Making Eden Energy Medicine Our Own

The Year Turned to 2012!

The year turned, and already this one doesn’t feel so new anymore, remarkable though it is that it is called “2012”. Time does not move in a steady metronome’s beat now, if ever it did so. The first of January came and went, but the excitement that I anticipate accompanying the turning of the year seemed to elude me. Now I find myself starting instead to anticipate the approaching Chinese New Year, year of the water dragon, which is ushered in on January 23. Is this a gift of having taken the Tao into my bones? Has observing the balance of flow and control cycles, working with students and clients to help them align with these rhythms, shifted my own orientation so that my blood sings in tune with a deeper rhythm?

Having agreed to submit a blog to “Making Energy Medicine Our Own”, in my mind I’ve wondered how I will link my thoughts about the advent of 2012 and Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine. As I reflect on the slow pace at which I have approached this task, I begin to understand how closely that pace matches the rhythm of water. I am inspired to begin, I suppose, in synchronicity with the fact that today the temperature in Boston finally dipped into single digits. It’s also the first time all season that the temperature has been below the January average. In sharp contrast to record breaking snow depth last year, we’ve been enjoying remarkably warm days, with temperatures often reaching 50 in the last three months. My skin enjoys the warmth of the sun; yet the marrow of my bones reminds me that something is 'off' with the Earth’s natural rhythm.

I imagine encouraging Earth to hug her Spleen, flush and strengthen it, so she can make a smoother and more deliberate transition into winter. As I connect heaven and earth with my EEM class, I imagine the silhouettes of deciduous trees that have finally shed their leaves stretching their branch-arms up toward the sky to stretch and make more space for the movement of seasons.

Where am I headed this year? I notice the question solicits memories as if from a secret repository, tracing moments and sequences provided on this exquisite journey. Just today someone commented, “How do you know so much?” He was referring to the ease with which I refer to connections between organs, chakras and meridians, colors, foods, seasons, emotions, locations of discomfort and ways to address them.

His question sparks a burst of contradictory emotions. At first it amuses me. It never occurs to me that I have amassed an impressive amount of knowledge. It all fits so well together, and seems so natural. Then I almost feel apologetic. How did I get to be so privileged to encounter this understanding while others don’t even know that there is something they have been deprived of? A twinge of sympathy follows, seasoned with a slight embarrassment. Below the surface dances a feeling of sadness. I mourn the loss the West (for lack of a better term) incurs as it deprives itself of dipping into this reservoir of understanding.
So often I’m aware of my utter frustration at the persuasive power of the prevailing medical mind-set. Friends or neighbors, dramatically ill with cancer, are so swallowed by existing limiting parameters that they are unable to begin to imagine the existence of other maps that could lead them toward vibrant well-being. The fear that pervades this world is palpable, more contagious than swine flu, fanned constantly by media, rhetoric, and embedded beliefs.

On the one hand, I’ve been learning about these correspondences formally and officially for close to thirty years, enough so it has become second nature. That by itself is a bit of a shock. It also can startle me to realize that neither “studying” nor “learning” seem as appropriate to describe the understanding that I am so keen to share. “Absorb” is a better choice. The way these rhythms permeate all aspects of the life I observe around me is so intrinsic and so profound that it is easy to forget that it has been a unique privilege to be exposed to this wisdom, and few have yet to share it.

I notice that the theme of the year just completed, has been integration. More than any time that preceded this, I’ve been taking the wisdom I’ve been exposed to in various contexts to a much deeper place within. Themes reveal themselves that developed over my lifetime. As I’ve been able to bring spleen and triple warmer more frequently into balance, that enhanced spleen energy has played a greater role, supporting this integration and preparing me for further transitions I can envision, though I cannot yet see them.

When I think of the very specific details we focused on in the Practitioners’ Training Course, I think of much of that work as a bridge between working on the physical plane, and becoming a metaphysician. My first exposure to the Tao was through the Universal Healing Tao. The meditations were called “internal alchemy.” Now I find myself enhancing that repertoire, working directly with the energy flows, spinning chakras, tracing meridians, control and flow cycles, as an internal meditative practice.

My classes are my research laboratory. I make discoveries there: so many imbalances can be addressed with just one or two exercises. I have yet to meet the student or client who didn’t need to strengthen their aura and ground their energy. Those two concepts, combined with calming triple warmer and “never missing an opportunity to energize spleen” seem to address so many issues all at once. We learn how strong the morphic field’s influence is on our collective energies. It turns out much is accomplished with intention yet if that piece is missing the exercises may have no influence on vital energies at all.

These observations form the backdrop of a profound decision, not so much a decision “made” as an opening to an inevitable transition. Rather than a life in which I have tools I can use, share, teach, and apply, I set my intention to live from the place that these tools have transported me. It’s not an easy path to chart. It’s a path of being, and being in the flow. It feels like having made a vow. Prince Charming is the magical cosmos. This journey has transported me a long distance from the secular materialist belief system in which I was raised. It can be a lonely place at times. Not many others join me here. And I cannot always meet myself in this place, yet. The shift has been one of intending to fully live what I know, to hold back no longer, to recognize and treat fear whenever and wherever it surfaces. And to trust that everything I might want will follow from my willingness to uphold and continuously return to the gift that vow is waiting to bestow.

A deep place within sighs and whispers: “Welcome. We’ve been waiting here for you for a long time!”

Judith Poole, EEM Practitioner  http://HealingPoole.com   617-923-8856

2012

I feel like I have been waiting my entire life for this moment, this period of time.

We have all lived through the day someone or another said the world would end. I remember the first time that came about in my conscious mind.  I was in 8^th or 9^th grade.  About 10 of my friends and I stood in a playground holding hands in a circle with our eyes shut thinking if we go at least we’ll all be together – the time came and went and we laughed for what seemed like hours and then were like, “ok, see you tomorrow.”

I feel like that a bit now.  Obviously with many, many more life experiences behind me, but I feel like I have been talking about and waiting for 2012 expectantly for a while now. In my old company Tony&Tina, Tony and I would always talk about this time when the governments and economic systems would crash and we would begin anew – forced to put aside our selfishness and come together as a community to rebuild our world. And from the reading we did the positive side of it all made so much more sense to us. The hell and brim fire didn’t feel right. Some of that talk has come to light. Then there is the world ending in general ideas and there is a lot of disturbing science talking about how overdue we are for a real global catastrophe, but really, thinking about that is just a waste of time, since there is nothing we can do about it. Regardless, all the spiritual things I have learned in my life, and they've been varied, speak of a time of transformation.  I perceive this today as being positive and, at the end of the day, joyous – the road getting there isn’t pretty, as we see now, but as I have referenced before my teacher Ellen Meredith Ilfeld says its like a house renovation, messy and uncomfortable and then beauty and harmony once its done. That’s how I feel about the world today – it’s a bit messy and uncomfortable in one way or another – everyone’s challenges look different and its important to honor that but we’re going to get through it with positive rewards at the end of the day – end of the day not the end of the world.

Back a couple of years I began to notice a change in the energy in and around me, and I did have a moment of fear. I thought what if everything really breaks down and we are living a primal lawless existence. I watch a lot of SCI-FI so I had those scary thoughts.  Then I sort of got on with my life and forgot for a while.  During that time I did a lot of work on myself.  You can read my previous blog on my recent grid process as an example to see what I’m talking about.  Then I began to come through it and certain aspects of myself that had only been hinted at before were stepping forward. Good things.  I am finding strength from my inner and outer “source” in such deeper ways.  I feel very connected.  I think that we’ve been in this time of transition for a while and everything has been accelerated but no matter where you are in your journey I feel we are all “awakening.”  I see acceptance, love and selflessness all around me. I have been looking at the world with new eyes and I truly believe we are growing up into a more compassionate global community. A part of that is taking responsibility for us; our energetic frequency has increased thus increasing the power of the law of attraction. It is extremely helpful to try, to intend and of course to really come from a place of love in all our thoughts and actions because we are all generating so much energy to everything and everyone around us that its only polite to be aware of this energy and to keep it positive.

I’m hopeful now. I can feel such amazing things happening energetically all around me and I believe this is happening to people all around the world. Where this new energetic consciousness will lead us I don’t know, but someplace good for sure. There is an energetic door now and forever opened and anyone can just walk through and begin to perceive reality from a broader perspective.  I see people doing it everyday. When we look at the world today, its history and various possible futures we can see there are only a few things that really matter – loving compassion being top on my list. If we live in loving compassion, we’ll begin to feel that and then we attract it.  Through this we help to generate that energy throughout the world.

I think we are in for some joyous times – yes there is still some mess to get through but that's OK when you look at things from the bigger picture.  There is no denying we are in a time of personal and planetary transformation and we’re in the driver's seat, so let's open our hearts and make it wondrous – together.

~  Cristina Bornstein, EEP-CP