Re:question about eye movements

Sandra,

"Francine Shapiro incuded the Sufi light stream approach because is it universal, and transcends just about everything... Although the following prayers are not not part of the Institute training, I offer it.I figure they can't hurt. ..."

I say the following not as a reprimand, but just to say how things are with me, as that is a big piece of what I am working on right now, and I hope you will take what I say in that spirit -- that I am practicing that skill. Unfortunately, anything that mentions God, the Lord, Christ, etc., is a trauma trigger for me. I guess this just underlines how individually things have to be tailored for every client.

I'm glad you included the Navajo prayer. It reminds me of a round I learned some years back. I wish I could post the music, but ah, well, at least here are the words:

Now I walk in beauty,
Beauty is before me,
Beauty is behind me,
Above and below me.

It strikes me that this text may simply be a different version of the Navajo prayer.

I can remember how happy I was in the place and with the person I learned it from and the people I sang it with (although if I expand my memory of that person beyond that very specific time and place, I run into yet more triggers of a completely different nature...). Perhaps I should rewrite that song with the words "Life is a carnival" to go "Life is a minefield..."

Thanks once again.

Smiling ruefully,
J.W.

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Re:question about eye movements, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe PhD, 09/07/03 Re:question about eye movements, by , 09/07/03

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