“Adano,” I asked, “Which is more important when you do therapy? The Midnight-Noon Law or the 5 Element Law?”
“Neither,” Swami Nitty-Gritty replied. “The trauma is most important.”
Years later, I experienced a severe allergic reaction in a Chinese restaurant in Tucson.
“Oh my God,” I whined. “Either I’m having a heart attack or I’m coming down with Chinese restaurant syndrome!”
“It’s all in your head,” Adano assured me, never missing a beatwhile raisinghis fork to his mouth.
A man medically diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease was brought to Adano’s “Karma Klinic”in Houston by his family.
When Adano was alone with him, he said, “You don’t have Alzheimer’s. There’s nothing wrong with you.”
“I know, but I love all the attention,” the man acknowledged.
Greg Whiteley, founder of Aquarian Life Research and Divine Spark Productions, told me, “Not only is it, ‘I think, therefore I am;’ it’s also, ‘I think, therefore everything else is.’ That’s quantum physics.”
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April 14, 2011 @ 1:54 am shellinspector
All great points, Atom! However, how does one go about ones traumas without expensive time consuming phsychoterapist/dianetics/regressional therapists? Say there is a poorly healing place in the body, and you know it has to do with some previous trauma – and impact recorded in ones etheric body, the memory of which is put under the carpet of our subconscious, for the sake of our own convenience, of course.
Color-yawning, massage, meditation, aren’t they only scratching the surface? If the traumas are so prevalent, there must be some purpose with them, the nature is not cruel without a purpose. Is it just karma, a way for you to learn? The ONLY way to learn?
April 14, 2011 @ 3:40 am atomb
Trauma integration is a process, usually a lengthy one, and — as Gurdjieff pointed out — the hardest thing in life to give up is our PAIN, not our joy.
We (me included) love our “stories.”
We’ll choose biography over biology every time.
It’s why spiritual teachers like Master Chen (Yun Xiang Tseng) of Wudang Mountain ask, “Why take you so long to come to my class? I cannot go out on the street and use handcuffs.”
April 15, 2011 @ 1:07 am hetzaad
@shellinspector
Atom mentions in his book on chronobiology the power of words. I feel that i myself have dealt with trauma to a unique degree because as a teenager i started taking every single word that came out of my mouth or came up in my mind seriously and literally.
I dare say, the more serious and literal you take the thoughts you have, the quicker you will counter whatever defeating things lurk there.
Probably most people never go there because of the insanity in so many regions of culture, on all levels, so they’d be willing to look at some harsh truths but then complain “But if i take all of that seriously and change all of my ideas, nothing will be left!”, but that is unfortunately the way of it. Society and therefore often our own lives are mired in madness.
Perhaps one’s traumas are a way to be forced to look ALL truths/lies in the face, or one might see it as the opportunity to do so.
Words are the key. They aren’t magical but instructional, whereas the culture promotes drama/trauma based on the idea that life is full of unanswerable mysteries. Your words, should you accept the challenge, will dissolve all drama and trauma. Accept them and deal with them as they come up naturally in the mind.
April 15, 2011 @ 6:53 pm atomb
Yes, words are powerful.
In the words of Swami Nitty-Gritty, “You’re ‘poor’ or ‘old’ are the 2 worst things you can say to yourself. The umbrella of love keeps off the rain of your words invented by your mouth. You know the rain of words invented by your mouth? ‘I can’t do this’ and ‘I’m not going to do that’ blah blah blah. You know the rain? It will give you verbal pneumonia.”