REMOTE GROUP TREATMENT SESSION 19TH DEC 2019 - FOCUS, QUADRUNE BRAIN, DOLPHIN CONSCIOUSNESS

Here in the UK, many of us are still experiencing post-election disbelief and dismay. What seemed a golden opportunity for radical positive change at a governmental level has slipped through our fingers. Instead what do we have? Some sort of hideous bargain-basement imitation Trump backward collapse?

Easy to deride Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro and their like but we only have ourselves to blame for them being in power. They are "us" just as much as Gandhi or Lao Tzu. And what do they represent but nothing more than humanity's baser nature, that lying, greedy, lazy part of all of us. How can we expect politicians to act for the good of all and for a healthy environment when we don't in fact give them a mandate to do that.

QUADRUNE BRAIN - earlier post here

DECEMBER MERIDIAN - STOMACH

The Meridian for this Month is the Stomach. It runs on from the Large Intestine Meridian in a complicated pattern around the face and mouth, a branch descending internally through the diaphragm to the stomach and spleen. Another branch descends over the surface of the neck, chest and abdomen to the groin where the meridian reconnects with the continuation of internal branch from the stomach. It runs from here down the leg to the top of the foot, terminating at the tip of the second toe.

I love the dramatic descriptions of Stomach Meridian disturbance: eg the patient may like to "climb hills, sing a lot, or strip and run about naked". I'll know what's up with that type now...

REMOTE GROUP SESSION 14th NOV 2019 - LARGE INTESTINE TWO

The session we just had on the Thursday 7th November felt so powerful to host that I'm going to stay with the same focus for the next one:

SESSION 14th NOVEMBER: LARGE INTESTINE MERIDIAN - VAGUS NERVES - CRANIOSACRAL SYSTEM - LARGE INTESTINE MOBILITY AND MOTILITY

Which might seem like a lot of different levels, but that seemed to be part of the message, that it's good to focus into several levels, they're all just different ways of observing the same thing, our amazing, multi-connected, physical and non-physical human life form. Work going on with one aspect is mirrored in all others.

MERIDIAN OF THE MONTH - LARGE INTESTINE

The meridian for this month's exploration of the "web that has no weaver", is the Large Intestine, so I'll be focusing into this channel during our remote group session on 7th November.

The Large Intestine Meridian runs from the tip of the index finger up the arm to the shoulder where it splits into two branches. The first runs down inside the body through the lung and diaphragm to the large intestine itself. The second branch runs up the neck, through the cheek to the lower teeth and gum, and around the upper lip to the side of the nose.

REMOTE GROUP SESSION 24TH OCTOBER - SCIATICA TWO

We focused on Sciatica in last Thursday's remote group session and it's such a common problem that I'm going to stay with it for this next one on the 24th October - more about the remote group and how to join in here.
Sciatica, and lower back pain, has always been one of the chief reasons people seek out help from complementary therapists like me. I've always encouraged patients to research as much as they can themselves and to look at all aspects of their own health care, from diet and exercise, such as stretching and Pilates, along with getting regular holistic treatment. I often find that when patients' sciatica or back pain has eased they continue to come for CranioSacral Therapy as it can have such a positive effect on their health generally. So here's a bit more detail:

It's the largest nerve in our bodies, as thick as your thumb

The roots of the sciatic nerve fanning out from the lower spinal levels.

Some of the various disc and vertebral problems which can cause nerve compression.

The joints between the vertebrae themselves are often overlooked and can cause problems too.

One of the chief sciatic rascals, the piriformis muscle - easy to see how tension/spasm here can be pressing on that nerve. The good news is that tension here can often be easily treated and giving relief to pain.

Then there's often an emotional component to this, or any other, concern. Money worries and support issues often hide away down here. The CranioSacral approach can help people to explore this and learn wonderfully helpful life lessons by listening to our bodies' inner wisdom.
Have a great session if you're tuning in!
Stretch for the piriformis muscle here.
Pelvic tilt for lower back here.

MERIDIAN OF THE MONTH - LUNG

"THE DELICATE INTEGRITY OF THE TEMPORAL WORLD"
My main reference book for our meridian journey is the excellent, "The Web that has no Weaver," by Ted J. Kaptchuk. There's some great notes on the lung meridian and the lungs as organs, and all their associations, eg "the Lungs concern the momentary and the ephemeral. Healthy Lungs allow for a single moment or any singular episode of time to become complete".

The Lung Meridian runs from deep within the body cavity to the Large Intestine, rising to the Lungs and emerging to the surface via the throat. It continues down the arm to the thumb, a branch running down the index finger to connect with the Large Intestine Meridian.

REMOTE SESSION THURSDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER 2019 - YOUR AMAZING LIVER

The meridian for this month is the Liver Meridian though I'm going to keep the focus open to all functions of liver, and its connections with other systems.

YOUR AMAZING LIVER - MALE OR FEMALE?

When I'm treating patients in the hands-on, present way I sometimes ask them to focus their attention inwards to see if there's any body wisdom that wants to come up to the surface, and livers can be very responsive. I often ask them if they see their livers are male or female, to start the ball rolling.

REMOTE GROUP SESSION 8TH AUGUST - THE SHIFT TO A GLOBAL AWARENESS

I was reading an article about a new book by James Lovelock, of Gaia Theory fame, "Novacene", it's an interesting read, eg:
"Novacene picks up from that note of hope, and showcases another big idea. Gaia might, after all, be saved — by the singularity. This artificial-intelligence takeover, which so alarms many doomsayers, will be our redemption. Lovelock argues that increasingly self-engineering cyborgs with massive intellectual prowess and a telepathically shared consciousness will recognize that they, like organisms, are prey to climate change. They will understand that the planetary thermostat, the control system, is Gaia herself; and, in tandem with her, they will save the sum of remaining living tissue and themselves. The planet will enter the Novacene epoch: Lovelock’s coinage for the successor to the informally named Anthropocene."
I feel that we are on the verge of a shift in consciousness and intelligence and I hope that a global understanding of the accelerating climate catastrophe will help us to find a way back from the brink of mass extinction. I don't feel that a superior machine intelligence will be a part of it in the same way though, I feel that linking our awareness in remote group sessions like these helps to take us into the new realms that are just within our grasp. Lovelock argues that human thinking is too slow but I'd say that when we shift into global awareness we enter a different kind of enfolded Space and Time where thoughts move instantaneously.

One person can make a huge difference...

Less well known, Olga Misik reading the Russian constitution in front of riot police. Independent article here.

There's a huge resistance to change amongst the vested interests and reptilian politics so monstrously personified by the Great Orange Arsehole in the Shitehouse, but they are few and we are many, and we can and must rise above our inner reptile.

The sheer GALL of it...

We have an appointment this month with the Gall Bladder Meridian in our journey around our chi network. Amazing that most of us have not the slightest clue about such an important area of our bodies...
The Gall Bladder Meridian is associated in Chinese Traditional Medicine with impulsiveness and decisiveness, or lack of it, and is tempered by the careful heart.

TRIPLE BURNER MERIDIAN - MISTS AND MYSTERY THEREOF

Continuing our travels round the meridian system, we come from the Pericardium to the mysterious pathway of the Triple Burner Meridian. It isn't related to any one organ but is more of a functional relationship between several organs, balancing heat and moisture. "The Upper Burner is a mist, the Middle Burner is a foam, the Lower Burner is a swamp".
Something I love about Chinese philosophy, Taoism and the Meridian System is that they are based on thousands of years of observation and practice, they are often helpful in making sense of life and our human issues but they may not always be, because ultimately the Universe is unfathomable, mysterious, and beyond the ability of our human minds to understand.  

THE GEOMETRICITY OF LIFE

REMOTE GROUP SESSION - 20th JUNE 2019
I started this session by focusing on our central core energy flow, the Governing Vessel and Conception Vessel, and on the Microcosmic Orbit. What I soon started to connect with was a realm of simple geometric shapes, lines, circles and planes. I've connected with the realm before and it's always been a very peaceful experience, away from the craziness of our human world.

Giacomo Balla - interesting that Futurism is now a movement from the past...

24/7 HEALING - CONTINUOUS REMOTE SESSION

If you have a health issue you are welcome to join in with the remote group sessions I host on Thursdays, 21:15 to 22:00 UK time and with all the other group sessions kindly posted up here by other hosts.
TUNING IN AT ANY TIME
And also, please experiment with tuning in with whatever energies are available at any time of day that suits you. I do this myself for my own aches and pains and it can be really helpful. I sometimes visualise being in a translucent dome which focuses healing energies as I need them, and I sometimes ask doctors, therapists or chi kung masters from the spirit world for help. There's notes on joining in with remote sessions here which should be helpful for this too:
https://ianwattcranial.blogspot.com/p/remote-treatment.html

6TH JUNE REMOTE SESSION - PERICARDIUM MERIDIAN - HEART PROTECTOR

This month's meridian in our journey around the system is the Pericardium, sometimes called the Heart Protector, protecting us from overwhelming emotions such as anger, grief or fear as well as physically protecting the heart. The downside of this energetic assistance is that when we are over-protected from our emotions we can drift more and more apart from other people.
HAVING YOUR HEART HAULED OUT OF YOUR ASS
There's a film in which a guy describes relationship break-ups as "having your heart hauled out of your ass" which is just about right from my own experience. Who wants to feel that again? So Heart Protector kicks in...

ENFOLDED EVOLUTION OF ENERGY CHANNELS

Our remote group session on Thursday 23rd May was very interesting, so I wanted to post up something about that and to set our intention for our next session on Thursday 30th May.

HUMAN CHANNELS AND EARTH CHANNELS
My intention last time was to connect with the Earth's network of energy channels, its meridian system especially, as part of our year long journey through our human meridian system.

DOING NOT DOING

That was another great remote group session last night, thanks for your ethereal company everyone who joined in.

Doing not doing

I was all set to host a re-charging of the kidney energy batteries as I'd intended but the session turned into something a bit different. It settled into a deeply peaceful state, I felt I was watching the Earth from a point out in space and could see the pattern of our remote group energy network spread out below. Instead of being about re-charging the session seemed to be more about being careful with our personal energy, which I guess is a more sensible starting point when you think about it.

The Kidneys - Your Inner Terrible Twins

Yesterday's Free Remote Craniosacral Energy session, continuing in our year-long journey around the meridian system, was focused again in the kidneys, and very interesting it was too.

Real-lifeTerrible Twins: https://www.facebook.com/TerribleTwinsSA/

Bladder Meridian - 4th Session

The Free Remote Group Craniosacral Energy session coming up this Thursday 25th April will be the last one focused on the bladder meridian.

I saw this amazing photo by Christy Lee Rogers, "Harmony", in the paper - thought it was appropriate for our bladder/kidney focus

Bladder Focus 3 - Kidneys

I'm going to jump ahead a bit in our meridian journey and take a first look at the Kidney Meridian. Although I didn't plan to focus here at all until May it seems to work hand in hand with the Bladder Meridian, and the right kidney jumped straight into focus during last week's remote group session.

Today's Remote Group Session - Bladder Meridian 2

You're welcome to join in with today's Remote Group Craniosacral Energy Treatment Session from wherever you are. The session will run from 21:15 to 22:00 pm UK time. More about the sessions and how to join in here. There's a useful time converter for other parts of the world here.
BLADDER MERIDIAN
This is the second session focused on the bladder meridian in our year-long journey through the full meridian cycle. In the first session I just focused on the whole meridian and the flow within it, in this session I'd like to focus a little deeper and help us all to get a feel for what emotions and issues are ready to come up to the surface at the moment.
LIFE MIRRORED IN TISSUE

It's very interesting how our personal health concerns can be mirrored in the stuff around us in the industrial world, eg car problems or water and drainage problems at home

APRIL FOCUS - BLADDER MERIDIAN

This month's focus is the Bladder Meridian, in our year-long journey through the energy channels of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The channel itself starts at the end of the Small Intestine meridian at the inner corner of the eye, and runs up over the head. A branch splits off here and enters the brain, the main branch splits into two at the neck, running down the back, legs and the outer side of the foot to the tip of the small toe.

TAKING IT ALL IN...

FREE REMOTE GROUP SESSION COMING UP 28th MARCH
We've covered a lot of ground already this year in our journey through the meridian cycle, I've learned loads already and it's opened up whole new avenues to explore in both remote and hands-on work. So for this next session I'd just like to pause for a moment, and take some time to reflect, process, digest and integrate everything.

It's very beautiful up in our local woods now that Spring is well under way - woods that are all the better for being not very much managed.

And not just integrate everything within our own personal being but within our place in the world and the web of all Earth life.

THE SOUL SWIMS IN THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID

I've been having the most amazing time since moving back to Perth, meeting old and new therapy friends and exploring new ways of working with people, exploring new realms of CranioSacral Therapy and Energy Work in both the remote and hands-on way. The core of it all has been listening to patterns within flow, that is the flow of any fluid: air, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), blood, lymph, nerve impulses and energy flow. The most amazing thing is that listening is all you mostly have to do to help, sometimes that is actually as much as some patients can absorb by way of treatment.

Energy systems communicate with each other through the CSF?

HAND REFLEX POINTS FOR REMOTE TREATMENT FOCUS

My main surrogate for giving and hosting remote one-to-one and group treatment sessions has been my trusty assistant Cosmic Ted. He deserves some sort of award for over ten years of stout service.

Cosmic Ted, "I come in Paws."

Remote Group Session 14th March - Small Intestine Two - Here's the main players in your Small Intestinal Orchestra

Our focus all this month is the Small Intestine, in all its wiggley wonderfulness. We're going to continue exploring it's components and their functions, how they all work together in the physical and energetic way, and how we can help that all along.

MARCH 2019 - FOCUS SMALL INTESTINE

Continuing with our year-long journey around the meridian system, we move from some wonderful sessions exploring the Heart into the Small Intestine. I've been looking into the area from the Western as well as the Eastern viewpoint and I've found, yet again, that the more you study the human body the less you find you know. Just when you thought you were getting your head round something a whole new level of complexity pops up... The surprising things to me are not that it sometimes functions poorly here and there, but that such a complicated phenomenon ever works at all, let alone reproduces itself from a couple of cells (and has the code to do that in all of its 35 trillion cells, except for red blood cells).

REMOTE ENERGY MEDICINE IN 2019

The more I explore remote energy treatment through the group sessions and one-to-one work the more fascinating it gets. Do please try joining in with and sharing the Thursday events yourself, via Facebook here, and with the other remote group events we've been posting about, also via Facebook, in our Free Remote Healing Group Network. Spread the word! This is amazing work that has the potential to help many people in a natural way.

REMOTE GROUP CRANIOSACRAL ENERGY SESSION - 21ST FEB 2019 - HEART FOUR

FOCUS BLOOD CIRCULATION
I'd like to start this next session by focus on our blood circulation itself, the structures involved, heart, lungs and blood vessels, and on what actually moves our blood around. I've been re-reading Dr Thomas Cowan's brilliant book, "Human Heart, Cosmic Heart" again and I can't recommend it highly enough whether you're just interested in how our bodies work or whether you have a heart condition yourself - he's brilliant on treating heart disease.

REMOTE SESSION 7th FEBRUARY - HEART TWO

CRANIAL CONNECTIONS
One way that CranioSacral Therapy can help our physical hearts is through assisting the function of one if its controllers, the pair of vagus nerves. If you’re holding tension in your neck at the cranial base, and many people are, this can restrict those nerves. So we’ll start with a releasing technique for this area. Is there some life stress making you tense here? Maybe there's some way you can cope with that better in everyday life.

"Earth Heart," by DLynneS - more here

REMOTE GROUP SESSIONS - JAN/FEB - HEART

After the Spleen in the meridian cycle comes the Heart. I'm going to focus here for the sessions from 31st January through to 28th February, just from my first explorations it's looking like we have an amazing journey ahead...
What do you think of first when you hear the word "heart"? Emotions, personal traits, love, courage, strength? or maybe you're more aware of the physical blood circulation work it does for you. We're going to be exploring all its connections from the point of view of Traditional Chinese Medicine, everything we've discovered using microscopes and scanners, and also some very out-there ideas - I'm hoping we'll even get some insight into how our hearts might evolve as humankind evolves. Here's a couple of ideas for starters...

THE HEART IS NOT A PUMP
This isn't an idea that's filtered down to our Anatomy and Physiology books just yet, but it's a fascinating one to look into. Check out Dr Thomas Cowan's book, "Human Heart, Cosmic Heart", for a thorough exploration. There's an article by the author here. Our blood circulation may rely as much on a hydrophilic action of the capillaries, and the heart may be a vortex generator as much as anything else.

Here's a link to the work of Frank Chester, who devised a seven-faced form, the chestahedron, which mimics the heart and generates a vortex. In Frank's words, "The heart is not a pump, but an organ in which etheric space is created, so that the blood is sucked into the heart rather than pumped”. Do have a look at that site, there's many great ideas there, we'll be exploring all that much more over the next few weeks.

A FIFTH CHAMBER?
An idea that resonates with me a lot is that we may be developing a fifth heart chamber as part of our human evolution, a chamber that enhances our perception of and ability to work with energy fields. That's definitely something to focus on in one of these sessions.
MUSIC OF THE HEART
And how is it that a few pieces of wood gathered together into an instrument 300 years ago can give such a resonance to a piece of music, maybe a violin concerto, that it can pierce right through you?

2019 - THE MERIDIAN CYCLE - A YEAR OF FLOWING ENERGY

Through January this year, I've focused our Thursday remote group sessions on the Spleen Meridian. It's been fascinating and opened up a wonderful new way of exploring how our physical and energy bodies work together, combining our modern understanding through microscopic study with ancient wisdom gathered from thousands of years of observation.

SPLEEN 2

I stayed with the spleen focus for a second session on Thursday the 10th January 2019 - it's just getting more and more interesting and it's made me think of keeping our focus here for all the January sessions. It's giving me time to look into this amazing organ from a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as well as a Western Medicine viewpoint. The brilliant book by Ted Kaptchuk, "The Web that has no Weaver," has been really helpful in studying TCM - on ebay here. 

The 10th January session was very powerful and did indeed seem to be about transformation. Change is never really comfortable but we can't really avoid it. I feel we have an opportunity to learn how to operate at higher energetic frequencies, become clearer and stronger, understand energy phenomena and perform all kinds of energy work more easily, not just healing-facilitation but also global communication and awareness, and peacemaking.

The Spleen Meridian

A YEAR LONG TOUR OF THE MERIDIAN SYSTEM

I'm finding it much easier to get my head round the meridian system by taking the time to study just a channel a month. For example, I didn't even understand that the spleen channel runs up both legs, and that the meridians are in fact all paired. One meridian flows into another so there's a natural flow which we can follow over a year: Spleen - Heart - Small Intestine - Bladder - Kidney - Pericardium - Triple Burner - Gall Bladder - Liver - Lung - Large Intestine - Stomach... (then back to Spleen). Somewhere along the line we'll take in the Governing Vessel and Conception Vessel.

RED BLOOD CELLS

In Western medicinal understanding, the spleen is an important part of the immune system and also the circulatory system. For all my twenty years in healthcare I was still amazed to read about its work with red blood cells. 70% of our 37.2 trillion cells are red blood cells and they only live for about 120 days. Their iron-rich haemoglobin picks up oxygen in the lungs then delivers it to tissues everywhere in our bodies. Their membranes get damaged by being pumped through our capillaries and they are very cleverly removed from circulation by cells in the spleen. They are broken up and the useful components stored away for use in making fresh red blood cells. That's enough to take in for now I think, let's look into the spleen's immune system function next week...

SPLEEN - FIRE - TRANSFORMATION

My focus for the last remote group session, Thursday 3rd January 2019, was the spleen - surprising really that after all these years of hosting these sessions I've never thought of exploring this little organ's roles before. It's been really interesting to find that it's very much an organ for our crazy times...

Fire of Transformation