Making Eden Energy Medicine Our Own

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

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.