Today started a very interesting week in class, at least interesting to me. Our teacher, Darrell Bran, started teaching us Polarity Therapy and Craniosacral massage. And, although the one is called massage, it is strictly energy work.
Before I go too far, I need to start at the beginning (I know, it is a unique place to begin). Darrell introduced us all to the concepts of energy. There wasn’t much he had said that I hadn’t heard before, but the rest of my class was totally stupefied. Understanding concepts of energy when you had never encountered it, or encountered it just a little, is something that is very hard to grasp. I had done a little bit of Reiki, or a little bit of energy work on the group, but I have not introduced concepts on the scale that Darrell did.
You have to understand that the concept of energy is difficult in the first place, but to add to it that you are now teaching it in the “Bible Belt”, it makes it even harder to grasp. People here were raised in a particular religion, and most of these religions say that this stuff either doesn’t exist, or is the devil’s work. One of the students told me that she was seeing it, and absorbing it, but she would have to go back and weigh it in with the beliefs that she was raised with, before she knew what to think and what to accept. I think that is the most practical and realistic view. We all are raised to believe different things. When something goes against those beliefs, we either discard this new thing as false, or if we have an open mind, we consider it, and make a decision later. That decision would then be to merge it into our current beliefs, or throw out some of the things we were taught to believe, or again to discard the new theories.
At any rate, here is some of what we did...
Darrell had us hold our hands palms together, then pull them apart to shoulder width. Then we moved them in and out. As we did this we felt the energy between them. Most everyone started out with their eyes closed. I opened mine as I have done things like this many times before and didn’t need to visualize to do it. (This is how I used to start a shield to shield a room.) I looked around the room, and saw that some of them were getting it, but there was one or two that just didn’t seem to find it.
After that, he asked me if I wanted to be teacher. My response was something along the lines of, “uuh, oooook.” He had me stand up, and blindfolded me. Then he moved the people around in the room to where he wanted them. Next he told me to walk to the other end of the room without running into anyone. Cool.
I knew that this was something I could do. I had no doubts that I could. I expect that everyone in the room expected me to be able to do it as well. So, that meant I needed to do it, and not screw up. Nothing like adding a degree of pressure based on expectations. This is where the doubt came from.
I was about to cheat and hang a projection out in the room somewhere, but couldn’t get the energy moving quick enough. I did, however, take a quick scan to put a basic mark on where people were. (I can locate people’s energies, and tell which direction they are in. I do this when I feel strong negative emotions in a group. The strongest energy source is the person experiencing them.)
I put my hands out in front of me as Darrell said, and started walking forward (or somewhat forward). I immediately, shifted toward the left to avoid people ahead and right. While moving, I also threw out a circle of energy similar to a radar field so I would get a preliminary ‘feel’ for where people were before getting close enough to touch their energy fields. (I experimented with this many years ago doing a slow dance with my wife on a crowded dance floor. I closed my eyes and visualized a circular field around me, and I could ‘see’ people move in and out of it. I managed to steer fairly well.)
I walked around a couple people, and was told to stop. I had wandered off the straight line across the room and was about to run into the side wall. (I said I could sense people, not direction.) Darrell turned me in the general direction of the back wall, and I started off again. I walked around one other person, then stopped and felt the energies. I could feel someone in front of me, yet a little to the right. I started to go around them to the left when I stopped again. There was someone else further to the left there. I pointed at them, smiled and went on to my destination.
Darrell then asked for volunteers, and Kayla said she’d do it. We all lined up and she started out. Unlike me, she headed straight for the back wall. She stopped about a foot directly in front of one of the other students, then eased around to the left and moved on. She angled around a few others and moved to the back wall. I think she had surprised herself.
Darrell then asked for another volunteer, but had no takers. One of the students told me later that she had been struggling with her teachings and beliefs. She didn’t know whether to believe this stuff or not. She felt that if she had ‘run the maze’ successfully, then she would have totally trashed everything she had learned and believed in up to that moment. She just wasn’t ready to do that yet. I can understand completely. To just learn something that could shake your entire foundation of belief is one thing, to prove it to yourself is something else entirely. Most people aren’t ready for that.
The last thing we were showed is ‘being there’ when someone is talking to you. If you are distracted, the other person feels it on an energy level. Sometimes, all it takes to heal someone is to listen to them, and ‘be there’ the entire time. Interesting thought?
Think on that a while. I’m going to go run through the forest blindfolded.