A journal of self discovery

By Christine Williams

Author Christine Williams describes what happens over a period of several months as she undergoes treatment for back pain by a Zen Thai Shiatsu bodywork masseur in an ‘Age of Aquarius’ revelation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: 31556151122
• Release date: Oct 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9780994419934

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MY SELF

A Journal

of

Self Discovery

Christine Williams

Publisher: Sydney School of Arts & Humanities

15-17 Argyle Place Millers Point NSW 2000

www.ssoa.com.au

MY SELF A Journal of Self Discovery

ISBN: 9780994419934

Copyright © Chrisitne Williams, author

All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher.

Photo credits Warwick McDonald, Christine Williams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda.

Layout, design and advice Robert and Dawn Lotty, Bangalow.

Copyright © Christine Williams 2008

For Duke and Jesse

Acknowledgements

My grateful love to Warwick for his strong mind and true heart. Thanks too to my friends, Chrissy Fletcher and Karen Prout, who read the raw manuscript and encouraged me to share my experiences with the wider world. Special thanks to Sharon Elyse Dean for her generous gifts of skilled editing, honest appraisal and compassionate brilliance.

i

wake up

(to my Self)

on the sunshine coast

A stressed life. I've used this as an excuse for my lazy response to the back aches that grew out of the endurance needed to sit at a computer and write a lengthy biography of an Indian philosopher, a ‘non-guru’, Jiddu Krishnamurti. 

I'm overweight. Stiffened muscles grip and lock up my once-pliable vertebrae. Finally one winter, I hit fearful pain. 

When I first feel my back tightening its screws, I check with the locals around Eumundi, a tiny tidy town in south-east Queensland, and find Gwyn, a Shiatsu master masseur. At the weekly market, Gwyn's prayer flags and the name of his practice – Zen Thai Shiatsu – announce that this tent is a blend of esoteric wisdom traditions. I remember my daughter's ballet days when Shiatsu would set her muscles right in minutes. I watch this Shiatsu wizard, Gwyn, intently – a glance into his blue eyes is enough to feel a vibration, an invitation.