Re: True relaxing is the key

Great article, 46617!

I began to relax some things, just by reading.

My spleen thanks you, too. It isn't often that it gets a little loving attention and respite. I didn't even know what it was for, most of my life...or where it is located. (Blush!)

I've been wondering a lot, lately, about how energy operates in and through us...and why any of our functions should become limited/constricted in any way.

Modern 'medicine' seems convinced that we are 'under attack', which seems to put us in a defensive mode...certainly not the carefree attitude of a child.

I guess that all the little warnings (and big ones) we absorb as children, set us up in confused and guarded states, which our beings come to believe is 'normal'.

One story...

...I was giving blood, and my pre-testing of blood pressure was borderline high, as usual.

The senior nurse who was testing me said, "I'm going to teach you Bio-Feedback."

"Now, you just relax completely."

I slumped in the chair, head resting against the wall.

She lowered the light and left the little room, closing the door behind her. (Later, I was to think how smart she was for leaving.)

A few minutes later she returned to retest me. The memory of the relaxation was still upon me.

Bingo! My blood pressure had dropped 14 points!

The lady gave a little smile of satisfaction as she passed me on to the next steps.

I smile myself when I remember that very pleasant rest, a place marked forever in my brain and body.

I hadn't thought I was tense at all, but maybe all the tensions I had ever accepted were carried with me, until I consciously relaxed.

It seems that all the tensions of the past, kind of melt away, unimportant, when one relaxes as completely as possible...even just for a moment.

Think I'll remember that moment more frequently.

I also like the Taoist idea of physically smiling ones excess thinking energy down to the area of the navel, when we are done thinking for a while. The procedure brings lovely sleep, almost instantly.

Thank you so much for posting this.

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