My Experiences and Interpretation of Ming’s Mirror Method
by Conrad Ho on 19 September 2018, written in Chongqing
One night in September 2010, Amy Choi, my wife, went home after teaching a course. She was still excited and wanted me to try her new balancing method. We have been treating each other as guinea pigs in order to test one’s own discoveries. It was not the first time and not new to me that I was asked for a “trial”.
I was watching my favorite DVD movie and my mind was pre-occupied. I simply asked her to let me finish watching my movie. Then she smiled and went in the bedroom. Usually, 99% of the time when I went to bed, she was already sound asleep. But this time, when I went into the bedroom after 12 mid-night, she was still waiting for me with a smiling face! Surprise! I wondered what would happen.
At the beginning, she looked at me with her eyes half-closed and slowly approaching me from a metre away until our noses nearly touched each other. It was so close that I couldn’t focus onto her face. Keeping at this short distance, she circled around me, as if she wanted to sniff at me. Then she was back to her original position. She continued to use that strange look to look at me with her neck increasingly inclined. Her neck twisted to greater angle and finally asked me the question, “Do you feel tense on the back of your neck?” I felt a bit of that part and replied, “Yes!” I said. She kept twisting her neck. After a minute or two, she asked again, “How do you feel this time? Are your neck muscles released?” I felt it again and said, “Yes!” I said.
She rushed over excitedly, pushed me onto the bed and looked at me with that strange look again, noses nearly touching other. Then she said, “It is my new discovery, isn’t it wonderful?” I was a little scared by her sudden push, and it was too close for me to focus. To be honest, I was a little annoyed and replied half-heartedly, “My neck muscles are really released!” Fortunately, she felt contented, smiled and fell asleep. This was my first experience of being balanced by Amy Choi’s “Ming’ Mirror Method”.
Since then, I was “mirrored” many times. Amy was more labourious during the early days of her doing the balances, and performance styles of stage performers were incorporated into her balancing techniques. Gradually her skills became more meticulous and effortless, and more freely and smoothly. The content of Ming’s Mirror Method has gone through the transition from therapy model (to feel other’s result of thinking) to educational model (to feel other’s process of thinking).
Recently, Amy Choi was invited as one of the keynote speakers at the International Educational Kinesiology Conference in Germany. She explained and demonstrated “Ming’s Mirror Method” at the conference. Her skills have improved greatly and the philosophy involved has substantially shifted to promote self-comprehension or self-interpretation or self-reflection of the client; rather than the mere disclosure of client’s insights, which he or she could not originally notice.
Perhaps some professionals or students of this field would understand that “Ming’s Mirror Method” is a so-called “energy scanning method” that is explained in many naturopathies. That is, applying the sensitivity that an ordinary person does not have to perceive the energy field of the others. Personally, I would think that it should be more than the scanning of energy. I feel that Amy has involved the scanning of information. She uses the sensitivity that an ordinary person does not have and perceives the information field of others. Not only does she sense the irregular waves of energy field of her partner, she also understands the information that is carried by these irregular fluctuations. She then uses body movements as a factual feedback and shows it to her partner. She allows the partner to comprehend what is being shown from his or her own perspective. It also allows the partner to learn those things that might be happening at a deeper level.
If you are interested in understanding more about yourself; you are advised to try “Ming’s Mirror Method” just like me. You will probably discover memories that you have been shielding, so you can finally do something practical to face it seriously. In addition, for a more in-depth knowledge of “Ming’s Mirror Method”, please see the essay that explains “Ming’s Mirror Method” by Amy Choi.
