Excerpts from The Book

Contents:

                ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1
                INTRODUCTION 3
Chapter 1 YOUR MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSION 6
Chapter 2 IT’S NOT WHAT YOU HAVE, ... YOU FEEL ABOUT IT 10
Chapter 3 ACCEPTANCE 13
Chapter 4 LOVE AND EMOTION- FINER DISTINCTIONS 15
Chapter 5 BUT ISN’T LOVE AN EMOTION? 19
Chapter 6 WE ONLY WANT ONE THING 20
Chapter 7 LIVING IN LOVE 22
Chapter 8 TWO CATEGORIES OF FEELING 27
Chapter 9 PLANET EARTH IS A SCHOOL .... TO ‘ACCEPT WHAT IS’ 29
Chapter 10 “NOWHERE TO GO, NOTHING TO DO, NOBODY TO BE” 30
Chapter 11 FILLING UP WITH LOVING THOUGHTS 32
Chapter 12 ATSUMI HEALING AFFIRMATIONS 33
Chapter 13 SOME PRE-SUPPOSITIONS OF ATSUMI HEALING 35
Chapter 14 THE REDEFINITIONS 38
Chapter 15 TRULY HOLISTIC 40
Chapter 16 THE CREATION OF THE EMOTIONAL BODY 41
Chapter 17 THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD NUTRITION 43
Chapter 18 WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU’RE IN REACTION 45
Chapter 19 ... THE FIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF UNIVERSAL LOVE 49
Chapter 20 THE CHOICELESS CHOICE? 52
Chapter 21 CHANGE THE WORLD 53 ATSUMI CHARTS 55
Chapter 22 FROM REACTION TO RESPONSE 59
Chapter 23 MY OWN GRADUAL AWAKENING 60
Chapter 24 WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE ARE 63
Chapter 25 ...TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSFORMATION 66
Chapter 26 EXTENDING THE FIVE ELEMENT MAP 68
Chapter 27 THE BODY MIND SPIRIT FEELING CONTINUUM 69
Chapter 28 I SIMPLY CAN’T ACCEPT IT 74
Chapter 29 CALIBRATING THE HUMAN CONDITION 76
Chapter 30 ... PAIN AND SUFFERING 78
Chapter 31 BECOMING ONE’S OWN MASTER 78
Chapter 32 GETTING THE COSMIC JOKE 79
Chapter 33 TEACH OUR CHILDREN WELL 81
Chapter 34 IT’S ALL ONE 82
Chapter 35 STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF 85
Chapter 36 MORE EASILY SAID THAN DONE 90
Chapter 37 THERE IS ANOTHER WAY 92
Chapter 38 ASKING FOR HELP 94
Chapter 39 IS ATSUMI HEALING A RELIGION? 95
Chapter 40 GETTING IT 97
Chapter 41 ... LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO NATURAL HEALING 98
Chapter 42 WHY THE STAR LOGO? 102
Chapter 43 THE ATSUMI PHILOSOPHY 103
Chapter 44 SO WHAT EXACTLY IS ATSUMI? 104
Chapter 45 THE ATSUMI HEALING CENTER 110 THE TWENTY MINUTE ATSUMI MORING WAKE UP EXERCISE 118
A GLOSSARY OF TERMS 122
THE BOOKS ON MY SHELF 126

The most important thing that any individual has, is their dominion and mastery over their inner world of Feeling. More precious than gold and diamonds or any other material thing or situation, are our Feelings. Why? Because regardless of what the external material circumstances are, the way that we Feel about “it” or “them” is the only thing that matters.

Scenario One:
You wake up with a start, you glance at the clock and realize that you have slept in. You have a number of important engagements today, starting with a business meeting at 9.00 a.m.. “Damn it,” you say, “I know I shouldn’t have gone out drinking last night.” You wash, and throw on some cloths in a mad dash, and once again start your day with the usual frustration, guilt, and anxiety.
Coming down into the family room you shout accusingly at your spouse blaming her for not getting you going earlier. You sit down to grab a quick bite to eat, and your daughter, who is trying to finish her homework, that should have been done the night before, subconsciously picks up on your emotionally reactive mood and spills her tea over your clean clothes.
You scold her harshly as you rush back to the bedroom to change into some fresh clothes, and when you come back to the breakfast table she is sobbing her heart out. Your spouse reacts with an outburst of anger directed at you, for your unjustified and unfair behavior. By the time all the crying screaming and sobbing has subsided you find that your daughter is too late for the school bus and you are now forced to go out of your way to drive her to school.
To make up for lost time, you drive at 45mph in a 30mph-speed zone, get stopped by the police and you are booked for speeding. As you come away from the police and return to the car your daughter is now in a state of near terror fearing that she will receive yet another angry outburst from you. Blaming all your troubles on her, you climb back into the car and slam the door. While you would much prefer to explode again, you notice that the police are still within earshot, so you grip your jaw and stuff all your rage and frustration deep down inside of you.
You drop off your traumatized daughter at the school and without further comment, drive off to your important meeting that has brought so much distress into your family life on this day.
When you finally get to your meeting, thirty minutes late, you put on an apologetic and super nice plastic face that brings a gust of disturbing energy into the room and immediately puts everybody on edge and sets back what had been, up till then, a smooth and creative process. Your day continues to follow this pattern of disharmony until lunch time when you have the good sense to take a walk in the park and lie on the grass in the soft sunlight to regain your center.
The rest of the day flows a little more productively and by the time you are ready to return to your home and family you have regained some semblance of your good feelings again. However when you walk into your home your family is still suffering from the effects of your emotional reactions from the morning before.
It takes at least two hours of apologies and processing to regain some of the harmony that for the most part is the norm in your family life. Yet all is still not well at bedtime, and you spend most of the night in a state of disturbed semi-sleep with your mind churning over the events of the day, judging and making wrong the various characters in this scenario including yourself. You spend most of the night tossing and turning and reflecting on the conditions of your life. You wonder if you were to get a divorce, a new job, or send your daughter away to boarding school, whether this ‘moving of the furniture around’ would restore some of the previously experienced and now much missed, “Good Feelings” back into your life. In the morning it’s yet another day and yet another dollar to be earned
Scenario Two:
You wake up early and as you glance at the clock, you thank yourself for having the good sense to have gotten an early night. You have a number of important engagements today, starting with a business meeting at 9.00 a.m. “Great,” you tell yourself as you wash and then enjoy your usual regular bowel movement. You slip into the clothes that you have prepared the night before and tell yourself “I feel great. It must be because I’m taking much better care of my health and what I am eating these days.” As you dress yourself, you feel an appreciation for the clothes you have chosen to wear that day. You note that you are feeling, adventurous, assertive, energetic, optimistic, grateful and full of enthusiasm for everything in your life.
As you come down into the family room you crack a joke with your spouse and daughter and join them at the breakfast table, which is full of healthy and nutritious foods. You sit down to eat and your daughter who is trying to finish her homework that she should have done the night before, accidentally spills her tea over your clean clothes.
She apologizes and you graciously accept her apology as you return to the bedroom to change your cloths. When you return you tell your daughter firmly and in a tone of voice that conveys only love that you think it would be a better idea if she finished her home work before watching television at night so that she does not have to try and do it last thing in the morning.
Your spouse catches your eye and sends you a supportive and approving smile for the way that you are handling the situation. Your daughter leaves to catch the school bus and you set off for your meeting which you have no concerns about, as you had left plenty of time to be able to share some quality time with your family before going to work.
You drive carefully to work as usual and arrive five minutes early for your meeting. You are able to make some potent and creative contributions to the meeting and you gain everybody’s trust and approval.
You take a walk in the park at lunchtime and enjoy a conversation with an elderly person who you sit next to on the bench. The rest of your day goes smoothly and productively and in the evening you return home still in a good space and with humor to share with your appreciative family members.
You relax on your own for a while and as usual contemplate your day and look at ways that you could have improved it for yourself and the others in your life. You retire early, as usual knowing that “early to bed and early to rise makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise.” As you climb into bed with your loving spouse you feel grateful for the love that you share with your family and all those who you share your life with. In the morning you wake to yet another day of good feelings and a real sense of everything working in your life.
These are two totally different scenarios, two ways of being and of acting in the world, and most importantly, two ways of Feeling. The portrayal of two totally different “inner Feeling worlds,” two totally different “personal realities,” two completely different life experiences, two completely different lives.
The first life is a life of Emotional Reaction and the consequential Emotional suffering that comes with the territory. Anger, guilt, frustration, fear, worry, grief, jealousy, manic behaviors, and insecurity, to name but a few. Not to mention poor health, low energy, constant social conflict, financial problems, a possible propensity for substance abuse, possibly a life of crime and thus consent battles with various groups of people including the law.
The second scenario is a life of Loving Responses, a life of harmony, joy, peace, tranquility, security, happiness, fulfillment, financial success and material abundance. What is the difference between the person in the first scenario and the second? Has the second person got more money, better parents, a better job, and better karma? Maybe they have but to get themselves into that situation, somewhere down the track they would have had to learn the lessons about the result of indulging in your Emotional Reactions.
They would have had to say, this is enough suffering, fighting, conflict, lack of joy in my life, I want a change. I want peace and harmony, I want good feelings in my heart, mind, body and soul, I want a transformation, I want Love.
Which of these two scenarios would be your preferred choice? Which of these two people’s life experiences would you rather have as your own? If it’s the first, then read no further. But if you want to see yourself living a life of health, happiness and love, free from Emotional suffering and being able to create the material outcomes of your choice, without your inner Feeling world having to depend on those outcomes then read on, this book is for you.
In this book we will look at a number of words or linguistic descriptions in what may be for some a totally new way of looking at and understanding them. Words like Love, Feeling, Emotion, Reaction, Response, Choice, Attachment, Suffering and Acceptance. And with a new understanding and a new perspective on the meaning of these words we will be able to smooth out some of the rougher spots in our lives. We will then go on to take in some new messages that will enable us to creatively brighten our futures and create our worlds and our lives with grace and elegance and in just the way that we would want them to be.

“To me, habitual anger (habitual Emotion) is like sitting in a corner with a dunce cap on. Does this sound familiar? Something happens, and you get angry. Something else happens, and you get angry again. Something else happens and you get angry again. Something else happens, and once again you get angry. But you never go beyond getting angry. What good does that do? It’s a foolish Reaction to waste your time only getting angry. It’s also a refusal to perceive life in a new and different way. It would be much more helpful to ask yourself how you are creating so many situations to get angry at. What are you believing that causes all these frustrations? What are you giving out that attracts in others the need to irritate you? Why do you believe that to get your way you need to get angry? Whatever you give out comes back to you. The more you give out anger, the more you are creating situations for you to get angry at, like sitting in a corner with a dunce cap on, getting nowhere.”

"There was once a Samurai who came across a monk. Thinking that he would have some fun with the little monk, he asked him in a loud and raucous voice, "Hey, monk, studied Spirituality have you? Okay then, tell me what is the difference between Heaven and Hell?" The monk looked up at him and replied, "Tell you? Tell you the difference between Heaven and Hell? You call yourself a Samurai? Look at you. Your clothes are all dirty, your sword is rusty, you're unhealthy, and overweight and you want me to tell you the difference between Heaven and Hell?" The Samurai was filled with Anger, which soon escalated into Rage. He drew his sword and was about to shorten this little monk's life by severing his head from his body. The monk smiled at him and said, "There you go, that's Hell." Realizing that the little monk had risked his life to teach him this lesson, the Samurai was filled with Compassion and humility. He let the sword drop from his hand, fell to his knees and pleaded with the monk for forgiveness. The monk simply turned to him and said, "And that is Heaven."

Clearly then there are two possible ways of experiencing our inner reality. On the one hand Feelings of Love and on the other hand, all of the numerous Feelings of Emotion (I have categorized 238 so far, which I think for the purposes of making the Atsumi Healing point, is quite enough. Please see the charts in the middle of the book)
Love, which is our natural state of Being, is the experience of Feelings of joy, harmony, tranquility and wellbeing, whereas Emotion creates only Feelings of suffering.
The word Emotion, which must be one of the most misused and misunderstood words in our language, comes from the Latin 'emovere', which means, to disturb. (The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle). So Emotion is that aspect of our "Feeling World" that is disturbed. By "Feeling World," I mean our inner world, which is neither our world of perception, nor our world of deduction and processing, but in fact, our inner world of experience, knowing and being. Love is our natural state of Being, Emotion is what we feel when the Love that we are is disturbed. Our Emotions are always driven by a conditioned and Reactive Mind, which is totally removed from Truth.
The part of our inner Feeling world that is responsible for creative and constructive concepts as well as intuitive and creative solutions to worldly challenges, is that part that I call, "The Love that we are." All that is caring and nurturing, creative and intelligent comes from our Loving body, not our Emotional bodies. Love is that part of our Feeling World that transcends all word-constructed languages and concepts such as I.Q.
Contrary to any other popular idea, all Reactive Emotion is triggered by concepts of the mind. In Chinese Medical terms our behaviors are created by the ‘Zang Fu’, which are our organs. But the initial Reaction is always triggered by a thought pattern (usually unconscious) that was created in some conditioned way as we grew up.
You can research these ideas more fully in, among others, the books on "Emotional Intelligence" that have a lot to say on the subject. I do regret though that I did not come up with my descriptions and definitions before Daniel Goleman wrote his books, as I may have been able to persuade him of the usefulness of using the terminology "Feeling Intelligence" of even "Loving Intelligence" rather than Emotional Intelligence.
Love is the language and intelligence of both the heart and also, that which is beyond the heart, and the personality. This is sometimes referred to as "The Divine Idea" or "Universal Intelligence." This is the seat of real intelligence, this is the source of trust, surrender, compassion, wisdom and truth. There is nothing intelligent about mind driven Emotions. Emotions are always created from a mind that sees itself as separate from things, unsupported, lacking in some way and of course un-Loved. For the mind that drives Reactive Emotions knows not of Acceptance and nothing of Love.

"Mind is not intelligent, only 'No Mind' is intelligent"

So what then is the purpose of Reactive Emotions? Are they as some think, a device created by our nervous system for ensuring our survival in the case of a threat to our lives? I say no. We are perfectly capable, with practice, of Responding to a life-threatening situation with Love and without Emotion being anywhere near the table.
Since I have had the concepts of Atsumi Healing in my life, which is about five years now, I have become astutely aware of my inner world of Feeling with such clarity such that I have never experienced before. I remember one time I was taking a walk in the Thailand jungle, when suddenly there was a large snake right in front of me. My Loving Response was instantaneous. I have no idea how I did it but I must have simply jumped backwards about fifteen feet.
Previously in such a situation I know that I would have been filled with adrenaline and with the Reactive Emotion of Fear. But this time there was not a shred of Emotion in my body. The only pertinent Feelings that I was experiencing, were a deep respect for the snake and its place in the Universe.
Our Emotions do have an important message to convey but no matter what the Emotional Feeling, anger, worry, fear, grief or guilt it is the same simple message every time. Stop acting and investigate your thinking, something's up, something un-Loving is going on here, something is un-True.
The path to Love and True freedom lies in our ability to attend to the warnings we receive from our Reactive Emotions. Once noticed we should then choose to journey inward and make the connection to Truth and Love that we find always waiting for us in this inner place of stillness and Tranquility. Then we are connected once again to divine intelligence, the intelligence of the heart and the intelligence of Existence, connected to all that is. Only after we make this connection are we ready to come back into the world of rational logical experience and then, acting without Emotion, do the rational logical thing.
What then of the big questions, the questions of survival. When the question of survival comes up, the life or death question, the "it's either you or me" situation, indeed you are at choice point. I am not about to offer any moral advice here. If you are a pacifist and believe that the best thing to do is "prepare to meet thy maker" then do that and if you value the opposing point of view of "an eye for and eye" then take that path. But whichever path you take, death or life, there is no point in throwing away your happiness and contentment by becoming Emotionally Reactive.
As always the answers do not lie only down one path. If we want to become happy and whole again, our awareness must at all times be both internal and external simultaneously, our awareness must be in both places at once. If there is any chance to eliminate suffering and conflict and eventually create "Peace on Earth" and "Good will towards all people and things," we must learn to stay forever watchful of the warning signals, the micro muscle movements of our Body-Mind-Spirit-Feeling-Continuum that are synonymous with our Emotional Feelings.
Thus our freedom lies firstly in the way of being able to develop the awareness to lift our consciousness out of the quagmire of the ignorance about what exactly is the cause of all our suffering. Secondly for each individual to develop the ability that is required to accurately sort between Emotionally Reactive Feelings and Loving Responsive ones. Then thirdly to have the wisdom to know what strategies to implement, so as to make the transitional journey back to Paradise, a graceful and elegant experience.
But let me state once more with Feeling (Loving Feeling that is) that paradoxically, having apparently made Reactive Emotions the bad guys, there really is nothing "wrong" with Emotions. These disturbed and distressed Feelings, seen in the light of Truth, are simply necessary and useful indicators that our thinking is faulty and un-True. But first we must be able to feel our Emotions totally. Not indulg in, or over dramatiz, not suppress or even express, just simply feel. Emotion is so alien to our True Loving Feeling Nature that we often refuse to acknowledge it, refuse to examine it. Emotion must be felt totally and appropriately. Filled with the Fear of Fear itself, we often skip the Feeling aspect of Emotion and move directly into Reactive behaviors. To master our Emotions we first have to make them our friends. We have to bring the Love that we are to embrace the Love that we have moved away from.

"We need to become fully conscious of our Emotions and be able to Feel
them fully before we can Feel that which lies beyond them"

To master ones Emotions is to master ones L-I-F-E, which in its natural Loving state is "Loving- Infinite-Flowing-Energy." Our Emotions are the stepping stones to our becoming that.
Whether it is the hand that slaps the face of the so called loved one, or the finger that presses the button which fires a weapon of mass destruction, both actions are driven by Ignorance, Mind and Emotion. At a fundamental level it is distorted values driven by Fear that trigger the sequential events of disturbed behaviors. The process is thus, Mind creates Emotional thinking and that thought creates Emotional Reactive Feelings. Thus our Emotions can be seen as the grinding wheels that grind us down, till like a masterfully cut diamond we emerge as a work of art, a work of Love, in all our radiance and splendor.

“ I’m not speaking of denying the Emotions, I’m not speaking of
discharging the Emotions, both have been tried, you have tried them
both. I’m speaking of directly experiencing everything. The great secret
you discover when you experience these so called negative Emotions,
which seem limitless and endless is that you discover not only are they
not limitless, also they are not there”

Most of us have become convinced by our exposure to the popular romantic commercial myth, that Love is an Emotion. Although it may be a daunting task to attempt to untangle the implications that romance, infatuation and attachment have something to do with Love, in order to be free from suffering it is imperative to be free of this illusion.
The illusion has been created from ignorance and promoted, mostly by those in power, for their own commercial gain, and we make it easy for them because we are not self-realized and we don't know what we are. Because we have not realized that nothing is missing from our world that we once knew as Paradise, we fall for the lie.
Instead of being the Love that we are, and simply reaching inside ourselves to take a part of ourselves out to add joy and celebration to the world, we delude ourselves into the belief that "we are not enough" and in continually wanting things to fill up the illusionary hole, we become reliant on the often questionable creations of others for the source of our so-called happiness.
We become addicted to Emotional drama and constantly search for happiness and meaning in our lives with material possessions. Our happiness relies on, acts of approval, affection gaining from others, and the so called perfection of the conditions of our external lives. Then, when we don't find satisfaction in the material world, the romantics turn into cynics and we become convinced that "It just not worth it, it's all been done before."
Instead of knowing ourselves as the Love that we are, we try to satisfy the emptiness we Feel inside, the existential vacuum as Sartre calls it, with the acquisition of "relationships" with which we attempt to take away our loneliness and give meaning to our lives. Then we make do with these plastic Feelings of "Love" until eventually our "Partner" leaves us, the "Relationship" ends, and we are once more "seeking the refuge of the road" or "looking for another lover".
No, Love is not an Emotion, Love is simply an absence of Emotion, an undisturbed Feeling/Behavior that results from a quiet and undisturbed mind. Love is what you are and the only truly courageous and noble act is to discover it in yourself and share it around.

“Love does not suffer by being freed from the belief systems of romantic love. Loves status will only improve as Love is distinguished from romance.”