Thank you Grace, this is so simple and effective. It was interesting to read about the Still Point Inducer, had never heard of it. Looks like a must in today's offices.

Speaking of gadgets, do you know anything about the effects of those massage kits which send electric impulses to the muscles to make them contract in different patterns, thus mimicking a massage? I have one of those, there are small pads one attaches to the muscles, and around thirty different programs one can choose among. Do you have any idea how they affect the body and the prana?

Hi Aurora :0)

I've never tried one. Do you like it? How does it feel?

I would guess it can be relaxing, like doing exercises where you tighten all your muscles, hold & squeeze even tighter, and then let everything relax. Tense/relax exercises open up the flow of prana/chi/life force in my experience. I think the advantage to using your electrical massager is that you don't have to expend any of your own energy. But I don't know how electrical impulses affect the flow of prana.

Anyone else know?

Hi again Claire :) Thanks for your answer.

I haven't used it in many years, I got it as a gift in Japan but it works with 100V and we have 220V here. I found it the other day and wondered if I should buy a transformer or finally get rid of it :D

What I remember from the times when I used it is the great feeling of getting your back massaged for as long and as hard or softly as you want... but also the feeling that something wasn't quite right. It was before I knew anything about prana, and I don't know if that was the problem, but I think it could be so. It would be nice to hear from someone who knows more about this. Maybe I'll buy a transformer just so I can satisfy my curiosity :)

I'm sorry Grace, I called you Claire... it doesn't happen to be your middle name?? :D:)

Dear Grace and Aurora,

I have been on such a massage-bed regularly in my fitness centre. It is just great!

I am practicing Hatha Yoga for almost 30 years now and at the end of the lesson our teacher always gives us a relaxation excercise of about 10 minutes. Let's us visualize we are on a beach, relaxing in the sand under the sun or some other visualization.

Now, am also doing fitness one hour in a week in a more soft way, with slender couches, but also cycling and walking exercises. Afterwards i regularly feel the need of relaxing in the same way as i do during my yoga class. And then it is just wonderful to make use of this massage-bed for half an hour. Just visualizing and meditating at the same time, with some nice music in the background while the most important spots of your body are massaged. To me this is heavenly :).

Mostly do this in the beginning of autumn and at the end of the winter (am living in Europe, Holland).

I never have noticed anything uncomfortable in my body. Am totally at ease with this.

Best wishes to you both from Mieke

Thanks for your input, Mieke :) That massage bed sounds heavenly, and hatha yoga for 30 years sounds like you've been on the way for some time...

I guess it's simply so that we respond to stimuli differently. I was thinking of the way my body reacted to one of those magnetic bracelets someone gave me - when I first put it on I had to immediately take it off again. But some week later I had a class and thought I'd put it on because I wanted to start a discussion about these magnets- and then I forgot to take it off. I had it on all day, and that night I woke up with a racing heart, and had a weird feeling in the whole body for a few days, I even went to the doctor to check my heart. I thought it might have been overwork or some other factor I hadn't become aware of... but later I realized it must have been the magnets (due of course to not listening properly to the body which must have signaled).

Electricity, magnetism and the flow of prana in the body ... I guess we'd all better listen to the individual signals.

All the best to you too, Mieke!