Re:Painting Lesson

Thanks for your most interesting repsonse Hephzibah. I have many other anecdotes and have begun writing them up as short stories. Scientists can't even get the weather right so I don't place a great deal of faith in that ideology. A local surgeon here said recently that 50% of what he learned as a student is now considered bad practice.

Some years ago a lady doctor who attended my Yoga Nidra classes asked if she could come & see me professionally.
In the Hypnosis session she told me that she had Chrohns Disease & explained how it had affected her life. She said that Western Medicine couldn't treat Crohns effectively.

She was a meditator & knew about trance states so I asked her to meditate & to raise her finger when she was 'there.' I made some suggestions to help her sink deeper into trance. Then I told her the first thing that came into my head, 'that real men breathe through their heels.' That she should focus on bringing the pain into a compact ball in her belly & breath it out through her feet. Breathing out through the feet is in the yogic & qigong literature.

I saw the lady doctor a couple of weeks later at the Yoga Nidra class & spoke to her briefly afterwards. She said, "I know what you told me now."

And she went on to explain that she went to Great Keppel Island for the weekend & she was walking along the beach & the sand was hot & she got terrible pains in her belly, worse than anything she could remember & she stood firmly in the hot sand & braced herself & the pain gathered in intensity & she took a huge breath & as she exhaled she felt the pain shoot through her legs into the sand & it felt like an powerful electric current & the pain was gone & the sea & the sky were very blue that day & that was it. The pain was gone & she can't talk about this down at the hospital.

I told her to close her eyes & look for the blue of sea & sky & when she nodded I said "any time you want to or need to you can remember that" & she smiled.

It was probably as you say, 'a symbolic defecation' what doctors of Chinese Medicine call 'wandering wind' that was gathered & discharged.

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