Making Eden Energy Medicine Our Own

How I love the Meridian Clock - Part II

For awhile I taught a class combining qigong, energy medicine and t’ai chi between 11:30 AM and 1 PM. When the class was over I had plans for getting some work done. I like to write at a library. I think I borrow the brain waves of people working who are creating an intensely focused morphic field. Week after week, I’d leave the center where I was teaching and spend the next 45 minutes deciding which library to go to. Or I’d decide I wanted to write, then I’d think of a different task, and I’d soon find myself spinning in indecision, not knowing which impulse to follow.

When I brought the meridian clock to mind I noticed that 1-3 PM is small intestine time, and metaphorically small intestine is about decisiveness. That is because this organ has to make many decisions. To personify the energy, it must decide what is a nutrient that should be absorbed? What is a substance that the body cannot make use of, so it needs to eliminate it?

Weakness in small intestine can manifest as indecision at small intestine time. However, I noticed that on days when I was already engaged in an activity before 1 PM continuing that activity wouldn’t be an issue. That’s how I knew that the issue wasn’t about the activity per se, but about deciding.

How I love the Meridian Clock, or Meridian Flow Wheel

There is so much information in this simple graphic. Sometimes I wonder what it might have been like to have lived at the time that folks observed these energetic relationships. They were aware that energy is most available to different organs and their associated meridians at different times of the day. And they noticed that there is an exquisite order to this pattern. I suspect this knowledge was so embedded in people’s experience at the time that they didn’t think very much about it. Perhaps it was similar to people knowing the time of day and the changing seasons by watching the movements of the sun.

Later someone bothered to record this information.  I wonder how that came about as well, with considerable gratitude. The meridian clock describes the natural order in which we are organically embedded. Familiarizing myself with the clock has helped me re/member myself as a small connected cog in the wheel of the natural world. This helps put experience in a context, and decreases my resistance to the life force.

Patterns in the meridian clock that draw my interest include: