Spirituality , Woo Woo and Ancient Chinese Wisdom.
My island home on the west coast of Canada is one of those crystal power spots, attracting into it’s vortex all and sundry seekers. We have the prerequisite shop selling all manner of Buddha statues, incense, crystals and mandalas. There are yoga and tai chi classes to keep your yin and your yang in order. There are a multitude of healers dangling the latest quantum power mantra training workshop and certificate program. I know, because I like all this stuff. I am woo woo myself and have a studio called the “Wizard’s Attic” where people come to be craniosacralized by moi. Some of those seekers find there way to my spot and I do my wizard stuff. I huff and I puff and I blow the house down. The house being fear, sorrow and miscellaneous glum snot that interferes with breathing and life. When the house comes down, and they can blow their nose, it becomes apparent they are standing out in the forest in bare feet sniffing the sweet scent of nature and their own true self. This is my kind of woo woo.
Ancient Chinese medicine and philosophy regarding life energy (chi) intrigues me. I have a number of invisible friends with old wrinkled faces and long scraggly beards that occasionally inform my hands when I work. Clients also tend to bring their own invisible friends with them in order to heal themselves, some of which have great and old knowledge we can tap into. Some even have wings and many have whiskers and paws. I told you I was woo woo.
Personally, I am very fond of one friend that has a sense of humour and an evolved sense of boundaries. The territory of boundaries is usually rather mushy and sloppy with peace loving spiritual types. This old and dear invisible friend taught me a couple of important Chinese words, probably lost to antiquity until now. These words are pure chi and have razor dexterity when it comes to boundaries. I offer them to you to add to your spiritual toolbox. Here they are, listen up….FA AH.
Spoken with a sharp strong intonation and followed by a wry smile, they work like magic.
Excuse me, can I suck your energy and borrow your car? FA AH
Hey, can you walk my dog, while I eat your cake and lay on your sofa? FA AH
You get the idea. This word first came to my consciousness and funny bone long ago from my mom. She worked in a noisy fish cannery on a labelling machine. She is Danish and her workmates were Cantonese Canadians. They taught her a number of phrases in their language, all of which were vulgar words. She would greet them every morning for years with the mandatory ‘ hello mother fucker’ .
FA AH became my reversed and sideways version of this joke. I am not one to swear much, and in a spiritual oriented community it seems taboo. Yet, a well placed and razor sharp word can save a person thousands of dollars in future therapy sessions and oh so much stress and grief by supplying that all important boundary point. So I am grateful for these ancient and meaningful syllables. Since it is embedded with so much humour, it causes no harm to the recipient, while getting the point across in a deep way.
