Healing Circle Stories
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The CFQ weekend was a life changing experience for me. For the past 20 years I've had neck and shoulder pains due to 3 car accidents as well as migraines. As I sat within the Healing Circle the pain vanished! Since then I haven't had any pain which is wonderful. It has completely disappeared! For me, this is truly amazing. Thank you for teaching me Qigong. I will use it for the rest of my life. YD, June/07
A Healing Experience: Bathing Beautifully in
the Joy of Being
By Monique on June/07
People ask me, "How did it feel,
your Healing?" Joy, was the spontaneous, unequivocal answer.
I felt that
energy through walls and closed doors. I returned home for
mundane chores and still, I felt it, that surprising energy, that joyful Oomph
swimming in my abdomen!
"So what do you want or expect I was asked?" I sat
there, un-wanting, aptly guided towards a bodily-aware, spirit-welcoming
state. I went into my body and ignored that foolish monkey: my mind. Soon,
beautiful energy emerged in my head, a dense part of my body that rarely feels,
and it moved on down slowly and gradually through my body. I didn’t feel too
hot nor cold, only relaxed and very comfortable. I did feel a few twinges of
slight pain: left ear, left thigh. That was all. The energy that I had been
feeling in my abdomen was still there but now it spread out on to my solar
plexus, my lungs, my heart and my chest, my neck and my head. My arms and legs
felt the lazy river that softly flowed and my toes and fingers tingled
sweetly.
I had entered a meditative state. My mind interrupted: "So, what
should we plan for supper? Wasn’t it great that the past days went so well?". It
twined it's way in. I gently shooed away that little ape back to it's mental
jungle. "Look! This present moment is too precious! Let me taste it!", I said
firmly. "Let me go back down to my body!" And taste it, I did! I enjoyed it,
relished in it, submerged in it, Our spirits blended, merged joyfully in perfect
unison. My body felt harmony and I dwelled in quiescent peace and
joy.
Bathing beautifully in the Joy of Being!
After-shocks!
For
the remainder of that day I was extremely joyful, not in an excited state of
euphoria but a feeling of serene inner glow. My backyard is full of trees as it
is apple-blossom time. Why is it that those trees look extremely lovely, that
the odor of their blossom is so exquisite? My new camera, as digitally perfected
as it is, can’t capture the exact feeling that I experience as I am enthralled
by their beauty. I just can’t find the technical tool that would reproduce on
paper or on a screen the wonder that I encounter, the poetry that I feel as I
simply observe their delicate composition, their colorful shades and the smell
of their enchanting perfume. I have always loved trees, love to look at them.
It is amazing that they are part of creation, just standing there in strong
quiet majesty. I love their splendor, their presence. I feel that they are
live beings. I understand people better, relate to them and instinctively feel
their joys and distress. I empathize more easily without entertaining the
compulsion to advise or solve issues. I simply cope with these, acknowledge
them without taking ownership. It brings me back to ponder my own life’s deeper
and most inner purpose. I know that I am heading towards it's definition and
clarification.No hurry! No rush for me! For now, I am tremendously enjoying
the journey! My life is serene, happy and equanimous! I meditate and the joy
returns, persists: swiftly and powerfully!
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Vipassana Meditation
If you let go a little, you will have a
little peace; if you let go a lot you have a lot of peace; if you let
go completely, you will have complete peace. -- Acharn Chah
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