January 15,2008

HI All
I am a little late with notes on the blog as I could not get into the account. Guess I was not suppose to write anything until today.

Paula and her daughter moved into their three bedroom apartment. They are very happy with the place. They were sad to leave all the staff here at the apartments.

Today Collette left for Canada and I leave tomorrow. It is a mixed emotions we have. It is so lovely here and we do so much meditation daily and have so much laughter. We had a great time together and it was so quiet this evening going for supper. The people here were asking me where all my friends were.They are so friendly and keep track of us.

We do also miss all our family and friends.

Our biggest concern is when and how much practice we will be able to do when we are back. It becomes apparent that CFQ Qigong is so much more than just meditation and the experiences we have had most times are impossible to put into words. When you have had this experience then you will also know. I hope many of your get have this deep experience in your life if you are called to this. I will be most happy to help.

MY says that when children do CFQ then they know what is right and wrong in life and adults do not have to worry. I look forward to chatting with many of you about have young children become part of our community in Halifax.The children are also allow wed to stay for level 2 practice as well.

We got an opportunity to see MY's new center that he will move into in three years. It is a large place and the idea will be that students will continue to come here to study with him over the years. He plans to stop travelling in three years.

Right now my legs are still slightly blocked. I have a bruise on my ankle from yesterdays healing and it is hard to walk around. I have also lost alot of weight as this whole process has been an unwinding process of life. I will be practicing hard as the health problem I have has decreased in size but is not completely gone. I understand why I have this health problem and what the thoughts are that are around it. This is hard to explain but in meditation there is a process that occurs that had been happening for me but I never made note of it until earlier this week. It all became very clear to me what the process is. In meditation you are not suppose to think so I try to avoid analysing anything or remembering anything. I hope I can work with some of you to achieve this depth of understanding and experience with your meditation.

I am looking forward to teaching classes. I will have some starting shortly. My website has the list of classes and times. www.danamarcon.com My international student has gone back to KL and has emailed me. He is doing well and practicing every morning. He will be back in two weeks and MY will check on him when he comes. He was teasing me about getting his certificate for level 1 from Canada. He wanted to have one from there so I will be doing one up from there and will email it over to him.

Tomorrow will be my last day. I plan to be up early, have my last breakfast at the Indian restaurant, meditate for about 6 hours, eat lunch, back to the hotel for late check out, and then it is off to the airport. I go to Singapore first and overnight there before flying home. I will post from there as I will have some time before my flight the next day.I will be home Friday night at 11pm. I will be to work on Saturday.

Last year the jet lag occurred for me at around 3:30 daily for about 1/2 hour and then I am fine. It is such a long flight that I meditate and sleep most of the time and when I get home, I will go to bed and be on the same time zone very quickly.

While I am travelling I will write up some more notes to post as I have been busy and have not written too much. I have keep some notes in my journal but you quickly learn that this is all experiential. There is a pattern to how a person progresses in the meditation process. He also gave me some pointers for the practice group to help facilitate the process for some folks who are not getting into the meditation switch. You will all understand that all you expereince is part of the meditation practice. This was very interesting to me as I listen to the experiences that people have from meditation practice.

Well bye for now. My assitant is not here to check for typos etc. She is in the air on her way home...See you soon Collette..

May you be well and happy Metta Dana