Cicily (the Ayurveda Massage Lady) Stories
Just a few more cute things from Cicily...the Ayurveda massage lady.. who I actually miss!
She continued through the entire course of the massage therapy to be amazed and to comment about the fact that I had no stretch marks and that I had elastic skin...this brought wonder to her face each day again. Then of course, her questions about Israel and America never ceased to bring a smile to my lips..."Have you seen MGM? Disney World"...One day I had only eaten an apple for breakfast and she somehow knew I hadn't eaten...told her I ate an apple so she wanted to know if the apples here taste the same as the ones in the holy land...if they are bigger, smaller, sweeter, juicier.. etc., etc. This discussion went on for over 5 minutes...prices...everything...
The day I told her that I had no more cervical pain...she clasped her hands in a praying position in front of her chest and said "tank's Gawd-all from Gawd-Cicily no do...only Gawd...Cicily pray each day...Gawd please no pain for Jane...now no pain...tank's Gawd"...I loved this as I also, in my own work in healing and energy work etc., believe that nothing that happens is because of ME...I am just an instrument and all results are given through me, as a sort of channel, for the Higher good of all involved, according to Divine Spirit,,,...two women worlds apart, both doing some sort of healing, and so close in understanding and thought.
She then asked me to sing a "Gawd Song" from my religion and I said I don't sing and she said "why not"...and I tried to explain that it would be embarrassing to me and quite unpleasant for her to here me "sing"...her comment was": When you sing Gawd Song, always sound beautiful!!"...then...assuming I had agreed with her said" One, two, tree...sing!!!" Which of course I didn't!! She was most disappointed.
Her next to last day with me, she was doing the regular hot herb business, when all of a sudden I felt a burning on my upper left shoulder neck area...I touch and found there was a blister like piece of skin and she looked and you had to see her face...dark as she is, she "turned white"...she was so disturbed I felt terrible for her...it was really not bad, but I think the accumulation of heat over 6 days had been too much for my "white skin" and perhaps the last application was a tiny drop too hot, although she always checked first with her hands before placing it on my back...she didn't know what to do first...and said she had been doing this for 9 years and this was the first time anything like that had ever happened...she was really devastated...I reassured her then, and the next day as well, that it was nothing (it was like a blister you get from sun burn if you sit too long in the sun with no protection-but nothing horrible)...I don't think she will ever live it down, but can always blame it on my thin sensitive white skin...
She continued through the entire course of the massage therapy to be amazed and to comment about the fact that I had no stretch marks and that I had elastic skin...this brought wonder to her face each day again. Then of course, her questions about Israel and America never ceased to bring a smile to my lips..."Have you seen MGM? Disney World"...One day I had only eaten an apple for breakfast and she somehow knew I hadn't eaten...told her I ate an apple so she wanted to know if the apples here taste the same as the ones in the holy land...if they are bigger, smaller, sweeter, juicier.. etc., etc. This discussion went on for over 5 minutes...prices...everything...
The day I told her that I had no more cervical pain...she clasped her hands in a praying position in front of her chest and said "tank's Gawd-all from Gawd-Cicily no do...only Gawd...Cicily pray each day...Gawd please no pain for Jane...now no pain...tank's Gawd"...I loved this as I also, in my own work in healing and energy work etc., believe that nothing that happens is because of ME...I am just an instrument and all results are given through me, as a sort of channel, for the Higher good of all involved, according to Divine Spirit,,,...two women worlds apart, both doing some sort of healing, and so close in understanding and thought.
She then asked me to sing a "Gawd Song" from my religion and I said I don't sing and she said "why not"...and I tried to explain that it would be embarrassing to me and quite unpleasant for her to here me "sing"...her comment was": When you sing Gawd Song, always sound beautiful!!"...then...assuming I had agreed with her said" One, two, tree...sing!!!" Which of course I didn't!! She was most disappointed.
Her next to last day with me, she was doing the regular hot herb business, when all of a sudden I felt a burning on my upper left shoulder neck area...I touch and found there was a blister like piece of skin and she looked and you had to see her face...dark as she is, she "turned white"...she was so disturbed I felt terrible for her...it was really not bad, but I think the accumulation of heat over 6 days had been too much for my "white skin" and perhaps the last application was a tiny drop too hot, although she always checked first with her hands before placing it on my back...she didn't know what to do first...and said she had been doing this for 9 years and this was the first time anything like that had ever happened...she was really devastated...I reassured her then, and the next day as well, that it was nothing (it was like a blister you get from sun burn if you sit too long in the sun with no protection-but nothing horrible)...I don't think she will ever live it down, but can always blame it on my thin sensitive white skin...
posted by Jane @ 3:06 PM
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