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Panchakarma Treatment 2 & 3: Through the Darkness

        When I woke the day after the first treatment, my blood pressure had gone from 140/98 the morning before to 130/80, and a sense of calm and balance was manifesting itself. I arrived for treatment two, and Dr. Shambu had asked about my experience -- what had happened since I left. I explained that sensation, and how it had manifested itself throughout the day that even the most difficult people didn’t get me flustered.
        “The process works automatically,” he explained. “The process works the make your system detached. Attached but not detached. Because if we are ever totally detached, we are dead. But we want to be attached, but detached so that your core energy is not affected. You will be able to go anywhere and not be impacted.”
        He explained that politicians have to be good at this, because they can go to a funeral and be in the moment feeling sad, shedding tears, but then an hour later they might have to be at a pep rally.
        “Making you free from obstructions is the whole idea of the treatment.”
        I asked if this state would be something I would have to maintain, and how I maintain it.
        “This is a non-reversable process, but in the next step, the body will try to fight it.”
        I went through the treatment again. He applied the hot oil with a massage, dropped oil in my ears and nose, and administered the enema. My mind was everywhere, but when he dripped the oil on my third eye (forehead), my mind went blank. There were no thoughts, just presence, as if I was an observer outside of my body, looking at the world.
        Over the next day, while my blood pressure had gone to 118/80, I began to experience conflict in my mind. Complete uncertainty. When I arrived for the third treatment, he said that is my old self fighting with the new self, that I was grieving the loss of the old self and this was the “withdrawal” process.
        “When a person is missing something, they project it on another person. And when they get something back, maybe even just five or ten percent, that is enough. That becomes energy waisted. Your body is learning to recognize this, but you are addicted to the old ways.”
        The third treatment was filled with sadness, and I cried throughout. At the end of the treatment, I lay on the table, slathered in oil, crying.
        “This is good. Your body is releasing the emotional garbage. It is coming out. You were very restless. The old self wanted to run away, but the new self kept you here.”
        He explained to me that this sadness may continue.
        “If you want to analyze, analyze, but the body knows what it is doing.”