Making Eden Energy Medicine Our Own

Fountain of Light - the Zip Up

 Awareness:  The Central Meridian, the Yin half of the Hook Up, is also regarded as the self-suggestion meridian.  It holds the vibrations of how we perceive ourselves.  When we speak aloud the qualities we choose to nurture while tracing it forward, the Central meridian energy force amplifies and anchors these intentions.  It links into the part of us where, whatever we desire, it is already ours.

photo by Lyn Milum

Body Symphony - the Hook Up

Awareness:  The Central Meridian travels from the pubic bone to the lower lip, and the Governing Meridian begins at the tailbone and travels up the spine, over the head to the upper lip.  They are designed to connect at the back of the throat and create a vibrant cycling of life force around and through the body, bringing strength and resiliency to all the other energy systems. When this connection is disturbed by stresses of various sorts, the integrity of the whole being is affected.  I see the Hook Up like an orchestra that tunes up all its instruments – its energy flows and systems – and plays them to produce fine music, following the core thread of one melody, sung by the primary connection of these two energy pathways.

Marco Island Sunset by Lyn Milum

Practice:  There are different ways to encourage the Hook Up connection.  Donna Eden teaches to place the middle finger of one hand in the navel and the other between the eyebrows, press in, pull up, and breathe deeply for 30 seconds or more.  She recommends this Hook Up as part of her Daily Energy Routine. 

A Cloak of Shining Dragonflies - the Celtic Weave

 Awareness:  An intricate interweaving of figure 8 patterns, or infinity patterns ∞, large and small, dances our energy systems together and is an energy system of its own that Donna Eden calls "the Celtic Weave."  She also teaches an exercise by that name that restores and reinforces the fabric of the auric field, the boundary and space extending around the entire body that intelligently draws in energies and influences that we welcome, and filters out unwanted energies coming our way.  Her Celtic Weave exercise can be found in her book, Energy Medicine.  The exercise I share here is a free-style version I like to use.

Separating and Connecting Heaven & Earth

Awareness:  Like mental activity that gets caught in the head (released by the Crown Pull), static energy can become trapped in the joints.  Energy is dynamic and fluid, and we feel best when it is in motion, bringing in fresh supplies of life force, moving freely through all our structures and systems, and releasing in appropriate balance with receiving.  Not only does this exercise move stuck energies from the joints, but it is a way of opening up space to hold the uniqueness of our life.  An ancient Qi Gong exercise, it was known as Separating Heaven & Earth, carving out and claiming space for expressing our unique fullness.  As Connecting Heaven & Earth, it's a way of calling in what we desire from the abundance of the Universe. I appreciate Barbara Ann O'Leary and Melanie Smith for expanding my understanding of this exercise.

 
photo of Mt. Desert Island, by Lyn Milum

A Meridian Tonic - Neurolymphatic Reflex Massage

Awareness: Firmly massaging the Neurolymphatic Reflex points on this chart moves toxins from the meridians they relate to, and the organs the meridians are named for.  As static energy toxins are triggered to release, fresh energy naturally flows in to restore our innate harmonious states of wellness.  This feels like an all-over body tonic to me.

Inspiration's Window - The Crown Pull

Awareness:  I think, work at the computer, read, plan, imagine, analyze, ruminate ... and all of these things bring energy up to my head.  Doing the Crown Pull opens the exit for static clutter that can build up in the head from mental activity, making room for the light of fresh inspiration to pour in.

 
Crystal Meditation used with permission from Visual Alchemy

Practice:  I curl my fingertips and rest them on my forehead, along the midline.  I like to rest my fingertips for a few moments, envisioning light shining from my fingers all the way into the inner structures, and then press in and pull firmly apart to the temples.  I like to breathe in when pressing, and exhale while pulling apart and widening.  I continue pouring rays of light from my fingertips, and the breathing rhythm, pressing in, and pulling apart, following the midline of the head over the scalp, portion by portion, until reaching my neck.  I rake my fingers from beside my neck vertebrae outwards, then let them hang on my shoulders, letting any tension stored there melt away.  Then I release and relax my hands and arms.

Vibrant Communications: Cross-Lateral Patterning and Neurological Organizing

Awareness:  Our vitality suffers when information is not crossing from the right hemisphere of the brain to the left side of the body and vice versa. Communication among energy systems can become cacophonous when neurological signals are scrambled (disturbance that can be restored by doing Donna Eden's Wayne Cook exercise).  Scrambled signals and energies struggling to crossover the body are often the result of ongoing daily stress responses.  Restoring the crossover patterns and neurological organization clears communication between energy systems, and helps us access our vast potential for self-healing and renewal.

Laurel Camden (Eden Energy Medicine Certification Program Faculty member and Advanced Practitioner) teaches a way to re-establish the crossover patterns of the body by tracing sideways figure 8s on the face around the eyes. I find that the following adaptation of that exercise tends to provide the benefits of both the Homolateral Correction and the Wayne Cook exercise that are part of Donna Eden's Daily Energy Routine.  This works well for me, and many I work with, and if it doesn't help enough I try other methods to invite balance.

Flower of Life II, used with permission, by Visual Alchemy

Knocking on Energy's Doors - The Four Thumps

There are potent points on the body that are portals into our energy systems, doorways  that open deeply into the body and interrelate with all other body energies.  We can interact with these points by stimulating them with circular massage, holding our fingertips on them, and tapping or thumping to awaken and revitalize them.  Attention to specific energies evokes their response and enlivening.  When these doors open, the whole system is more receptive to shifting into greater balance.

    
Tree of Life Fairy Door, image used with permission from Enchanted Gardens

To Begin the World Again - Mindfulness with the Daily Energy Routine

Each morning brings a new world into the light.  Nothing is exactly the same as the moment before.  When I greet my morning with a mindful practice of Eden Energy Medicine exercises, I feel more anchored in the moment, more able to respond with equanimity to life around me and within me. 

  
  Emergence and the Heart of the Flame  - Collage/Painting by Lyn Milum

We have it in our power to begin the world again.  - Thomas Paine

Donna Eden teaches a simple and powerful Daily Energy Routine, a set of exercises that resets our energetic balance.  It takes less than ten minutes a day.  I've done these Energy Balancing exercises with my mind on things-to-do, on conversations, or just wandering around in its busyness.  Doing the routine that way still feels effective in bringing harmony to my energy systems, but I feel more deeply nourished in myself when I bring my mind into the multidimensional wonder of each energy portal on my body as I communicate with it, the grace of each resonant energy system.

Ancient Echoes and Injury Recall Technique

I love to experiment.  I feel really fortunate to know people who welcome my freehand style of Eden Energy Medicine (EEM).  Recently I have loved exploring an Applied Kinesiology (AK) method called "Injury Recall Technique" (IRT) and adding Energy Medicine understandings to the process. I notice that IRT is very similar to an Eden Energy Medicine protocol called "Ancient Echoes."

Ancient Echoes, EEM

In the Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Practicum, I soaked up the demonstration sessions given by advanced practitioners. One such session, given by Sandy Wand,  involved a technique called Ancient Echoes, which alternates between offering a release of static energies in the neck and  moving the client's leg away from their body. The leg movement is one way to talk with the Circulation-Sex meridian: with the client on their back and legs together, slowly swing one leg to the side, to the edge of their comfort zone, and note how far they can extend.  Then return the leg to rest on the table.   The Circulation-Sex meridian is Triple Warmer's Yin partner, and its job is to protect the heart and to manage the circulation of fluids, energy and hormones.  The muscles of the hips are governed by Circulation-Sex, and its state of balance directly affects the harmony of the root chakra.  As the neck releases tension, Triple Warmer energy is liberated, and Circ-Sex disseminates this freedom into all the joints, which is clearly shown by how much farther the leg can be moved.