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roseambr came down out of the mountains to visit me today.

We talked for a long time over tea and lime cookies with whoops-too-green icing, while the vile weather gradually improved.

Whoops

Our conversations are almost never purely mundane: even when we both worked in the World's Tallest Basement and took frequent, ridiculously long coffee breaks together, we never ran out of serious spiritual subjects to talk about.

Today was no exception. We caught up with my Self-Improvement Moratorium and the most recent leg of her journey up from some difficulties. We discussed the energetic interaction between people and the electronic devices to which they're emotionally attached. And then we tried out the Healing Codes.

The Healing Codes are a new energy method that I've been experimenting with. It's good stuff; purports to remove unconscious long-term stress by clearing negative memories and false beliefs from the deepest cellular levels of the body, after which the body is better able to heal itself. The Healing Codes use some qigong-like energy directed from the fingers to places around the head and neck. You can feel it happening. It's very interesting.

Then, feeling uplifted and connected and Sourced up, we turned our thoughts to some lunch. Lily,

roseambr's iPad (to which she is quite attached), pointed us to Tin Shed Garden Café, where they "believe that energy travels through food: not just caloric, but spiritual energy."

Well heck yeah. Let's go there. So we set out on foot.

First, there were the crows. Big, shiny ones. They swooped down across our path, one after the other, while the Boss Crow cawed directions from the top of a nearby spruce.

Then, Shoulder Cat. She came prancing up, longhaired and white, but with a tabby-striped brown tail and a tabby-striped patch above one green eye, as if she was made out of beautiful spare cat parts.

roseambr bent to pet her. Then I bent to pet her and she climbed up my arm, perched on my shoulders, and pressed her flank repeatedly against my left ear, purring.

Then, the ring. Once Shoulder Cat could be persuaded to get down, we walked on, and a few steps later something shiny went rolling across the sidewalk in front of my feet. I picked it up. It was a copper ring. I put it on.

Plumbing part? Or magic sign?

Next came the art. The Tin Shed had art for sale on the walls. One piece showed crows and a magic tree, so I bought it.

A small painting of a tree, some crows, two large magical white birds, and a little girl watering flowers

Print on plexiglass by Lucia Johnson

As we ate,

ravurian sent a photo of The Shard from London Bridge Station, so I sent him one of the inside of the Tin Shed. Connected! To the world! \o/

Roseambr, coffee, tablets and some sunshine at the Tin Shed Garden Cafe

Honest. We did not spend our meal over our devices. We talked.

The other cats came next. On the way home, every cat ran out to greet us. We were the Copper-Be-ringed Energy-handed Pied Cat Pipers of Northeast 14th Avenue.

Then at last there was the sign.

A brass sign affixed to a solid wooden fence next to a house in Northeast Portland. The sign says BELIEVE.

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That right there is a really magical day. Also? I love the art. It looks like something I'd have in my house; we have lots of things with tree or raven images.

It was magical!

I'm still trying to decide where to hang my new art. *looks around from comfy computer couch* Heh. Okay, I think I just found the obvious place. \o/

Say, I hear you'll soon be meeting

kis! She's the most wonderful person and I love her to pieces, and I was lucky enough to spend a week at her home last summer.

I know you'll have a good time together, and I hope your journey to Scotland is as excellent as mine was!

Yes! I'm quite stoked! I anticipate liking Kis as much in person as I do online. We will, at the very least, have lunch and a good chat while I'm over there.

I'm trying The Healing Codes.

Wild!

Oh cool! I thought you might be interested. Alex Loyd claims that the technique is literally God-given, and whatever I may think about that, I have no trouble believing that the method came to him in an inspired way after a dozen years of serious research and seeking.

The main thing, though, is that it's really powerful. I look forward to knowing your thoughts about it.

Well, I just finished doing both of the Day 1 codes and my whole body is all tingly. I'm both energized and completely relaxed.

It seems really complicated so I'm cutting a lot of the reading out for now as I was getting overwhelmed just reading it. I'm glad I did. I did the prayer, misthought the instructions and ended up holding each position for the first code about 3 minutes (whoops!), took a break for my arms to rest, and did the second holding each position for a minute (which was easier for me than having to open my eyes every 30 seconds to see what was next).

It's late and I'm about ready for bed so I think I'll just do one round of day one's codes but I may try to do more rounds on subsequent days. I'm fascinated to see what shakes out.

You've really dived in! I took their little online test, which purports to tell you which of the Twelve thingies you need to focus on first, so that gave me a starting point. Since then I've been kind of winging it.

I was gonna say that the book and the manual are unorganized and needlessly complex. I spent a little time flipping back and forth, back and forth, and got annoyed. I believe that the opening invocation and the basic four hand positions are all you'd really need. The list of Twelve Whatsits is confusing--the three heart-killers or whatever and the nine "virtues" (gah!)--and I think the whole presentation is muddled.

But there's gold there. I really think there is. Keep me posted!

I found their website and the manual to be unorganized. The website really turned me off but I trust you so I kept investigating. The Manual was so complex that my head was spinning long before I got to anything that felt like a beginning point. When I finally got to the Day 1 do this bit, my reaction was "finally!"

"Muddled" is the right word, definitely, but I agree that there is something there worth exploring.

I kept reminding myself that EFT seems complicated to a beginner, too. That's why I rarely introduce it to people by way of the EFT manuals or videos.

Good point about EFT. I learned it originally more than ten years ago, and it has been vastly de-complexified since then. I suspect the same will happen with THC. I always point people to the simplest how-to videos from the vast open-source community of EFT developers and practitioners, many of whom have pushed the boundaries of the method way out there, and transformed its utility.

So I figure I'm justified (and probably safe) in taking my own steps to demystify and simplify THC for myself. In fact, I did a wonderful session this morning in conjunction with an online seminar. The first couple of hours helped identify some blockages which the rest of the weekend is designed to help clear--but one good session of (my version of) THC during the break made massive inroads into them.

It's really fun!

I learned EFT 2000/2001. Remember when they wanted you to tap on your chest under your boob?

Ok. This daily program is kind of crazy. Minimum time for today's codes? 18 minutes. Maximum time? Close to 1 hour and 20 minutes. Minimum time for tomorrow's codes? 30 minutes. Max. time? Hour and a half. That's not including the time spent digging out the instructions for each round if you don't do them all at once.

ETA: I realized I wasn't counting the time it would take to do the 10 steps prior to the codes or the prayer.

Edited 2012-03-03 06:39 (UTC)

LOL! I know, right? It's a huge power trip--WE R GONNA EAT UP UR WHOAL DAY NOM-NOMZ LOLZ.

I've been getting great mileage from one longer session (maybe 15 minutes) at the end of my day, and one or two quick sessions (the five or six minutes it takes to settle, say the invocation, and put half a minute or so on each of the points) as time permits and need dictates.

I mean, will I be an Ascended Master in a year this way? Nope. But this amount of work is practicable for me, and it's having good effects. I'm in a web seminar this weekend, but when it's done, I want to try to pinpoint the results so far of using the Codes in my lazy-ass shortcut way.

I meant to add: Yes! The under-boob point. LOL. I still use it on intensive rounds--along with the full 9-Gamut, sore spot, eye movements, left-brain/right-brain stuff.

And I think I totally missed the ten steps that you're supposed to do prior to the Codes and the prayer. Oh dear. I'm a terrible flake. :D

Oh, oh, oh. I was wrong! :D

There are 5 "optional steps," 1 "recommended step," and 6 "required steps" which totals 12. I'm not doing any of them.

I'd tell you what they are but it's definitely tl;dr.

I'm finding it interesting and I have plenty of time so I'll keep doing the minimum time but I cannot even imagine trying to do everything they want me to do every day. Maybe I won't get results because of not doing it but it's such a convoluted process overall that I'm surprised anyone actually does it. Although reading the testimonials (which went on for way longer than one needs), there was a definite theme of desperation and illness to the edge of death. In that situation, I guess it becomes a situation of "what do I have to lose?"

Aw, Mozzi!

You are so right about the dire circumstances of so many of the testimonials. And I agree completely: if it's this complicated I won't do it. It's not in my nature. I'll sting the frog and we'll all sink in the river.

My good friend

roseambr has been simultaneously digging into the Codes and is 100% in agreement with both of us on the ridiculous--really absurd--complexity. Here are some of her comments, with permission:

"One thing I thought to add at the end was a reiteration of the prayer, adding that spirit and my intentions would continue to hold these codes as long as it is needed for healing to have been increased by the hundred times or more."

"all I could think about was how wordy and repetitive the process is. Then I realized that the creator has a talk therapy background so of course it’s all about the story! We realized a long time ago that the story was just words. If you state your intention you can bypass the pain of the story."

She wrote up an all-in-one version that incorporates short positive statements about all the major areas she's working on. It's beautiful, and she's happy to share it if you're interested. Let me know.

The only reason I'm bothering with all this is that the first time I tried the Codes, without having read the whole book or become confused by all the bullshit, the hand positions and the intention statement were physically and obviously powerful and I had immediate relief from some pain, along with a sudden mind-clearing that was very specific (I became oriented--I'm perpetually disoriented in the world). So I do believe it's worth the trouble to strip this puppy down and re-engineer it from the gold nugget outward, and anything you care to throw into the mix will be welcome!

I'd love to hear about other people's experiences with this process so if

roseambr wants to share, I'm willing to discuss. I'm lucky that I have people to discuss this sort of stuff with but my feeling is, "you can never have too many." :D

So I do believe it's worth the trouble to strip this puppy down and re-engineer it from the gold nugget outward, and anything you care to throw into the mix will be welcome!

I do, too! First thing I stripped - the overt Christianity. :)

I meant to reply to this with a firm nod of approval. The overt Christianity simply excludes too many people. I had a hurdle to get over with the word "God," myself, but I managed to clear it. I'd like this kind of method to be accessible to anyone even slightly open to the non-materialist, non-reductionist, non-determinist perspective.

I'm still doing the Healing Codes and have had a few of the best days I've had in the past year. Today though, I just want to sleep. Luckily my dog thinks that is a good idea so we are curled up in bed letting eyes drift open and closed. :D

I've been reading a bit more - not too much to get overwhelmed again - and now that I've been doing it for a while, I'm starting to see the bigger picture of what they have created. I still think it is an organizational mess but I'm starting to be able to move the pieces around in my mind to make more sense. I am finding a lot of moments of them contradicting themselves though so I'm still not sure about a lot of it. I guess I'm going to just have to keep experimenting and seeing what works for me.

I'm planning on finishing the 12 days of codes and then starting to focus in on things a little more intensely. I'll let you know how it goes.

I'm really excited to hear more. I've been unable to focus enough to set up a 12-day program for myself, but

roseambr extracted all the Truth Statements from the manual and put them into an orderly document. She goes over them and gets a feeling for which ones are strongly true, and then just Codes on those. She's been working on her husband and her cat surrogately. That's not a word, but you know what I mean.

I asked her to check the Truth Statements for me, and she came back with what I feel is a very accurate picture of just what I need to be working on, and that gives me some structure to get started in an orderly way.

I eagerly await your updates!

I haven't used any of the Truth Statements yet. I've just been focusing on either generalities like "love" or "joy" or I have been focusing on healing a specific physical condition that is bothering me. While doing the codes, I will get mental images, memories coming up, or feelings and so I let those just be there until they go away. When I try to call them back after I'm done, there is no intensity there - just like with EFT.

I did have a major depressive incident last night like I haven't had in many years so I don't know if that is related to doing the codes or to some music I was playing around with (solfeggio harmonics). I ended up putting on some joyful music (from Abraham Hicks) and it cleared up within the first song.

I would love to know more about the solfeggio harmonics. I can google it, obviously--and I will--but do you have some recommended reading?

They are some supposedly ancient tones that promote healing. I found a number of them extremely uncomfortable to listen to and after that day of playing around with them, I dumped the ones I'd downloaded.

I'd offer up a link but I deleted those too.

I wanted to come back around to this and let you know that I was so intrigued by the Solfeggio Harmonics that I ended up buying both sets. I've been listening to them and have found them really powerful as a boost to meditation. Three of them in particular seem to take me right into the zone.

There's one I can't bear to listen to (it has Tibetan throat singing in it and that sound just freaks me out).

I have a long history with binaural beats (which are embedded into these recordings), and I suspect that those are where the power lies, more than in the wash of musical sounds. I've been using Bill Harris's Holosync for years. It seems intuitively obvious that not everyone's brain frequencies would be identical, so maybe I just lucked out on these particular sets of sounds.

Oh, good. I'm happy to be the conduit to this for you.

I want to add:
-Would you ask

roseambr if she'd be willing to send me the document? I'll send you my email via DW mail.
-I did the quiz on the site as well so I think once my 12 days of codes is over, I will take it again to see what has changed (if anything) and then work intensely on my lowest scoring area until I can't think of anything under that category to work on any longer. Then, I'll test again and see where to go from there.

Eee! The reply column is getting really skinny!

roseambr has given me carte blanche to share her extracts from the work, so I'll email the Truth Focus Statement document to you today.

that sounds like a fucking awesome adventure!!

and LOVE the art! and the new ring and the sign. (just need a picture of sherlock by it - lol!)

It was an excellent day. That cat! I've been around a lot of cats, and I've never met a Shoulder Cat before. Roseambr and I were laughing in amazement as the cat just clung up there, wrapped around my neck, purring its head off.

Hee! We need a picture of Sherlock by everything! Have you seen this? Someone has replicated The Coat!

So much joy. You see? DO NOT GO BACK TO SLEEP. (I am trying not to go back to sleep because I have an appointment in half an hour, but that is a different kind of sleep altogether). (What an awesome day you had!)

I know, right??

Actually, I'm about to go to sleep because I've got a 6:00 a.m. call in the morning. But in general I shall stay awake now.

It was a day full of joy.

What an awesomely magical day! May you have more like it.

I'd love to figure out the magic formula by which one could call up days like that every day. But even one every now and then really spices things up.

What a wonderful day, literally. Love the sign at the end. You know that story about Houdini and his wife, right?

It was a day of little wonders.

Houdini and his wife? I don't instantly find anything about her except a bare-bones bio on Wikipedia, which says she finally gave up on her late husbands spiritualist beliefs, and stopped looking for his return or his ghost. Is there more?

Well, I don't know if this is true or not, but somebody told me this: Houdini and his wife were initially interested in the Victorian Spiritualist movement, the same as Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a friend of his. But, with the behind-the-scenes knowledge of sleight of hand that Houdini had, he often found that unethical mediums were tricking vulnerable clients at seances. He then spent several years investigating and exposing con artists who had associated themselves with the Spiritualist movement. He and his wife did continue to wonder if there was a way for people who had died to communicate with the loved ones that they had left behind. They agreed between them a certain message that whichever one of them passed away first would send back to prove this. Houdini died the earliest of the two, sadly of peritonitis after being assaulted in the street. Several years after Houdini's death, despite holding seances to attempt to contact him, his wife said that she had lost hope of ever receiving the agreed-upon message. It was just one word: "Believe."

Oh. Wow.

That is really, really cool. Thank you!

Love the art - and wow - what a tuned in, serendipitous day! Sounds magic!

It really was! And then I went on to have a most uplifting and engaging weekend.

How's by you? I'm behind on DW and will catch up later this evening. Hope all is well.

I'm better than I was - work is stressful (had a guy make a dickish comment to me today, but that more pissed me off than anything else) - I have a deadline bearing down on me and loads of coding still to do, with database guys dithering over issues that I couldn't get a lick of help with until about a week ago.

My daughter is having some emotional problems - we're working on it with some professional help, and my sister in law is supervising her online schooling for the time being, but I still have sort of a helpless "Sword of Damocles" feeling about it.

I do feel more energized, although I'm still not where I want to be. I'm getting over being sick and still feeling kind of gross.

But overall - LOTS better.

Yay for incremental improvements! Feeling angry at a dickish comment sounds like a big step up from (my usual response of) feeling hurt.

I'm glad there are some rays of light coming in through some cracks!

Starting a new thread so we can avoid
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I really need to rewrite the prayer to read to myself because I'm still getting hung up on the word "God" in it.

*stretches out and looks around at all the space*

I've been struggling a bit with that myself. (Love your icon, by the way.) In the last few days I've decided to stop struggling and just throw in whatever term I'm feeling at the moment: Center and Source of All That Is; Universe; Universal Source; Mother-Father-God (I don't like that one but it's in my litany from somewhere); Most High; Soul of my Soul; Unity; Oneness...

Well, I've been around the spiritual block a time or two and I've collected a bunch, and they're all "off" in some way, but I'm kind of deciding that I know what I mean, close enough is close enough, and I'd better get on with it.

I have analysis paralysis in spades, and I figure anything I can do to break out of it is probably in my best interests.

That said, I do want to know what you come up with!

I probably should do some emotional work around the word "God" since it is such a weighted word for me. Funnily enough, it's fine on my icon. :) My personal preference is the word "Universe" but that doesn't actually translate emotionally for other people because it doesn't have the same spiritual weight for them as it has for me. Alas, the English language is just not well equipped for talking about things like Spirit or emotions.

Perhaps a term from another language would work? Like, it sounds nice and holy but it has no baggage for you?

Or ooh! I know! A made up word! You know, like Slartibartfast or something. :D

I think the word has to have emotional resonance or it doesn't have any value and all the words I know from other languages don't have the right resonance for me. "Universe" works for me. I just don't expect it to work for other people.

Another terrific icon! I used to have a H2G2 icon somewhere, but alas it vanished in one of my LJ downgrades.

In my training for work with other people (hypnosis and NLP, mostly) the key seemed to be to use the client's own language. So I suppose you could just ask whether the other person has a term for God that they're comfortable with, and use that.

That's my "seeing if I really want it as a tattoo" icon.

I'm not sure that the Healing Codes are something I could even ever use on other people. It's just so freaking complicated. I'd have to have a 3-ring binder as a "cheat sheet."

I bet by now--after your twelve-day trial--you have a lot clearer sense of whether and how you could adapt the Codes to your own client practice.

From my perspective, you seem to have struck a balance between the undue complexity Loyd has built into his system and the flaky, annoyed-with-all-that oversimplification I've adopted. You're getting strong results! I'm a big advocate of wingin' it from here.

That said, I do want to know what you come up with!

I actually cut out the prayer bit entirely not long after we had this conversation. It actually makes the whole process feel better for me.

So, directly to the hand positions without verbal preamble?

That was me.

Look at the soundtrack. Figure out how many songs I'll be listening to for the code. Figure out how many breaths per hand position. Then the hand positions.

(The icon fits because it is of a musician! Ok. I'm totally stretching there.)

I just took the heart codes quiz again after finishing all 12 days of just doing the codes and with the second half of that, doing them while playing positive, healing music.

I went from having 3 categories under 0 with an overall score of 3 to having 0 categories under 0 with an overall score of 6. The biggest swing was from a -3 to 6.

Now, I'm not sure what to do. I guess I'll pull up the codes for particular ailments and work those for a while.

In a bizarre moment of Spirit Speaking Through Technology (or something), just as I was about to hit "Post Comment" on a lengthy response, my computer logged me out and rebooted. Ghost in the Machine.

The burden of that comment was that I'm impressed and delighted that you did the whole twelve day series, and got such measurable improvement. What you do from here seems like a completely personal choice which you're well-qualified to make.

I was in the middle of an intense conversation about inner versus external authority as your comment came in. (That intensity might have helped fry my operating system too! Too much synchronicity!) It certainly strikes me that you've given Alex Loyd and his methods their due, and are now free to move about the Healing Codes.

What I've been doing with the Codes is pretty random, but I've been having remarkable effects combining them with tapping, a strange form of prayer by a spiritual healer named Ann Taylor, and some other teachers' invocations. Every day, whatever comes to mind, I try the Codes.

And is it working? I think so. The results are complex and hard to quantify, but on a purely subjective level, my life today feels vastly better than my life even three weeks ago. I mean, different-universe better. What small physical afflictions I had are gone or fading, but it's my awareness that's changed dramatically. I'm filled with hope, a sense of love, and guidance, and clarity. It's pretty fantastic.

I have had some definite physical improvements but at the same time, had a few days where I had such a high fever that I didn't want to move and didn't actually do codes those days. I had a definite sense of needing to take a break from them on those days.

I went through the codes with a focus on physical ailments and interestingly enough, the day that the codes felt the most right is the day that the codes corresponded to the ailment that I'd really like to cure. So I am going to just do those two codes for the next few weeks and see what happens.

I really like doing them while listening to music. They feel so much more powerful for me when I approach them that way. I'm still not being inspired to dig up emotional crap from my past and focus on that while doing the codes and I am not sure I ever will be. For me, that just feels like struggle instead of ease.

I would be nuts to disregard your use of music to enhance the effect of the Codes. The same intense, computer-crashing conversation yesterday about internal versus external spiritual authority was also about music--about my relationship to music, which has been sad and estranged for many years and is now starting to heal.

I've dug out my zippered cases of CDs to see if I can find my New Age collection. There were some wonderful chants and instrumentals in there once upon a time--Atlantis Angelis by Patrick Bernhardt, a Gandarvha choir, some Steven Halpern... I'm almost scared to look because I might have given all that stuff away early in my skeptic phase. Failing those, however, I bet my Renaissance choral works, which I know I still have, will do.

I'll report back. Thank you for being the messenger!

And by the way--fever? Wow. Do you think it was a result of clearing? Or just a coincidental virus? Or is there any such thing as coincidence in these matters?

Edited (I made a new icon just for this conversation!) 2012-03-18 19:09 (UTC)

Mwahahaha One of the songs I've been listening to has these lines in it:
I want more, much, much more
Evidence of well-being
Coincidence I keep seeing
....
Days of perfect synchronicity
Wisdom to notice opportunity

Well, the fever is not gone but it hasn't gone over 102 again recently. It's hovering between 99.6 and 100.6 mostly. As my normal temp is 97.6, it's a pretty good fever. Right now it's 101.5. If it's a virus, it's a strange one as I have been feeling pretty good except when it's over about 101.4. Tylenol did nothing to help it so I'm just letting it be what it is. It could be from clearing/healing or it could be one of those strange things that happens to people with MS. I'm going to talk to my neurologist about it when I see her this week and also ask what my temp was when I was in there about 1.5 months ago.

Answering your question differently. I just looked at when the fever started and it was on the same day that I was doing the codes I'm doing now.

ETA: Because I am a freak and proud of it, my first thought after posting this was, "I wonder if I can get my temperature to spike over 102 by doing the codes some more today."

Edited (Welcome to my brain. Running away screaming will not offend me.) 2012-03-18 20:35 (UTC)

The answer is, "Yes, I can" and my body says, "Cut it the fuck out now."

ETA: I didn't actually push it to 102. I listened to my body fairly quickly.

Edited 2012-03-18 20:51 (UTC)

Yikes!

I'm glad you listened!

My body and I have a deal. It shouts really loud and I listen. :)

"I Am" is a pretty song that you might like. I think it may be my new positive message song for a while.

Oh, that's lovely! Thank you for the link. Now I'm interested in learning more about Satkirin and this thing called naad yoga, which I never heard of till this minute but which I think is a huge key to what I'm supposed to be doing!

You're a messenger of the divine today!

I had to look up Naad Yoga. I've never been drawn to Kundalini so I'd never heard of it. I do like sacred music a lot though.

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