One day out from home

[sartorias]

While dawn rose with lurid color over the flat part of Colorado outside the train windows, I shared breakfast with a Navajo gent exactly my age. He is an artist in a number of media, though he mainly earned his living as a graphic artist. during the course of conversation he explained that he was on his way back to New Mexico to get traditional

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[danceswithwaves]

Sounds like such an interesting conversation!

[klwilliams]

Some of what we do in aikido falls squarely in the woo woo camp, and yet it works. My aikido sensei also does healing, which again falls into the woo woo camp, and yet he healed my hand in moments, by holding it and giving it energy, when I'd been in constant pain with it for a couple of weeks.

[sartorias]

I have long kept an open mind about woo things that have (sometimes, mostly, or even often) worked for untold generations. We know that the medical field, excellent as it has become over the past fifty years in particular, doesn't know everything about the mind/body connections, for example, much less that of what many call the spirit. These aspects conjoined with centuries of trial and error with herbs and other methods can still be effective for many.

[cmcmck]

A friend on LJ has a Vietnam vet husband (chopper pilot) who suffers from PTSD and has been trying to work it out by writing about it- he got published too!

[sartorias]

That is excellent!

[sartorias]

That is fascinating--thank you!