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.

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.

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.

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...

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/

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

2019 - GLOBAL AND LOCAL - EARTHCARE AND PEOPLECARE

Have a wonderful year in 2019 everyone!
I hope you can join in our regular Free Thursday Remote CranioSacral Energy sessions from wherever you are - they're 21.15 to 22.00 pm, UK time - they've been part of a fascinating year of exploration for me in 2018. There's lots of areas I want to explore more this next year...
HIGHER DIMENSIONALITY?

Maybe space and time themselves can be enfolded like these cerebellar cortex cells - so that by choosing to function at a higher vibration we can make connections that transcend our normal concept of space-time

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?

Getting Ready - The Song of the Earth Energy Centre

When you're getting ready for the sessions, I suggest that you get comfortable, use deep slow breathing to help you to relax, then focus your attention on each of the on-body chakras, in no particular order, and imagine them all flowing into one. Then connect with an Earth energy centre about three feet below your feet and a cosmic centre about three feet above your head, allowing life force energy to flow both up and down through you. (There's more complete notes about the process on the Remote Treatment page).

A beach fire from long ago... *

I've been finding recently when I focus on the Earth energy centre that I get a really strong image of a fire on a beach, flickering flames and gathering darkness - it feels like a scene from long ago. I get a feeling of being part of a wandering group, maybe of hunter-gatherers on some sort of seasonal, cyclical journey, resting by the shores of a great lake during a long journey. 

I'm reminded that our crazy industrial way of life is only a few hundred years old and our agricultural lives just a few thousand, we've spent many more thousands of years, most of our human existence, wandering, exploring, foraging and following herds.

So I suppose that's maybe why I often feel so disconnected from industrial life and from the Earth.

Bruce Chatwin writes beautifully on these lines in his wonderful book, "The Songlines." 

*PS the photo "from long ago" is from Bored in Vancouver.

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

!! NEW !! - Chi Kung PLUS - Classes and Tuiition

I developed Chi Kung Plus through showing clients exercises, to help them deal better with stress and as a general health boost. Chi Kung Plus is easy to learn, calming and fun, and highly effective. The exercises combine traditional Chi Kung with my complementary therapy experience, especially of CranioSacral Therapy. More here: Chi Kung Plus.

I'm available for small classes of two or three people and individual tuition here in Perth at Tay Medispa and currently sorting out a venue for larger classes.The studios at Inspire look great, one of them has a mirrored wall which is really handy for teaching, and there's a good friendly atmosphere there.
Chi Kung Plus is great for starting the day on courses or for a break in a stressful working day - please get in touch to talk about holding a class in your course programme or at your workplace.
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FLOW

FLOW

A lot of a treatment session, hands-on or remote, is about assisting FLOW - whether it's of energy, ideas, blood, lymph, cerebrospinal fluid, air, nerve impulses, blocked emotions and patterns...

Something I've got interested in through treating patients in the hands-on way recently is the flow of development, from the embryo to the adult; and in the adult, the flow of renewal of tissue.

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.

Energy Work - Fields, Flows, Feelings and the Future

As if our physical bodies weren't complicated enough, they're just a small part of our human being. Folded up within and around our physical body is our energy body. Every physical structure, every cell, organ, system, generates a field and is generated by a field. Just as flows of blood, lymph, oxygen and so on flow around our physical bodies, different forms of energy flow around and between each of them. The energy counterpart of each of our physical structures is also a window into a world of feelings and has its own nature or personality. This seems to be especially true of the sacrum which we connected with in last Thursday's group session.