Is this energy?

[Korpo]

Hello, sono.

Don't think of it as trouble, it's a thing I like doing.

No, I do not know why this is so, and I would pretty much like to know myself!

I've read most people are blocked more strongly on one side than on the other, so this is no big surprise. I guess it's one of the imbalances that life slowly works into you.

I entertained the thought that being rather left-brainey/intellectual could be a factor, as the activity there would take up and effect the energy of the side it influences (the brain hemispheres steer the opposite side of the body respectively), but I am not really sure, it's just a thought. So for the statistics - are you more intellectually minded or do you do a lot of creative things as well to balance that (doing things with extreme thought instead of in their natural flow would make making music left-brainy as well - damn those theories!)?

The throat area, especially in front, seems to be blocked in our societies very often, at least I read so. I do not know why. Maybe we lie too often... But it is good you know what is blockage and what is not, and keep working on it.

Oliver

[Nnonnth]

Hey Sono,

Just wanted to add to Korpo's excellent comments.

The question of why one side or the other happens to be more blocked is related to the roles of the left and right sides themselves. My observation is that (although it runs contrary to things some have said to me) the left side relates to yin or feminine energy, whilst the right relates to yang or masculine.

For example, I have often observed that those whose relationships with their mothers were more strong than with their fathers will be more open on the left than on the right, and vice-versa. This is not a hard and fast rule I expect, but it does seem to be true more often than not.


As for the throat thing, this is in my opinion NOT IN ANY WAY because in the west we are all liars! I suggest putting that negative thought to one side...

I have been investigating this for a while and my conclusion is that the reason for the throat blockage is that most people in the west feel foricbly silenced by their culture. What I have observed is incomplete as yet but it's something I'm working on alot.

It seems that, especially with people who watch screens alot, and even more especially with TV, energy builds up around the eyes and at forehead level which then interferes with the throat. The route tends to be back-of-head to collarbones, with some fairly heavy shoulder tensing on the way.

There are two reasons for this in my opinion, but at the moment I can only talk about the first one because the second is too speculative.

With many many people being wage slaves or slaves to educational establishments, quite often now we are seeing people who from their earliest days form as strong relationships with images on screens as they do with real people - in fact I think it is ultimately the majority - but who are not in any sense living a life that they find meaningful in reality. They are not living THEIR life in other words.

Images on screens do not however react to the person. What happens as a result is a feeling in the person that with many important things they hardly exist. They are seeing many things to which they have a strong reaction - be it porn or wars in Iraq or great environmental disasters - but the reaction is forced down by the fact that the screen does not listen back. This gradually takes away the person's voice, their sense that speaking at all would be of help with anything.

This psychological explanation may seem a little farfetched, but perhaps some part of it rings true for you, I don't know?

Best NN

[Korpo]

For example, I have often observed that those whose relationships with their mothers were more strong than with their fathers will be more open on the left than on the right, and vice-versa. This is not a hard and fast rule I expect, but it does seem to be true more often than not.

Mother person, cannot really argue with you there.

It seems that, especially with people who watch screens alot, and even more especially with TV, energy builds up around the eyes and at forehead level which then interferes with the throat. The route tends to be back-of-head to collarbones, with some fairly heavy shoulder tensing on the way.

Sounds very sensible to me, as I am a screen worker, have partial throat blockage, and shoulder tension. Sounds like a wonderful theory, how do you come up with this stuff? It does not cease to amaze me.

Is the other theory really too "speculative"?

Bye,
Oliver

[sono]

This is an amazing theory, really resonates with me too! I also spend my life at a computer screen nowadays. . . . .(going off home now for the "long weekend") so all the best and thanks for all the responses once again! Have much food for thought now. . . .

[Korpo]

As for the throat thing, this is in my opinion NOT IN ANY WAY because in the west we are all liars! I suggest putting that negative thought to one side...

Oh, I don't meant it this way - it was just a joke! Seems to have turned into a "choke" on the way over the internet. Damn puns!

No, I just remembered something from chakra theory, so I made that joke. Also from an Aunt Claire post, about which chakras open when and what it signifies. But I guess not being able to "raise one's voice" in matters that one has at heart could be a reason as well. No joke this time.

Oliver

[Korpo]

Have a nice easter weekend.

Bye,
Oliver

[Nnonnth]

Hey Korpo,

Sounds like a wonderful theory, how do you come up with this stuff? It does not cease to amaze me.

Well I meet alot of people, try to heal some of them, notice things, think about them... I talk to spirits too... I don't know, the same way anyone comes up with anything I guess!

Is the other theory really too "speculative"?

Well yeah it really is for now. Maybe later this year. If I say it starts to intertwine with conspiracy ideas that may ring something off for you, combined with what I already said. When I know more I will share it!

best NN

[Korpo]

So, sono, any changes over Easter?

Oliver

[sono]

Hi, hope you enjoyed the Easter break - I did & feel a lot more "solid", although I didn't have time to actually ground energy etc as I had a house guest. Have been carefully trying the "5 Tibetan Rites" (here at work as I get in very early!) & the first "spinning rite" makes me feel I could simply slip out of the body. . has anyone else tried these? There is so much to learn, so little time, & I tend to mix & match techniques, which I'm sure is not a good thing? Oder?

Namaste

[Korpo]

Well, sono, it strongly depends.

(Not a very useful sentence )

My experience is that you look for a core practise you can practise to good depth, and onto that understanding then can possibly craft other things. Either a deeper practise of the same "kind", or if you feel or intuit a need, other practices from other schools.

Like for now I personally am doing Taoist Qigong, Taiji and sitting, moving and standing Taoist meditation for myself. This does not exclude that in the future after certain issues within myself have been recognised and my belief systems have broken up I freely chose to continue on a Hermetic path instead, who knows?

But at the start, before any real commitments are made, you should not mix and match, as you cannot recognise the interactions you are exposing yourself to. You can do "serial monogamy" though, and practise several different schools one after another to a certain depth to get their feeling. For me that was Monroe OBE projecting, the MAP programme, Zen meditation and now finally my Taoist practice. But I do have no real need anymore to mix that with other stuff I come by, though I keep open and interested. I will continue down this path until something changes deeply and permanently within me and then look what this change requires of me.

The "butterfly attitude" of fluttering around wildly and trying to do many things at once will prevent you to do the things you do with enough depth to fathom their true potential. Consistent practise and developing a sense for subtlety and detail, staying conscious and aware about one practices can deepen almost any practise so significantly that it may seem there is no end, but then the techniques will transform and transmute into their most beautiful and powerful expressions. Sooner or later you have to chose which way to stick to, not by being impressed what people say, but what your "within" tells you you need to do and what resonates within you. Be it Yoga, Hermetic/Qaballah, Taoist, Buddhist, Sufi, or whatever.

Sorry to be ranty. Just my "two cents".

Oliver