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Energetically Shifting Deep Habits

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This Energy exercise works by bringing various meridians into balance. Relaxing the defensive mechanisms, supporting the metabolism functions and activating the radiant circuits all work together to help you feel safe and supported in making changes. It is generally suggested that you do it four or more times per day to shift deep habits.

  1. Cover your eyes with your fingers. Inhale. Exhale.
  2. Inhale with your eyes still covered. Exhale while dragging your fingers across your eyes and out to your temples.
  3. Inhale while dragging your fingers up over your ears. Exhale while dragging  your fingers down behind your ears to your shoulders. Hang your fingers on your shoulders at the neck.
  4. Inhale as you cross your arms, placing your fingers on the opposite shoulders. Exhale, smoothing your hands down your arms to the forearms.
  5. Inhaling, place your hands flat across the ribs under your bust area.
  6. Exhale while sweeping your fingers down your legs and off your feet at the toes.
  7. Inhale while sweeping your fingers back up your legs to under your arms.
  8. Exhale while sweeping your fingers down and off your body at the sides of your waist.

Ahhhhhh……….

Energy Tip for Daily Stess

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Stress has an immediate impact on every system in your body. The daily stresses of life trigger primitive brain centers into an emergency response condition.  Up to 80% of the blood leaves your forebrain to support the fight-or-flight response and stress chemicals pour into the bloodstream.  The primitive brain structures don’t distinguish whether the alarm was set off by something small like a broken shoelace or a huge physical threat.

 

“Oh My God” Points

With simple Energy Medicine techniques you can reprogram your nervous system to no longer set off the crisis response in the face of daily stresses. Holding your Neurovascular points returns blood to your forebrain and reconditions your response to stress.

Try this simple technique the next time you are hit by stress, feel overwhelmed, or highly emotional:

  1. Lightly place your fingertips on your forehead, covering the frontal eminences, the “Oh my God” points (p. 234).
  2. Put your thumbs on your temples next to your eyes, breathing deeply.
  3. Sink deeply into the emotion and stress as you hold the points for three to five minutes.
  4. As blood returns to your forebrain over the next few minutes you will begin to think more clearly.

It is that simple!

From EEM Newsletter. Page references to Donna’s Book Energy Medicine, 2008 Tarcher/Penguin.

Quiet the Chaos, Increase your Stamina

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Are you wound up from the holidays or still in the midst of it? When you get into the overwhelm of stress and exhaustion, your meridians begin to run backwards, compelling you to rest. This makes you feel even more zapped.

Tap or rub your K-27 points (see below) to restore the natural direction of the meridian flow. This gives you increased stamina. In fact, Tapping or rubbing your K-27′s is a simple exercise that will energize you if you are feeling drowsy and help you focus if you are having difficulty concentrating.

To tap your K-27 points do the following:
1. Place your fingers on your K-27 points.
2. Tap or rub vigorously for 15-30 seconds.
3. Focus on your breathing, in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Not sure if you’re tapping the right spot? To locate your K-27 points:

  • Place your fingers on your collarbone and move them inward towards the U-shaped notch at the top of your breastbone.
  • Move your fingers to the bottom of the U and then move down and out about an inch to find the spots.
  • For most people there is a soft spot or indentation there at the location of their K-27 points.

Shared from Eden Energy Medicine newsletter

Daily Energy Routine

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“Through years of practice we have designed a Daily Energy Routine that combines the most potent techniques we know that are able to help the greatest number of people stimulate each of the vital energy systems of the body and bring them into harmony and balance.” Donna Eden & David Feinstein, The Healing Power of Energy Medicine.

These exercises communicate with and influence the body’s energy systems in direct ways. By learning the movements and points to touch, you are beginning a dialogue with your body’s energy systems in the universal language of energy. The daily routine brings basic energies into better integration, coherence and flow.

This pdf shows you how Five_Minute_Routine. And this audio by Donna will walk you through it if you prefer to listen Daily_Energy_Routine.

And for those curious minds who want a tad bit more info on the Daily Routine exercises, read on:

  • Three Thumps helps to get the meridians flowing forward when they are flowing backward or in an irregular pattern, supports your immune system and your ability to metabolize energies, substances and thoughts.
  • Cross Crawl helps the energy cross between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
  • Wayne Cook links the energies of the back brain with the front brain.
  • Crown Pull helps to pump the cerebrospinal fluid into the brain.
  • Neurolymphatic Massage supports the flow of lymph and clearing of toxins.
  • Connecting Heaven and Earth helps to open areas especially in the joints supporting the flow of energy.
  • Celtic Weave enhances your energy integration by weaving the energy systems of the body together.
  • Hook Up connects your energetic spine.
  • Zip up helps you to be less vulnerable to undue influence

Also, if you’ve signed up for my newsletter you have received a few other helpful tools – Radiating Core Energy to help strengthen your personal core, Main Central flow to regenerate and restore overall balance and flow in your meridian system and the Spiral Sweep meditation to flow the energy through your skeletal system, your brain, your endocrine system and your chakra system providing greater flow and emotional balance. And of course, using the Breath for release and concentration.

Use what calls to you in any given moment. There are many opportunities to be thrown off balance throughout your day and the question is – are you utilizing the available tools to help you regain your centeredness and balance?

Enjoy your day…

Jin Shin – Holding your Fingers

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Gently wrap one hand around your other hands’ thumb and each finger individually and then hold the palm of the other hand.  Hold each finger, thumb, and palm for at least 2 minutes apiece or longer.  You can choose which hand you want to hold or do both. (See hand images below)

The fingers and palm have energy connections to our mind, body and spirit.  Alternatively, you can do both exercises together as well… the 36 Breaths while holding your fingers.  While you hold each finger/position, do 6 complete breaths and then move to next finger/position and repeat.

 

thumb                                                           palm                                            finger

 

 

On healing…

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We say that someone is healthy when he/she is in a good relationship with life: bodily, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. The world “whole” can be used in a similar way, meaning that the person has a full relationship with life. My sense of illness is that in some way the person has become separated from life. If I think about what we normally refer to as illness, each form involves some kind of withdrawal from a full relationship to life: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. In that sense illness involves any kind of separation, including feelings like distrust, alienation, prejudice, judgment and any other espousal of separation. … In my experience all forms of healing involve joining with life and ending thoughts and expressions of separation … This awakening is the end of separation. All of life is cooperating to bring us into eternal Being. In that sense we are all prodigal sons being welcomed home. ~Jack Blackburn~

Is it time to rethink your definition of healing?

Too often people equate healing with having someone fix the issue or make it go away, releasing all personal responsibility. It really doesn’t work that way – not over the long haul.

What if healing simply meant that there was a glitch, a snag, a kink, an outdated false belief snagged in there somewhere in one of the physical, subtle or energetic systems? What if it was simply time to update your subconscious programming? Time to let go, allow the flow and come back into balance?

That there was nothing intrinsically wrong with you – just a little blip along the way. A lack of connection or a lack of smooth flowing energy somewhere. An entanglement perhaps.

Perhaps you could adjust it yourself …. Perhaps you require the assistance and support of someone else … either way you do what you need to do to support your well-being.

Perhaps through reconnecting with yourself from a place of clean power, and then with all of life, systems could come back into their natural state of balance where healing can occur and wellness is the normal state of being.

What about that? Would you be interested?Is it time to move into your next level of joy, balance and well-being? What is one step you could take right now in that direction?

Towards Joy and Love

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This funny, insightful and important 20 minute talk is well worth your time. Have you realized that numbing is not a selective process – that if you numb down your pain you also numb down your joy, creating a cycle that flatlines your life? How depressing is that?!?!?! To break the cycle…well, I’ll let you watch and see. And in all honesty, I am so very grateful to be working with my passion, which is helping people to live a fully alive life. Enjoy!

The 36 Jin Shin Breaths

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The simplest and most important self help tool we have is our breath:  the exhale and the inhale.

When we exhale consciously and deeply, we release tension and stress. When we inhale naturally, we receive an abundance of life energy. This life energy connects our body, mind, and spirit.

Simply and consciously exhale while dropping your shoulders as if they were touching your feet. The smile comes naturally as you release and gently welcome the inhalation.

Each day use this formula to exhale consciously and inhale naturally 36 breaths. You can do this all at once or you can do 9 complete exhales and inhales four times per day. Use your breath!

Jin Shin – Lung Meridian

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Let us continue to look at a series of easy self care, quick release techniques to help you feel better. The body can regenerate and restore when the energy is flowing. With Jin Shin, we work with the acupressure points on the body using light touch to release stress and tension.

Remember that you can work on yourself or use these points to work on a client. For Quantum Touch students/practitioners, holding these points while doing QT really pumps up the effectiveness. These are quick release points not full flows that a practitioner would likely use.

The function of the Lung Meridian is to create structure for communication of our instincts and inner workings of our mind in developing ideas, writing and speaking. It helps to generate evolution and change.

Do you notice any of these tendencies in yourself? Allergies, arm and posterior side of elbows ache, chest congestion, grief, hair in poor condition, shoulders and back chilly, little common sense, can’t be direct, hates to let go, negative attitude. Continue reading →