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possibility that there are variations you never considered
learning about before. However, perhaps you have never
even thought of training in new, life expanding ways
because you permitted yourself to be temporarily stuck.
Imagine sheep exiting out of the pen in their
BAAAHHHH! BAAAHHH! type of way. Following
other sheep in a business-as-usual routine, is what we
humans often do, too. What if one sheep found a door in
an unexpected place and exited through that door and all
the other sheep behind it simply followed? Those sheep
would likely find themselves in new, unfamiliar and
possibly scary pastures that might even have a different
type grass upon which to feed. It might be a delicious
type of grass or it may be poison, but then again, perhaps
it is a type that the sheep find only different and tasting
strange to them, but it makes them stronger and healthier
than they have ever been before?
Humans with reasoning and methodology try new
things once in a while. Converting to new, foreign ways
might be a challenge to many people. The world is made
of people who are a walking-talking hologram of
unlimited life stuffed into the individual, familiar bodies
in which they grew up, while unquestioned, older
concepts shaped them. Now, if it is your hope to evolve,
you can re-shape your concepts with minimal strictures
imposed by habit and comfort. As an example, I
personally continue simply playing with the extremely
challenging concepts including developing my most
positive virtues, given by my teacher over thirty years, to
me and my peers who are students and teachers.
Becoming a better human being; not necessarily a
magical being, is really all that I care to aspire toward!
Kundalini, in my opinion as it has been taught to me can
open you to confront seemingly new pathways to heal
yourself from being stuck in states that you call illness.
Be it physical, emotional, mental, spiritual or energetic,
there are ways to get back on track toward health that you
are in charge of from the inside out! The Ancients called
this Alchemy. Many formulas are guidelines for each of
us to learn carefully with a teacher. When it morphs into
something after years of training so that you now trust
that which was seemingly impossible; can you now take
it as proof that you allow receiving? Consider finding a
teacher and go really, truly slow and easy. Trust that you
will learn what you need to know. Maybe you will learn a
lot or a little or won't even learn that much in this
lifetime. Some don't believe we have more than one life
time... But, what if? What if?
* Kundalini energy is simply defined as a procreative force
that can be channeled and trained in your body. Many use it
for self-healing. All over the world, there are many systems
that have evolved which engage you in transformative
exercises, quite notably in India and China.
Raven Cohan is a Senior Universal Healing Tao
Instructor of Mantak Chia's system and long time
performer since childhood. Mantak Chia certified her in
'83 after starting in his first class of non-Asians in N.Y.C.
in '81. Raven was reading about meditative ways since
she was 15 and began to practice at 19. She loves to
teach alchemical formulas that she believes we can
benefit from when we are neither too rigid nor too loose.
Visit her beach classes on beautiful N. Hollywood Beach
between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. See her web site:
www.taoTLC.com
December, 2011 Yang-Sheng (Nurturing Life) 67