With deep affection...HOLY SHIT!!!

[Guest guest]

First, let me give you some background info. I've NOT taken a vacation

from work in about 11 years, not since my grandfather died. I took that

vacation time to attend his funeral, " if " can really call that a

vacation. I really didn't want to take one in those 11+ years and I

honestly didn't see any reason for me to take one, whether I had the

money or not. I had many things to get done.

 

No vacations that is, up until the 2005 Huna World Convention. I had

gone there to see Doc, whom I had known of before (read a couple of his

books, etc.). I really had NO clue of what he was going to be

teaching/training.

 

I didn't even read the ad copy he wrote.

 

I signed up to for his , quickly saw the training dates and I

immediately signed up, because of what I gathered from him previously in

those books and old videos.

 

Fast forward to today. I have now taken 4 more training's from Doc since

that 2005 HWC (and signed up for two future ones, one of them in two

weeks). That's a total of about 5 weeks off in less than a year and a

half. That's quite a BIG difference from the previous 11+ years.

 

You see, taking all that time off had it's blessings, and it had it's

drawbacks (well, not really).

 

Up until then, I didn't notice stress. I just did what I had to do. Go

to work, pay the bills. Life stuff.

 

I knew an older gentleman who once told me he never called out sick from

work, never took a day off because he said once you do that you get the

taste for it. Then it gets easier and easier and happens more and more.

Then it becomes a habit and you end up creating a bad name for yourself.

I didn't like the guy in particular, but I really did admire his work

ethic. I do appreciate that.

 

Spending that week at the Convention with Doc, Vince, Dr Otha and Anne,

and all of those other attendees made me realize how much I liked taking

a break and relaxing.

 

After a couple more training's with Doc I really began to realize how

much stress I really had and how tired I had become. That stress had

robbed me of my vitality, my energy, my excitement, my motivation in life.

 

I felt like a slug.

 

Funny enough, the more I noticed it, the worse it seemed to get. Seemed

like I couldn't get anything done. I'd peak for 2-3 days, then I'd stop

caring. 3-4 weeks later, I peak for another 2-3 days, then the same

cycle would repeat. Almost total burnout.

 

Back in June, after Doc's intensive, I decided I would stop going to his

training's until I got certain things done. We'll call them X,Y and Z.

 

I passed on going to the 2006 HWC. I didn't like the decision, but I had

things to get done. What little I did get done, wasn't nearly as good as

I knew I could do. When I saw Doc was having another intensive in

October of this year, I decided I'd have to skip that one too since I

screwed up and didn't get my shit done, even though I really wanted to

be there.

 

I had this tiny nagging feeling that I needed to be there. I ignored it.

 

I was curious to see what I would be missing, so I (mistakenly) read the

ad copy. Then I started to realize I had to be there. For 2 days I kept

arguing myself back and forth on going, and I firmly decided I wasn't

going to go. I had stuff to get done first.

 

On the third day after reading the ad copy for the intensive (I think I

read 5 times by then), I called down to the office to ask Jack a

question about an order I had placed. Doc answered the phone. He took

care of what I needed to have done, then he asked me that fateful question.

 

" Are you coming to the intensive? "

 

I didn't know what to tell him. Immediately, before I knew it, I

unconsciously, accidentally, told him the truth.

 

" I wasn't planning on it, but it's been working on me about going. "

Whatever 'it' was.

 

At that point, I knew it was over. No question about it. I had to go. I

had 3 weeks to get everything ready in order to go.

 

In reading the ad copy, I saw Doc had a pre-seminar healing workshop,

the main seminar, then a Trainer's Day. I tried to convince myself that

I could only attend the main seminar. That felt real BAD.

 

Ok, I know I gotta go to the Trainer's day. So I'll go only to the main

seminar and the Trainers Day. Nope, that felt bad too.

 

Dammit, I guess I have to go to all 3. Yes, Yes I do. That felt right.

 

I even checked it again. No question, it had to be all 3. I wanted to

save some money, but that wasn't going to happen. I had to go to all 3.

 

So I put down my deposit, knowing I had to be there, not knowing why and

I had no clue how I would even be able to manage it with such little time.

 

Talk about one of the BEST decisions of my life! That one healing

workshop changed so much of the crap I had before.

 

Especially that one final drill we went through, the one I had the honor

of being worked on by Doc in front of the room, on DVD.

 

I had a GREAT time that weekend. I went home, back to everyday life.

Everything seemed normal, how things should be, and I almost completely

did NOT notice the change in my attitudes, my behaviors.

 

Someone ELSE noticed, after a few days, and asked " What happened? " I

asked him, " What do you mean? " He looked at me and said, " You're coming

to work smiling. You never do that. What happened? "

 

DUH! Someone caught me NOT paying attention!

 

That simple drill we did, that one drill. How did I miss that change? I

have NO clue.

 

That simple drill that I now do while sitting on the couch while

watching tv. There is NO way I can ever stop doing it, because of the

two extremes I've experienced. Noticing how I felt before, how tired and

drained I was, dreading doing the things I knew I had to get done.

 

I refuse to go back to that. Believe me, it sucked.

 

I gotta go get some sleep now, even though I still feel really charged.

So once again... Thank You, Doc. I know that one healing seminar was one

of the most important things I've done in my entire life. Things

wouldn't have lasted much longer the way they were going had I ignored

what I knew I had to do in order to go. My health, my happiness, my well

being and my getting shit done were approaching empty. I feel better now

than I ever remember feeling.

 

My deepest gratitude and appreciation,

 

Gary Graves

 

P.S. As of yesterday, I know ALL 14 meridians, instead of 4. Being

somewhat slow sometimes, it took me about 2 hours to get the other 10 of

them memorized.

 

I used to get to bladder meridian and get frustrated, then stop learning

them all together. It was really easy when I noticed the starting and

ending points in relation to each of the other ones. A normalized TW

does help.