Mind and Body

When I was practicing the violin, Michiko rushed in and said, "I have broken my thumbnail". It was unusual for her to come in while I was practicing just for a short period of time.
I heard the noises she was making with her brother's friends who came to stay.

I first thought her injury was serious, but her long nail wasn't broken, it was bent upwards slightly because she caught it on something. There had to be damage, because I saw a blood stain later.

She was to participate in a triathlon on the following day.
She tried to excuse herself, saying "I can put my hand like this, and ride a bicycle. There is no extra burden."

Later, I invited her to receive my "Yuki treatment" as if I were a Seitai healer. I just did it to Lucia, a friend of mine who was pregnant, yesterday. Michiko was pleased and lay on the carpet, saying "Oh, do it to me!" Yuki is hand treatment. It is a way of healing invented by Mr. Noguch; Seitai healer. If you concentrate, your hand automatically goes to the parts which are injured and blocked.
I was doubtful at the beginning, but I have become convinced that this method works, in the process of bringing up two children. However, I am not a Seitai healer, so I do not try this on anybody except my children and close friends. I cannot take responsibility, nor can I sense whether my treatment works in the first place. It might be quite self-satisfactory to apply this to my children, but it also gives me a good feeling. So, Yuge is a good thing for me.

I started placing my hand on Issoku ( a series of spots which are about a finger's length away from the backbone). "On the right?", I said and flicked as if I knew what I was doing. "Ouch!" Michiko said. I moved my hand to the backbone and the lumber vertebrae. That reminded me that Mr. Kaneko once told me that the first joint of the backbone on the top should not be blocked.
Then I moved to her thighs. Are thighs relevant to the eyesight? Michiko repeatedly said that she could not see very well at that time. The other day when I went to Japan, Mr. Roy (Roi-sensei)said "Eyesight problems are often seen in adolescence. It is also relevant to the movement of the pelvis." Since then, I told Michiko to exercise the muscles around the eyes, the temples, or to pull her ears, but it didn't work well. I remembered that I read Mrs. Akiko Noguchi wrote that Mr. Noguchi had found the link between eyesight and thighs, when he had healed Mr.'s Dan broken thighbone.
How about the back of the knee? Once I was treated there and it felt good. I felt several sinews running there.　I traced them, and warmed both of her ankles with my hands, then I heard her breathing as she fell asleep.
Good. She was going to be relaxed.

I explained to her that the characters for "injury" means to suspect myself in Japanese, but I was not sure whether she understood it as she was not good at Kanji. However, she might have bodily experienced what it was to "wonder herself" by her thumbnail injury.

I am going by my friend's car to cheer her on. I hope it will be fine tomorrow, without snow or rain. After swimming, she will cycle for 15 kilometers, wearing only a T-short. If I asked her to stop practicing, she wouldn't listen. She has reached that age, and that stage.
As I couldn't bring myself to tell her to do her best, this Yuki was satisfactory to me as my own way to give my support to her.

She says, "I can do things so naturally in practice, then why do I feel such stress at the match?" It is nice for me to tell her, "Try to do things as usual." This is backed by my experience of my stage performance, which I can do only one time.
"You have been practicing for this."
Well, I might have to practice for my next performance, instead of telling my daughter what to do.