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#3751: How Vodou Heals, from Mambo Racine Sans Bout : Laleau comments
From:NLaleau@aol.com
<< "Ah-HAH! Sezisman!", said the people of my household. I was
then the recipient of massage, herbal teas, cuddling and coddling and
general
cheering up from my Houngan and Mambo buddies and others.
>>
Dear Kathy,
If your American friends give you the same treatment after a stressful
episode, then you are lucky indeed in your choice of friends!
If I am very lucky, after a stressful episode here in the U.S., I might get a
phone conversation or two, and a couple of dinner invitations... after the
stress of having lived in Haiti for a couple of years, I did get an extended
sojourn in Hawaii at the initiative of close friends who live there, although
I was working while I "relaxed"... On the whole, I think Anglo-Saxon culture
is far less tolerant of "stress" and we are expected to work it out
ourselves... do some "affirmations" or mediations or centering exercises,
take a bubble-bath, get counseling... but cuddling and pampering? Mmmm!
Love,
Nancy Laleau