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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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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