My Introduction to Energy Work

SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST...
Twenty-five years ago I was a complete sceptic myself concerning energy work in general. I remember having a treatment from a therapist for back pain and the lady saying to me, "I'm just going to zap some energy into your hip".

The White Queen - "Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"What?!" I thought - I was on the verge of jumping off the couch and running down the street, so I understand that sceptical point of view. Now, though, energy work is just an everyday reality for me.

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.

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.  

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

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."

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).

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

Rippling Light

It's just coming up for a year since we moved in to our flat here in Perth, and what a brilliant year it's been. It's been so good to be near to my kids and grandkids and some of my oldest friends again, and back in familiar places, some of which haven't changed a lot since I was a kid here myself.
It's also been brilliant to get back into the way of treating people in the hands-on way again and swapping treatments with old and new friends who like to explore and extend what they're doing. This has opened up a whole new appreciation of CranioSacral Therapy and treatment in general for me. (How crazy to be starting out afresh at the ripe old age of 65...) This in turn has led to whole new realms opening up in our remote treatment group sessions, particularly to do with effects going on within the cerebrospinal fluid itself. I'd always thought of its flow as being quite simple, but not at all.

The more I focus into the fluid itself, the more I find new patterns appearing. At the physical level, I've been feeling an expansion and contraction of the sacrum which seems to be part of the system for pumping the fluid around our central nervous system, and many more rhythms beyond the basic ebb and flow we learn about in the basic Upledger courses. There's the longer tides observed in Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy and also a mini-rippling effect I've noticed myself, which I think may be interruptions in the flow caused by the trebeculae within the arachnoid membrane, acting like tiny bridge supports and stirring up and activating the flow just as a full size bridge support in a river does. It's all such a mind-bogglingly amazing bit of design at the physical level, and then there's the energetic level.
It's been very interesting to bring some of the effects I've noticed through treating people remotely into hands-on treatments, especially in the way of switching from a physical to an energetic focus, or having both at once. Holding an energetic awareness of the fluid has been amazing, like holding a tube of light with reflections rippling all around it. It feels like being in touch with the core of the energy flow through our being. So that's probably going to be the starting point for our next remote group session on Thursday 13th December, join in if you can 21.15 to 22:00 pm UK time, or tune in with the session at whatever time suits you.

THE MUSIC OF THE HEART

I've been exploring the various different rhythms of our heart and circulation and I'm getting the idea that you can best understand them in terms of music. I got an idea that the four valves of the heart work together a bit like a barber's shop quartet whereas the chambers have a deep resonance more like those enormous Tibetan horns.

Then focusing into the blood flow itself, just as there's a slower rhythm within the cerebrospinal fluid than the craniosacral rhythm itself, there seems to be a series of longer and longer tides within our blood's circulation, the long tides of the heart, with a music that takes in all frequencies, like the sea on a pebbley shore.
If you'd like to set your intention to explore all this yourself during the Free Remote Session coming up on Thursday 1st of November I'd be fascinated to hear what you find. And if you'd like to ask for help with a health issue as well or instead that's cool too! At the end of the day, aren't all our health issues at least partly heart issues?

Evolving Cosciousness - the Quadrune Brain

The idea of the Triune Brain, ie that our human brains are an enfoldment over mammal brains which are in turn an enfoldment over reptile brains, can be really helpful in explaining how people's behaviour can revert to something less than human, for example, when we feel threatened, scared, get drunk or if someone threatens someone close to us.

Thinking about how whales and dolphins are in a way more evolved than humans in that they have returned to the sea, maybe there's a Quadrune Consciousness we're already tapping into

ONE-TO-ONE REMOTE THERAPY SESSIONS

I'm available for One-to-One remote treatment sessions of CranioSacral Energy Work for patients anywhere in the world. Sessions are 45 minutes long, with email or phone discussion before and after as required. More about my remote work here, and do please get in touch to find out more: ianecowatt@gmail.com.
COST, including discussion: £55

I also host a regular Free Remote Group CranioSacral Energy Treatments, most Thursdays via Facebook, all welcome to join in: Remote Treatment Page.

NEUTRAL, CENTRED and GROUNDED

It’s a great place to be whether you’re giving or receiving treatment and also in our everyday lives, but what does it mean and how do you get there? I think the answers could fill several books but here’s a few ideas:

neutral, centred and grounded the Twilight Samurai way...

NEUTRAL
To me this means not pumping energy out, nor drawing it in, keeping our personal energy to ourselves and cultivating it. Allowing a flow of universal healing energy is different and can be done in a neutral personal state. For the therapist, I think "neutral" means not trying to "fix" the patient, and certainly not using personal energy to do that, but listening to them with you ears and heart and so helping their own healing process along.