Whenever anyone asks about what I am doing for me cancer, I tell them that what I'm doing can be divided into diet, supplements, and Chi Kung. Things are fine until I get to the Chi Kung part. Most people get a puzzled look on their faces and some even ask what that "Chi Kung" part is.
Actually, Chi Kung in Chinese means "Energy Work" and I've been doing something related to my body's energy field for a long time now. The softer parts of Aikido have to do with reaching out and manipulating the opponent's center which exists both physically, in terms of a center of gravity, and energetically, in terms of where movement comes from and extends to. So, in it's subtler form, Aikido is a form of Chi Kung.
I've been doing acupuncture for the past three years to work on my allergies, but I'm sure that the same energetic deficiencies have had a hand in the development of the cancer. I do Reiki on myself on and off (since I am a certified Level Two practitioner) and that's like Chi work, but on a different frequency. And then, on and off for the past three years, I've been doing Tai Chi which deals directly with energetic issues as it is one of the three main Chinese "internal" martial arts.
New on the scene since the diagnosis is Yi Chuan - a specific type of Chi Kung that seeks to increase the body's ability to hold the Chi energy and, as of last night for the first time, Quantum Touch which is an energetic attunement with a practicioner (in this case, my friend Pam).
Now that I've got the diet (more or less) and the supplement regimens down (which took three months) my cancer work has been more and more dealing with the energy work. But, it seems that I can overdo.
Friday morning we did about 2 1/2 hours of Yi Chuan exercises in class and then I had a Quantum Touch treatment from Pam last night. Then this morning was one of the twice weekly Tai Chi classes. By the time that I got back home after class there was nothing more that I wanted to do than to take a nap which I then proceeded to do for two hours, even though I had a good nine hours of sleep last night.
With a lot of this stuff, were you to look at it from the outside, you would say that not much was happening. Watching someone standing for 25 minutes with their eyes closed trying to let go of any blockages in the body and mind is not exciting. But from the inside, there's a lot going on - much of it as repetitive, as with my issue with the muscles of my left shoulder blade that keep tightening up so that I have to keep consciously letting them go. Again and again and again.
So, what am I doing for my cancer? Not much. But it seems to be kicking the hell out of me.
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