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The healing energy of love
I had written this article about the energy of love more than 10 years ago, in 1996, in one of my last issues of The Good Life, which focused on the theme of energy.
Revisiting this article now, in 2007, as I put it on the Internet has been interesting for me. I vaguely remember the story involving the drunk at the end of this article, except that I got it mixed up with another story. I had totally forgotten, however, about the exercises of sending love, which I had experienced. I had forgotten how real the energy of love can be. Yes, it is a real, physical force that can be felt. Here's the original article... Love, too, is a form of energy. It is not just an emotion, but also a real force which we can feel physically, much like the energy in our hands.
But it is not restricted to the sort of feeling we get when we are with someone special. We can feel the energy of love with anyone, anytime, anywhere, even in such unromantic places as seminar rooms and auditoriums. Sending the energy of love Many people experienced this energy of love at last year’s talk by Dr Lai Chui Nan, or on the last evening of Michio Kushi’s macrobiotic seminar in Singapore in 1993. In smaller settings, they felt it at Dr Leonard Laskow’s workshop on holoenergetic healing, and other similar workshops. It’s simple: Choose a partner. It ca be anyone, not necessarily someone you like or love, although it helps if it is someone you feel comfortable with. Sit facing each other. It’s best to sit comfortably with your back straight, both feet on the ground and with your eyes closed. One person sends loving thoughts of appreciation, caring and so on... while the other person receives and enjoys. Before sending out the energy of love, recall the times when you felt most loving, or most loved. Let this feeling fill you let it fill your heart, then your throat, forehead and other charkas... And then send it out. Switch roles after a few minutes. The first person receives the energy of love while the second person sends. The receiver my feel some kind of physical force coming from the sender. Like the energy in your hands, it may be felt as a slight pressure, warmth, cool, tingling, or some other sensation. Depending on the persons involved and how good they are, this feeling of the energy of love can either be very subtle or quite strong. Unconditional love This energy of love can be powerfully healing, especially if it is unconditional love --love with no condition attached. We think of unconditional love as that of parents who love their children whether they grow up good or bad, or of couples who love each other even when one partner had been unfaithful. Or of the love of God.
In Healing with Love, Dr Leonard Laskow gives a somewhat different example – the love which a basketball player received from his fans. Laskow recounts: I remember reading in 1978 about the Golden State Warrior’s Sleepy Floyd. At the start of the fourth quarter of the National Basketball Association playoffs, the Warriors were trailing the Los Angeles Lakers by 14 points. As the quarter began, Floyd looked up into the stands and saw a sign: “Win or lose, we love you.” “That really touched me,” Floyd said. ”I felt I had to give everything I had… I didn’t think about the points. I just played instinctively, and the crowd got into it.” Sleepy Floyd went on to score a record-setting 29 points, which gave Warriors a victory. The fan’s unconditional acceptance and love touched him in the heart of his being, triggering in Floyd a source of energy and power…
In his book, Laskow relates another story which shows how the energy of love can be more powerful that muscle and might. This is taken from Safe and Alive, a book by Terry Dobson. It recalls an incident in Tokyo, where Terry was studying the Japanese martial art, Aikido. Terry was on a train one afternoon when a drunk boarded. He was big, filthy and violent. The drunk swung viciously at the first person he saw, a woman carrying a baby. The blow sent them, miraculously unharmed, into the laps of an elderly couple. Terry stood up, determined to teach this man a lesson. He had been studying aikido for three years, but had never tested his skills in a real fight. Terry remembered his teacher telling him: Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate other people, you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not start it. Terry ignored this. He wanted to be a hero. As he stood up, the drunk focused his rage on him.“A-ha! A foreigner!” the drunk said. “You need a lesson in Japanese manners!” He punched a metal pole to emphasize his words. Terry prepared himself. Just as the drunk was about to rush at him, someone yelled, “Hey!” They turned to see a little old Japanese man, well into his 70s. “C’mere,” the old man said, beckoning to the drunk. “C’mere and talk with me.” “Why the hell should I talk with you?” the drunk bellowed. “Wha’cha been drinking?’ the old man asked, his eyes sparkling with interest. “Sake,” the drunk replied, “and it’s none of your damned business.” “Oh, that’s wonderful,” the old man said. “You see, I love sake too. Every night, me and my wife warm up a little bottle of sake and take it out into the garden… We watch the sun go down, and we look to see how our persimmon tree is doing. The persimmons are so beautiful…” The drunk’s face had softened as he tried to follow the old man’s story. Even his fits had relaxed. “Yeah’, he said, “I love persimmons too”. “Yes,” the old man said, “and I am sure you have a wonderful wife.” “No,” the drunk replied. “She died. I don’t have a wife or a home or a job. I’ve got no money and no where to go.” “My, my, this is very difficult,” the old man said. “Sit down here and tell me all about it.” Within moments, the drunk was sprawled in the seat next to the old man, his head on the old man’s lap. The old man’s face was filled with compassion and delight, one hand stroking the drunk’s head. As tears rolled down the drunk’s cheeks, a spasm of despair rippled through his entire body. Terry said he felt dirtier inside than the drunk was outside. He reflected on what he wanted to do and on what the old man had done with a few kind words. With his gentle voice, compassion, fearlessness and love, the old man had accomplished what no amount of combative muscle could have done.
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