“Zen Body-Being” says: “Skill and grace require real intelligence which is far superior to brute force…”

“We take action only after the brain perceives something, interprets what it is, and decides what to do with it. In familiar activities like walking this works very well since the process of interpretation generally takes place unconsciously, with little or no interference from emotions or intellect.”

But in my recovery, I walk with a lot of conscious decision-making. This has a down sid because such brings in the intellect and the emotions, both with the power of distorting my perceptions.

“The two activities that routinely interfere with direct perception-action response are intellectual deliberation and emotional reaction.”

“Changing mind states or increasing feeling-awareness will have th most significant effect on our ability to respond, but understand how we process perceptions and make decisions for action can help us learn new and more effective ways to do it.”

” Data we receive through the stimulation of our organs of perception undergo the process of interpretation.” Here is my personal problem. In my recovery,when I walk I go through a lot of “memory, comparison, association, categorization” These put up a lot of filters in the interpretation of my walking which could have otherwise been unconscious, more of a product of “skill and intelligence.”

Spirit energy is the quantum intelligence guidance our cellular and subatomic composition, designing and operating our genetic code, animating with infallible grace the trillions of physical and biochemical processes that sustain us in every second. It is the stream of life flowing through us from birth to death. (Energy Prescription)

This must explain why Mary Jean’s Magnesium spray has done wonders to my left leg weakened by a mild stroke in 2012. Also the subliminal effects of the Ho’oponopono videos along with the healing/cleansing prayer mst have penetrated my body at the cellular level.

“Energy Prescription” adds this to its description of energy spirit: A mysterious, intelligent power shining in every subatomic particle in the universe, animating every cell in our body, keeping us alive from moment to moment.

The spray must have activated the “subatomic neutrons, protons and electrons whirling and revolving within seemingly solid matter… cosmic rays, highly charged energy waves and particles rushing through space at the speed of light, bombarding the earth from all directions and penetrating all matter.”
The engagement of the elements which I wrote about in a previous essay filed under social conditioning entitled “Cognitive Structure” may explain how the Ho’oponopono words have helped improve my walking.

My daily walk from our unit to the garbage room is my chosen exercise.I have done this exercise with somatic awareness (“Energy Prescription”) that is why it is working for me.

It has strengthened my muscles, bones and heart, boosted my immune system and revitalized my energy. According to “Energy  Prescription” exercise done with somatic awareness releases beta-endorphins, those pain-reducing, mood-regulating neurotransmitters that left our spirits and even produce temporary euphoria.”

And recent studies indicate that exercise may be a useful adjunct in treating alcoholism, schizophrenia, and even developmentally disabled individuals.

When the base and sacral [chakras] are in balance we can say: “My inner strength and sense of belonging allow me to fully participate in any relationship recognizing and honoring the creative process and my part in the greater plan.” So Dr Christine Page wrote.

Sadly this was not true for me in the 90s when I repeatedly visited the emergency room and would check in and out of a hospital in Manila. I suspect the above cannot be claimed either by the fraternities and sororities in the Philippines. I believe this is what is lacking in the collective consciousness of the Filipinos thereby manifesting such disasters in politics, religion, education, entertainment and even in health management.

I choose not to dwell in genetic consciousness especially since I have a few precious years on earth left – I don’t expect to live to be a hundred years old! I know it takes many generations to change collective consciousness. Even changing myself takes so much time.
But Ho’oponopono inspires me. Dr Christine Page’s teachings about self worth offers a lot of hope. Her statement, “disconnected from source” echoes the many guidelines offered by Vitale in “Zero Limits”.

Significantly, Page’s :”we give up the personality -based struggle and , instead of disappearing into a void, we find ourselves carried gradually along the highways of life, open and available to whatever it offers”

However, we don’t have to fear. Ho’oponopono shows us to go into the void – into zero where our divinity resides. Only then can we live from inspiration and abide in God’s greater plan. Lately I discovered an interview of Aunty Mahealani in one of the Ho’oponopono videos filed under “Health” posted last Jan 15, 2014 on my website.

Aunty calls Hawaii, heaven on earth. We don’t need forgiveness but acceptance.

Aside from Emil, my husband, and Julie Anne, our daughter my flesh and blood models for a life-well lived are: Tato Malay, Mary Jean Netario Cruz,Dr. Nenita Cura, Dr. Kuku Lopez, Delia Amistoso, Charmaine Malata etc

Published: June 29, 2014

Written by Oliver Samson

AFTER over 40 years in the academe mentoring students and holding key posts in several schools, Dr. Ma. Perla Hudtohan, PhD, enjoys her retirement days travelling abroad with her husband, reading books, doing crossword puzzles, and updating her web site with her own articles touching on family, health, well-being and other subjects.

At 71, she is still enthused by the same passion that prompted her to become an educator over four decades ago. After retiring in 2009 and a mild stroke in 2012, she began offering life coaching and tutorials in English writing, English speaking to foreign and non-foreign students, and professional writing.

Born in Iloilo during the war, Hudtohan was studied at Assumption College from grade school to college.

“That’s why I have an overindigestion of nuns and priests,” she said.

Hudtohan finished grade school in 1954, and high school in 1959, at Assumption Convent-Iloilo as valedictorian for both levels. She graduated summa cum laude from Assumption College-Iloilo in 1963 with a bachelor’s degree in Education, major in English.

Driven by passion to help in nation-building through education, Hudtohan, at an early age, held the candle for the young to facilitate them achieve enlightenment. This undertaking had contributed to her own development both as a person and as an educator.

“I started tutoring while I was still studying,” she said. “At the time, if you earned P20, you could buy a lot of things. You could buy a good pair of shoes.”

Hudtohan formally began teaching at age 19. She later obtained a Masters degree in Basic Management Program at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati in 1974, and a Master’s of Arts in Public Administration at University of the Philippines Iloilo in 1978.

She took up her doctorate in Education, major in Educational Management at the Philippine Women’s University in Manila, and finished it in 1991.

She complained, however, of the Philippine educational system favoring men to continue their mentoring passion up to the age of 70.

“It’s so unfair they allow men to teach until 70,” Hudtohan said. “But they want to retire women aged 60 to 65.”

Used to teaching “a lot of students” in the past years she facilitated her husband, Dr. Emiliano Hudtohan, turning 70 this October, who teaches students of Business Ethics and Family Work-Life Harmony at De La Salle University in Manila, College of Business.

“I could handle more than 50 students,” she said. “Sometimes I had 64 students.”

Hudtohan taught grade- and high-school students at Assumption Convent, her alma mater, right after graduating from college in 1963. She became the high-school principal of that school from 1975 to 1977.

Her teaching took a breather for five years after marriage to take care of their only child, Julie Anne, who is now a director at Unilever in London.

She was already 36 when Julie Anne was born. She used to have awful migraines, which disappeared after giving birth.

In 2001, she resumed teaching at Assumption College, in San Lorenzo, Makati, where she chaired the English Department and the Mass Communications Department. She also became the school’s college registrar.

Two years later, she taught English and Literature to Nursing and Hotel Restaurant Management students at San Juan de Dios Educational Foundation Inc. in Pasay City until 2009 when she stopped teaching.

Outside the academe, Hudtohan served as assistant to the CEO of Nina International Export and Trading Co. in Makati in the late 1970s. She was also assistant manager at Fun Fare Co. in Iloilo City.

She coedited the Asin at Liwanag newsletter of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Malate.

Her tours abroad included Wimbledon, Singapore, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Sydney, Rome, Paris and the Holy Land.

“Would you believe I have never been to America?” she said. “But I am very Western. All my books are Western. I like to order from Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.”

But she likes Australia mostly for its cuisine.

The microscopic traces of Ilonggo accent in her speech make her an interesting and jolly speaker in English.

“My routine is three crossword puzzles a day,” she said. “My main activity now is feeding my web site.”

Hudtohan loves reading. She prefers hard-copy books, which have spaces for her comments, over e-books.

She has her own Facebook account, but discourages her husband from having one because “for sure, he will join the complaints against the government and the church.”

She described Dr. Emiliano, whom her mother loved so much, “a very good cook.” She recalled her mother reminding her “Please do not do too much to your husband.”

“When he courted me, I liked him because he seemed he could solve any problem,” she said. “My husband thinks of the world, and I, believe in the power of the individual. He is very kind. He gets angry every two years or so.”

Hudtohan is brimming with ideas. When she puts her head on the pillow, ideas pop up, preventing her from falling asleep. She would turn the light on and start writing.

“When I write longhand first,” she said, “I continue with the computer.”

Hudtohan believes education should start at home. Their only child, who is still single, had learned to read from home when she was still young.

The child should also develop self-respect as early as possible, she said.

“Self-esteem should start right from childhood,” she said. “It’s very important. Young people become drug addicts because they do not have self-esteem.”

Hudtohan also believes that the child should be allowed to have a mind of his own. Early on the child should be trained to become independent.

Their daughter has been living alone since college. They did not allow her to watch TV until she knew how to read.

“Reading is important,” Hudtohan said. “It has to be the mother or the father to teach.”

She reminded her daughter that when the time comes for her to raise her own child, she should not teach about an “angry God” who is getting old.

Their daughter reminds them in return to eat their vegetables.

Hudtohan’s advocacy is to empower the individual, especially women. She uses her web site, now three years old and earned over 8,000 views, to push that goal.

 

In Photo: Dr. Ma. Perla Hudtohan, PhD, during interview in Manila. (Oliver Samson)

In the 90s I was diagnosed by an over-rated traditional psychiatrist to be clinically depressed. after 3 sessions with her I decided to spare my aunt the trouble of bringing me to her clinic somewhere outside Makati.

God in his scheme brought me to a young psychiatrist who eventually married a favorite cousin on my dad’s side. He made me think of a legacy I could leave the world.

Yesterday in an interview by Oliver Samson of the Business Mirror, I was again led to reflect on my life. I realized I could easily squeeze in time for research. I lead a leisurely life in a self-imposed isolation on the 37th floor of a condo with a nice view of trees, the sea and the mundane traffic at Taft Avenue.

I fished out a favorite book “Instant Emotional Healing” which I used in the 90s when I had a voice problem. i am now trying to explain, Primarily to myself, why in less than 2 weeks Mary Jean Netario Cruz’ magic magi spray has improved my walking.

The most relevant statement from “Instant Emotional Healing” is: “when certain crystals are struck sharply, causing them to vibrate, they bend bend then snap back to their original shape, generating an electric charge.”

I suspect crystals hardened in my left thigh, hip and knee after my mild stoke in 2012. The ionized magi spray must have penetrated my skin to act on the crystals thereby allowing me to lift my left leg a bit higher than my post attack level.

Following the protocol of ESM (Emotional Self-Management) if I tap at specific acupuncture sites I may experince even more improvements.

Here’s an inspiring thought: “But whatever the underlying disease or the nature of the disruption, when the flow of chi energy is restored, the body heals itself. As the famous humanitarian physician Albert Schweitzer remarked : “We are at our best when we allow the doctor that resides within to work.”