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Letters
Whilst we will always welcome
letters to our website, we reserve the right not to publish anything which we
consider to be not in the interests of our members.
April 25th 2006
Hi Mike
Why Remote Viewing on the Waveform Website; aren’t they quite different?
I have been interested in Remote viewing for
many years and, after a workshop with Dr Angela Thompson Smith at ‘The
Field’ Conference in London in 2003 was even more determined to train in
Remote Viewing as I felt that it also opened doors to the greater realisation of
human potential.
My training last year with Dr Angela
Thompson Smith (who I met for the first time at ‘The Field’ Conference in
London in 2003) convinced me that there were some overlapping skills
between Waveform and Remote Viewing.
This year the ‘advanced ERV’ week with Angela covered a number of areas that
pushed us beyond the known limits of our abilities. The request for help from
the USA for a serious life situation made us explore deeply for means to access
information that may assist in the safe return of a missing child to her
parents.(Have a look in workshop Reviews - ERV course)
In this case, and also with the other the other real targets that we were
presented with, Waveform enabled me at times, to obtain more easily the
information I was looking for. I believe that the other Remote Viewers in our
group also used Waveform to good effect at least once during the advanced
sessions.
Our Waveform ‘alerts’ contain elements
of Remote Viewing, and what we have learned over the last two years from Remote
Viewing may help us develop ways of improving and extending our skills.
March 8th 2006
Hi Mike & Stella,
Many thanks for holding such an incredible course last weekend at Holycombe,
although I have practised some of the exercises we did in the past, and have
done other similar ones in the past on Shiatsu courses and in Tai Chi, this was
a totally new approach and had totally different results!
For the past week I have had on & off strong sensations in my feet and root
chakra and a lot of activity in my hands, and I woke up in the middle of
Wednesday night because the room was filled with lines of light on the ceiling -
a wondrous sight - I have been much more aware of energy surrounding people,
animals and objects and occasionally seen colours around clients. I'm already
seeing the potential waveform could have in improving the quality of my
work as a practitioner and teacher, and I am definitely going to take part in Waveform
2 at Holycombe in November, and look forward to seeing you then.
Many thanks Mike for passing on what you have learnt - a lot by transference I
feel - it was a very special weekend.
Love & light
Miriam
Miriam Luckhurst MRSS
Shiatsu & Indian Head Massage Therapist
Reiki & Karuna Reiki Master/Teacher
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Mike and Stella,
A big thank you for the weekend, it has been an extremely rewarding experience
and I'm looking forward to seeing you at the end of March for part two.
Today I've treated my first client since the weekend and had the opportunity to
apply my new tools. Amusingly, I found that because I could 'lock in' on what
wanted to change and applied appropriate techniques I became concerned that I'd
need to almost 'pad out' the remainder of the treatment. To me I feel that what
we learnt as 'centering' is actually building our frame of reference from which
to work from. Last night I was teaching a class and performed some sticking
hands with several students I was amazed at how I could sense the intent of
where they wanted to strike and this allowed me to calmly redirect and respond
into their openings. Very enjoyable and truly relaxing (for me anyway!!). I
guess it wasn't that stressful for my partners either because they ended up just
laughing at how frequently they were getting 'tapped'.
Anyway, just wanted to thank you once more.
Best wishes and good health..
Joel.
(This
was an email sent to a friend and reprinted with permission from the writer)
Tom,
Waveform is everything and more what I have personally been looking for since my
Ju-Jutsu teachers death nearly eight years ago. In just 20 years of martial arts
I've seen/experienced a lot of things that border on the fantastic;
unfortunately most teachers that can demonstrate anything do just that;
demonstrate. It is an affliction of the weak that they sit more comfortably upon
their pedestals with little hero worshippers at their feet than actually
fulfilling the role of a sensei; to guide other individuals to their own
understanding.
For me Waveform has clearly given me the tools to now go away and learn the
'how?' of these things I've experienced. My shiatsu and martial arts have
already made big improvements in under a week! Looking forward to the next one.
Best wishes to you
Joel
(Shiatsu Practitioner and Martial Arts Teacher)
March 3rd 2006
The following letter has been
received from Steve Carter, a Shiatsu Practitioner, and is on the subject of the
Shiatsu Society's decision to accept the ruling of the ASA that Shiatsu Is for
'relaxation only'.
Dear Mike
Thank you for your letter explaining your position within the management
frame-work of Shiatsu in the UK.
After receiving the minutes from Peter Rose, I was surprised to read that
the Shiatsu Society can allow the ASA to dictate how shiatsu should be perceived
by the general public.
It was always my understanding that the Shiatsu Society is one of the pinnacle
bodies involved in gaining status for Shiatsu to be recognised by the
medical profession in a similar light as Acupuncture.
If it is reduced to the realms of just 'a nice massage' then that makes a
complete mockery of their own stringent entry requirements and the training that
is provided by the many excellent teachers that have worked so hard to
understand, and pass on their field of study.
Most of my studies have been in Japan where Shiatsu is recognised as a part of
healthcare that is medically recognised by the government. The lack of
understanding of what Shiatsu is in this country is the same as the
understanding of what Karate is, or any other oriental word. It is just plain
ignorance and a lack of asking questions.
The practitioners that I have worked with in Japan all have an understanding of
Seitai which is akin to Osteopathy/Chiropracting and Sotai which is like
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation they also incorporate Judo seifuku or
bone setting, which is itself recognised in Japan as a medical treatment for
dislocations and broken bones.
At every Judo tournament there is always someone present with training in Judo
Seifuku and the Olympic committee embrace this. Shinden Jutsu is another
technique that helps the body fluids and ligaments this treatment helps the body
maintain the stability of the vital organs and spine; and Kenkujutsu which is
the treatment that balances the cranial sacral system which in turn helps
balance the immune and nervous systems.
All these approaches exist in Shiatsu.
My teacher has always told me that if you know one thing really well then you
know everything. It is just a matter of varying the technique (hente in
Japanese).
The boundaries that exist in any art are the ones that constrain ones own mind
to the possibilities that exist within the giver and receiver to heal
respectively, and irrespective of the treatment. If the argument is regarding
the claim to cure, then no form of Medicine can or should claim that. All
medicines help facilitate the body’s own healing mechanisms to cure itself,
either by inhibiting a foreign invader or by helping to boost the immune
system.
There is no known cure for cancer; their are treatments that are sometimes
successful and other times not.
Until someone unlocks the keys to the creation of life then we are left with
just ways to help relieve pain in all their varied forms. The human condition is
never cured; we just have reprieves from pain and illness until the ultimate
cure to life comes when we shed our bodies.
However if we are talking about treatment; any therapeutic art that has a
scientific basis which includes the study of anatomy and Physiology, Pathology
and Kinesiology as do all the classical oriental therapies and can relate to
both western and eastern medicine together have a right to state that they treat
this or that problem, because they have been doing it successfully in
their own country for thousands of years.
Shiatsu is just as well equipped to deal with a frozen shoulder as any Osteopath
or Chiropractor. Many Osteopaths and Chiropractors are now using Acupuncture,
moxabustion and cupping to supplement their treatments.
There are courses being taught by the British Medical Acupuncture Society
for Doctors recognised by the NHS .
So if there is no proof of it working why are the concepts in use and available
on the NHS.?
Where is the proof that
magnet therapy works which is now available on the NHS also?. Proof lies in the
testimony of people that receive the treatment,
that is why as professionals we write case studies.
It is my personal feeling that the bureaucrat in charge of the ASA investigation
has not done his/her homework. He/she has not realised that Oriental Medicine
predates Western Medicine by approximately 3000 years or more. What he /she
fails to comprehend is that many "cures" are being sort in the jungles
of the Amazon, the sea , the rainforests of the world..all of which are found in
nature, as it is nature that cures us, and it is nature that kills us.
I have not been involved in Shiatsu a long time but what I have seen is the same
as I have experienced in the martial arts world. A constant bickering for
positions of power which serve no purpose only to the individuals ego.
It would be nice to see everyone getting together and fighting for the common
good for shiatsu to gain the same status in this country as it has in Japan. As
an alternative therapeutic treatment that is recognised by the government in
facilitating the bodies own mechanism to heal (That can be interpreted as you
like)
I hope you find this letter informative and useful and I hope to hear from you
in the near future.
Kind regards
Steve Carter.
(I
am grateful for Steve's personal view and input on this subject and will publish
my reply shortly)
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I have been asked one particular question so often that I thought that I would
start by answering this one first on our letters page.
Q
1
“If the realisation of Waveform can be accomplished in just a few days, why
not just tell us how it is done?”
A
This is an interesting question, and is actually an amalgamation of a number of
questions.
In 2000 I received a
telephone call from one of the most respected Reiki Masters in the USA, if not
the world, who said that he didn’t have time to do our workshops, so can I
just tell him how it was done?
I also had a conversation
with a Shiatsu Teacher who said something similar – much to my surprise; and
from someone who meditated and talked about helping students, ‘with their
development’.
Why was I surprised?
I was surprised to be asked
to provide a magic formula or something similar to putting in a ‘pin
number’, and out would pop the all-enlightening answer, as if that was all it
was. What was more surprising was that I had been approached by people,
responsible for the training of others, who should have known better than to
think ‘realisation’ was little more than a ‘trick’, which could be
passed on from someone else.
Q
2
Isn’t
achieving Waveform receptors and emotional Resonances in somewhere between 1 and
6 days a bit ‘fast’?
A
I was asked the same question by a fearful (shiatsu) Therapist who said “It can’t be right to get it so fast”
I asked her how long she had
been studying or working towards direct energetic access – “20 years”, she
replied, I asked her if she felt that she had worked at it long enough, still
without making that realisation? – She did not answer this question.
If realisation is in front of
you all the time and can be ‘achieved’ in an instant, what is, ‘too
fast’?
Q
3
So what is so different about your workshops,
compared to another Teacher’s workshop on energy and its application?
A
I can only repeat what we have been told by our students who are often Teachers,
highly qualified and experienced, and, we are told have worked with some of the
best teachers in the world.
They say that we teach them to actually do,
what other teachers talk about!
If
we have a skill, it is in knowing how to bring the student to their own point of
realisation, and being there at that very important time for them.
That realisation takes them into a shared experience with us on an energetic
level, and the profound realisation that all that was always there, is revealed
to everyone, shared by everyone.
Q
4
Are you aware, or even bothered by the fact that any of your students and
graduates could go away and teach Waveform to other people?
A
Yes, any graduate can tell you where the receptors are, however if they did,
they would rob you of your own hard won realisation, and what you would have
would be nothing more than just another tool - that is if you were aware of
having the tool!
What you would lose is the
realisation that comes with it, that you are magical; achieving self-
empowerment and another step towards Mastery.
To illustrate this point:
Many Martial Arts instructors
will recognise the student who keeps asking how long it will take to get their
‘black belt’.
More than one instructor will have handed the student a ‘black belt’ and ask
them to leave their dojo and train elsewhere.
Think of the difference between the student who ‘has’ a black belt and
thinks that they have ‘made it’, and one who has worked towards it and has
earned it and also realises what it stands for when it is awarded to them.
This black belt realises that
they are now considered to be a ‘serious’ apprentice, a new starting point,
having what they need to take them further into Mastery. The first student with
a ‘black belt’ given to him, has nothing except the trappings of
‘mastery’, and is a fake, and if challenged they have nothing solid to fall
back on.
Although we do not encourage it, we are aware of one or two students who, with
the best will in the world have tried to help friends and students by telling
them where, and what is happening.
Our understanding is, that without exception the response was like that of a
damp firework. Those who had even recognised the tactile signs of receptors did
not also have the realisation, which was expected by the student who had
imparted the sensory information to them.
It has taken the experience
of nearly nine years to create and improve the path to realisation for our
students, along with recognition of the sensory information. Only through self
-realisation is Mastery a reality.
Q
5
“I was reading the Cliff Andrews article in the Shiatsu mag and his references
to Quantum physics. Are you and Cliff on the same wavelength (as it were) or is
he looking at things differently to you? My grasp on the physics side of
waveform is a bit rudimentary I'm afraid”.
A
Thanks for your question Angela.
Without getting drawn into personalities, I will answer this question as simply
and as briefly as I can.
I wish to start by saying
that I have some concern that much of what is being ‘revealed’ as new, ‘ground
breaking stuff’ over the last year or two, was not only realised, but
was published by Waveform in articles as far back as 1996 and 1997.
Please have a look at the
early articles on our website, and the letter to the Shiatsu Society news,
written by Alan Leith and Joe McHugh which, after being initially rejected was,
after some discussion, eventually published in the SS Newsletter in Spring 2004.
The ‘Kyo Jitsu paradox’, disappearing tsubos, tsubos in the extended energy
fields are all there.
Tsubos in the extended human
energy field have been part of our teaching since 1996, references to this can
be found in early articles, like ‘Transcending Kyo and Jitsu’ and a diagram
entitled Tsubo Chain Reaction has been part of our Waveform teaching since 1997,
demonstrating clearly the response of tsubos in the extended HEF.
Cliff’s ‘physics’ and
explanations of what is happening energetically, and how some of these phenomena
manifests (A new model of understanding for Shiatsu, SS Newsletter, Autumn 2005)
are however, not our personal experience of the last nine years of research and
experimentation. However the article does not convey clearly which are Cliff’s
own personal experiences and explanations; as there are ten references at the
end of the article; nine reflecting the opinions of other people. Whatever, we
wish Cliff all luck with his line of research.
Q
6
“….as you were so involved with marketing, why did you decide to resign when
you had another year to go as a member of the Shiatsu Society management
committee”.
A
I suggest that you contact the Shiatsu Society office and ask for a copy of my
letter of resignation.
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