Making Eden Energy Medicine Our Own

I say YES!

I live to be fully alive as myself.  I feel deeply thrilled and enlivened in the presence of others who choose to show up and be fully present as themselves.  I work in exclusive service to authenticity flourishing.
 
Energy exploration and play are powerful approaches to authenticity.  There's a wonderful liberation when we come to know ourselves and others to be dynamic, evolving, totally unique expressions of consciousness vividly interacting with possibility in a vibrantly interconnected flow of experience.

I say YES.  I say YES.  I say YES.  I say YES.  I look deeply.  I say YES.  I look deeply.  I hold space for things to be as they are in that moment and am keenly aware that what takes place in the very next moment has no need to be predicated on what came before.  I am aware that the likelihood is strong that the next moment WILL closely resemble this one IF we hold to the notion that the past drives us forward.  But I know that the past is the past.  The now is infinite and the next moment arising from the depth of authentic core is without restriction in its choosing.

Energy medicine practices, exercises and protocols are invitations to look deeply. They are the playful interactions that open an energy field to remember its true nature as a joyous, liberated creator of infinite power.  The exercises are NOT the medicine itself.  The medicine of energy is in the willingness to recognize our true, deep, rich natures and call forth the indwelling capabilities to change and realign as we feel moved from a place of absolute freedom to do so.

Energy medicine is NOT a practice of engaging what's wrong and forcing the energies into new patterns conforming to notions of what is correct.  The medicine of energy is co-creative openness to possibility and a deep confidence that what is has no need to continue and yet it may continue... without blame or judgment. 

There is nothing I need to do.  I show up.  I choose to be present.  I look deeply.  I say YES.  Then I wonder what will arise next.  I witness & stand in alliance with the birthing of that new creative expression arising in the now.  I say YES. I say YES.  I say YES.

munay,

Barbara

photo:  Barbara Ann O'Leary

Process, Belief, and the Mystery

Awareness is a Searchlight.

The Confines of Lack:   If my awareness is on my unwellness, I tend to become more perceptive of ways I feel unwell and how it impacts me.

Techniques That All Work … one time or another:   If my focus is on "how do I get well?"  I can become overwhelmed by the growing number of the best new processes and insights taught by another amazing and gifted teacher.

The Gift of Skilled Guidance:    If my searchlight is on, "who is the right practitioner or teacher for me to work with now?"  I'll be led to a series of fabulous and effective allies.  I may also feel dependent on them, anxious that I make the right choice and hoping that their intuition and guidance will be the best thing for me now to move quickly into the relief of feeling better or learning a new skill.

photo by Lyn Milum

The Promise of Processes

"Energy is all there is, intention is everything, and techniques up your percentage."              

    - Donna Eden, paraphrased

 I love learning Energy Medicine techniques, processes that open my eyes to more ways that subtle energies interact and produce our health, and enliven the joy of our journey. When I learn from fabulous teachers, I believe … because the understanding resonates with a part of me that already  knows this is a truth for me. 

 I have a delighted Metal element side that enjoys keeping up an extensive cross-referenced data-base of powerful and fascinating methods to approach the intelligence of living energies, to partner with them and invite their balance. I sometimes lean towards the idea that knowing lots of techniques would enable me to help more people, and better help myself.  When my focus centers heavily in techniques, seeking the promise of the magic bullet, self-doubt tends to step up and suggest I will never be effective enough because I'll never know enough. 

When I move from feeling unwell into expanded wellness, I tend to credit the last process I experienced or the last healing facilitator who helped me, or both.  Process and practitioner are each part of my gratitude stream.  But neither is the essence of what has occurred when I feel better. 

Leaping off

Putting aside, for now, fears of engaging an ineffective technique for the situation that's presenting,

Putting aside too, fears of not knowing enough to be effective in helping myself or another …

Putting aside, for now, the worry of correctly choosing, connecting with the ally who will most benefit me in my current situation …

What's Essential in All of This?

Every energy healing modality out there has a common theme: that from our individual core comes the perpetual wellspring of our restorative power.  Expansions of wellness arise continually from an inner, invincible, intelligent source.  Whatever the technique and whoever the practitioner, this intrinsic transcendental force is what has been facilitated and mobilized and realized when I "feel better."

The Flow of the Constant

Which technique, which teacher, what effect?     What is the constant in this equation? 

Or rather, "WHAT" is the constant in this equation.

The searchlight of my awareness tends to seek into the known; which admired teacher, which fabulous technique, how to blend and synthesize what I have learned and experienced so far to serve the vitality of the living energies.  In response to dwelling primarily on what I consciously know, I practice a different awareness, noticing when I'm analyzing and over-thinking the work, and dissolving technique and theory and best-guessing into my fresh experience of what is transpiring.

Turning my searchlight towards the response, I open to what is answering our invitation to restore flow and balance and wellness. From here, I can go deeper into the mystery.

Of Course

This may feel like an obvious point to some of my readers.  In Eden Energy Medicine we are taught to defer to the energies of the person as they present, to let the patterns they bring guide us to whatever techniques we feel resonant with, and let the "work" adjust and change as we flow with the healing relationship in action. 

But for me, there's a profound shift when I dance lightly with choices, techniques, teachers, methods and self-doubt, and open to the wonder of what is essentially happening.

Beyond Believing

 When I enter the sacred space of a person's becoming, and set aside believing in what I'm doing because of my trust in my teachers, this also sets aside my expectations.  It undoes the subtle limitations that lie within what I currently believe.  I move slightly away from the trust of belief, and more towards knowing my own experience of the vital and flowing energy.

Show me. 

When I do my best to hear what you are telling me, beautiful noble soul dwelling with and within your amazing miraculous body, when I respond with my best idea of a process to invite your energies into greater ease and flow … and then I let go of everything except my awareness of your essence, and what you bring forward through our focus together …

what will you show me?

What is emerging and mobilizing now?  What is the nature of the aliveness that is activating? What is reconnecting?  What is stepping back into the flow of the wellness stream?  What is the momentum behind the healing that arises? What is the source of this inner force? How does the Light of the Infinite appear through the amazing being that you are?

Show me…

Warmly,

Lyn

The pauses seem essential

Barbara Ann O’Leary has asked me for a “Making Eden Energy Medicine Our Own” Anniversary contribution. I said “yes”.

I haven’t been writing. Even now, having come to the library to write, nothing seems to be happening, or at least not much. I wrote a bit about work with someone last night. Still, there wasn’t the usual spark of discovery that I look for. No real insight jumped from the page.

Here’s the thing I think I’m trying to say. Writing has been the way I rely upon to connect with something beyond myself. That’s the spark, the energy that I look for, but found missing, AWOL.

I’ve been in a process. Likely it involves Pluto, if only because these processes usually do. I get exhausted, enervated, and unable to do much of anything. I suppose however that in that space I actually do more than I am able to acknowledge. What I don’t do in these periods is think original thoughts. I don’t put two disparate ideas together in a novel way. I don’t solve a mystery.

In that space I get discouraged. I’m like stagnant water. The only things living in stagnant water are microorganisms that you don’t want to be exposed to. I get discouraged, and then I’m discouraged about being discouraged. I have rules, which I’m usually unaware of: e.g., it’s not allowed to feel discouraged because there are energetic consequences that accrue to discouragement. I decided this year to focus diligently on keeping my vibration up. That conviction is motivated in part by fear of the possible consequences of NOT succeeded in monitoring and controlling how I resonate.

Yet when my vitality drops below a given set point I just don’t have the required resources to do anything productive to address this vibrational deficit.

Wouldn’t it be lovely if I could just acknowledge that I am experiencing the bottom of a constantly oscillating wave, and wait patiently until it was again on the upswing? I used to have a computer program that produced a graph of changes in biorhythms. That proved a useful tool: I could identify where I fell on that curve and anticipate when it was likely to start back on the upswing.

The problem I face is that I am unable to discern, when the curve is approaching its lowest point, whether it is a straight line curve to ultimate disaster, or there will be the usual parabola shape so that I will once again recover my usual ‘me’ --- the one that is so much easier to embrace because she is clever, and optimistic, and even has flashes of brilliance.

Donna’s Eden Energy Medicine supplies many of the building blocks that, as energy detective, I get to assemble in novel ways to make new discoveries of how to combine them, what short cuts I can devise, how much of the processes can be done internally, and so on.

But when the energy slips below that threshold, I don’t even want to do the daily routine. It all seems like too much effort. The effort seems pointless.

So far, when I get unswallowed by my period of wallowing in the nevermore, when the whale that has swallowed the Job in me coughs me back up, it turns out I was not as idle as I may have thought. Something was occurring in the darkness that I could not yet see.

So I suppose that part of that process is the very fact of not knowing that, of not being able to see, of dipping down into those primordial fears that have apparently always been part of the human condition – fear of death met by an equal portion of fear of survival. Face to face with my personal mortality; unable to decide whether to invite it closer for a more intimate inspection or to repel it more completely lest it be unwilling to leave or give me more space. The process appears to require a level of unconsciousness for it to be effective.

Otherwise, there would be no ‘coming back from the dead’.

The return trip is always full of surprises. The dark night of the soul is not empty after all.

Is there something missing in our approach to energy medicine that makes us think that we should be ready with a solution for every mood, every physical sensation, every pain, with nary a pause?

The pauses seem essential, even if unwelcome.

I have to acknowledge that I always return refreshed. And yet I never return at all. The ‘me’ who comes back is not the ‘me’ who disappeared in a fog of exhaustion and despondency!

 

~ Judith