p.s. Myotonic Dystrophy

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In addition to my last post..

 

Some basic information that I found online about Myotonic Dystrophy:

 

'Myotonic dystrophy is an inherited disorder in which the muscles

contract but have decreasing power to relax. With this condition, the

muscles also become weak and waste away. Myotonic dystrophy can cause

mental deficiency, hair loss and cataracts. Onset of this rare

disorder commonly occurs during young adulthood. However, it can occur

at any age and is extremely variable in degree of severity.'

 

Sat Nam

 

Krishan Shiva x

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Krishan Shivan:

 

I don't have experience specifically with Myotonic Dystrophy. But I have

had students with MS. There seem to be some similarities: The muscles

aren't responding properly, fatigue follows.

 

All of kundalini yoga was usuful to my students. It was as though her

muscles needed to know she needed them. At least that's my understanding.

 

For the eyes there is a set for inner and outer vision. that woul dbe

excellent for her and not just for her eyes. But a meditation that works

wonders is simply to keep the eyes open without blinking, with just

lowering the eyelids in the begining to allow the eyes to water. Stare

gently at one point on the wall, or stare gently to infinity. When there

is tension in the eyes, one feels that tension in the form of a veil of

some kind of pain. The idea is to look through the veil or tension. The

eye that needs healing will start watering. Let it happen. Do this for 2

or 3 minutes 2 or 3 times a day. One time I did this and did not notice I

had kept my eyelids closed, but I was looking to the infinite as though

through the limitation my eyes were feeling, through that veil. And my

eyes started watering until the tension disappeared. It takes trust to

feel what's happening in the eyes while doing this.

 

Kundalini yoga wasn't orginally designed to heal illnesses. It was

designed for awareness and enlightenment. I guess ultimate healing is

enlightenment. But in my experience we heal faster with awareness. So a

side effect of kundalini yoga is that it heals the body.

 

When someone has a chronic disease they usually feel a disconnection from

their body. I would start from there. Get her to feel how disconnected she

feels, how foreign her body feels to her. When practicing kundalini yoga

as best she can she will need to feel with awareness the response of her

body to the postures, the breathing, the chanting. Things don't usually

change until we learn to be loving toward them in our outer life as well

as in our inner life. So it might be helpful that she learns to listen to

her body with a lot of love and patience. She may need the help of friends

to remind her! Sat Nam Rasayan (check out www.gurudevsnr.com) might be a

way to experience her body with more awareness and teach her how to heal

herself if she can find someone to teach her where she is.

 

Best wishes and blessings,

Awtar Singh

Rochester, NY