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Seeing Myself as a Healer
By moo | May 29, 2008
Posted by: Ilchi Lee
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Based on my short-run healing success, my attention turned to what I must do to maintain my health over the long run. I concluded that with my stress-tension-illness cycle, I needed to stay with Dahn to build my wellness further and prevent new health problems – often produced by stress, aging and my hereditary tendencies (my parents had blood, heart and colon problems). So, I invested in a lifetime membership, making Dahn yoga practice as regular as showering. Then I observed that relatives and friends of my generation were also exhibiting a variety of physical and mental symptoms. Like me, they were wearing out from excessive stress, bad-health habits, and insufficient inspiration in their lives.
Therefore, I signed up for the Dahn Healer School, basic and advanced courses. This six-month program alternated three training sessions at the Sedona Ilchi Meditation Center, Arizona, with twice-monthly days at Greater Washington Region centers. Healer School introduced me to a healing lifestyle – for advancing my self-healing, healing individuals one on one, and taking action to heal families and society, and the world and the Earth. There were many techniques and skills to learn to become an effective healer. But more important was acquiring the attitudes, philosophy and sensitivity so that my natural healing power was awakened and enhanced. Through theory, method and practice, my confidence grew. I accepted that I had healing hands. Physicians believe that they can remedy only 10% of what patients bring to them. I was being educated in how to help with the other 90% of people’s health-related complaints.
During Healer School, I learned to sense receivers’ conditions and needs, mainly of their physical body, but increasingly related to mental and spiritual matters. I became comfortable finding appropriate healing approaches, through the invoked power of Cosmic Energy, to help relax and energize receivers. Practicing healing both informally with friends and formally with Dahn Center members generated positive feedback and gratitude from receivers, and deeply satisfying feelings inside me. Making more of a soulful choice than a rational decision, I shifted my professional and even self identity. I announced to others, as well as myself, “I am a holistic healer.” By this time, my management consulting business was waning. The choice was between incrementally fixing up the past, ego-based activities, and shifting the focus and structure of my life to soul-driven behavior. Because I had found few accomplishments in my life more fulfilling than contributing to the healing and well-being of others, I accepted that I had embarked on a new path. I had found a new life passion. With 77 million Baby Boomers in the U.S. starting to enter their 60s, there will be an expanding number of people wanting to maintain their physical health, keep their mental capacity, and seek spiritual meaning and life purpose during their mature years. I was indeed feeling part of the big picture of humanity’s and the Earth’s well-being.
Another strong focus and pleasure of my life has been children. I realized how wonderful my life would have been had I as a child exercised my body, mind and true self using the Dahn system. So, I was drawn to the Brain Respiration Instructor Course in order to be trained in sharing yoga with kids. I then applied it in classes at the Bethesda Center and a Washington, DC, private school. After a long career of teaching university students and corporate managers, here I was seeing young children come alive, have fun, discover more about their bodies, stimulate their imaginations, focus their minds, and at times speak from their true selves. They amazed me with their capacity to enjoy their bodies and expand their minds. With them, I have learned to be more open, creative and joyous.
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