Sardello: “The living body is an open field, a locus for the convergence of relationships- with the world, with the other people, with the soul realm, with the spirit realms.”

What doctors learn from the study of cadavers would not include…”Fear acts on the organs of the body, affecting them directly.”  (Sardello)

Also “The presence of fear interferes with the capacity to concentrate.” Without concentration I, for one, can’t be mindful and mindfulness is very necessary in my cognitive paradigm for wellness.

“Because the breath becomes shallow and the body becomes tense when the mind is disturbed, lengthening the breath calms…more important, it causes the mind for the space of time it’s attending to the breath, noticing it in descriptive terms, to drop the story of discontent.” (Boorstein)

My self-healing anchored on cognitive therapy has been bolstered by the following:
“Mindfulness Yoga” wrote: “Our life is shaped by our mind; all actions are led by the mind, created by the mind.”
Alan Seale wrote: “Everything that exists in physical form was initially  in thought in the unseen world.”

P.M.H.Atwater wrote: “…to understand the intelligence factor, we need to recognize that the major source of intelligence in the body is actually the heart, our fifth brain.”

Atwater has written about: “… thoughts, feelings, words and intention physically shape not only body functions and health…”

The above quotation reminds me of what I earned from Dr Sarno about the importance of emotions. Likewise the quotation relates to what Sardello wrote about the 12 senses of R. Steiner:

touch, life sense, movement, balance (experience of our body) smell, taste, temperature, vision, hearing, speech, thought and individuality.

Little did I know that the conditions I listed as specific complications to my cognitive paradigm for wellness have been included in R. Steiner’s 12 senses as elaborated pragmatically for me by Sardello.

Therefore: “If we can simply free our mind of fear’s chattering resistance, we inherit the cosmic consciousness of divinity” M Tamura
“…struggle creates suffering and peaceful response creates clarity.” S. Boorstein

Using sites, especially identified by “Instant Emotional Healing” as points for the application of my WAKI pen, I experienced relief from muscle stiffness. This must be due to the electromagnetic energy.

The sites were: underarm, collarbone, chest and pelvis. I learned from the book “Instant Emotional Healing” that these sites have a lot of arteries and nerves. A vast network of tiny microtubules passes through the walls of the veins and arteries. Within the microtubules there is a rich concentrate of DNA, RNA and a variety of neuropeptides and other chemical messengers that are also known to wash over the brain. This is one reason I believe in Cognitive Therapy.

There was also a lot of farting. I interpret this as a removal of blockages as learned from Fr. Belita’s “Release for Wellness”.

With the removal of blockages, my circulation must have improved. I felt some crawling sensations from my neck down to my left foot.

The stiffness of my jaw, my neck, back and pelvis has relaxed. My PSOAS muscles must have been exercised.

My digestion also improved. I would get hungry every 3 hours or so. I don’t consider this hunger as caused by my blood sugar issue. I no longer have acid reflux nor a tart after-taste in the mouth.

Of course I have to also credit my intensive use of Dr Jean Netario Cruz’ magnesium. I also want to credit Dr Sarno for teaching me about oxygen depletion.

The quality of my thoughts ha improved significantly with the help of: Sylvia Boorstein, Michael Tamura, Rabbi Brickner, Tato Malay etc. Needless to say my husband and our daughter remain to be the main figures in my healing.

I can’t thank ,our adopted son, Marc Co enough for faithfully posting my essays twice a week.

To make sense of all the challenges I have encountered since June 23, not to mention those after my March 26 fall, I have decided to use Fr Belita’s discussion of shamanism as a kind of template.

I don’t pretend to be a scientist nor to be a scholar like my husband. At best, I write anecdotal records of real, personal experiences. With more than 32,000 readers for my website, I would like to believe I make some sense to at least a few.

I am emboldened by Dr Christine Page who wrote: “…it can be seen that inspirational thought i probably also not new but, because of time and space changes, will be approached in a different manner as if they are fresh. Any animating idea therefore will have been through several minds before reaching this point of evolution.”

My hope is that somebody more qualified than myself will pick up the observational data from my essays and come up with a research that could help those with :family, social conditioning and/or health issues.

I have chosen to examine my challenges  as signs of being initiated as a contemporary shaman. The signs are from Fr Belita’s “Release for Wellness”.

The first sign is ‘wandering and testing in the wilderness’. In my case, it is misplacing things and having wrong perceptions. I have been blinded so many times, not being able to see things even those in front of me. I have looked but couldn’t see.

I have been in the wilderness. Lost. I have been jolted out of past, comfortable paradigms. For example, I can no longer deal with Emil and Julie Anne with a soft, comfortable romantic love. I have had to shift to a kind of tough, detached love for the higher good of each of us.

For mobility and flexibility I even have to use new, originally crafted muscular movements especially for my left leg.

Another sign is ‘ordeal of hunger’. I can never allow myself to go hungry because of my blood sugar issue except for the much- dreaded fasting before a blood test. But I have been sticking to disciplined diets for health.

Still another sign is ‘sense deprivation’. Delayed gratification has been the rule for me for quite some time. Always waiting! To stop being judgmental, I often  have to suspend my thoughts and remind myself of Buddhist guidelines plus those from Rabbi Darfour and Michael Tamura.

Fr Belita has 2 or 3 more signs but I don’t have much to say about each. Instead I am happy to write about an effect: ‘personal sense of power and authority.’

The challenges have given me a kind of confidence. My inner knowing urges me to listen to my finer self even when I am fearful.

My belief in self-healing has been bolstered by Fr Belita’s “Release for Wholeness”. He wrote:
“…the body has a wisdom for healing and the brain takes command and marshalls all the body’s components for a task of healing.”

He also wrote:” Somatic manifestations disappear when order is restored.” I take this as affirming the guidelines I have learned from Sylvia Boorstein, Michael Tamura, Dr Lipton, Dr Sarno, Dr Netario Cruz etc.

Fr Belita affirmed the cognitive disposition this way: “For effective healing it does not have to be an explicit belief in God, but, as in the words of Gershon Winker, an author in shamanism, healing as  capacity for trust in the intelligence and self-sufficiency of the body….”

For the widest  possible audience reach, I have chosen like Sylvia Boorstein to share my personal experiences of : family, social conditioning, health and literary expressions to show how understanding one’s self leads to knowing and loving the Creator