Re: [ET2] Energy Dancing (was Whats Your Favourite ET Song?

You may remember the 'dancing' thread, below, where I was kindly invited to report my experiences back. I am writing this during the journey back from a weekend workshop which gave me great opportunities to practice.
My first one-to-one with a trained therapist was on Wednesday, some partial success but not the full-on experience of energy flow I was hoping for. my previous experience was an intro day. However, the weekend really proved the power of 'soften and flow' to me.
I can't divulge the exact exercise details here for confidentiality reasons, but a close equivalent would be as follows:
Imagine being male, one of 50 men and women in a lerge room, and being tasked with approaching each of the women in turn, putting the question "will you have sex with me?" using those exact words and no other. The women are only allowed to reply "yes thank you" or "no thank you" in a random fashion to each enquirer in turn. My job was to notice the emotional 'hit' of receiving the random acceptance or rejection. The women then got to ask the men, and again my job was to notice my internal impact of giving a yes or no to each woman in turn. Next, the exercise was made stronger by asking the responder to give a sincere yes or no, obviously without entering into any obligation. Finally, the exercise was made really strong by splitting the genders, men asking men and womeh asking women. This was pretty scary stuff for me, fully hetero, asking men for sex, even in a workshop environment. The real shock came when I got more 'yes' responses than I expected. Naturally I was emo!
 trancing to the best of my ability all the way through, and managed to wash away all the impacts as they happened. That was just one example exercise during a packed weekend, so you can imagine I have now had considerable practice in flowing responses out of my energy system. The weird side effect I didn't expect was to be sleepless until 3am this morning through being so energised and excited by the whole experience. Without ET I have little doubt I could have ended as anything other than a nervous wreck.
Perhaps the most surprising thing was when I tried the 'shushumna channel' problem resolver. I had no real situation to use as question, so I simply took the whole intense workshop experience and dropped it backwards over my head. What I sensed later that afternoon was not so much an answer but a strong feeling of affirmation that this type of workshop work is absolutely right for me to do now. That feeling was very clear, in contrast to my usual mode of following my nose through a sea of uncertainty.
Oh, and the dancing - I am too much in the head with it, but I reckon a but more practice is called for.
Approaching London, probably typed too much anyway.
Hope this is of interest,
Chris
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Subject: Re: [ET2] Energy Dancing (was Whats Your Favourite ET Song?

I get the feeling that these superb states you describe are much more attainable now than when I was older.
Chris
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Subject: [ET2] Energy Dancing (was Whats Your Favourite ET Song?

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thanks - I will report back, soon. Overnight, I was musing on my crazy
situation, trying this new stuff with nearly sixty years of
deliberately avoiding dancing as my track record.. >>>

Chris!

I don't blame you for not "dancing" in the sense of line dancing, waltz,
chachacha or whatever.

When I use the term "dance" I don't mean that, I mean movements that are
freeflowing RESULTS of what you feel in the environment, unrestricted,
just MOVEMENTS, really.

Sometimes, very rarely, you get to see a person, on TV or in the street
if you're lucky, who doesn't just walk, they kinda DANCE along the road,
as though there was no gravity at all - they're just flowing in a
MOVEMENT that is light, and easy.

There is a joy in it, something natural and so pleasing to look at, and
undoubtedly even more pleasing to be on the inside of.

There used to be this sig line that was very popular some years ago, and
a component of it was:

"Dance as though nobody's watching"

When I do my ET dancing, when it strikes me, it's just as well that I do
it at home, in a room, where I can get into it and not worry, focus on
the sensations.

Often it just starts with me becoming aware of my neck and back being
all tense and knotted up, and I just start moving my neck a bit and
rotating my shoulders to loosen up.

That's the start of the DANCE, in my definition, anyway.

This also reminds me of a story I wrote some years ago - Sufi in the
gym. If I can find it, I'll attach it.

For folk who can't move that well or even get up, a side note - you can
move the bits you can as best you can, and your autogenic body is always
able to dance FREELY.

It really does stimulate the energy system better than dozens of
prescribed "yoga forms" and twenty years of practice doing the splits,
and it's just more fun whilst we're at it.

Hey, I'm pretty enthusiastic about this whole thing, aren't I?

Blame Martin from the MM list!

LOL

Silvia xxx

Silvia Hartmann
http://StarFields.org

Found it!

Sufi In The Gym

On a visit to a big modern city, the old Sufi teacher noticed a building
called "The Dolphin Health Centre" and expressed an interest to see what
was inside.

So he was led through the various rooms where men and women in lycra
were sweating and with furious concentration on their stern faces,
pounding their feet on treadmills, jumping up and down to pounding music
whilst being exhorted loudly to "keep it up", groaning, straining,
lifting heavy weights repetitively and doing many other things the Sufi
found quite incomprehensible.

"What IS this?" he finally asked in wonderment.

The young disciples explained that the people were trying to exercise
their bodies for health.

The Sufi shook his head and in amazement he exclaimed, "But - have they
forgotten how to DANCE?!"

C Silvia Hartmann 2003

 
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