Sep 21 2007
Healing through Dahn Training
Sometimes during training you can get frustrated — and even though you are going forward it feels like a set-back. Like feeling sad or sick. Sometimes we feel if we are “getting better” we shouldn’t feel sad, or angry, or anxious, or sick. But we have SO many layers of these feelings in our body — in continuing our training it is like opening a door — and walking forward, and then opening another door — and another — before we open a door and not only feel, but know, love and trust our true self. Acknowledge your feelings and just go through them to the next. No need to hang out in the room with them — we don’t have to relive our past — we just go to the door and open it.
A few weeks after I started I went through a period where I was so tired that I could barely drag my self to class. But each time I made it to class I always felt re-energized afterwards. So the next day when I started to think that I was too tired to go to class, I remembered that I never regretted going. This tiredness actually continued for several weeks but I got through it. I figured that It had taken me many years to get my body into such weak shape, healing was not going to happen overnight.
Imagine my surprise when I found out I have to KEEP ON HEALING MYSELF! There wasn’t anyone at the center that was going to FIX me and I would STAY fixed.
That’s the beauty of Dahn Yoga. It’s not like going to the doctor. It IS teaching me how to recognize my symptoms (tiredness, sadness, pain, ect.) and how to FIX it myself for myself. And this is good because I will always have to fix something either with breathing, stretching, meditating, something. I will be happy when it becomes instinct and I don’t have to run to a book.
The other benefit, of course, I am learning to share my experience and knowledge with others….to help them fix themselves.