of people choose to live in a given emotional state for long periods of time, rather than get to the root of what is causing the emotion. At some point, you must have made the decision that you can't be happy without a loving, stable, relationship that brings wonderful children to you in order for it to cause you agony. At any given moment, you choose to dwell on thoughts surrounding this desire and your perceived inability to bring it to fruition or you wouldn't be brought to a state of agony. I get angry sometimes at the actions of other drivers, for example. When I am in that angry state, I can choose to keep dwelling on thoughts that keep me in an angry state, or I can let it go and think about something else. Later, I can recall that angry feeling by thinking about what happened or describing it to someone else or I can choose to look at why I am getting angry about a situation over which I have no control or I can choose to put it out of my mind until I am ready to deal with it or I can ignore it until it happens again. I could also choose to be grateful/happy that I am being given a chance to identify and fix a problem. I think the worst thing that I can do is remain in an angry state for a long period of time as I see others do quite often.

As humans we are in the habit of suppressing our emotions, however, suppression does not lead to freedom from the emotion. Just because one can't see the termites or one turns a blind eye to them (suppression) doesn't keep them from eating one's house away. Acknowledging the termites and doing something about them ensures that the integrity of one's home is intact.

Agreed. However, termites are not an emotion or emotional state. Does getting emotionally involved do anything to get rid of the termites? Does it fix any of the problems they might have caused? Action does, anger/sadness/apathy does not.

Here's another angle: lets say that you inherited a house with termites from your ancestors. Is it your fault that the house has termites? Did you do something wrong to deserve the termites? Are you choosing for this house to have termites? Of course not! Notwithstanding, the termites still have to be dealt with. Sometimes we need to correct issues that are left over from our ancestors. I would not say that I was choosing to feel certain ailments when in reality it was my ancestors who needed the corrections. Our ancestors nag us into correcting things for them. Once those things were cleared, I no longer suffered from the ailment; and now not only am I free but they are too.

To me, this is apples and oranges. I don't think your ancestors left you to deal with the situation you described that was causing you agony.



I humbly disagree, for being happy with something also indicates being tied to it. If my happiness is tied to something that means that its loss will cause me grief. Therefore, I need to be neutral to it. Neutrality in and of itself will lead me to contentment.

Okay, now this is exactly what I'm talking about when I refer to choice. I can be happy and joyful all day long if I choose to (which is my personal preference). I like fast cars that handle well. When I have one, I am happy that I have it. However, I realize that everything is always changing and that there will be times in my life when I don't have the kind of car I would prefer. I choose not to be negatively affected by the loss of my preference. Maybe that's what I should have said, downgrade your needs and desires into preferences. That way, your emotional stability isn't upset when a preference is absent from your life.

You are completely right though, everything is perfect just the way it is.

Thanks again...Oh! And extra thanks for emphasizing gratitude!!!

As I've already indicated in another thread here, I've allowed myself to be emotionally dragged over the coals by past relationships. Eventually I came to the realization that every relationship that I will ever have in my life here will come to an end at some point and every relationship will change. Some will get better and some will deteriorate. There's nothing I can do about it. I can change how I look at it and how I react when that end inevitably arrives. I can also choose to enjoy each moment I'm given where everything is as I would have it and also choose to enjoy those times when everything is not the way I would have it.

Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to express myself and refine my thoughts around this subject. I sincerely wish you all that you desire!

[ImBill]

I was just thinking about my current relationship with my wife. We've been married for 27 years. When we first started out, I realized immediately that she wasn't someone I would choose to live the rest of my life with (wed). However, she became very strongly attached right away, and though I tried to shake her every way I could think of, it just didn't work. We had gotten married entirely because I was trying to work out a custody agreement with my son's mother and my attorney rightly pointed out that it would go better if I was married. I told her up front that was the reason for me and that I didn't love her enough want to marry her. She was fine with it. Eventually, I couldn't take the pain that I was causing her nor could I ignore the commitment I made, no matter the circumstances. We worked it out and I've been happily married for many years now. I still think I could be happier with someone else, but I'm not going to choose to dwell on that. I'm choosing to enjoy what I have and be grateful for it. We still have issues that neither one of us works on very hard, but when they surface, we wrangle for a few minutes, then return to our peaceful way of getting along with each other. She constantly does things that can irritate the crap out of me, but I don't let it. I curse under my breath and move on. It's not worth losing my emotional stability over. It's not worth upsetting her over. It really doesn't matter unless I CHOOSE to make it matter to me.

Are there still termites eating away at my house? I don't know for sure, but there probably are. I do know that I ain't gonna waste my time and energy worrying about it and I know that I'll find a way to deal with it if the house ever falls down and still maintain my serenity over the long haul.

[yari]

Hello Friend!!

Hello Grace,

Merry Christmas and to all who are reading this also. Grace Today I feel in a new space..thinking and seeing things differently.. I talk to myself and questions me if what I'm thinking has any truth. I been seeking more of the kingdom inside. I notice everything is inside of me. I am perfect but there are things I can do better. Ive let go of alot of things that were holding me back and still got more to do. I feel the need to practice being non attached to people and things for my own survival. I been allowing myself to get hurt and stress and I dont know if it was a need to have it my way or to prove love or to confirm I am valuable. My thing now is to already have feelings of complete transparency without judging. To love and to forgive. Through letting go of all regrets and hurt, will lead me the way of love and light. In love and light is where everything turn to my favor. Grace I ask for corrections for anxiety,headache pains and on my neck. This is my ego way to distract me and wanting to try prove things differently. Also directions in not to pay no mind of people's criticisms or any negativity around me. I am right now creating a new reality but it is new ground for me I hope you can assist me in seeing things clearly and keep in mind only what's true. Thank You so much for all the work you've done in me and on my children.. Hope you have a Fabulous New Year!!

Thank you Again!
Yari

[Grace]

Happy New Year!

It was not my conscious intention to be silent on this forum in the months of September and October, but in November and December of 2010, I realized that I needed to be very still in mind. I was undergoing a metamorphosis of an exceptional kind for me. My current reality was being completely broken down, so that my new life could emerge.

I needed to be still in mind, so that I could fully recognize the process of true illumination in raising one's consciousness. My conscious mind, now for the first time, truly understood the peace and joy of letting go of attachments and desires.

In order to be truly at peace and happy in this Dualistic World in which we live, we must always choose the truth above anything else. We must go within, and see the truth of who we really are.


"I envelope the universe by means of my mind; and by means of the universe, there is nothing that obstructs my mind. Riches and honor, good luck and calamity are elsewhere. When you seek after such things, you may obtain them or you may not - this is not something that is guaranteed. the Greatest Happiness is within yourself. If you seek your mind wholeheartedly, you will obtain it for sure. Simply do not seek after illusion." ~ Issai Chozanshi ( quote taken from a Samurai Classic written in 1728)


For this New Year and in preparation for 2012 let go of your attachments and desires. Focus instead on doing what you love, and if you are unable in the moment to do what you love, then think about what you love while you gratefully do what needs to be done. What ever is "showing up" in your present moment (in your outer world) accept it with a grateful heart. Allow your own creations their expression, and let them be what they are in that moment, simply remember the truth. What you are thinking and feeling in the moment of Now, is what truth is, and will seek expression in your outer world at the perfect time.

Attaching yourself to any one outcome, person or thing, is a sure design for pain and suffering of all kinds. Make your plans and goals as you wish, but desire nothing. Allow your goals and plans to take shape in the outer world, observe them, experience them, and then let them go without attachment. The outer world is an illusion, because it is always changing, and will always change.

The Latin root word for Desire is "of the spirit". Meaning any desire we have will be brought forth by the vibration in which it was thought and felt with, which is the work of the sub-conscious mind-Soul, and includes the Law of Attraction. Vibration-Feeling is the Language of the Soul-Spirit-Subconscious mind. What you are vibrating at - "Being"- is what you will attract and this will be mirrored to you at some point in your outer world. If you desire an outcome, person or thing, and something even better shows up, you run the risk of not recognizing the greater result if your desire for that particular outcome, person or thing is too strong. It will end up weakening you in the long run.

Another way of explaining letting go of all Desires, is to understand the difference between "wanting", and accepting. Wanting is of the Ego mind (conscious mind) and you will always get what you ask for, in this case more "wanting." "Accepting" is recognizing that what is in front of you in your outer world is a result of your past thinking and feeling. Accept the experience as your own creation and let it go, it is merely illusion, whether it was good or not good.

Life is always in a constant state of motion. Energy is energy because it is in constant motion. Slow dense movement-vibration is Fear, and fine, fast, high vibration is Love. Yet it's all the same energy. The energy of Love when slowed down is fear. So choose with your Free will, what you wish to think and feel in every moment. Allow the light of Love and gratitude to illuminate your Being. Think and Feel high vibrational thoughts and feelings as often throughout your days as humanly possible for you. Think and Feel Love and Gratitude.

I make CEM corrections daily for this CEM thread, my Facebook CEM page, and now my new group of Karate students. I am very happy and grateful, for the love and support all of you give each other on this thread. I love reading the posts when they come to me via email. Especially when I see one helping another.

My current reality is very different from what I expected, and is also better than I could have ever imagined. I do practice what I preach, on a daily basis, and as I have said many times before, Life just keeps getting better and better. Life is truly absolutely Fabulous!

[Aaron]

@Grace

Happy New Years Grace!

Great to hear from you - sounds like you're in some serious flow!

[Grace]

Happy New Year!

Happy New Years Grace!

Great to hear from you - sounds like you're in some serious flow!

Thank you so much Aaron! I do enjoy the ebb and flow of Life, but you are right, I am in some serious flow.

[Grace]

For Yari

Hello Grace,

Merry Christmas and to all who are reading this also. Grace Today I feel in a new space..thinking and seeing things differently.. I talk to myself and questions me if what I'm thinking has any truth. I been seeking more of the kingdom inside. I notice everything is inside of me. I am perfect but there are things I can do better. Ive let go of alot of things that were holding me back and still got more to do. I feel the need to practice being non attached to people and things for my own survival. I been allowing myself to get hurt and stress and I dont know if it was a need to have it my way or to prove love or to confirm I am valuable. My thing now is to already have feelings of complete transparency without judging. To love and to forgive. Through letting go of all regrets and hurt, will lead me the way of love and light. In love and light is where everything turn to my favor. Grace I ask for corrections for anxiety,headache pains and on my neck. This is my ego way to distract me and wanting to try prove things differently. Also directions in not to pay no mind of people's criticisms or any negativity around me. I am right now creating a new reality but it is new ground for me I hope you can assist me in seeing things clearly and keep in mind only what's true. Thank You so much for all the work you've done in me and on my children.. Hope you have a Fabulous New Year!!

Thank you Again!
Yari

Hi Yari!

It was wonderful seeing you Sebastian, and the girls. Your children are so beautiful, just like their Mother! You asked me in the email if everything in the house was fine, I had to laugh because the next day I was looking for a little piece of a toy that belonged to little Sarah (Jen's daughter), and I found a piece of a quesedilla with little bites taken out of it by the Tv. I had to laugh. I haven't found random food around the house since Sophia was that age, (Sophia born in '99)! It brought back many memories of the joys and challenges of raising children.

A mother, especially with small children AND a teenager, like yourself, is constantly being pulled into the outer world. There is very little opportunity for repose. We are bonded, obligated, and in love with our children and so we forget who we are, because our focus is always on them, (the outer world).

Taking care of them, guiding them and loving them is right and just, and family is our first attempt, as human beings born into this Dualistic world, at Unity. At birth we intrinsically know the truth, that we are unified, but we forget this as we constantly are bombarded by the outer world, and the belief in separation.

Unity is Truth, there is no separation, we are of ONE Mind, and ONE Energy (body) (e-motion=Love) (energy in motion) and this Energy is Light which we call LOVE.

If it is challenging to make time for yourself to meditate and know the truth, then simply remember the truth. The outer world is an illusion. Nothing to fear. Whatever shows up in your outer world, will eventually pass. Look at it, Bless it, then let it go. This goes for everyone, and everything you love. Let the outer world BE as it shows up, and only gather more knowledge about it for your own understanding of who you are now, and what you were before, to have created that moment in time.

Practicing this Mental attitude is necessary daily, or you will suffer longer than necessary with all sorts of "not so good" issues. Remember nothing is good or bad, it's only a perception. Every experience benefits you, if you'll see it as a benefit. The most practical way to do this is to stay focused on gratitude. The vibration of gratitude is very fine and very high.

Mother's have a great challenge in creating tranquility, but the energy of the feminine, the Yin, which we all have within us, men as well as women, is infinite, infinite tranquility (stillness). The energy of the masculine, the Yang, is movement, infinite movement (vibration), which we all experience as energy. The two create the Outer world and our experience with it.

Harmony, the understanding of when to take action and when to be still is an art form, that everyone must master. It is simple to do so. The outer world is Action, the inner world is the truth still, powerful, and tranquil. When you are experiencing the outer world, simply remember you are your inner world. "Be still and know that I am God". "Be in this world, but not of it". See the action of the outer world as energy, YOUR energy, and remember in the same moment that you ARE your inner world of peace and tranquility.

You have come a long way Yari, and I am proud to have you as my friend and in my life. As you continue to raise your consciousness, the world will still be a world of action and movement of energy, but you will be more tranquil and more at peace this is infinite as well.