Comments on: This may be slightly surreal.

By: amy goetz

amy goetz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:39:13 +0000

i love you (and your arms)

just thought you should know

cheers! amy
.-= amy goetz´s last post … 20 minutes to your life purpose =-.

By: Everything is connected « Anapurna Girls: Jewelry from the Ground Up

Everything is connected « Anapurna Girls: Jewelry from the Ground Up — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:13:31 +0000

[...] the fantastic Liz, she noted, too, that everything is interconnected. Then I came home and read this post from Havi Brooks about her arms being a barometer for pain and stress, and went around mentally [...]

By: Natalia

Natalia — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:50:57 +0000

You got to party with your arms??

Damn, your arms are totally cooler than mine.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:14:06 +0000

We don’t give you pain. We just announce how much pain there is in your system. And when we think you have been given too much, then we protest it because it’s not fair for you to be in so much pain.

Me: You’re on my side?

My arms: Hello! We’re your arms.

Reading that I want to laugh and cry at the same time!

you are so cool!

::being a fan of Havi & her very wise arms::

also, this whole thread is very validating of the choice I made to stop seeing this one massage person after I tried to communicate “that is too hard” and she didn’t hear me.

also thanks to Alice for the Sarno recommendation – I’m gonna check out his stuff.

By: Havi Brooks

Havi Brooks — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:50:30 +0000

@Riin – I LOVE cyberduck! And I always think it’s Selma too. Cyber-Selma!

And you should definitely get a bodyguard for your head.

@Colleen – mwah!

Actually, kisses blown all around. You guys are the best ever.

@alice – I got Powell’s to hold the book for me and I will walk down and pick it up. I will tell the book that it is full of finslippy magic and then it will *have to* work for me. Ha.

By: Riin

Riin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:58:09 +0000

Ooh, I want a bodyguard for my head!

Also, I had to tell you that I downloaded some new ftp software called Cyberduck, and their icon looks a lot like Selma, so every time I open it I say “Hi Selma!”

By: Colleen Wainwright

Colleen Wainwright — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:49:37 +0000

I am sorry if this counts as judging, but I think it is my favorite of your blog posts, ever.

I dig those crazy arms, I do.

By: Char

Char — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:22:17 +0000

You are so totally amazing Havi- this was my favorite part–

“We just announce how much pain there is in your system. And when we think you have been given too much, then we protest it because it’s not fair for you to be in so much pain.”

Your sweet arms are just the broadcast system that says there is too much pain in your being/system and they want to protect you from that – so they start hurting.

I love that you are all on the same side now – and thank you so much for sharing your process with us.

Hugs to you!

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:21:37 +0000

Ow ow ow. Havi, I hear you.

I woke up this morning with a pinched nerve or RSI in my shoulder after a day of intensive computer use. It’s the same problem I had in my last in-house job; I needed a left-hand mouse and regular massage to deal with it.

And guess what the coincidence is? Next week I’m starting an in-house job two and a half days a week. Perhaps my body is telling me in no uncertain terms that she is NOT keen on it. Wah! But I’m committed to it and can’t renege now. So I’ll just have to be very gentle: swap mouse hands, do plenty of stretches, etc. Do you have a spare bodyguard?

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:16:07 +0000

Funny old arms. I agree with them on the painful bodywork stuff. Ouch, is how I feel about that.