Every one deserves a few magic moments in their life. Discovering the edge was one for me.
Robert
In February 2000 Kathy and I really needed a break! We loaded up our old white panel van and took off to the south of Western Australia. Some fishing and camping were in order.
We had planned it all nicely. What I hadn’t planned however was to wake up that morning in such a mess physically that I would be barely able to drive. I had pain in all sorts of places. I realised that I must have overdone my movement routines in the last few days; big time! I had a headache that I’d never known before and pain in my back and shoulders.
This was misery. I was drained and hurting badly. I dragged myself into the car like an animal savaged and on its last legs.
When we arrived at Walpole I was no better. Plus, I had been driving much of the day. I was bug eyed and longing for death. We somehow got the tent up and I crashed. I was sure that I would be fierce and well after a nights rest.
Wrong... again! I was hardly any better in the morning. I propped myself up on a bench and looked around at a beautiful scene that I couldn’t appreciate at all.
Still hurting in mysterious ways, I knew that a drastic reappraisal was needed. I accepted that I must be responsible, but I simply couldn’t figure out just what I had done to set off this episode of pain and strain.
But we wanted to keep moving so we got everything packed and loaded up and crept off to the east with misery guts at the wheel. We were heading for Bremer Bay.
Driving along I tried to put my mind on something else. That didn’t work. Then I practised my refocussing and bodywork techniques that had always served me in the past. These made me worse!
With my wife driving my mind had too much time to focus on the problem. So... back at the wheel I surrendered to the peripheral vision of scenery flashing by and the long straights before me.
An hour after that there was a marked improvement for me. I was startled at the speed of the change. What the hell was I doing or not doing? As the hours passed I became my old fierce self again.
We reached Bremer Bay and I just threw the tent up effortlessly. We raced down to the beach and plunged into the briny. I was shocked. From physical wreck to renewed prowess in a matter of hours. But why? How? What the...?
First, I did not know how I had fouled my body up. Second, I did not know how I got better so quick. I had received a gift. A magic moment. But hey, Im a Virgo! I needed to find answers.
We enjoyed a great break down south and when we got home I set about bringing my experiences into the light.
Early morning, sipping coffee, is a favorite part of the day. The morning after I got back found me sipping and gazing. I looked out onto Lake Nowergup at the bottom of our garden.
But I was steaming away with a great deal of emotional intensity around an issue that just wasn’t going away. Some years had gone into solving this difficulty to no avail. I noticed the pressure building.
I began to systematically explore the periphery of my awareness. My work and practice had already given me insight and some skill this way but I was not prepared for the jolt of change that moved through me as my attention settled on a location just beyond my arms reach.
I was at peace emotionally in an instant. My mind floated ...free. My body softened and a rush of excitement passed through me. Wow...was all I could get out! Could I do that again?? ...Yes! Again???...Yes!....Wow!
Another magic moment! And this one had all the ingredients in it to answer the questions of any nit picking Virgo!
Because of its location, I called this mind motion experience 'going to the edge'.
As I explored this amazing location I saw that it really was a boundary. It was literally the edge of something. Since it happened from me it couldn’t be lost. I’d just use the formula and wow...there it was with all the beauty and freedom of the first time.
I was in the unique position of being able to try out this ‘edge’ with my clients and many times they had an experience closely matching mine. It seemed that I had put my attention on something of enormous significance that could be used by anybody!
I just kept putting out that idea and pretty soon there were quite a few of us who were getting an ‘edge’.
In the last eight years I have developed and applied my 'edge'. I quickly found what I had been doing before with my movement process that had put me in harms way.
The results for me have been spectacular! A new movement technique that transformed my actions and released my body. An emotional freedom experience that could be brought into play in seconds. A surge of energy and purpose that made my daily life a place of peace. I had found my Power Key.
Of course, I just had to build it all into a technique for others to use. Everyone deserves an ‘edge’. A tool for change, a method of ‘waking up’ the waking self.
A way of getting the inner balance that moves your body towards immunity, vitality and strength.
I even had a name for it! The name Akudu had turned up years before in a dream. We didn’t know what it was for. Now we knew!
