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| Didj healing philosophy [message #1754] |
Tue, 18 October 2005 13:10  |
Shayne
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Canada
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ello,
I first witnessed a didj healing at a music festival in Canmore AB, in the heart of the Rockies. A few days prior i had just bought a didj and was in the process of learning to circular breathe. At first, i had no idea what this man with the didjeridoo was doing to the man laying sprawlled out on the earth in the middle of a folk music festival. To tell the truth, i thought it was rather strange at the time. Now, 2-3 years later, after copiuous time with the didj and study of religious practice around the earth, i have come to realize a few things about what is ACTUALLY taking place.
The living ether surrounding the healer and the one being healed must first travel through the the healer before it travels through the didj and into the body/spirit of the one being healed. During this process, the heartbeat of the healer pumps the blood that is enriched with the oxygen contained in the air the healer inhales while creating the didj vibrational tones. When healing, it is very important that the air surrounding the healing is pure; obviously the most prefered place would be with nature and away from the immidiate pollution of the city and traffic. Also, the purity of the blood is essential here. If the blood is impure, whether by alcohol or other illicit substance, the purity of the breath is contaminated and will not have the same potential to deliver an honest healing.
I believe it is important for the healer to choose a naturesque environment and the healer must be pure him/herself. If the intermediary between the purity of nature (the healer) is impure, the purity of the environment will be tainted through transmission.
Think of dominos. the first domino is nature, that domino falls, hits the following domino (the didj healer) and the momentum of the first domino continues to topple the third domino (the one being healed). If the healer is impure it would be as if the second domino became very heavy and did not topple when the first domino (nature) attempted to tranfer its momentum.
pure environment + pure healer = a safe transfer of natures healing energy.
theres alot more to healing i haven't mentioned, like how it can be incorporated with the Kundalini understanding of chakra power centers, as well as the intentions and the pre-established religious beliefs of the healer and the one to be healed, but these are things im still trying to figure out.
Anyone have anything to add to these ideas or others that may be related? I'd be glad to hear!! the beauty of global communication is how it allows human beings to link their experience cross-culturally to obtain a more holistic understanding of our shared existential situation on this lonely planet
peace
-shayne
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| Re: Didj healing philosophy [message #1770 is a reply to message #1754] |
Sat, 22 October 2005 04:09  |
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RawFoodGuy
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Registered: January 2005
Location: USA
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Hi Shayne,
In my experience, didj healing is more about the "vibrational" sound and energy than the "ether" or oxygen associated with didj playing. Though it is a great breathing exercise at one level, it isn't the air that transmits the healing energy, but more the intent and energy of the healer. It is similar in that sense to doing healing with your hands. The intent, as you say, is important, as well as any belief systems of the player and, more importantly, the person being healed - they have to let the energy in at some levels. At a physical level, sound itself can have some healing qualities, but the didj in my experience goes beyond just that when played with respect and prayerfully. Though it is very very nice to play and heal in an idealized natural environment, which I do as often as I can, it isn't necessary in my experience. The didj itself creates a soundscape or environment wherever you play it respectfully and prayerfully.
I wouldn't obsess so much over the purity of the player. I don't think we are able to judge that, especially in ourselves. That is a huge judgement call - who is impure, what is impure. Is anyone living in the body and in the world "pure?" The didj and purity of your intent is more important than the purity of your body. I know didj players who smoke. God knows why! But I wouldn't judge them as impure. I have met healers that are grossly overwieght and unhealthy, whose hands perform magic. I just can't judge that. The healing energy is something sacred that isn't stopped by any percieved impurities. On the contrary, the didj I think tends to purify whomever is playing as well as the person being healed. Sometimes I get more by doing a healing than the person I am working on.
I think of it like a channel or pipe. The flow of water may be easier and faster with a clear channel, but a few rocks or impurities in the channel doesn't stop the water, it flows right over them and remains pure. In the case of water, as water perculates up through rocks and earth underground, these "blocks" may slow the water of such a natural spring, but they also purify the water and remove many pollutants, while adding important minerals. So I just prefer not to judge things at that level. In fact, not judging is important to the healing itself, both healer and the person being healed. I think for myself it is important that I don't judge myself, or I would never be good enough  And it is important not to judge the person you are working on, because that definately affects (though doesn't completely stop) the healing flow.
I suggest that you just play the didj and let your playing guide you. I try to tune into the person I am playing for before doing the healing, by praying out loud or silently depending on the sensibilities of the person. I can "feel" the energy and the person's individual healing "song" just comes though. The song usually starts at the feet where I may linger for a few moments until it crystalizes then works its way up usually lingering over the chakras. The song may change from chackra to chakra, especially if it encounters any dis-ease, and the tune may change for each chakra or dis-ease location or organ. It can get very rhytmic in style, especially for punching through blocks, but usually ends up around the head and over the crown chakra in a more meditative drone.
Anyway, that's just my own experience. Hope it helps. I also have a page on my Raw Food website I wrote awhile back on didj healing at http://www.rawfoodlife.com/didjeridoo.htm
Good luck with your healing and playing!
Bob Ross
AIM: RawFoodGuy
Email: Robert@RawFoodLife.com
Website: www.RawFoodLife.com/didjeridoo.htm
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| Re: Didj healing philosophy [message #1804 is a reply to message #1770] |
Wed, 26 October 2005 12:41 |
Shayne
Messages: 18
Registered: October 2005
Location: Canada
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Raw Food Guy,
Thank you for your comments. I think you are verily right when you say "not judging is important to the healing itself." It is a big judgement to say who and what is pure and impure. I have been attending many Native American Healing ceremonies and Bodily purity, the absence of alcohol and/or drugs, is an absolutely vital part of the ceremony. One has to be clean of these things at least four days before the ceremony. As you know, the Native American way is as varient as the tribes contained therein and so this approach is only one of many. the peyote groups may claim that they are purer while travelling that trip because it links them with the spiritual realm. The group i have come to know are the Blackfoot and they rely on fasting and other austerities to alter consciousness and thus 'break on through' as our beloved friend Jim used to sing. So, WHat i'm trying to say is that i agree with your ideas about purity and about judgment. It seems as though judgment would probably be a worse healing impediment than bodily purity because it disrupts the meditative intent of the healer and the healed.
Peace to yah
-shayne
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