Dear Friends:

Wishing you all abundance of Joy, Laughter, Health and Prosperity in 2008.

As well, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your persistent and consistent support of Khadro Chi Nei Tsang through all of her transformative stages.

I feel that Khadro Chi Nei Tsang has evolved from her birth several years ago, to now become a full-fledged NAME that carries with it; INTEGRITY, WARMTH, TRUST, FAITH, PEACE & COMPASSION. I feel joy in this achievement. I both rejoice and honor the persistent and open-hearted support of my students, clients and friends, all of whom contribute these qualities to Khadro Chi Nei Tsang.

It is clearer to me now than ever before that Khadro Chi Nei Tasng is a living entity because it is part of a beautiful web that was previously hidden from me. My Spiritual Teacher, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, told me many years ago 'you must take your lineage name 'Khadro' so that you may honour it.' When I asked him what the name meant he told me, 'just LIVE it and you will GROW into it.' I had no idea what that meant but decided to take his advice on faith. This is now at least 15 or more years ago.

NOW, I understand that 'Khadro' is a powerful name that connects to a matrix of information going all the way back to the lineage of Khadro before time, in invoking this name we access the code that contains the information for Compassion and Peace which is the key to healing all disturbances which are the root causes of all our mental, physical and emotional diseases including suffering and hatred.

Hence you now see 'Khadro Chi Nei Tsang, The Way of Compassion & Peace'. I am indeed very privileged to be part of this and to share it with my students, clients and friends through this matrix that extends beyond time and space.

I wanted to share this important juncture with you and all my friends so that we might multiply the joys of traveling together in this journey we call 'LIFE'. It is the journeys of Life that have been the best teachers/lessons and places of enlightenment for my spiritual/emotional growth.

In meeting many friends of Khadro Chi Nei Tsang, The Way of Compassion & Peace, I have come to understand that there is a web that connects us all; these meetings are already encoded in the matrix of information 'Wu Chi', the potential already exists and the condition, (my reason to travel to teach) actually manifests this potential. Again, I am humbled by the vastness and generosity of this Great Spirit (Energy). In fact it is so kind and generous that it provides us with many opportunities to learn from life, nature, and from each other, the potential is as vast and endless as time and space. Like His Holiness the Dalai Lama's favourite prayer, in which he invokes the emotion of Bodichitta or altruistic intention to abide as long as space endures with a very strong motivation because he understands the immenseness of time and space and it being limitless so that He could meet the challenges of his Soul¹s Destiny which is to dispel the misery of Sentient Beings. Every time I hear this prayer recited by HH the Dalai Lama I feel the energy from my heart dance in response.

With the wish to free all beings
I will always go for refuge
To the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
Until the attainment of full Enlightenment

Enthused by Compassion and Wisdom
Today in the Buddha's presence
I generate the Mind of Enlightenment
For the benefit of all sentient beings

For as long as space endures
And as long as sentient beings remain
May I too abide
To dispell the miseries of the world

We all have a destiny. Many scientists, philosophers and theologians are exploring the concept that our 'soul has a destiny', a soul which continues beyond this life. It is encoded somewhere in our being that we, as humans need to accomplish certain things in this or other life times and we are here to do just that. I have seen time and again when individuals are manifesting symptoms, be it physical/mental or emotional, it is because they have forgotten their connection to their divine source, which directs them to their souls' destiny. Generally, through the process of Khadro Chi Nei Tsang individuals usually discover their authentic selves and reconnect with their purpose for existence. This rediscovery usually leads to alleviation or the complete disappearance of ³symptoms².

Through all my travels where I meet new friends and meet again with old friends, I discover that my job is one of being a messenger, just like 'KHA DRO' the sky goers who bring messages to the sky and from the sky to the earth. I learn with great humility again and again how we are all connected and how in this connectedness we are all the same because we are formed from the same fabric that weaves through all things and beings.

In this same way then Khadro Chi Nei Tsang Practitioners who follow in this lineage are also messengers, endowed with the KHA DRO energy that enables them to be messengers between a person's awareness and those aspect of themselves that are waiting to heal.

With this feeling and acknowledgement it allows me to be compassionate about my own foibles and to see others with the same eyes and be able to extend this compassion for theirs. Feeling compassion and gratitude for the humanity that we all share makes it possible for me to love myself and love others ­ it is this which generates the energy of peace to make healing possible.

I believe that it is the quality and Energy of Peace that make it possible for individuals to somehow be able to tap into their own inner spaces of peace and equanimity where they can discover their own inner resources for healing. This is ultimately what I believes happens in a Khadro Chi Nei Tsang session.

Looking back at 2007 for Khadro Chi Nei Tsang, it has been a year of establishing and clearly recognizing the quality of 'Khadro' in Chi Nei Tsang. We accomplished two sets of training seminars in Sydney Australia where we had some very dedicated students come on board.

In Lanark, Ontario, at the New Life Retreat we were delighted to meet many students from the Montreal area, again I believe these are dedicated students who will continue with the work of Khadro Chi Nei Tsang.

In Trieste/Italy we had a smaller number of students, yet I believe that those who came to the training are dedicated, wishing to make Khadro Chi Nei Tsang their first choice of treatment for their clients when they graduate.

I am also very pleased to confer to Eva Campi the title of ³Certified Khadro Chi Nei Tsang Practitioner². I am very happy to certify her as she intends to grow this practice and she is already helping many of her clients.

Here is the outlook for Khadro Chi Nei Tsang in 2008:

FEBRUARY 2008- I have been nominated by WONM (World Organization for Natural Medicine) to receive an award for ³Leading Intellectual of The World².

MARCH 9-14/2008 - I will be working with my colleague Peter Levine at the Esalen, Institute providing Khadro Chi Nei Tsang Treatments.

APRIL 2008-I will be teaching various classes in Sydney, Australia.

April 2-7/2008 ­ Khadro Foundation Class April 8-13/2008 ­ Khadro Global Body Attitude April 19-20 - Healing Love

April 15-18 ­ Supervisory For Students ready to qualify for certification April 21-15/2008 ­ Private Treatments (priority will be given to students who need the hours to qualify for certification as practitioners).

May-June/2008 dates to be announced ­ Weekend Classes with James Foo and Khadro (Dorothy Ramien) James is an amazing and highly skilled Feng Sui Master who uses his talents in Feng Shui and his special gift of seeing to help individuals in sorting out their health, emotion, home and business matters. I find that the combination of the Khadro Chi Nei Tsang and James¹ Feng Shui have assisted individuals to see things that are hidden from themselves and to understand why they keep repeating the same patterns, be able to become enlightened about where they are stuck, thus enabling change to come about.

JUNE 2008 ­ Trieste/Italy - TBA

JULY/2008 - FAMILY

AUGUST 2008:

August 1-5 ­ Khadro Foundation Class

August 6-10 ­ Khadro Global Body Attitude

That's as far as the scheduling is possible for Khadro Chi Nei Tsang for 2008 for now

 

Thank you again all for your support and love.

Peace
Khadro

Khadro School of Chi Nei Tsang
The Way of Compassion & Peace

Khadro, I have a few questions about a client of mine:

I have a 35 year old female patient who presents with shallow breathing and a 20 year history of anxiety and panic attacks for which she has never (consciously) known why. . She spent years holding this in, avoiding situations and not telling anyone about it. . There is a family history of the same in her mum and two sisters.

She has a lot of holding patterns in her hips and abdomen and breathing seems forced and awkward when you ask her to increase it.

Furthermore when I get to the upper right quadrant, an area I feel is crucial, she becomes dizzy, disoriented, dissociated mentally, and nauseous. . She appears faint, has a weak pulse etc but it eventually passes after 5 minutes or so. . In that period, she cannot concentrate on what I am saying, nor can I get her to stay with the feeling. .

Is it that all the energy has gone to her head? Or that she has learned to dissociate from any feeling there, as it is not safe?

My strategy has been to create space everywhere else, and to approach the area from the margins. . She now tries at home in bed to palpate the area herself, whilst previously she would not even touch it. . She feels she has learned, though, that her anxiety seems to originate from there.

I need to know whether to use some healing sounds at the time or if there is some way to keep her with the feeling instead of her zoning out.

-Dave

 

Dear Dave:

I am very happy that you are going forward with Khadro Chi Nei Tsang and working it and learning from your experiences of it. . From your email you are using your knowledge and skills very well and I am very pleased and these are my comments below::

Breath as you know is the motor that drives movements in the body. . Not breathing means we have decided at some point that the memory and energy of a certain situation is not safe and it is better that we not allow ourselves to feel it, know it and in this way we can pretend that everything is alright. . Though this is a deliberate attempt at first, as you know, and over time as you know we forget that we are doing this, and the weird feelings we get we learn to ignore as being how we feel. . We then think that this is normal.

So increasing her breathing capacity is crucial and to help her get in touch with the feeling of what is weird. . As you know “the good news’ is she will feel more and the bad news is” she swill feel more, so the good news and the bad news is the same. . When you are able to get her to breath in the upper right quadrant, you are increasing breath there and consequently increasing awareness of what is held there. . Her efforts not to breath there is to keep herself from knowing her sensations there. . Now by breathing there she is able to feel the sensation and so she might feel overwhelmed and faint, but she is not going to. . It is this “fear” that kept her from feeling what is there. .

So it is absolutely vital that you explain to her that you cannot fix her conditions, and there is always a good reason why she needed to protect herself from feeling these “bad” sensations (feelingsemotions) because she was young, vulnerable, lacked a sense of self and likely did not have emotional maturity then. . I have explained this in class, fear is not a bad emotion, it can help you survive. As in the case of meeting a wild animal on your path in the jungle, in order to survive you better run, and by the same token there is nothing so good about gentleness when you cannot afford it.

It is the over-reaction of fear that keeps us out of touch. Ah! This is another reason why we cut off feelings that we think will make us look weak, bad or stupid. We learn that as whole people we have all our “positive” attributes and also our “negative” attributes and we accept them without judgment as both are necessary for life and for the circle of life to continue. As you also know this is not an easy process but it is the only one that I know of that brings permanent change and empowers the individual to own their feelings, sensations (fears) without judgment.

Now, when her body is having these “symptoms”, (messages) it means she is ready to do the work, because her knowing self is not going to let her get away with not feeling whole”. . As you know when we disassociate with parts of ourselves, we in fact cut off communication from those parts and those parts in fact feel alienated and are also out of the loop of information. . As beings of consciousness we strive to be integrated whole people. . To be whole every part of us must be in communication with each other and from the source. .

When we read Candice Pert's work we understand that a part of the brain called the hypothalamus is the command center, and it sendings directives in the forms of neuropeptides to affect our emotion, state of mind, and being. . The body, emotional body loops responds back and sends sensations/feelings by chemicals and nervous impulses back to the brain and to the hypothalamus to make more of the same neuropeptides or different ones. . So tThe message to transform and change and to make different kinds of neuropeptides can comes from the conscious decision of the individual through the hypothalamus. . This is the process of transformation and change and it is this that allows us to be our better selves every moment. .

As you also know this is not an easy process but it is the only one that I know of that brings permanent change and empowers the individual to own their feelings, sensations (fears) without judgment. Ah! this is another reason why we cut off feelings that we think will make us look weak, bad or stupid. We learn that as whole people we have all our “positive” attributes and also our “negative” attributes and we accept them without judgment as both are necessary for life and for the circle of life to continue. I have explained this in class, fear is not a bad emotion, it can help you survive and the over-reaction of fear that is what keeps us out of touch and by the same token there is nothing so good about gentleness when you cannot afford it. As in the case of meeting a wild animal on your path in the jungle, in order to survive you better run.

When we accept ourselves as whole and as human and within our humanity we are all things depending on how much energy we have to deal with what is coming to us. . This is what allows us to be good human beings, and there is no such thing as perfection. . We accept ourselves with compassion as a good human beings with all of our good and bad “stuff” and that is enough and we don’t see ourselves as “perfect’. .

Perfection is a thing that is fabricated by the mind (Wood) we think and the thinking is faulty and foggy, and when we think too much we start to project outside of ourselves all of our sensations, feelings, emotions and we blame every person for the way we feel. . That way we become ‘perfect” and blameless and everyone else out there is to be blamed.

So we have to come back to ourselves. and yYour client needs to know that she is going to have to make sure that she has a good support system in the form of family, friends, therapists who can support her for when she starts to feel things, it is not going to be easy at first. . She will start to feel her weird feelings and while she is feeling them her energy becomes free to flow, she will feel more alive and more energetic and she also will feel her weird feelings and now she has the energy to deal with it. . Still it is not an easy patch that’s when friends, family and therapists come in to assist her. . To let her know that she is not crazy and that she is doing great. . She will need validation and support for the way she will feel.

Also taking small baby steps are important, so keeping her to be more aware by touching the places where they feel strange and weird and doing healing sounds are great

Take good care and please keep in touch
Peace
Khadro

 

I am posting this conversation with a student who wrote me an email, the name of the individual is of course changed to protect his/her identity.

For individuals who maybe interested to learn more about healing vs curing I am attaching an artcile 'Healing vs. Curing' that I have written on this subject.

Hi Khadro

I want to thank you again for your help yesterday Working with you I have come to have courage to embrace and stay with the deepest unpleasant feelings.

What we did yesterday seems quite significant somehow, although I couldn't say why exactly. I hope your arm is fine!

Love,
Bob

Dear Bob:

You are more than welcomed, it was something intensely heavy, prickly and it seems to have a weird odor and when it came out through my right arm it made me shudder. That’s all I can say, whatever it was you are rid of it now. It was significant and yes you need to embrace all parts of yourself and know that you are all things, all the beautiful, good stuff and all the other and depending on where your energy and intent is – it manifests that way.

Knowing this makes it easier for you to be your best self, without judgement, loving, cherishing and caring for yourself as you would others.

My arm is completely fine and I am too.

Bless you and Peace
Khadro