{"id":382,"date":"2008-12-26T09:08:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=382"},"modified":"2009-04-14T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T19:17:21","slug":"the-contagion-of-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"The Contagion of Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eckhart Tolle once told a story about a person who had come to see him at his home.\u00a0 During the course of their conversation the individual vented and expressed much discontent and anger.\u00a0 Later that day, Eckhart went alone to a neighborhood restaurant, where he witnessed a most unusual outburst by one of the patrons sitting at a nearby table.\u00a0 It was Eckhart’s belief that the ensuing outburst was caused by the invisible but palpable pain body energy that Eckhart had unknowingly carried into the restaurant.<\/p>\n

It certainly seems implausible, but it also appeared that Eckhart very much believed the possibility that energy could be transferred between individuals.\u00a0 This belief is the cornerstone of the practice of QiGong (chee-gong<\/em>) healers.\u00a0 Medical QiGong programs are now located all over the globe and I have read reports of hospitals in China that practice QiGong exclusively on a wide variety of physical conditions.<\/p>\n

For those of us familiar only with allopathic medicine, the idea of healing energy that cannot be seen with the naked eye seems unreasonable.\u00a0 However the suggestion that microscopic germs could impact the health of a patient during surgery was also scoffed at in the late eighteen hundreds when Louis Pasture presented his germ theory and its applications to medicine.<\/p>\n

Whether we understand or even believe the possibility that imperceptible movements of energy can impact how we feel, we have all most certainly experienced the contagious nature of a yawn.\u00a0 Sitting around a tedious board meeting you can watch the domino effect of a yawn bounce around the room.\u00a0 I have even noticed yawns that can be infectious at a distance.\u00a0 The simple upshot of hearing a person take in a long oxygenated open mouthed ear popping breath seems to be enough to trigger a yawn in the person they are speaking to on the other end of the phone!\u00a0 Not to mention that I am certain my dog’s yawn can elicit my cat to yawn across the room.<\/p>\n

In my own experience with energy waves, both within and outside of my physical body it is not only plausible that they exist but required <\/em><\/strong>in order to explain what I and others in my presence have witnessed.\u00a0 Take tonight for instance.\u00a0 I asked my college-girl to spend some time helping her brother prepare for a Spanish final exam.\u00a0 Within minutes of her taking a seat at the dining room table, I could overhear her bickering with him about his posture, attitude, mispronunciation and pitiful comprehension, as I was dicing up vegetables for lentil soup.<\/p>\n

While chopping zucchini and slicing sweet onion, I tried to remind her to be gentle and patient.\u00a0 I explained that Dan was nervous because he was so far behind and asked for her grace.\u00a0 But Grace is not something we can control in the moment, and certainly not in the bio-chemical moment she found herself in as she tried for a few more minutes to tutor her sibling before his test.\u00a0 After a final whine “Mommy, he’s not listening and I’m trying REALLY hard!”\u00a0 I sent her off to another room.<\/p>\n

I was determined to sit down myself and review the material with my son.\u00a0 Since I have never taken even a semester of Spanish, I asked my husband if he could join us.\u00a0 By this time, Dan was already percolating his own peptide brew and he began being confrontational at my offer to help.\u00a0 Like instant pudding I was in the thick of it making demands and ultimatums.\u00a0 Richard, also hit by the cold blast of rile, stood at the top of the stairs like a pit bull waiting for something to cross his path.<\/p>\n

Defiance provoked wrath, which translated into slammed doors and eerie silence.\u00a0 As I cooled my\u00a0 heels behind closed doors, I thought back on how everything seemed to flow and follow one action after another.\u00a0 In my mind I could map out the conduit of frustration that set off each of our chemical clouds.\u00a0 Yet I wondered what if the energy started even before my watchful eye observed the first outburst.\u00a0 Perhaps one of us brought it into the house from a phone conversation that may have even preceded the homework crusade?<\/p>\n

Of course it’s only speculation and there is no objective proof<\/em> that energy can move between individuals or objects or even within a single body mind.<\/p>\n

\"yawn\"Ahhhh,<\/p>\n

deep breath,<\/p>\n

wide mouth<\/p>\n

and yeah<\/p>\n

an ear poppin’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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