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As a preface, I have Lupus. Lupus is an Immune system malfunction. Since I was young, I have had health issues that slowly led to this chronic disease. Over my adult life I have sought out alternative energy healings which have helped, but could not stop the culmination of this disease. It is handled as best I can thru diet and supplements, but I was always seeking a way to heal completely. Tried many different types of systems.

Lupus is essentially an manifestation of long standing or acute(shock or trauma)emotional distress.

I finally found SFQ....been practicing a couple of months and finding benefits, but I have not done my practice each day as I want. I persist. I am improving.

I have had a couple of unsettling dreams the past couple of nights.
In the first dream, I had to unlock the code that would set us free from the bondage we experience in this life of illusion. Every time I would get close, the code would change, and I would have to start over. There was a time element involved, and I would not solve the problem before I awoke.

The next night, I dreamed I had to unlock and solve the code again, but this time I had to do it before a "veil" came down that would reduce me to a brainwashed person. I would not remember who I truly was or what I was to do. Again I did not achieve my goal, but the dream would loop, so that I was given a few chances before I awoke.

Hmmmm. Many symbols here, but that is not what I write this for...

I decided to put forth more effort in my SFQ~~to do it everyday without giving myself a day off. I made a point of practicing in the morning, finding it cooler and less hectic.

After 3 practices in a row, and after these dreams: I feel the practice has gone much deeper. Into inner blockages that are perhaps not even from this life(accepting that we live many lifetimes)and releasing things deep inside that I do not need to be aware of consciously or examine. Just gone like smoke to the end of the Universe...

The code has been found and put to use...SFQ.

Gotta go practice

good on ya cobber as the australians say, keep up the exercises , very best thoughts.Gordon13,
ps you are not alone in your daily exercise battle ,me to

Thanks Mate!

Hi Miriam,
In qigong, it is the mind that moves the energy, and SFQ is signal healing. How you think, signals sent, inner messages, are powerful. Ideas are yin, and physical manifestations relative to the ideas are the yang aspect. Taking away the idea, the yin aspect, begins to break down the physical manifestation of the idea. Specific messages or ideas, support specific manifestations,,,,,like, " You have Lupus". Or, " I have Lupus". In SFQ, this or other specifics/diagnosed illness's, are termed more neutrally, as a blockage, and a blockage is just extra energy, neither good or bad, more so, out of place, energy you don't need, or energy not good for you. Any thoughts carrying this Lupus message/charge, are not good for you. When doing the exercises, your mind is given a focus, or you employ positive visualizations. You take time in which the 'I have this', or 'you have that', has no place. The mind is given a positive focus, and the body is given some time and space to heal itself. Again, the mind moves the energy. In terms of qigong as a lifestyle practice, you can start to extend your 'mindfulness', outside your practice session. Pay attention to how you think, or what you are thinking. If a thought arises, and you notice it, in the sense of a self aware moment, look at the thought. Was it good for you , or not. Positive or negative energy in regards to what you want to manifest regarding your health. Most thoughts are just extra energy that you don't need. If you find you've had a thought that is not supportive to your well being, release it, just as you do blockages as smoke. Staying diligent, is a practice of mindfulness, and that can extend to all your waking time. If you spend an hour doing qigong, or 'reluctantly' doing qigong, :-)
, and then return to a lack of self awareness in terms what you are thinking, the healing process is burdened, or partially undone. Blockages can come back. When you do a session of qigong, you clear yourself. You have no blockages, you 'are' clear. You do that in a single session. "Completely clear". You may view your internal organs , vibrantly, relative to five element colors. You are in a tender state at that point of clearing yourself. You have undermined the blockage, taken away the idea and put in positive messages/signals. Your time inbetween sessions is just as vital as the session, in regards to thinking. Your subsequent sessions, you undermine it more, or again. Frequency of practice facilitates you staying clear, as well as mindfulness inbetween sessions, which can be called practice too. It is easier hold clearity in a session of qigong exercise, than when wandering around through your day. Sort of like the person spinning plates on sticks. You give it a spin, it goes for awhile, then starts to wobble.
Master Lin teaches a few different mudras, or hand positions. One of them is specific to strengthening the immune system. Instead of the index finger touching the thumb, touch the fourth finger/ring finger to the thumb. If you find yourself sitting around, or waiting somewhere, try making the hand. It works by just doing one hand or both. Very light contact between the finger tips. He said, " just enough to keep a pin from falling, if you were holding one between your fingers". You may feel a tingle right away in your fingers, or hand/arm. You effect a few meridians, so the feeling may track inward. I bet, even if you are watching TV, if you make this hand, you will be more self aware while you do it. You will be watching tv, or less so, and experiencing this hand and more self aware. Simple technique like this can help connect the dots between practice sessions, give you heightened times of self awareness,,,,an opportunity to put in a postive message. Don't substitute this mudra into your level I meditation practice. Do them as given. Lifestyle, awareness...postive signals, positive manifesting....less time lost in thought,,,more present. a minute or two of reverse breathing...etc. Giving yourself a day off becomes an interesting idea relative to what I've said! Perhaps, not such a great gift to give yourself!!
It is self 'work', but the work is very positive with wonderful results. Please forgive me if I've said things you already are aware of . You seem very sensitive and responsive to the practice. I've found that really sensitive people sometimes do very well by the meat and potato parts of the system. Parts that may interest them least, but parts that really help ground them, or help their physical bodies. Like active exercise and lower dan tien focus.
love,
gallen

Thanks so much for the info, gallen! You spell out very well the vigilence needed to regain health. It need not be a struggle, but a growing awakening to be in the Present! And it is always good to be reminded to carry the practice into every thought!
I love the mudra! So simple to do almost any time(TV? : ( ~OK, just My Name Is Earl and The Office...;>). The message being ~ I am Whole and Clear...to say 'healed' would mean I was sick...I never change the basic practice...but seek to do it good, better, best. When I grow weary or impatient during practice, I know I am thinking instead of experiencing the Harmony. If I am being too resistant to do a complete practice, doing one movement is better and more beneficial...

As I was writing, I wanted to find a better way to say "I have Lupus". I wanted to describe the condition, but not "own" it or "be owned" BY it. I opted for a typical way of writing: I have lupus. And I was aware that it was not the way I wanted to think, yet I couldn't think of a way to describe the situation...on the one hand, I need to acknowledge the condition so it can be treated in my daily life; on the other, to acknowledge it, solidifies it, as you say.

?????????
I suppose I could say I am healing from lupus, or I am regaining balance in my body from lupus.
And this brings up another question: certainly I cannot ignore that I have food sensitivities. How am I to be aware of this, take care of my body by acknowledging this "condition" and yet be positive in my thoughts? I could say, I am a vegan because it is best for me to eat this way...I do not eat this or that because I want to maintain the balance in my body...

I am speaking of being in conversation with people who are also dealing with health issues, and not while I am doing SFQ or in my thoughts. Could open up some interesting conversations!

More thoughts, gallen? I appreciate your time and concern!
I knew that SFQ would be a profound and more fruitful experience for me expanding on the direction I was taking in my spiritual life!

I'm glad you received what I pointed out in a good way. I can tell you get it, and, it 'is' hard to find to new language for things. I find this aspect to be part of our collective process of transformation. Finding new language for experience and teaching, along with being aware of the energy of the words.
It can be a process over time, and not an immediate resolution. Perhaps if you say you were 'diagnosed' with lupus, then, shift to referring to it as a blockage in your conversations, it just states a 'limited event' where that information was 'offered' to you by 'someone'. Your awareness underlies the whole conversation, so even if you use the word, it doesn't have the same charge to it, as accepting it, owning it, embodying it, or defining yourself that way. I had a teacher once who pointed out the energy in the words " I'm sorry", as a negative self defining expression. Now 'that', is a hard one to eliminate, if you agree with that perspective.
Saying, " When I grow weary or impatient during practice, I know I am thinking instead of experiencing the Harmony", shows real understanding of how thinking can color ones practice experience. I don't think we can just will ourselves into returning to the 'harmony' though. I find I have a natural cycle of immersion time into the exericise. When I am done, I'm done, and whatever that is, is okay. I may stay longer in the exercise or not.
Some random stuff:
- I think "awareness" is a better word than diligence. It's a softer word and very open. I do agree with what you are saying or pointing out. Also, I think that staying mindful is much more tiring work than active exercise, and I would take breaks, or days off from that, and, its okay to be human and not be perfect. There is something beautiful in that.
-Over time, you get stronger, and everything gets easier, less acute, less unnecessary detail.
- I don't see the whole food preferences, sensitivity's as being the same conversation. I don't equate wholeness to the ability to eat everything. It is certainly okay to discern what is good for you, or compliments your maintaining health or healing regarding foods. A completely healthy person has preferences regarding foods, or makes choices concerning diet for various reasons. I would also mention, that I personally know of two people who cleared themselves of life threatening blockages. They both changed their diets, along with qigong practice, yoga, or whatever, in a total lifestyle change/approach to self healing. As far as saying you are food sensative,
that carries a different charge than I have Lupus. There may be a better way to say it, and, don't get too fixated on this as to create tension, or over occupation with it. As Lao Tzu says, "avoid extremes",,,sharpen the edge too much and it dulls quickly! I feel I have an understanding of mindfulness, and, I am sure I've said things like, "I have a cold." when I had a cold. The idea of perfection and being human come up....balance...allowing some flow without too much tension inspecting and dicing everything up..
- Your practice, mindfulness, way you express yourself, is a practice in the present, and a way to go forward. Perhaps you have older relationships with people/friends that you can slowly bring up to speed(tranform) with your new language and alignments. Anything/anyone new that comes in your path will align easier with where you are at, and how you choose to define that. You may not even mention that diagnosis, if there is no need to go there, or introduce yourself with that piece, in more and more situations.
-I think a state of awareness, keeps you from being vulnerable, or losing sight of things. You may go to see your doctor and return to the whole Lupus conversation/diagnosis. If you stay aware during that, your awareness sort of filters that energy coming at you. You simply don't let it in, or embody it. You see it coming and choose not to accept it. You don't have to say anything openly. You are in power, and running your life. you accept what is helpful from the doctor, regarding medicines or whatever, and don't accept what is not helpful. Sometimes a simple tool like that mudra, or a talisman in the pocket, a rock, a string around your finger,,,whatever, can help you 'remember' who you are, or help you stay aware. As soon as you make the connection to the tool, you are in a more expanded state of awareness, if not before. Taking the edge off things is good. You don't have feel the need to 'protect' yourself. That is too stressful. You have power, you filter things, you stay aware. See the doctor receiving energy to help them help you, or just to help them. Heal and transform things. Retain your power, and help everything around you. Clear or charge your medicines. Make your own medicine everyday via yin/yang water. Your master's energy can help you with anything, and move you to go more and more to yourself, or inside, for guidance and help.
love,
gallen

Hi Miriam,

Here are some examples I have used when speaking of my condioitn (asthma):

I have this condition that is called asthma
I have this thing that doctors call asthma
Sometimes I mispell the word when writing: asthme (does not have the same power anymore!)

I speech I usually use a hesitant tone of.. err... asth -ma (raising the intonation as if it was a question, not wanting to make it too definite!)

I guess you could use same kind of tehcniques when spaking of your condition.

I wish you the best healing experience!

[He].2s2.2p4

Oooo...I like "blockage"..."I am dealing with a blockage in my immune system"...definitely gives a picture of a limited situation...like you wouldn't expect someone to be "afflicted" with constipation~~it is a blockage!...a very limited condition that will be resolved soon. And Oxygen's ~"I have this thing...a blockage thing...yeah it's called...um...well it has to do with getting my immune system balanced again." People tend to fixate on labels.

It is not just a matter of how *I* or you self define the words...when I said "I have lupus", *I* knew I was not defined by lupus. But what you heard was a defining phrase. So it is with words...others put out energy that empowers or inhibits based on what *their* understanding is.

To say "I have lupus", elicits varying responses like ~courage in the face of a dis~ease, caring about how I am doing, or pity...the latter of which I do not need! So it IS important beyond one's own understanding to use energy empowering or neutral words to ensure positive responses. We can be in a state of awareness where other's responses do not effect us, but most of us are not consistently there yet...
I sure don't introduce myself as ~Hi, I'm Miriam and I have lupus...~lol! Lupus Anonymous! lol! The people who ask after me are those who were supportive of me during the worst of the acute attack. In fact I saw a woman recently who asked how I was feeling. I looked at her blankly not understanding what she was referring to. She then mentioned lupus and I brushed it off with ~...fine...thru diet... and changed the subject. So it is really only in my mind when my health needs attention.

And mudras are doing healings as well as self-awareness. Double the benefit when you can!

The phrase "I'm sorry" can be accepted as a peacemaker or as a sign of weakness(and an opening to abuse, or self-righteousness of the person saying the words or the one receiving the words!). So True!

Regarding being in harmony during practice: this is a personal awareness that each must make: am I done or just distracted...I was referring to being distracted.
Don't get too caught up in *words* gallen! ;> Sometimes it is important to get the *flavor* of the conversation! ;> ...and you did in the end understand my inexact wording. There is theory and then there is reality.

Awareness is the journey we are on! A Master like Chunyi Lin is going to be much more aware for long periods of time than most other people...and it is beautiful to know that he is ever growing as well. It does bring the Humanness to LIFE! There is always the Beyond, and we are where we are at. Some say we are perfect where we are at because, well, it is where we are at! Acceptance of this perfection is very important to balance and maintaining well~being and to REGAINING health. It unties the knot of needing to "achieve" and is comforting at times of discouragement. When each is ready to move to the next level of awareness, something wonderful happens and there you are!...It is about being in the Present...

Food sensitivities vs. preferences: I would PREFER to eat dairy products, eggs, nuts and wheat products, with the occasional meat. But I am not able to do this at this time w/o negative impact in my body that is more than I wish to deal with each day. So I make different choices. But it is not my personal preference. I do accept that this will heal.
And it is not written in stone. We were at graduation parties for our children the past couple of days. The food consisted of things that are not part of my current diet. I ate 3X the amount my husband ate! I suffered surprisingly little. I needed to eat that food at that time, and I did not stop myself. One must be AWARE(that word again)of what you are telling you in your body...and listen to you. There are days when I am sensitive to FOOD! And I am hungry...but all I can ingest w/o hurting myself is fluids. This is not my preference of course, but it is the choice I make to stay at a level of health at this time. I do equate wholeness/balance with being able to make choices freely and without constraint of bodily consequences(within moderation of course...hear my meaning and not just my words...).

I have always gone to doctors with the intent of cooperation and maintaining my personal power. They really don't like that...if you don't do what they want and follow their protocols, they will fire you as their patient! Liability and malpractice suits are their concern.
Even when I went to a Naturopathic doctor, she became upset with me, because I wasn't healing according to her plan! LOL!
Blessing medicines: Prednisone and Imuron are meds designed to take over your entire body including the adrenal glands, thyroid, kidneys, liver, and other metabolisms. There are extreme consequences to these meds. These meds are trying to block the immune system and these organs and systems are involved in that system. To tell the meds~now don't do harm to these things ~is to tell the meds don't do your job...and then they won't work at all. Like drinking Drano~ it dissolves crap in the plumbing and is not meant as a drink...it is a poison...do you have enough Awareness to Bless it and stop it from being a poison and to drink it...and still allow it to clear out your plumbing?

I don't. There are rare and amazing people who can eat metal and drink poison w/o being harmed...they are the wayshowers to how powerful we truly are and how we can shift our perceptions!

But I am not there yet...are you? Better to find other forms of balance. These meds bring incredible imbalance to the body, mind and spirit. They are poison. I know because I took them for a year and had to deal with the consequences. And I had accepted them as part of my healing, and so my intent was blessing them. But my body said very clearly to me one day~" Why are you Poisoning me?".

And that is why I sought out a Naturopath and spent some months weaning off, cleansing and strengthening the organs that had been damaged by these meds. (All the doctors were thrilled that I was no longer taking these meds which they finally acknowledged were terrible methods of controlling dis~ease.) And when her natural protocols harmed my Thyroid, I did even more research and found my own way. I do not take meds, I do not visit doctors; I check in with natural healers if I need info. Now, that is awareness and personal power at work. I plan on studying to become my own Master of Herbology...

I don't mean to bite you here, but when personal power and blessing meds are spoken about so blithely, it makes me angry.
Bless our multi--vitamins and yin-yang tea? Sure. Bless our food to neutralize the additives and give it a nutritional boost? Good, but better to eat foods w/o them, best to eat organically...and bless them! Bless the penicillin treating the strep throat? Bless your cold medicine? Good. But better to take Colloidal Silver(we make our own) or Oregano Oil. Best to stay in balance. Bless the surgeon and recuperation? Absolutely! Bless the chemo therapy...try it, but better to find alternatives.

That is what I did. I found alternatives to the Medical System. I use it as little as possible. That is better. Best will be when I am back in complete balance, whatever form that takes regarding diet.
I'm sorry for being irritable about this aspect of our conversation...
Your thoughts are very welcome, gallen and Oxygen~ this has been an interesting and important reminder to continue developing awareness and consciousness about our self in the world we live in ...inner and outer....

Now, I would like to refocus on the intention of my original post(and this conversation ends up being very much a part of it!):

How wonderful SFQ is; how potent it is, that this energy from Master Lin has been reaching even into my dreams to direct my energies to heal on ever deeper levels:
"I feel the practice has gone much deeper. Into inner blockages that are perhaps not even from this life(accepting that we live many lifetimes)and releasing things deep inside that I do not need to be aware of consciously or examine. Just gone like smoke to the end of the Universe..."

That is better healing than diet and is personally empowering. That is the best place from which to regain balance.

Love to you both~~Miriam

I just wanted to clearify that what I have expressed regarding words was not intended to focus on word choice so much, this much(!), but rather, maintaining a level of self awareness, or awareness of how one is working with energy. Awareness as opposed to diligence, for instance, is about a state of being, not the word itself, and diligence is a good thing along with a sense of balance. I also would emphasize the importance of the doing the exericises, first, then looking at some of these other aspects regarding how we think and manifest.
love,
gallen

And again... I would like to refocus on the intention of my original post which was about Awareness and how one is working with energy~ *and how the energy is working with you!*~ and the depth that it can go when practicing SFQ; how wonderful SFQ is, how potent it is; that this energy from Master Lin has been reaching even into my dreams to direct my energies to heal on ever deeper levels, and bringing me into deeper balance and healing.

When one experiences the increasing depth of healing, it begins to spill into the day to day state of being and activities(after all, you are your own witness)and day to day awareness *effortlessly and naturally*...in other words~the *practice* is the thing, rather than a struggle to heal or maintain awareness...that is part of the beauty of SFQ...everything else is detail...

That was the whole purpose of my sharing the story...it is all there...

"I feel the practice has gone much deeper. Into inner blockages that are perhaps not even from this life(accepting that we live many lifetimes)and releasing things deep inside that I do not need to be aware of consciously or examine. Just gone like smoke to the end of the Universe..."