Master in My Dreams

"I’m still scared. 

And no matter what happens,

tonight, when I leave, 

I don’t want to be scared anymore."

- Dre Parker in Karate Kid (the new one)

I dreamed about a man with brown eyes,
possessed of self,
powerful and dignified.

He was focused on me.
He told me he needed to draw a small blue dot
on my solar plexus with a blue ball point pen
right on my Manipura Chakra, the one for metamorphosis and evolution

When it is deficient, one can have digestive problems,
eating disorders, low self-esteem
and a feeling of powerlessness.

The Solar Plexus Centre
is one of the main power chakras of the individual. 

It is associated with the functioning of the aura
or psychic energy field, 
and with Etheric and Astral plane sensitivity [Chia, pp.245-6]. 
Through this centre,
which seems to correspond in part 
to the "Spleen Centre" of Theosophy, 
the various spiritual energies enter for distribution
to various parts of the body [Leadbeater; Paulson, p.84]. 
The Solar Plexus Chakra 
is also the centre of etheric-psychic intuition: 
a vague or non-specific, 
sensual sense of knowing; 

a vague sense of 
size, 
shape,
and intent 
of being [Brennan, p.173]

- M. A. Kazlev 

I told him he should speak to me clearly
and with more authority.
I held his left hand as he helped me down onto the floor.
He didn't let go of my hand.
He felt warm, reassuring, and lovingly stern.

With his left side he leaned into my right side
putting pressure on my liver.
He pushed his body into mine, hard.
He told me to push back.
I felt my liver "crack"
in the same way that in real life
I feel my new knee cracking
when I work out the adhesions
from the knee replacement surgery.

Old flesh was breaking up
in order to allow new growth.

He was pushing out the weakness.

I grunted with exertion then
sighed with relief
and slumped limply into the mat where I was lying.

When I woke up I had two words in my mind:
Qi Gong.

A' Googling I went.
I glanced over a few pages till I came across
the page of Sifu Pedro Yee (click here).
He specializes in Tuina therapy,
a 2000 year old Chinese healing art.

He is offering a two day course
in July on Qi Gong energy healing
in the Tuina tradition.

There was little hesitation.
My only question was,
"Can I afford it?"

"Make the commitment and the money will come"
I told myself.

I signed up for his 2 day workshop for July 10th and 11th
at his studio in Clifton.
Yes, my dream instructor has a studio in my home town.
Well, of course he does.
He's also a Kung Fu Master (Sifu level, 8th dan).

And yes, he has dark brown eyes.

My only regret as I embark on a more
intense level of healing is that I'll be 47 this year.
I spent so much time being sick
and confused.
I feel I wasted my youthful vitality
and now I have to work really hard
to rebuild myself
and dredge up my vigor from the ground below.
I'll have to fight for my energy.
I'll have to work to create a body and a life
that I love with the odds of waning youth against me.

But that's all in my mind.

Being in my late 40s will not stop me.
Heck, it might not even slow me down.
I do well against  adversity.

My most important battles
will be in my own thoughts.

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