Thai travel diary 12

One more week is gone and with it another lecture; I have an impressing collection of diplomas and soon I’ll have a real pile. Now I am a little bit experienced in a kind of special massage. the effects on the health, as I said, are remarkable.

A delicate experience and really hard to accept at the beginning was to serve as model for the practical demonstration during the class. I blushed as fire of course, but I finally had to climb on the table and to expose the sensitive areas to the audience – an extremely hard to bear experience for my own ego. But this is how people calm down their pride and learn to be more humble. it is true that all my colleagues had to do the same, both sexes being represented on the table.

Here I met a Russian instructor, Iuryi, who teaches different techniques in the Tao system. And as my passion for everything which is connected to the Russian space preserved as intense as some years ago, I started intensively speaking Russian with him and also took some Chi Kung and Tai Chi classes. Today I finish a Chi Kung technique, “The iron shirt”, which is quite difficult (my feet are shaking after the class) but very efficient. Tomorrow I start a Tai Chi lecture with him, in the system promoted by master Chia.
I forgot to tell you some things about another expert in Nuad, master Poo. I was given some massage by him as well, and except for the inherent catastrophic pains, I had no regret. Master Poo is able to diagnostic energetic problems after the structure of the fingers and toes, after the manner you raise your hands or move your feet. He can see the energetic lines in the body and identifies the areas where energy is blocked. He acts profoundly upon these areas, especially upon the fasces, linking tissues which often become rigid because of the blockings and do not allow energies to run freely. Moreover he moves back the muscles and the nerves (and even the bones) which changed their place. In my case he moved:

- a muscle with a complicate name from the right haunch;

- a nerve which was moving freely in the area of the cervical spine, as it was out of its place; he put this nerve back at its place with his finger, and especially with his nail.

- the cervical vertebrae 7 and 6 with a few millimeters; he did this only by working on muscles and tendons, with minimum direct interventions upon the spine

well, this is all for now, see you in a while …

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Thai travel diary 11

otherwise, everything is fine and interesting, a lot of work here, pain with every step, but the progress can be felt, both as practice and as improvement of my own physical and spiritual condition.

I’ve been here at Tao Garden for 2 weeks now, a beautiful place full of energy. I already studied 2 levels from the abdominal massage, Chi Nei Tsang, with Mantak Chia, the creator of the Universal Tao system. He is a special man and I think he had a great courage when he broke down the wall of the secret around the Taoist system, which had been transmitted until him from master to disciple, in small groups or individually. He made this information public for the occidental world and thus I had access to it. The two weeks confirmed to me what I already understood, that working around the abdominal area is special and the effects, both at the psychic and physical level, are often fascinating. You know our expression about the navel as “the hub of the universe”…; in this case the hub is considered the centre of the whole organism, from it radiate physical and energetic links towards all the parts of our body. Thus, by working in the umbilical area, effects are transmitted wherever necessary; moreover an impressing quantity of emotional stress accumulated in the abdominal area is released; I saw with my eyes people who started crying or laughing hysterically only after a few movements in that area …

a funny confession, but extremely serious – one of the most important things I learnt here is belching; it sounds rude and embarrassing, maybe, but it is very healthy. The practical explanation is that very often, our intestines are overpopulated with intestinal gas which cannot be eliminated; after massaging the abdomen, the respective movements manage to stimulate the gases which start moving throughout the intestines; after this, with some help from the masseur or even by yourself, you can eliminate them on the mouth or on the other end. the result? soft intestines, with plenty of space for the food and more suitable for digestion, less constipation, some signs on the body and on the face (acne, etc) disappear.

today I started a new class, Karsai Nei Tsang, massage of the sexual area; I think for some readers questions will be raised, but I will get back with details in the following diary…; and it is today also that I found out that the state of California, the richest American state, just officially legislated this type of massage, considering it useful for health and not only …

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More about ourselves

Author: Sorinel Balan

Every day we meet people who search for their inner peace. Some find it by praying, by following the traditions and teachings they have inherited from their ancestors, and those with special dispositions reach higher levels, cultivating love of God. Some of us choose different spiritual practices to connect to the primordial source. When they are balanced and they feel an improvement of their spirit, as they live the universal harmony inside them, they open their heart flooding with love the souls of those who still search, generating the transformations for a new beginning. Further, each person will cultivate what he received and maybe, one day, gather some fruits. To follow this way, we must be careful and awake.

We must know permanently what happens to us and around us; the body first. Observe in different moments of the day what muscles are unnecessarily strained and try to relax them. Follow your thoughts and emotions, your reactions to other peoples actions. Watch how you breathe and change what you do not like. The moment you will succeed to control the various personal automatisms, you already will be more awake, capable to grow your own qualities and the gifts received directly from God or through people.

There will come a time when you will accomplish your targets, finding opportunities in your daily steps.

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Thai travel diary 10

all of a sudden, I was hit by a great appetite for oven baked potatoes …

I’m sooo fed up with their spicy rice and noodles!

some time ago I said I never had such terrible pains like in my first Chi Nei Tsang (abdominal massage) meeting; I struggled on that man’s table for almost an hour; the treatment is not very complicated - he only presses with the fingers and the palm on different points in the abdomen, every point corresponds to an organ, especially glands; the bad thing is that for a man who accumulated lots of tensions in his life (which is my case) the respective points have the hardness of the stone and they are very painfuuuul. The ideal situation would be that of a soft and relaxed abdomen of a baby.

as for effects, I mention from my own experience that they are really remarkable; after the first meeting the energies seemed to flow in my body with the light speed, I felt pulsations and movement in the whole body till the tiptoes; moreover after such a meeting, apart from pains, I was very hungry; pains go very quickly in an hour at most after the massage, in more complicated cases, next day.

this kind of massage is mainly used for “clearing” the energetic lines of the body and for the detoxification of the organs.

among other things, this week I attended several Chi Nei Tsang classes and I’ll go on in the near future with something more complex; I intend to integrate this kind of massage in the Nuad, because in Nuad the positions for the abdomen are only a few.

I also attended the classes of that Nuad school where they were teaching especially about nerves and tendons - Nerve touch massage or Jap Sen ; it’s a combination of classical Nuad movements other specific movements for activating some nerves and detensioning of the tendons; as I told you, it’s an unique sensation to feel somebody tickling your nerves in the knees, elbows, ankles, etc.

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