week thirteen

the development of a bionic person?:

when i was three or so i got two lovely white mice. "girls." so i named them after two of my favorite people - me(!) and jamie sommers, the bionic woman. jenny and jamie turned out to be jenny and james, with a whole litter of baby mice. fortunately(?), that had no detrimental effect whatsoever on my devoted love for the bionic woman.

that fascination aside, i'm not so sure i support the development of a bionic person. what is that? an entire bionic person sounds like a robot. i do support the development of bionic replacements for people who have lost limbs or other body parts, like the bionic eye. what a wonderful use of science. i'm intrigued also by the use of bionic exoskeletons to be ideally used in specific tasks, like any other tool or machine and then removed. has some strange potential for misuse, but then i guess so does a chainsaw, staple gun or bulldozer...

anyway the whole bionics thing and the 70's tv shows, and sci-fi in general remind me of a line from my 5 year old friend andrew's favorite song: "anything your mind can see, you can manifest physically, without the thought there's no reality. the clock, the chair, the stereo, the fridge and the tv were once just someone else's thoughts. are you with me, are you with me..." imagine what we could be imagining!

rate "the control of artificial limbs by thought alone":

sounds very similar and in continuation with the bionics idea. i've heard more recently about using a person's own paralyzed limb with rewired brain controls. thought control of a person's own limb or limbs seems ideal, but where there's an amputation or other complications, it would be great to be able to use artificial limbs that way too. amazing that these kinds of developments are going on in some parts of the world and yet in others, people, often children, with legs blown off by land mines, are dragging themselves through the streets on pieces of cardboard. what a crazy, unbalanced world we live in. may we be moving toward wholeness and dynamic health for all.

week twelve

acupuncture as effective energy medicine:

acupuncture is effective medicine. it's effective physical medicine. it's effective emotional medicine. it's effective mental, spiritual and of course, energy medicine. it functions as a balancing catalyst in whatever system or layer of the being it encounters which is available for healing. maybe by saying energy medicine we're referring to the unknown and esoteric aspects of how acupuncture functions. the magic and mysterious for which our western word is energy. maybe we're referring to electromagnetics and trying to reduce acupuncture to that particular known form of energy. however it goes, acupuncture is definitely different in many aspects from allopathic western medicine and plays with something much more related to energy than most things we talk about in the mainstream west.

conclusions drawn from kirlian photography:

being unable to see auras myself, i appreciate the visual representation of them. and i really appreciate the way missing parts will still be represented (for a period of time?) in kirlian photography. this reminds me of the way in which missing or removed organs still retain their functions in chinese medical terms. i also like the way they found bioenergies brightest at acupuncture points on the body. seems like some nice overlap in these ancient and modern technologies.

human intent as it affects health:

each morning before i get out of bed i give thanks for this amazing healthy body through which i live my highest joy here on this earth. feels good. and i also feel it helps my (sym)b(i)ody to remember it's function in life. beautiful radiant health in every aspect. yes, i feel this helps.

i feel intent is HUGE in life and can be also named as attitude, goal, objective, direction. is happiness part of the intention? is health part of the intention? are our words, actions, and thoughts reflecting our intention? do we expand the definition of health to include mind body emotion and spirit? do we intend to be healthy and to heal? do we intend to be fully alive while we're in human bodies on this planet? yes. sometimes we do. and as i mentioned in class, i hold a strong intention that those who are coming to me for assistance with their healing, are people who are ready and willing to heal. those who themselves hold a very strong intention. for this reason, i often find people drawn to me in moments of great transformation and i feel so blessed to be present to witness their work and dedication on their own behalf. i deeply believe that each individual's intention to be whole brings us all closer to wholeness, closer to dynamic balance.