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.

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...

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...

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

Your Hand Bone's Connected To Your Chest Bone...

One great thing about getting more of your food locally is that you can find yourself climbing trees a lot more. It's wonderful spending time in woodland, looking after fruit trees, and brilliant getting higher up into trees and seeing the world from that tree top point of view.

Direct-from-the-orchard fruit tastes so much better than that supermarket stuff  and climbing is such great exercise. We're designed for it, with that super mobile shoulder joint.
STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINT
The next time you're hanging by one arm up in a tree you might find it fun to ponder for a moment on the fact that the joint that's connecting your arm to your body is actually the tiny sternoclavicular joint.

There's no joint connecting your shoulder blade to your body, just lots of different muscles.

Then, still hanging there, think about your hand for a moment, and the billions of years of development that have enabled us to interact with our environment with such strength of grip and delicacy of touch.  

REMOTE SESSION THURSDAY 20th DECEMBER 2018
After tuning in, I'm going to focus on the connection of our hands to our hearts, taking it a step at a time: heart centre, sternoclavicular joints, shoulders, elbows, wrists, palm energy centres and fingers.
Have a great session wherever you are.

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.

Hands-on and Remote Treatment - Latest News

Since we've moved back to Perth there's been some fascinating new developments in my therapy work - how great to be setting out afresh at the grand old age of 64... still 24 on the inside of course...

A Red Plum Branch against the Summer Moon

It's great to be seeing more patients in the hands-on way again. What I'm finding is that all the remote craniosacral energy work I've been doing over the last eight years has given me some fascinating insight into treating people in the hands-on way as well.