I suffer bad from migraines sometimes. I get the mother of all aura and flashing lights obscure my vision, then I'll have a clanger of a sore head for 2 full days. My legs feel stiff too and it's hard to do much movement.
My tensegrity practice always stops during these episodes (as does exercise) and as a result the fear of migraines holds me back from "over-doing it" (or over-doing anything, screen time, alcohol, coffee etc.)
This post is about something I discovered, which might help another beginner (who also suffers from migraines) to keep a consistent practice (or at least keep "the streak" of days going)
I've been searching for a way to get rid of migraines. I had some partial success by just gazing at the aura, trying the "claw hand door technique" from Don Juan's not-doing exercise. But still couldn't clear it out fully.
I got the migraine aura the other day and I was so mad that I was gonna miss 2 days of tensegrity, I said right, I'm gonna do it now. I got up and made my usually intent to reach the double. For the next hour I mostly did tensegrity where my hands were working above my head and I believe trying to redeploy energy to the front. The moves kind of looked like "Pass 10. Smoothing Energy Out in Front of the Body" (page 149 of the Magical Passes book)
Well guess what...after about 30 minutes, not only did the aura go away, I had no bloody headache. I couldn't get over it.
I hope this will be of some use. Mods feel free to delete if necessary. Here's a list of other passes from the book that involve "above the head" movements for reference [25 pg 57, 30 pg 61, 31 pg 63, 32 pg 64, 33 pg 65, 34 pg 66, 15 pg 152]
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I've done claw hand technique for hours at a time before when I thought that I was going to die shivering from sickness. Even with 5 blankets piled on top of me, I was still shivering away, woke up almost entirely better.
Claw hand technique is still definitely valuable too!
I'm still surprised there's no demo of this anywhere (at least to best of my knowledge)
I believe it was never shown in workshops. If so, it's good that they don't, because the only time it has been shown is in the books and not by Carlos or the witches, someone can correct me on that if it happened.
It's good to read the description closely to get a match for it as best you can.
Intent is everything.
Modern medicine treats the physical body, the solid. Tensegrity affects the energy body. Maybe, illness and disease aren’t solely in the realm of the physical body, maybe the energy body affects the health and well being of the physical body.
Tensegrity affected your energy body and was treatment for your migraine?
Crazy theory of mine…..I’ve been clobbered with the flu, struggling to maintain my own practice, and I’m confident; darkroom tensegrity is helping me fight this nasty flu virus.
I think it's like that, but I'd hope one day I can fully understand what's happening.
At 70, I get leg cramps.
But a single round of the running man passes, just up to the point before you start moving the whole leg, and the cramps are gone every single time.
I almost look forward to getting a cramp, so I can see that it always works.
I tried doing only half of them, but it seems to take all of the first 6.
I see those passes animated online; I read somewhere here that they're supposed to be done super slow, like even the ankle rotations could take 20 seconds or so. It's this correct?
No, not really.
However, there's all sorts of possibilities, and Jadey is the one to ask about it.
She was in the infamous "naked tensegrity class" where those were done over and over, with Carlos somewhat panicked that he had only weeks to live, and hadn't succeeded to teach even a single person to move their own assemblage point and be fully aware of how they did that.
The lineages surely used nudity to lure the double out, but so far Carlos hadn't resorted to that for obvious reasons.
He got hell over that class, mostly from women who weren't in it!
I'm somewhat convinced of the following: Clothes = women. Shame = women. Morals = women.
Who don't like competition from younger women.
But it's not a theory anyone seems to share with me.
So Carlos tried using nudity the way the lineages always had, because he had no choice. No one believed his books were true, and he was going to die.
A terrible situation.
Fortunately he sent his 2 allies, and 21 years later they managed to create this place.
Is there a different channel or a direct link to ask Jadey about it?
She has a youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@sorcerypasses
Ayy, I'm going to learn those.
Thanks! Another thing I found out it's forcing inner silence, which might take some work and time
I also get migraines with pinwheel vision. The change I’ve noticed is that I still go blind because my vision is obstructed, but the ‘headache’ doesn’t happen anymore or it’s minimal.
Prior to me doing tensegrity every night, the visuals would be followed by pain until I’d take something or sleep it off.
Now when they occur I’ll put on my mask and play with the visuals and try to take advantage of them.
Happy you found something that worked for you.
Ah, I can't take medication, cos it upsets my stomach, even after food. Coffee helped a bit, but I would still have the effects of the migraine for two full days.
I feel compelled to add my bit to this. Six years ago, I had contracted Lyme disease. I had hit a certain all-time low with bad habits, so perhaps that was the shock to my system of habits, which was a blessing in disguise.
My health deteriorated enormously in the first month or two, and the doctors didn't know what it was. It was a " bacteria" that was set on hijacking my body. The pain was excruciating, and I ended up with severe brain inflammation, plus not being able to walk or talk, one side of my body became paralized.
I had one thing to fight whatever was taking over, and that was some tensegrity passes, which I remembered I could do well. Also, recapitulation helped. It was spooky, especially since there was no diagnosis. I realized how alone I was.
Rehabilitation has been a mixture of the practices. The Saturday classes and this place have certainly blown new life into them with a more sober approach.
I was done for but then beautiful nature came and bit me, now I'm back to square one but then with some trophies. I find the more I practice, the stronger I become.
Thanks to this community for the motivation. True lifesaver.
Fascinating.