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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.

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Re: Well, That Was Interesting

[darkemeralds]

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.

Re: Well, That Was Interesting

[jumpuphigh]

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.

Re: Well, That Was Interesting

[darkemeralds]

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?

Re: Well, That Was Interesting

[jumpuphigh]

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.

Re: Well, That Was Interesting

[jumpuphigh]

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."

Re: Well, That Was Interesting

[jumpuphigh]

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.

Re: Well, That Was Interesting

[darkemeralds]

Yikes!

I'm glad you listened!

Re: Well, That Was Interesting

[jumpuphigh]

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