waiting for Ada

12/01/23

It has been a good visit so far. We have spent the last 2 afternoons together. Yesterday I gave Ada a massage at her place. And today I wait for my massage. She gave me a book on the Emotional Freedom Technique yesterday. I read it last night and tried the technique a few times. It purports to heal old emotional traumas via balancing the meridians in a sequence that lasts one minute. Simple. So easy. I would love to believe implicitly. However....

And yet, it has the approval of Candace Pert and Bruce Lipton - 2 gurus in the energy movement who both have Phds for what that is worth. And Deepak Chopra - though that may not be a great recommendation.

The sequence involves an affirmation statement while massaging a spot on the chest, a sequence of tapping meridian endings, another sequence involving eyerolling and humming and then one repeats the tapping sequence. Actually kind of fun. And for those of us hanging around eating tortilla chips on a hot day with not that much on our agenda, an interesting diversion. So it releases phobias and traumatic emotions pretty quickly, the manual says. For degenerative illnesses like arthritis, it takes persistence. Do I have persistence?

So I did the technique 3 times last night specifically for hip pain and then went to bed, I woke up as per usual a few hours later with a toothache in my hip. It feels like a mouse is chewing on my bones. I lay there trying to find a comfortable position. Nothing doing. Do I get up and get a pill? Can I just get thru the night?

I rubbed hard on some acupressure points and then amazingly, rolled onto my tummy and slept till morning. Unusual for me these days.Was it the technique? The acupressure points? Hey, if it works, I will tap, hum, roll my eyes. I can believe that my hip mouse is a result of years of negative emotions (and genetic karma and poor foot structure) Can I believe that tapping on meridians and saying I accept myself despite the pain will make the mouse go? I will believe anything that works.