Dear readers,

I’m thinking about how grateful I am that you are all in my life and marveling at how we touch one another, bringing health and love and harmony.

I am asking you to send love and light wrapped in a prayer for me.

I am having surgery on my right elbow this morning and your thoughts and prayers will guide the surgeon’s hands as he releases my ulnar nerve. Those same thoughts and prayers will speed the healing (JSJ does travel over great 4-dimension distances) so that I may return to sharing Jin Shin Jyutsu in this little blog that David Burmeister has been kind enough to allow me to present to you…all over the world!

I encourage you to continue your daily Jin Shin Jyutsu Self-Help and suggest that this may be a good time to review some of the articles posted over the past 4 years. Jin Shin Jyutsu requires a lifetime of study.

I love you all and will return as soon as the sling comes off!

Gassho, Namaste, Blessings

Debbie

Jenny Swiecicki writes about “Worlds Within Worlds – Birthing through Jin Shin Jyutsu” in The Main Central Jin Shin Jyutsu Newsletter, issue Number 72, Spring 2011:

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Exactly two years later, by a blessed synchronicity, I was able to attend a mentoring program in Scottsdale with Muriel and five other women. This was the first time to have that amount of space to myself since Malcolm was born. As the week went on, I felt increasingly uncomfortable in my hips and lower back. I noticed this particularly at night when I got into bed and also during some of the treatments I received. As the energy in my body began to open and move, I felt once again like I was pregnant, needing extra pillows to support my hips and lower back.

On the 4th day of the class I arrived feeling out of alignment in my spine. I lay down to receive the first session of the morning. My practice partner Lisa quietly listened to my pulses and began with a right Supervisor flow…purifying and transforming the present, and bringing in pure, Divine mind.  Muriel came by and held my sacrum for a while, and then Lisa finished by giving me a lung flow. (Lung Function Energy = 2nd Depth inhaling function letting go of all sadness and renewing myself with vitality and purified Life Breath.) I talked about my labor during this session, before drifting off.

I was aware that my body was continuing to exhale the fears and doubts I experienced during my labor, the voices of “I’m not good enough”, as well as the fears of my  mother during her labor with me – she had been left alone to labor in her hospital room. I was also aware of my maternal grandmother’s heavy burdens that she carried throughout her life and to her death. There was a releasing of generation upon generation of the women in my family, a healing of ancestral patterns and patterns in the collective consciousness.

When the treatment was finished, I covered myself up head to toe with a thick, fuzzy blanket and curled on my side. This darkness felt warm and comforting. I was sleepy and also felt tears making their way up from deep inside my belly. I sobbed gently beneath the blanket in this state of healing and rebirthing.

In the midst of this I heard the soft sounds of a sister on the treatment table next to me. In my  mind I was transported to a hospital nursery; we were newborns lying side by side in our cribs. After a while I peeked my head out to greet my classmate’s sparkling newborn eyes. Muriel was there, too, resting her left hand on my left shoulder. She sat with us, a compassionate and knowing presence. I then had the distinct sensation of being small birds in a nest with our momma bird watching over us. I smiled to myself thinking that I had just been re-hatched. Within a minute of this thought Muriel told us that the past few years her mentoring program had been in June, and that each time there’d been a mother bird who had her nest in a tree outside the window. I smiled at the beauty of it all. This year, we were the baby birds inside the classroom.

When I was 18, I received a reading from a man named Julian in Olympia, Washington. He said he saw me as a midwife, but not in the traditional sense of literally birthing babies, but rather I’d assist people in birthing themselves. I am reminded of that now, almost 20 years later, as I share these stories and think about all the ways we are witness to one another’s birthing through Jin Shin Jyutsu, to the worlds within worlds of revelation, discovery, and renewal. It is truly an honor, a blessing, and a joy. Thank you, Jiro. Thank you, Mary. Thank you!!

Thank you, Jenny.

Thank you, Mary.

Thank you, David.

Gassho, Namaste, Blessings

All issues of The Main Central Jin Shin Jyutsu Newsletter are available at http://www.jsjinc.net.

Jenny Swiecicki writes about “Worlds Within Worlds – Birthing through Jin Shin Jyutsu” in The Main Central Jin Shin Jyutsu Newsletter, issue Number 72, Spring 2011:

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I gave birth to my son Malcolm on Wednesday, September 24, 2008. After a long walk and a Jin Shin Jyutsu treatment the previous evening, I lay down to get some rest. I’m not sure if I slept at all before a mild but regular cramping in my abdomen began just past midnight. I stayed present with these sensations and my beloved cat Riley kept vigil right next to me through the night. In the early morning our midwife arrived since my labor seemed to be off to a steady start.

As my labor became more active and the sensations more intense, I moved  into a dreamlike state, which included some extremely vivid moments. Riley followed me from our bedroom to the living room couch that became my laboring nest. From a certain point onward, my contractions were accompanied by an excruciating, bearing down pain in my sacrum. I knew intuitively this pain was connected to my maternal grandmother, who had birthed nine children herself and had suffered severe depression in her life. She left this world when my  mother was seven months pregnant with me.

(Interesting that 3rd Depth, the bridge into the manifest body, lives in the sacrum/coccyx. My grandmother’s depression may have been due to a blockage of that bridge, not being able to receive and accept this life. It’s also fascinating that babies travel through the pelvis during labor, cradled between the 6th Depth Source of Life and 3rd Depth source to come into this world.)

Hours passed in a blur of contractions with short rests in between. The pain in my lower back was soothed only temporarily by a hot shower or by hands pressing against my sacrum. It was difficult to eat and I began to feel more and more exhausted.

Once fully dilated, I’d been pushing for what seemed like an eternity with apparently little progress. I was feeling discouraged, under pressure, and did not believe that I was actually going to be able to push my baby out into the world. Mentally I was swimming in FEAR. At some point in the midst of all the pushing, I became aware of tremendous tension in my shoulders. It was as if I were “trying to” push from my shoulders. I remembered Mary’s wisdom about effortless reality and knew I needed to shift my focus. My midwife sensed this, too, and just then sent me on a “walk” into the other room, to move the energy. After a hard conversation during which I said a lot of “I can’t, I don’t care” and that ultimately ended in tears, I was ready to face my fear.

I was ready to Exhale, and with my birthing team’s support and my awareness of Mary’s teachings, I came back to myself, to my Breath, to my center. In this place, I was able to push from deep within my belly, allowing my shoulders to let go. Malcolm made his way closer and closer to this world, and then he literally came flying out to greet us with my one final push. He was born at 7:16 p.m. = 7+7 = victory, perfect life power = 14 heaven and earth coming together to nourish and sustain = 5 spirit into matter, erasing fears. How powerful that his initial gift to me was to give me this opportunity to face my self-doubt and fears, and to move into a place of TRUST and allowing. His birth was truly an initiation on many levels, leaving me with a deepened sense of awe and reverence for the power within women and for the profound magnitude, beauty, and miraculous nature of this journey of LIVING.

To be continued…

Kelly Mount was inspired to write a poem, “The Main Central” in The Main Central Jin Shin Jyutsu Newsletter, issue Number 72, Spring 2011:

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Have you ever journeyed to the garden of Eden

Matthew 16 verse 19 offers the keys to the kingdom.

Have you ever walked through the valley of the shadow of death

A primordial fire that begins and ends in the breath.

There is a divine presence in the honorific center of the  universe

It is a place where the mind, body and spirit traverse.

The wise say, “As above, so below. So below, as above.”

A gift from Creator to compassionate man of faith, hope and love.

As a spark from the sun or reflection of the moon ripple across the ocean

The Source of life energy is the expanding principle of motion.

The Main Central is a solar gateway where we access the Divine

A birth canal for the energy of the planets through the cervical spine.

What is bound in heaven shall be loosed on Earth

Uniting formless with form for our rebirth.

What is loosened on Earth shall be bound in heaven

A weaving princess that binds us as ONE, as brethren.

We are the microcosm of the macrocosm in this expansive Milky Way

The light of the heavens manifesting our vertebrae

From the sella turcica to solar plexus, umbilicus and below

Revitalizing, re-energizing and renewing our personal source energy flow.

Thank you, Kelly.

Thank you, Mary.

Thank you, David

[Note: Sella turcica: A depression in the base of the skull where the pituitary gland is situated.]

Gassho, Namaste, Blessings

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