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“Sitting quietly, without desire or fear, beyond the sense of time, is vast, boundless being, not belonging to you or me.  It is free and unattached, shedding light on conditioned being, beholding it, and yet not meddling with it…. It is not what is seen that matters, but that there is seeing, revealing what is as it is, in the light of wisdom and compassion too marvelous to comprehend
[1] Packer, T. (2004). The Wonder of Presence. Boston: Shambhala, p. 131




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interview of david morehouse


The BFG  by roald dahl
Love is Forever  maria popova

fromDoc T "Lost Secrets of Reading The Body WITHOUT Being Psychic!"

Short-cuts to finding the area of depleted or overcharged energies.

More history and original founders, on Muscle-Testing. Enjoy! JML

What Are Indicator Muscles?

Indicator muscles are skeletal muscles that are used during a manual muscle test to indicate disturbance in the flow of Chi. The technique of manual muscle testing has been practised since the turn of the 20th century.

The first description of this method was published in 1916 by Lovett and Martin, who worked with children suffering cerebralpalsy.

http://www2.ma.psu.edu/~pt/384lec3.htm

In 1949 Kendall and Kendall published the first book about the principles of manual muscle testing.

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0071474013/student_view0/chapter8/manuaul_muscle_testing.html

Here they documented muscle testing positions of functional significance for isolating weaknesses in specific muscles.

Today, many health practitioners in the fields of muscular skeletal medicine use manual muscle tests in their clinical assessment.

A distinction is made between isotonic and isometric tests conveying whether a muscle action elicited a joint movement (isotonic) or not (isometric).

In the 1960s George Goodhardt, a Chiropractor from the US, observed that
during an isometric manual muscle test a muscle would sometimes test weak, and in a subsequent test would regain its normal strength.

This transient loss of isometric muscle strength was interpreted as a functional condition, that indicated a much more subtle aspect of the loss of neuromuscular integrity, than was detectable using the usual isometric and isotonic tests of muscle power.

Many of the initial chiropractors who first took interest in Goodheart’s discovery, contributed to the research into indicator muscles in the last forty years.

John Thie DC, is remembered for having brought the discovery to a wider audience. In 1973 he published the ‘ Touch For Health Manual’ which remains a bestseller in its 31st year of publication.

David Walther DC published the first “Synopsis of Applied Kinesiology”, in
which he assembled the teaching notes of the chiropractors trained by G. Goodheart, and organized them into a syllabus.

John Diamond MD, Gordon Stokes & Daniel Whiteside researched how indicator muscles can be used to restore emotional health.

Stokes & Whiteside, Gail & Paul Dennison, and Carl Ferreri pioneered the
kinesiological treatment of dyslexia and learning difficulties.

The use of “finger modes” was introduced by the late Alan Beardall DC. In recent years Bruce Dewe MD and his wife Joan have compiled the most comprehensive database of kinesiology techniques under the finger mode system.

Subsequently, the isometric manual tests became known as “indicator muscle tests” because the transient weakness indicated some instability in other body systems.

The transient loss of neuromuscular integrity itself was referred to as “indicator muscle change”, because a stressful stimulus could make a prior
strong muscle change to a weak response."

"...Dr. Beardall discovered a method to develop a dialogue with the patient’s
subconscious. It allowed the body to unwind the adaptive patterns to disclose the causal factors needing treatment.

This method also reveals which techniques and protocols to use in which
order, what supportive therapies from other parts of the Triad of Health
were needed, when the various treatments were completed correctly, and when the session was complete.

This discovery was quite serendipitous. During a treatment session, Beardall had found a weak muscle and turned around to document his finding. When he retested for confirmation the muscle was strong without
any intervention.

While attempting to resolve how this could have happened, Beardall noticed that the patient had several fingers touching. Retesting with the hand opened resulted in the original weak muscle.

Fingers touching equaled strong muscle; hand open equaled weak muscle.

This simple serendipitous discovery led to the development of hundreds of mudras or hand modes and protocols to clarify and evaluate the body’s problems and optimum solutions."

piriformis and yoga

http://www.dailybandha.com/2013/12/healing-with-yoga-piriformis-syndrome.html

George Vaillant is a Harvard research psychiatrist.   In his book Spiritual Evolution, Vaillant calls spirituality “an essential human striving.”  And he sites this striving in the universal experience of eight positive emotions—“compassion, forgiveness, love…hope …joy, faith, awe and gratitude”

Compassion.  Forgiveness,  Love.  Hope.  Joy.  Faith.  Awe.  Gratitude.

Vaillant claims that these positive emotions  “arise from our inborn mammalian capacity for unselfish parental love.”  That’s the “attachment theory” I was talking about earlier.  It’s a fancy way of saying how we bond to our ridiculously dependent offspring in order to keep them alive. We have evolved to love and care for one another, because if we did not, our babies would be eaten by predators.

Vaillant goes on to say that these positive emotions, “emanate from our feeling, limbic mammalian brain and thus are grounded in our evolutionary heritage.  All humans are hardwired for positive emotion, and these positive emotions are a common denominator of all major faiths and of all human beings.” 

It was George Vaillant’s definition of faith, finally, that satisfied the question at the center of my inquiry: How does trauma affect the spiritual self?

Vaillant writes:

Faith…involves basic trust that the world has meaning and that loving-kindness exists.  Such faith should be our human birthright.  An atheist may have faith.  The absence of faith is nihilism, not atheism, not disbelief in a lexical God.

Vaillant defines faith as meaning and connection. And this relates so closely to the experience of interpersonal violence that I got another of those scholarly buzzes.  Because what trauma does is interrupt a person’s fundamental ability to trust that the world is a safe, predictable, orderly place.  It interrupts an individual’s capacity for trust, and therefore, for connection.  

“Faith…involves basic trust that the world has meaning and that loving-kindness exists.  Such faith should be our human birthright.” By this definition, I think that grief calls faith into question as well.  How can the world make sense when the one we love is gone?  How can loving kindness exist when this, specific love, has been taken from us?  By this definition, any experience of despair that shakes our sense of order, that causes us to feel “radically separate” (Sinclair, 1993, cited in McBride & Armstrong, 1995, p. 8)   —any of our “worst things”—is essentially a spiritual experience.  Not just cognitive, not just clinical, not just emotional.  Spiritual.  Even for those of us who did not check “Yes” next to “believe in God?” on the study questionnaire.

And therefore, we cannot consider ourselves recovered from grief, from trauma, from despair, until these two pillars of faith—meaning and connection—are restored.  

***

There are times that I can feel the interdependent web of life shimmering all around me, when I am so humbled by gratitude for the opportunity to wear these body clothes (Oliver, 2006, p. 1) and walk in the presence of love and compassion, that my heart breaks with the joy of it.  

And there have been other times--rare, terrible times--when I have felt so shattered, so “radically separate,” that my heart has broken under the weight of that grief.  

In those times, faith reminds me that I find meaning in the balance between that which is knowable and that which is unknowable.  And faith reminds me of the existence of kindness, my witness and experience of loving kindness.

We don’t need to study brain science and evolution to see that love is how we endure and make sense of and finally survive our worst things. We each hold private gratitude for the love that blesses our lives.

Community is not just making each other meals and watching each other’s children and lending each other camping equipment.  It is also irritating and injuring one another—most often by accident, but sometimes on purpose.  And we may never be able to answer why.

But cruelty is, in fact, the minority experience.  Human beings are hardwired for connection.  And we are evolving towards more cooperation, more compassion, more love.  Science says so.

Grief breaks our hearts. But we grieve only because we relentlessly turn toward one another.  If our lives are marked by loss, it is because we love, we love, we love.

Community is not just making meals and watching each other’s children, but that is what is happening most of the time.  And in doing those small kindnesses, we weave a pattern of kindness in which we can have faith.

We become one another’s faith when we help each other.  Whether or not cities are burning. (Tippett, 2014) When we love each other, perfectly and imperfectly. 

 http://www.lmwsafe.com/30-hardwired-for-faith

The Messenger

Mary Oliver

My work is loving the world.

Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness.

Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?

Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work,

which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

The phoebe, the delphinium. The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture.

Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,

which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart

and these body-clothes, a mouth with which to give shouts of joy to the moth

and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam, telling them all,

over and over, how it is that we live forever.



http://www.onbeing.org/program/paul-elie--faith-fired-by-literature/transcript/6155

Untitled
by Willow Harth

This poem is not meant for you
unless you too have been underground
choking on your life's debris, and
playing peek-a-boo with death seriously

then the surprise of ten thousand buttercups
out of nowhere on every side where they'd
never been before on my daily walk
might have had the effect on you it did on me

because suddenly

I wanted to understand how these particular
flowers came to be—the whole evolutionary
history of mosses, ferns and angiosperms,
the miracle of photosynthesis and DNA, not

to mention the longings of the Milky Way
to reflect itself in the form called flowers and
in these buttercups, which seemed like a
visitation from the sun, urging me to tell you, in
case like me you had forgotten

we are the universe's latest way of blooming.

Anxiety lowering yoga, breath

Anxiety

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http://yogaforhealthyaging.blogspot.com/2014/07/friday-q-breath-practices-for-anxiety_18.html

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his song was composed by a local teacher and has been taught to hundreds of schoolchildren within firing range of Gaza's rockets to help them deal with the fear and trauma of having 15 seconds to run for cover when the Color Red siren sounds.

Shachar Bar, an art therapist who teaches in Sderot, became increasingly alarmed after seeing the thousands of children of the western Negev suffering the cumulative effects of trauma due to the ongoing barrage of Kassam rockets from Gazan Palestinians. Teachers reported the fear and panic being heightened each time the recorded alert “Color Red” sounded, giving students 15 second to run for cover.

“Children experienced real developmental regressions, some began bedwetting,” she said. “They were getting hysterical when the alarm sounded – some freezing in place, unable to seek cover. One day I felt like ‘now is the time’ and I took this song I'd made up to a kindergarten class.”

The song begins with the children mimicking the alarm system, chanting “tzeva adom, tzeva adom,” Hebrew for Color Red. (The original alarm was “shachar adom” (red dawn), but children named Shachar were reportedly being affected socially and the municipality changed it.)

“[By mimicking the alert system] we touch slightly upon this threatening thing in a playful way, while in a safe, protected place with people we trust,” she explains. “That is the introduction.”

The song continues, with children seeking cover as they sing:

Hurry, hurry, hurry, to a protected area
Hurry, Hurry because now it’s a bit dangerous

“Running to our safe areas or ducking under the table, depending on where we are, coincides with the song,” Bar explains. “There is a fact: it is dangerous outside and we must seek shelter.”

My heart is pounding, boom, ba-ba, boom, boom, boom
My body is shaking, doom, da-da doom, doom, doom

“I am giving validation and legitimization to my fear and my body’s reactions,” Bar explains. “It is OK that my heart is pounding, I am even singing about it. It is OK that my body is trembling – I am afraid. Along with the words ‘boom-boom’ and ‘doom-doom,’ the movements of arms crossed and pounding on our chest borrowing from the EMDR method of treating trauma and anxieties. The movements help to break out of it and dissolve the anxiety, improving the mood.”

But I am overcoming
Because I am a little bit different
…The impact…boom – now we can get up

“Again, we remain in the reality,” Bar says. “We hear the impact and we can get back on our feet and begin with the release.”

Our body we shake, shake shake
Our legs we loosen, loosen, loosen
Breathe deep, blow far
Breathe deep, now we can laugh

“We breathe deep and release - a yoga method, even a yoga laughter method when we release the laughter,” Bar says. “Laughter releases endorphins into our brain and into our entire system.”

The song concludes: It all passed and I’m glad it's over – Yes!!

Bar says the song has spread throughout Sderot and the area kibbutz and moshav schools as well. “The joy that the children display there with the release…Once they learned it they were asking to do it again and again. Suddenly they had a tool to deal with all this, that they could hold on to.”

“The words help you think logically and be a little less afraid,” fourth grader Yiska Yifrach of Kibbutz Sa’ad says.

Illana Madmoni, a second-grade teacher at the Kibbutz said that it used to break her heart to have nothing to say to comfort the children during the silence between the Color Red alarm and the impact. “There was fear in their eyes the moment the alarm went off. The void during that alarm, where everyone was silent and they were just hiding there helpless. Now they are not only less afraid, but the actions and movement empower them and they feel they have overcome the attack and are moving forward.”

This story, originally printed by IsraelNationalNews, is based on a short documentary filmed for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee by Yoav Shoam. For more information, email: yoav.shoam@gmail.com

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