Hucha Mikhuy: Cleansing and Digesting Heavy Energy
Background: Where does this technique come from?
Definition: Traditional healing technique. Uses Intention to release heavy energy, from the energy body, making room for refined energy. This technique is not specifically a laying-on of hands, but I have included it here for its focus on energy, intention, and the chakra-like energy centers.
Source: Keepers of the Ancient
Knowledge: The Mystical World of the Q’ero Indians of
Origin of Method / History: These healing techniques
are practiced by paqo, shaman priests of the Q’ero Indians from the
south-central
Theory: What is energy? What is energy healing?
What energy is worked with? Hucha and sami.
Kawsay pacha is “the cosmos of living energy… it is comprised of only two basic
energies: sami, which is light or refined energy, and hucha, which is heavy or
dense energy.” (Wilcox, 30) “Sami suffuses the natural world, animating all
living beings and imparting ‘power’ to natural objects and places where it
accumulates. The more sami we incorporate into our energy body, the more
effortlessly and fully we live in harmony and well-being with others and the
natural world. Hucha, in contrast, is heavy energy, and it is created by human
beings. Hucha manifests because we do not live in perfect ayni –
reciprocity – with the kawsay pacha.” (Wilcox, 30-1)
Energy centers/pathways: Poq’po is the
energy body. “A bubble of energy that surrounds and suffuses our physical body.
It has an outer layer, like a skin, that prevents heavy energy from easily
infiltrating deep into our energy body.” (Wilcox, 33) Qosqo is our
primary energy center, “our spiritual and energetic stomach. In order to sense
energies or interchange energy with the kawsay pacha or another person, you
open a point in this spiritual stomach just as if you were opening your mouth
to take in food.” (Wilcox, 39)
There are four major and three minor energy centers – belts around poq’po which each have a point or ‘eye’ for an opening. The eye of the black belt at base of spine, siki ñawi, is associated with water element and black light, the most powerful energy. Qosqo ñawi, the red belt at the stomach / navel area, is associated with the earth element. Songo ñawi, is the eye of the gold belt at the heart center, and is associated with love, fire, and the power of the sun. Kunka ñawi, the eye of the belt at the throat center, is associated with creativity, communication, wind and the moon. There are minor energy centers at the third eye and each of the physical eyes.
What is illness / health? Hucha is naturally accumulated through human action and interaction and human emotions; however, it is “ a density of energy we do not want to accumulate, for it turns the lightness of our energy body heavy like itself.” (Wilcox, 31) “If we do not cleanse the heavy energy… hucha can accumulate, building up and seeping deeper and deeper into our poq’po. The deeper it goes into our energy body, the more it… affects our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual states.” (Wilcox, 33-34)
What is the mechanism for healing? The process of cleansing hucha from the poq’po and drawing sami into the poq’po.
Who can heal? Training? All paqos are healers, though they have varying degrees of skill and various areas of expertise. To become a paqo (shaman / healer / mystic), a member of the Q’ero must first receive the call of the apu, “the spirit of the sacred mountain to which they are aligned in service.” (Wilcox, 16) Then “they undergo rigorous initiations and apprenticeships, often more than a decade long.” (Wilcox, 19)
Practice: How does a healing session work for this technique?
Preparation: Learning to extend poq’po and open qosqo. Sitting quietly, “place your dominant hand over your belly, around your navel area, a few inches above the skin or clothing. Bring your awareness to the space between your hand and your stomach. You should be able to distinguish an area of your energy, an especially concentrated warmth or perhaps a tingling sensation or a sticky, pulling feeling… this area is your qosqo, the primary energy center or ‘eye’ of your poq’po. Once you have sensed this area, move your hand further away from your skin or clothing… Sense the warmth expanding outward. This is your energy body (poq’po) extending outward, and your qosqo opening, creating a larger energy center.” (Wilcox, 186-7)
Assessment: “Extend the energy filaments from your qosqo into your own (or another’s) poq’po, probing for dense spots in your energy body where hucha may be encrusted, or sensing a dragging effect in the flow of your energy, or detecting ‘hot spots’ where hucha may be concentrated.” (Wilcox, 197)
Treatment techniques:
1) Release of hucha from poq’po. “Sit quietly, attune to poq’po, open your qosqo, and feed Pachamama (Earth) your hucha, ‘intending’ it to move downward out of your poq’po through the root center at the base of your spine.” (Wilcox, 197) “Simultaneously open your crown chakra… align yourself the hanaq pacha, the upper world, and draw refined energy, sami, in through this chakra.” (Wilcox, 198)
2) Hucha mikhuy (digesting heavy energy). Release technique cleanses the surface of your poq’po, the skin where hucha tends to collect. “Hucha mikhuy cleanses hucha that has penetrated this surface.” “Attune to your poq’po, open your qosqo, draw the hucha into your qosqo (your hucha, someone else’s. or even that of a place or object.) Instead of being connected to a source of sami, such as reaching up… through your crown chakra, you extract sami from the hucha energy stream itself. In effect, you ‘split’ the single flow of energy into two streams… you then release the hucha downward to Pachamama and direct the sami upward through your spine or energy centers to your head…. This double flow of energy is the key to knowing when you are actually digesting hucha as opposed to simply releasing hucha.” (Wilcox, 198)
Uses: When is this Technique useful?
Duration: When doing hucha release, you intuitively know when to stop. With hucha mikhuy, stop if you feel light-headed; that indicates an excess of sami.
Frequency: “You may find that it will take several sessions to cleanse the hucha you perceive in one part of your poq’po… particularly heavy energy – old patterns and psychic wounds – may resist the Release process and call for a more penetrating kind of cleansing, that of hucha mikhuy.” (Wilcox, 198)
Other uses: “After cleansing our own poq’pos, “we can then begin to cleanse our immediate environment and the people with whom we are in close contact, such as family members, friends, and colleagues… we can even cleanse hucha from groups, communities and entire populations. Finally, we can cleanse physical localities… or a landscape suffering from the effects of violence, desecration, or pollution.” (Wilcox, 35)
Emotional
Component: Fear and painful emotions
are “only symptoms of being in contact with hucha. Fear, for example, is an
indication that you are in contact with something that is heavy for you.
Incompatible types of energy feel heavy.” (Wilcox, 32)
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