A Philosophy of Inner Healing Traditions
Finding Grace and Ease in a Wise Practice
I am the wilderness before the dawn
dao de jing
There is a cosmological constant-relationship between the heart and the Mind (xin and shen)
When I began studying Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2007 in Berkeley I began a journey of rediscovery. I stepped out of Western mindset in health and into ancient wisdom for healing guided by natural and cosmologic law.
My brother Ed and I started our Chinese medicine education at the same time at different schools. We worked together in San Francisco at the Opera Plaza clinic and from time to time we pulled our box of herb samples and ran the memory drill. The points and their meridians: The four gates, Ma Dan Yang Heavenly points and the eight extraordinary channels. The Ghosts and Spirit points. Qi from from the Jing well at the tips of our fingers and toes to the deep and vast He Sea points up our limbs. The Yellow emperor’s tome…..and the watercourse ways in our body where qi moves like a passenger in a boat from village to village to give its offerings to the community of cells for health and vitality. The surface of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
It is natural order and our frank relationship to nature. It changed my life and that seed continues to cobble together a Way of walking in and sensing the world for health and healing. Love really, if we were to use just one word.
It is Love.
If we are whole then there can be no other.
When Our Heart and our head speak in unison we find ourselves in a state of mental-emotional, physical and spiritual wellness.
Our emotional state is at the root of all dis-ease. tcm
Rockefeller Medicine
Current Western Medicine was rooted in the underpinnings of Dale Carnegie and John D Rockefeller. The Carnegie Foundation collaborated with Abraham Flexner1 2who visited 155 “natural” hospitals in the nation and wrote a report advocating for Science based education and outcomes ( the origin of Evidenced Based Medicine research) and with the mite of Washington D.C., paved the way to what was called “Rockefeller Medicine.” This was based on his petrochemical/oil derived pharmaceuticals and eventual development of our western based hospital system today. Medical education and organizations were developed to push out these products that we now know as Patented synthetic biopharmaceuticals. It holds the monopoly on the Sick Care Industry today.
Western Medicine tried to rid the world of natural health and healing, by de-certifying Osteopathic and Chiroporactic schools. They eliminated eclectic/naturopathic/homeopathic hospitals accreditation. From this horrible ruin of banishing Gods resources they themselves felt it necessary to be God themselves.
They created the Antidote to Health and Wellness.
Learning to Let Go
I found myself at a crossroads in health and healing. Before I entered into TCM, I was fully ensconced in Western Idealism around health. In my profession we never used the word Healer to describe ourselves. I realized how ineffective I was at being a conduit for healing. I was one drop in the sea of their being and there I began to see many contradictions in Health Care as we know it today.
So many un-doings occurred during this time. It was liberating to begin to lose my intolerance and indignation for other disciplines as quack medicine.
I became a funnel once again. Gathering knowledge and wisdom from traditional practices and sit ins with experts in healing realms around the world and witnessed for myself miracle cures by touch, needles, teas, hearted guidance and deep unconditional connection.
They say we are lost until we are found.
Roshi D.T.Suzuki says:
“The ego shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.”
I was more willing, more gentle, and patient. My eyes and ears were open and my mind was cleared of the debris of judgement to become more learned.
I only survived in Western based rehabilitation care in a hospital setting only because I was allowed to work outside my scope of practice as an Integrative Physio.
I was told, “When your treatment room door closes that is between you and your patient. We don’t need to know what you do, just that you are making gains” I continued to apply myself to traditional practices and quantum healing.
It was a blessing and each door that opened brought forth a new understanding.
Healing practices forged a new understanding about how I judged and where my own judgements are rooted. Traditional practices look at the totality and cosmic relationships and constellatory x factor for understanding. Traditional practices teach listening skills acutely.
In my first year of orthopedics in PT School my Mentor Marty Jewell would say:
“ See with your hands, feel with your eyes.”
Befitting for healing and healers.
Suffering to wisdom healing
Genuine Healers, Elders, Medicine Men/Women, Shamans, Brujas go through levels of suffering like a temporary disruptive disease. Their own experiencing and rebound to health is the pathway into wisdom that is in part imparted to the sufferer on their table. They hear and see and feel the message of health and wholeness and with each encounter understand greater meaning in the suffered state and how to navigate out of the painful moors and locks of life.
Healers find a deep and inner calm, a well of Peace built on the presence of the Heart and its connection to Divine Source.
“Be a light unto yourself.” j. krishnamurti
A Secret
The secret is first and foremost gifting Love back to yourself and feeling the totality of the Love you were born with and into. Loving yourself whole and without resistance.
This is the gift we give to those who would sit on our tables and ask for help for they are just a fractal, a reflection of ourselves and the work at our feet to be whole once again.
It is natural order.
The cosmological consciousness conspires for unison and return to oneness. This is a universal law of attraction and in it is a healthy state of being.
Happiness found and we meet and embrace life not fight life.
Turn your hearted selves into the wind and create a channel without current so that your patients may float in a moment of reverential quietude and stillness.
Healing needs stillness.
Healing needs quiet.
Healing needs Love.
Healing needs time to transform.
Where will you begin?
Qu’est -ce que L’amour dit aujourd’hui?
What would Love say today?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report
https://truthinplainsight.com/the-rockefellers-the-flexner-report-the-ama-and-their-effect-on-alternative-nutritional-botanical-medicine/