Eye of the Needle Energy Medicine

10/21/2024

A Self-Healing Response to Social Distress.

My experience is that the ability to wait until I can offer the most loving response to myself and others is the key to moment-to-moment healing in these stressful times. Pausing creates space for breathing. Breathing reminds me I’m quite physically connected to everyone and everything. I send my breath into the world and it creates more love and tenderness or more fear and anger. If I pause long enough, I choose to love and be tender to myself. If I choose that for me, it’s easier to choose a loving and tender response to other people.

According to the ancient wisdom systems of Astrology/Astronomy, the I Ching, The Kabbala, and the Rig Veda, physical stress is a collective phenomenon. This means each human being reacts physically to the distress that the whole of humankind is experiencing. The more recent distillations of these systems known as Human Design and the Gene Keys map out in detail how every human being is a complex symphony of vibrations made of individual, collective/logical, collective/emotional, and collective/tribal vibrational patterns. Each of us has 64 genetic/archetypal operating systems that are 1/3 individual and 2/3 collective. Each of us contributes our unique combination of individual and collective vibrations to all the rest of us.

Cutting-edge modern physics has recently aligned with these ancient and recent systems of understanding the nature of humanity and physical reality. There is wide agreement now that everything we are and everything we see and experience is the interaction of complex wave patterns and vortices of energy. Physical particles make up only 0.001% of the universe and are a condensation of energy waveforms that are organized into structures by vibrational patterns, not the other way around.

Modern Medical Science is stuck in an uncomfortable transition from the outdated theory that the human body and the universe are a physical phenomenon that energy emanates from…to a theory that everything is a vibrational pattern and that changing the pattern supports or undermines health. The wonders of vibrational medicine have been proven beyond a doubt in the realms of medical imaging technology. However, technological medicine uses vibrations for mostly destructive purposes such as ionizing radiation therapy.

Recently, myriad vibrational healing technologies and practices, both of ancient and modern origin are finding their way slowly into the mainstream of Healthcare. Even the traditionally resistant sciences of genetics and biology are coming around to the inevitable conclusion that human beings are a collective of human cells and microorganisms that are in constant adaptive response to the environment both inside and outside of the human body.

In my opinion, it would take a real gift for denial to claim that the disturbing effects of events such as 911, the pandemic, the non-stop barrage of more and more frequent and intense natural disasters, or this upcoming election do not affect each of our physical sense of well being. These are just some of the more far-reaching vibrational patterns that every single one of us has to process daily.

So what does one little human being do? Amazingly, we have direct access to the most powerful organizing and healing force in the universe. Love. It has at least 64 names because it comes prewired into our genetic operating instructions. Some of my favorites are Play, Patience, Understanding, Idealism, Insight, Simplicity, Generosity, Honesty, Intimacy, Discernment, Discipline, Resourcefulness, Intuition, Tenderness, Compassion, Integrity, Vitality, Inspiration, Inquiry, Imagination, Perseverance, Guidance, Leadership, Grace, Resolve, Determination, Versatility, Artistry, Authority and Presence.

All of these powers are available to me when I pause and wait for the kindest, most skilled, and most loving response to my distress and other’s distress. All these words represent wave patterns that organize physical matter into coherent and harmonious patterns. We all feel the collective stresses of the world physically, but the best response to relieve and heal from the discord and disruption of stress may be hugs, physical movement, changing your posture, meditation, energy medicine, bodywork, acupuncture, breathing, change of diet, change of environment, surgery, medication, changing who you keep company with, artistic expression, prayer, personally preferred sexual expression, listening to and creating music, plant medicine and other forms of shamanic journeying. The list is as extensive and specific as the number of humans alive.

A personal example is that I discovered by pausing long enough to determine what was actually going on, that much of my anxiety which I felt in the early morning hours was the direct result of sleeping in a posture that caused my neck to tense up, putting pressure on my vagus nerve and throwing me into mental gyrations to try to explain what I felt anxious about. I could very well believe that my pile of unfinished tasks is what is causing my anxiety, or I can do some simple pressure point releases, and adjust my pillow to allow my neck to relax and fall blissfully back into restorative sleep for another few hours!

The art of contemplation is the art of pausing. It takes extensive practice to learn to pause, but it doesn’t take that much time once you learn to choose to pause rather than react. It doesn’t take 30 years of sitting meditation, psychotherapy, or yoga movements. I’ve learned that pausing and resting in NOT knowing what to do is what allows my creative intuition to transmit images, feelings, and understandings through my responses to my clients. I've found that every time I choose to rest, even for a few moments, breathe, and wait, my response is more caring, calming, and loving. When I pause, sometimes for what seems like a long time, I’m able to discern what wavelength or signature of energy I need or what my clients need to return to healthy physical resonance and harmony.

Each and every one of us is a vast storehouse of creativity and genius. Each one of us has human, knowledge, spiritual, emotional, and physical resources that can be accessed in each moment when we pause long enough to wait for the best response to the stress we are feeling. Following are a few of my recent favorite resources to rewire my reptilian brain reactions into loving and considered responses.

Ohhh, and oh yeah, this is my newsletter…so…reminding you that Eye of the Needle Sacred Anatomy Energy Medicine is my go-to modality for helping myself de-stress and I’ve been practicing it for 23 years now! And I’ve been practicing Acupuncture for 38 years now! (Whaat?). See links in comments.

09/02/2024

I’m stoked we were able to get water to people coming to the Maui Medics Healers Hui

PRESS RELEASE
Water-from-Air Technology Brings Clean Drinking Water to Maui Medic Healers Hui in Lahaina

Kihei, Hawaii - Eye of the Needle Holistic Living, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is honored to provide a Water-from-Air generator to the Maui Medic Healers Hui new community venue in Lahaina. This new generator will provide three gallons of fresh drinking water per day and prevent excess plastic bottle waste by as much as 5,670 bottles per year!

When the fires devastated Lahaina, Mauna Medics Hui in Hilo, HI mobilized immediately under the guidance of Maui-based co-founder, Noelani Ahia. As a Kānaka Maoli descendant of Lahaina, she led the team in forming the Maui Medic Healers Hui as a sister organization. They provide multidisciplinary care, including Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) healing, Western, and Eastern medicine. They strive to create spaces for healing following the devastating fires in August 2023 and are committed to consistent, long-term support and building communities of care during this time of great need for the Island of Maui.

Atmospheric Water Generators (AWG) create clean water from the air we breathe. The AWG draws in ambient air and collects the moisture through condensation. Using a six-stage water filtration system, ultraviolet light purification and ozone treatment removes impurities. The generators are powered by standard or alternative power sources, are portable, and do not require any outside water source. All water-from-air generators provided by Eye of the Needle Holistic Living are purchased through WAIEA Water Solutions on O'ahu.

Eye of the Needle Holistic Living was founded after the fires in 2023 by Bren Taylor and David Kitts, L. Ac., Dipl. O.M. who shared, “We're all in a tight spot and we're all in this together. Contributing to the larger community is how we get each other through the Eye of the Needle. We support each other. The world has changed and our new non-profit, Eye of the Needle Holistic Living, was born of these times.” The non-profit is committed to supporting education, sustainability, and cultural programs on Maui. Visit www.EyeoftheNeedleHolisticLiving.org for more information on this and other projects.

Want to help? Every tax-deductible contribution will directly support our sustainability and educational efforts. Any amount is appreciated. Mahalo nui!

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Shalom Costa of the Maui Medic Healers Hui in Lahaina reads up about their new Water-from-Air Generator. Photo: David Kitts

08/12/2024

We are published!

A pilot program is now in place, providing water-from-air generators, water bottles, and UV lights and replacement filters to the Hawai’i Technology Academy. It’s part of a larger program to bring clean drinking water to schools all over the Island. The announcement was made by the nonprofit Eye...

04/18/2024

On Shadows and Loving Myself

Solar eclipses, Lunar eclipses…. Hey! We live in the shadow of the earth every night for an average of 50% of the time! The amount of fear generated in human beings by sunlight being blocked by material objects is hard to comprehend. I have literally been terrified of the feeling that my own light is locked inside my body my whole life.

One thing I contemplate is the I Ching to understand what light really is. Hexagram 11 is Heaven underneath (inside) Earth. The ancient Chinese name for the most active principle of the universe existing fully INSIDE the dark, passive material of form is “Peace”. In the Gene Keys, it is “Light”. The Sun gives off light because it IS the active principle of energy fully embodied inside the mass of the Sun. “Peace” is the full embodiment of the creative active spirit within the densest form. Light is also an expression of our genetic code that our cells use to create a building block amino acid called threonine to contribute to the proteins that assemble our bodies.

All of the hexagrams that represent “light”have the upper trigrams that represent the denser, more passive aspects of the universe: 9th Gene key-Hexagram of Heaven under the Wind, the 5th Hexagram of Heaven under the Water, and the 26th Hexagram of Heaven under the Mountain. Recent research I heard Zach Bush quote indicates that the light and heat generated on a microscopic scale by the trillions of mitochondria (tiny bacteria that live in our cells) is far hotter and brighter than the surface of the sun. Our form is created and organized by light inside the darkest densest material aspects of our bodies.

There is no shadow in reality, there is only light both “outside” form and “inside” the densest, most inert forms of matter. From outside a planet, it appears that the planet casts a shadow that blocks the sunlight. What is actually happening is the light is being absorbed INTO the planet, activating and creating endless forms of life.

So I’ve asked myself repeatedly why I have been so tortured by thinking I’m special. The 26th hexagram is called “Taming Power of the Great”, it is “controlled power”. The light held in check by the sheer stillness and weight of the mountain. In the Gene Keys it’s the shadow of pride and in my chart it’s activated by where Mars was in the sky 88 days before I was born. My “Line 3” archetype “shadow” is “shame”.

My Enneatype is “Nobody Special”. Type 9, the peacemaker who tries to manage everyone else’s needs so he can feel safe, loved and appreciated… Is there a theme here? I ask myself… If I think I’m special but the world doesn’t show me I’m special, then I should hide my light so nobody thinks I think I’m special? Oh THAT is a vicious trick of the mind: If I can’t see MY light reflected back to me from others then I must really be a dark and worthless being. Pride held in check by shame.

This is the trap I’ve lived in since I was able to think about myself. Probably about 5 years old come to think of it. Is there some symmetry there: 5th hexagram shadow of impatience and lack of trust in the process of life? I haven’t believed this mind propaganda for at least 15 years now but it still lurks in the darkest corners of my psyche and also my body in the form of scars, chronic holding patterns and residual infections. If I do not embrace my own light fully by loving even the ways I’ve hated myself, then I will continue to suffer and and I will pass that suffering onto those beings I love.

One source of “shadow” is inherited. This is the Gene Keys concept that Mars activates a collective fear 88 days before we are born. It isn’t unique to ourselves but represents our share of the suffering our ancestors passed on to their descendants and the collective consciousness of humanity.

My Grandmother’s ancestors were “The Pughs of Bayou La Fourche”. This the title of a book my Grandfather (her husband) documenting the lives and fortunes of a tribe of humans from Wales who “thought well of themselves”. They flourished as cotton and sugar growers in the swamp lands of Louisiana for a couple of decades before and after the civil war.

The incredible gift of the book for me is that it details the way these people used their concept of themselves as “Genteel Aristocrats” to justify their use of other humans labor to support a lavish lifestyle those other humans did not get to share. Slaves were property and were a huge part of the “family assets” that made their businesses profitable.

They did of course transition to paying their “negroes” after the war but their attitude towards them did not change much. They saw the people who made their lifestyle possible as tools, not unique humans that might have been more valuable to the community if their native intelligence was nurtured and supported. In this detailed account of one branch of my ancestors is held vast stores of revelation for me why I see “being special” as “shameful”. They are the avatars of my core wound.

The transformation of negative Karma is a collective project that each individual has to struggle with themselves. It can only be transformed by each individual accepting the value inside the suffering. In other words I need to learn to give myself the unconditional love I never received from those who failed to, even though they did their best to love me.

Inside my ego constructed of deep sense of worthlessness and shame at “being or not being the special person I’m supposed to be” is a limitless creativity that is driven to show show everyone their own light and specialness. This has become my “vocation”as a practitioner of Chinese medicine and an “energy work” healer. At first, this is so I can feel special! (Duh!) But eventually, it’s its own reward. I don’t need recognition. My light shines inside the mountain of my ego and my body and because I can see I have benefitted someone, I know I have contributed to unveiling the light that is there in all of us. That is the super power of invisibility.

They GREAT irony of course is that I AM special, just like EVERYONE else! There is no end to the creativity of life-light moving within form, and there is never anyone exactly like you or me ever again. Every one of us is utterly unique and therefore absolutely invaluable! I’m laughing at myself here with the greatest sense of relief! Because I can see myself from inside, I can see that there is really nothing else to do or be.

I love you, I love me, we are the same being in a different form.

02/13/2024

I was enrolled in the very first class at Five Brances Institute in 1984. Geez. That’s a milestone. Been studying Chinese medicine for 40 years. Practicing for 37.