More Pichest Wisdom - Take care of yourself!

Pichest is constantly trying to get us to understand one simple, yet extremely difficult piece of wisdom. It's this..."if client comes in with problem, and you have same problem, then how to fix? Cannot fix! Cannot help!"

It's a call to action for all of us who work in the field of helping others. If we don't understand our own problems; our own physical problems, our own mental problems, our depression, fear,and of course, most of all, desire, of which all human suffering is rooted (so spoke the Buddha), then how can we help those who are struggling with the same challenges. It's a call to action to get our own house in order. To slow down, to work more deeply on our own stuff, to improve our mental and physical strength. Because if we don't, then what do we really have to give except techniques. And as Pichest is fond of saying, "technique no feel!" In other words, when you do a technique on someone that you saw from someone else and apply it without wisdom, without determining if that would truly help, without deeply sensing, then we are nothing more than book learners. And book learners are disconnected with reality. The only book we need to read is the one we are touching. All the questions and all the answers are there. It is up to us to learn to read the language of the body, the language of the heart.

Another Pichestism goes like this..."mind no feel, but body feel". In other words,the body is a victim to the minds desires. The mind wants, and the body has to put up with what it wants. "But the body is telling, but don't know how to listen". We only hear the chatter, the desire of the mind, and it drowns out what the body is already saying. So we injure our bodies and other bodies constantly through unwise thoughts, unwise words, and unwise actions.

To bring this full circle, we must, as people who want to help others, help ourselves first. Take care of ourselves first. Then, when we are healthy and strong and understand how to heal our own bodies, we can truly assist others in helping them to heal their own bodies as well.