Intro - Dayu

Intro
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Hi, Emotrance buddies! My (nick) name is Dayu, (and I'm taking a shortcut so as to avoid further procrastination) and sending in an edited intro letter (see below) that I had sent in to another weblist (that focused on creativity) a while back! Since then, I've had some wonderful experiences with Emotrance this autumn... the first being with Chrissie Hardisty in an across-the-pond phone session (which if you don't mind the duplicates, I'll post to this weblist soon), the second being with Silvia Hartmann, founder of Emotrance...in an overseas phone session which combined an experiential learning as well as a rare one-on-one training and understanding of the basics of Emotrance, and the third one more recently in a coast-to-coast phone session in which Lyn Keller combined her solar-plexus + occipital hold position with Emotrance. Simply marvellous experiences...each one of them!

A question I'd like to ask is: How do each one of you individually "persuade" the energy to move/leave, be willing to find an exit path? This for me seems to be pretty key to the whole process.

Glad to meet you all and to be on this ET2 weblist.

What's in a name?
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Side-tracking a bit from Emotrance is "an aside" I'd like to share. I'm sort of reverting to my real name, Daya, these days, a name which I had been hiding from the world for 28 years...because of the way in which it was mispronounced in Western countries. When I moved to Thailand as a teenager about to go to University, after a 2-year stint in england, I drew the line, "That's it, no-one even gets to KNOW my real name, let alone mess it up any more!!! They can bastardize my nickname all they want, but I won't let them do that to my name.... so now after all these years, I feel like I'm pulling out "the good china" or "some amazing piece of treasure from my treasure chest" which has been lying unused all these years.... a with a bit of trepidation...

The name Dayawanti comes from the Indian root word "Daya" which means "grace, mercy or compassion". Dayawanti means full of grace/mercy/compassion. As a child most people called me Daya for short. I've gradually been getting used to re-using my real name "Daya" but it feels kinda weird outside of an Indian milieu. So may I take just a minute of your time to explain how it is pronounced - the first "a" in Daya is like the first "a" in America, or the word "the"...it's a soft "a" sound. And the second "a" is pronounced like the second "a" in America or like the "a" in "yah". Daya then sounds sort of like "the-yah" or "dhe-yah". One friend suggested saying hubba-bubba, they saying "Daya" with similar vowel sounds. I apologise for my rather clumsy attempts at trying to explain how it is pronounced...but it seems really important to me to at least give it a shot!

Something in me has changed with all this healing work... and what comes up is "I want to be me." Nicknames are fine, but I want it to be OK to use my real name too ...without any fear. Actually what gave me the impetus and courage to do this was that article on "Namaste" on one of the weblists, posted by J'net.... which explained so well how to pronounce Namaste. Thanks, J'net!!! :)

Well, that's my 2 cents worth for now. Glad to be on this list... and eager to learn as much about Emotrance as I can, and use it well! I have my first Emotrance client tomorrow. Any suggestions or guidelines from anyone?

I have truly enjoyed reading the intros posted so far and am glad to be in such a gifted and celebrated group!

Love to all as I UN-procrastinate with this intro,

Daya (phew..now that wasn't so hard!)

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Dayawanti D'Sa, BBA [Fin & Bkg], CKHFT [Dip - A.K.]
Applied Kinesiologist
Certified Kalos Health Facilitator Trainer www.kalos.org
EFT, BSFF, TAT, iSt 9x9, Silva Method, Creative Healing Massage,
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May 9, 2002

Hi, guys! I'm new to this list.... this group is very creative and
fascinating, and I've finally decided to join today. Glad to be here.... and
truly humbled by the wealth of creativity, activity, great results and most of
all the spirit of camaraderie and "joie de vivre" here.

My creativity has taken such a back seat for so many years... and it's time now
to put it more in the forefront of my life - so this group is just what I'm
looking for. I'm truly grateful, honored and privileged to be a member here.

My name is Dayawanti D'Sa, but feel free to call me Dayu (and only for those
who know how to pronounce it correctly - Daya). Enough already with the
Americanized "die-yaah" !! After years and years of this mispronunciation, I'd
rather live with the French "Daai-you", which is only a tad better! :-) Somehow
the names just don't come out right when spoken here. I'm in my early forties,
live in Montreal, Canada, am married to my Goan husband Mark D'Sa, and have a
daughter Gitanjali who is 15. I'm originally a Sindhi, having lived / traveled
around the globe for most of my life (omitting only 2 continents, I believe -
Australia and Antarctica :-)), as my Dad was an international staff member of
the UN and as his job stipulated that he could never work in his own country,
so for 30 years he went from place to place internationally, and we went along
with him (when we were not off at boarding school in India and England in our
later school years)!

To my regret, I have never had much of a chance to live in India. Luckily,
once, when I was 8 years old, Dad was posted to Cyprus, which was a non-family
station, and then Mummy and us kids went to stay at the ancestral family home
in Jabalpur (where Dad's parents stayed), and I remember with delight the fun
we kids had living in a joint family, playing with all our cousins every day,
eating fresh delicious hot home-cooked food (and none of the take-out one
resorts to when there is not time to cook, living in the West)! Then in our
high school years, I was sent to boarding school at Welhams' in Dehra Dun. My
last stint in India was the one year immediately after I got my B.B.A. in
Finance and Banking from Thailand, I figured where else can I get a work permit
as a fresh grad, and went to Delhi to work, where I met my husband. He and I
used to work together at Schaffersen Chads (at Nehru Place), a firm that's
nowadays known as Mexx. Then later, I got a job with Price Waterhouse and Co
in Delhi. When I got married, it was our destiny that Mark, too, started
working abroad, and we've only ever had a chance to go back home every two
years. This time, it has been 3 years, and it's been too long.....:-(

I've had to keep changing careers in every country I've lived in. First it was
management traineeship in corporate life for a year in India. Then in
Thailand, I was a lecturer at university in Maths, Statistics and Finance.
Having the status, but not the money, I left University to teach by the hour -
I taught E.S.L. to Thai people (and others), young and old, for a few years at
the American Univ Alumnii Language Center in Bangkok, followed by a career as a
tutoring entrepreneur when my daughter was young, as I wanted to spend lots of
time with her.... and I'm really glad I did - every parent should be able to
have time with their young kids! Funny thing is, her womb name was
"Pythagoras" :-) (Mark's and my weird sense of humor <BG>) and I used to love
reading stories and poems to her when I was pregnant, and it turned out she has
become an avid reader, writer, editor of her school paper, provincial and
national level debater and public speaker and whole host of other stuff. So if
any of you guys are planning to start a family or have young ones at home,
remember to spend time doing with them what you think'll be great for them now
or later - right from the time in the womb - it can't hurt and may very well
take root and sprout into a career option in later years!!

Then by 1990 we moved to Canada. And life had more surprises in store for me.
I couldn't do any of the jobs I had done before, so had to look around for yet
another career. By this time, I was in my early 30's - and that's just about
the time most people start to do their transformational healing work, if they
haven't already done it in their teens... and let's face it, most of us haven't
- Mark and I were facing some interesting relationship challenges. So I took a
seminar called Kalos Seminars - Kalos I - Heal the Cause, and found that the
problems I had with my husband were related to issues I had with Mum and Dad
and grandparents, and stuff that had happened to me as a kid. Apparently, I had
lived with my grandparents in India for the first 3 years of my life, and when
I was flown (alone) to live with Mum, Dad and my sis in Jerusalem, Israel, put
on a plane and given something to sleep so I wouldn't disturb the air hostess -
and found myself in another country with strange people who said they were my
parents, I must have gone into shock and truama. I did not really know this
part of my past history, (and had to phone Mum and Dad to check if all the
things in my hidden subconscious that were coming out, were true or not - and
they corroborated that they were true) and I had had no memories whatsoever of
those early years before age 6 (first grade). So the Kalos work (which is
similar to Landmark, if you know what that is) helped heal a lot for me. As
those memories healed, the pressures on the relationship eased up and life got
better. I later took Kalos II on Relationships (relationship with yourself,
with others, with your finances, etc), then moved on to Kalos III in which we
learned how to muscle-response-test the body for vitamin and mineral
deficiencies, meridian and organ imbalances, etc. Kalos IV completed the
programme with Dyslexia Corrections, Brain Gym etc.

By this time, it made sense to just go ahead and do the Kalos V training to be
a Certified Kalos Health Facilitator, which I did. And polished that off with
the final course that awarded me the C.K.H.F. Trainer title. Then at some point
I got my membership with the National Association of Naturopaths in Canada, and
since then life has been easier, as I can offer insurance receipts for
naturopathic work to clients, and they can get their claims reimbursed from
their insurance companies. So it's possible to make a bit of a living.
Otherwise alternative health is not at all a lucrative profession in Canada.
Maybe in the States, where free or subsidized medicare is not available, it may
be better, but out here, most of the alt. health professionals in this field
are still struggling.

I'm now an Applied Kinesiologist, Certified Kalos Health Facilitator
Trainer (www.kalos.org) amongst other things and use naturopathic wholistic
methods in my practice. I have also learned some real truly truly astounding
cutting-edge Energy Psychology Techniques in my practice, such as EFT, BSFF,
TAT, iSt 9x9, and EMDR. Then there's a few other things I use such as The
Silva Method, Creative Healing Massage, Reiki and Cranio-Sacral Therapy. In
addition, I'm a meditation enthusiast (www.sos.org) In my spare time, I
moderate a weblist on yahoogroups,
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/EmotionalFreedomTechniques with the help of a
wonderful co-moderator Lyn Keller, without whom this list would never have
survived!

I've always had problems expressing my creativity - and this is where I need
help, I think. I remember in 8th grade Art Class at Welhams' - we were given a
piece of sketch paper to draw / paint on. At the end of class, mine was still
a blank. Not a single idea came to mind - and if it did, I just didn't know
how to draw it! I would just draw a blank. One thing that I learned in the
holidays as a school kid, was that if you took a cartoon character, like Dennis
the Menace (loved him, and Jughead, too :-)), you could put the picture upside
down and copy it - and I was surprisingly able to do that quite well!! Very
very encouraging to someone really "behind" in art like me. Then much later,
when Gitanj was born, I remember doing lots of stuff with her - like finger
painting on a glass coffee table :-) and getting all messed up in the process.
It really felt great, just great! So liberating and freeing. Then when I came
here to Montreal, I took a pottery class, which was fun, too! Lately, if we
have anything to celebrate, we'll just go and spend some time at Cafe Art Folie
here, where they have wonderful ceramics you can paint, which are then glazed
for you, and you can take them home afterwards and admire your amateur efforts!
lol!

I'd like to write more, express myself more in words and other media. It
seems like this group is full of absolutely creative geniuses, so I feel like a
bit of a backward "kid" in comparison!!!

Once again, happy to be here and to become a __________ (group name) member
- or does one have to
earn that honor by some act of creativity??!! If so, I think I flunk!

in all humility and truly
wanting to learn and develop
this dormant creative side in me,
with best wishes to all,

dayu

           
Received on Thu Oct 17 2002 - 10:03:21 BST