This comment on the last post (part 1) is from Jennifer Louden who is just completely awesome and has been on Oprah and I love her madly and you should all be reading her books or taking her classes and just thinking about her results in my writing ridiculous run-on sentences.

So this, of course, feeds right into the huge, huge, huge fear that 90% of my students have. Which is:

Oh no! What if I’m the one it doesn’t work on? What if it helps everybody else and it doesn’t help me?

Yes, they’d mixed up the Jewish ritual of mourning the dead with the mythical Hindu dance of destruction and new creation.

It happens.

So at least a couple times a month someone sends me an email that says, “What do I need to do to master the Dance of Shiva?”

Or sometimes they just report that they’re trying to master it. Or thinking about trying to master it. Every once in a while they actually apologize to me for not yet having gotten around to mastering it yet.

Okay. I really only have one response to that.