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[darkemeralds]

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.


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/


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.

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

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.

[darkemeralds]

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!

[jumpuphigh]

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.

[darkemeralds]

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!

[jumpuphigh]

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.

[darkemeralds]

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.

[darkemeralds]

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

[jumpuphigh]

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?"

[darkemeralds]

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!

[jumpuphigh]

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. :)

[darkemeralds]

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.

[jumpuphigh]

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.

[darkemeralds]

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!

[jumpuphigh]

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.

[darkemeralds]

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?

[jumpuphigh]

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.

[darkemeralds]

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.

[jumpuphigh]

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

[jumpuphigh]

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.

[darkemeralds]

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.