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My yoga teacher talks about these kinds of things quite frequently, and the longer I practice yoga, the more I understand what he means. When we are stretching our legs, he says, "Tell your legs how much you appreciate them for carrying you around all these years!"

A number of years ago I fell down the steps while carrying my 10-month-old, and I badly sprained my ankle. I didn't want to drop the baby, so my ankle really took the fall. It was at a time when I was overdoing everything. When I started doing yoga, a few years after that fall, I started a little conversation with my still-weak ankle. Though I felt funny doing it at first, I have no problem now with assuring my ankle that I'm going to strengthen it and take care of it, to retrain it to balance again so that it never gets re-injured. It's very reassuring and effective.

Buri, that is very touching. Lately I’m going through some tough spots so I really need this. A big thank you!!! There is a Taoist exercise called the , taught by various teachers of Buddhism or Taoism (Thich Nhat Hanh, Mantak Chia).
I'm going to do it today. Buri, many thanks for reminding me. The words "Inner Smile" got lost in my faulty HTML. The website is
See if this works better. http://www.kheper.net/topics/meditation/inner_smile.htm
Finally! Greetings,
if you check out `NLP Richard Bolstad `or something like that you can find his verison of the Inner Smile on tape. He doe sit very well. Highly recommended.
Cheers,
Buri My daughter wrote her university thesis on the topic of Ayurveda entitled 'Ayurveda: Holistic Harmony (a journey into the science of life)'In oder to write this she attended Gujarat University in India where they offer a degree course in Ayurveda medicine.This appraoch is still considered as valid as western medicine and is still widely practiced in India. Greetings
and all over the world. I am planning on taking some training courses in Japan. One of its strongets aspects is its tools for classifying pewople in wyas that make apprpriate healing methods possible,
Cheers,
Buri
It also works for farting dogs

From Anne Horvath
Posted from 71.12.189.144 on May 28, 2008 at 12:56 PM (GMT)

Lovely blog, but do you really need an excuse for eating more chocolate???

From Charles C
Posted from 66.249.85.131 on May 29, 2008 at 6:48 AM (GMT)

Fascinating blog, Buri. I am curious about two things - one is how would you explain this in terms of more traditional thinking (or is it just not ready to be understood that way yet), and two is does it matter whether for example you actually speak etc. to an injured area out loud or can you do it in your head, or somewhere in between?

From Stephen Brivati
Posted from 211.1.219.201 on May 29, 2008 at 10:44 PM (GMT)

Greetings, I think maybe one could substitute western or conventionla or some otehr term for traditional. The ideas expresse dhere have bene round for thousands of years. I think the basic premises of western medicine tend to be inopposition to this. Problems are seen as discrete occurences to be treated by an etxernal weapon. Thankfully, there always will be doctors willign to explore helaingpractice from other sources and geographical regions.
I don`t know what the differnece betwen speakign and thinking only would be except that speaking is a useful method for focusing on the present moment. Our thinking tends to go of fall over th epalce despite our good intentions. I note that modern tecnology (CDs etc) are offering an extrenal voice to kep our thoughts on track so I don`t actually speak while using a tape such as `The Inner Smile` mentioned above Cheers, Buri