Healing

I have been walking labyrinths for many years now. I sometimes use them to get centered and find answers to life’s simple issues or problems. They are my favorite place for healing prayers and meditation. I walk to the center with a need in my heart for a friend or friend of a friend. Once in the center I pray and meditate on whatever healing needs I am trying to fulfill. I sometimes pray for five or ten concerns at a time. I usually lie on my back, melding my body to Mother Earth. I do this until I am satisfied and weak; then I walk back out hoping I have at least eased someone’s suffering.

Add T’ai Chi Chih and it gets interesting. I am new to TCC, having studied only six to eight months under the tutelage of Gale Rublee Portman, an insightful and inspiring TCC teacher. I thought when using a labyrinth to do a few TCC movements once I reached the center. I thought this might boost my energy and awareness and perhaps my prayers and meditation as well.

TCC, not ceasing to amaze me, had different ideas. As I started walking the inward path my arms automatically and instinctively began Rocking Motion. I felt I was walking in a hip-deep bubbling spring; my hands were moving in a temperate bath.

Upon reaching the center, my plans were once again interrupted. Instead of doing just afew movements, I launched into the whole routine – knowingthat TCC would allow me to stop. After beginning Rocking Motion, my arms broke out in a major case of goose bumps. Then the lower arms and fingertips tingled with the intensity of a substantial electrical charge. This was way beyond the good bit of energy and some tingling I usually feel. Although it stopped by the ninth repetition, I finished Rocking Motion and did the rest of the routine, feeling a great deal of Chi throughout.

My prayer and meditation session was surreal, much deeper and more profound than usual. I walked out from the center feeling completely calm and carefree, almost giddy. I again moved my arms to Rocking Motion, playfully splashing in the hip-deep bubbling spring.

I continue to practice TCC and walk labyrinths separately and just as frequently unite the two. Both intensify the effect of the other. TCC can be supplement to many other activities such as music, art, etc. The intense charge felt the first time has not returned, but I can only assume that it was the two entities welcoming each other?