#3751: How Vodou Heals, from Mambo Racine Sans Bout : Laleau comments

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

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