Hands-on Healing at Club O

I talk often about how my life is balanced between tai chi, theatre and teaching.
One aspect that I don't really talk about much is the healing work I do regularly at Club O. I think one of the reasons I don't talk about it a lot is because I actually am not completely clear myself as to why I do it.

There are many different types of hands on healing (手療/氣療), and reiki (靈氣) is probably the best known out of those in the West. Club O uses a much simpler form - all you do is basically channel the universe's chi through the hands to the person you wish to send to. Whether it actually "heals" people is a question that I can't quite answer at the moment, and on some level, largely irrelevant to why I practice hands-on healing. I do know that it allows me to connect to people on a fundamental level.

Anyway, here's something I wrote for the healers a few months ago; and I'm digging up again now because dad wants to translate and publish it for the Club O newsletter.

Last Thursday, I went to Club O in a pretty bad state, because my dog, Uncle Jo, was dying. In fact, I was feeling so bad that all I was tempted to just sit in a corner and be still, instead of taking on the responsibility of leading a group. When I talked to Victor my hand my fumbled with the cup.

I'm not sure that I can be a clear channel today, I thought.

But being there, seeing 華姐(婆婆) and the regular faces of people in my group made me soften and smile. Just like every Thursday, I found myself being present for people. Quite quickly, I was able to access that pool of calm inside and connect to the person lying there in front of me.

I came to realize: weeks and months of regular Thursday practice (even those times when I wasn't even sure why I was there) has laid the grounding for me in this time of need.

That's why it's good to come to Club O in health as well as in sickness: so that we can be more ready when our death, our sickness, or the sickness of our loved ones finally arrives. Regular practice wears a well-worn path through the fields of love, making it familiar to the point that we can find our way home in the dark.

Of course, aside from the accumulative support from these years of everyone's practice, I know that we were also being supported intentionally last week by a number of individual healers. From your choice of music, from the way you gently passed on communications from dad, from your gentle words and firm hugs, I know that you were with us. For this, 我們非常感恩. 謝謝各位的關心和支持.

可凡
(08.08.2008)

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