Donna and David just returned to the U.S. after a fabulous teaching tour in the U.K. They just received the following note from a student:
"I have just been on the Cardiff, South Wales Energy Medicine weekend and I just wanted to let Donna know what a blessing she, David and her team are. I have not felt this good in years, it is as if Donna has shown me the way home and I will be eternally grateful. I cannot wait to start the certification course in the UK and I intend to be over there with you all in September 2012 to celebrate with my new found family. Love and blessings to each and every one of you. xxx"
Do you long to be joyful more of the time? When you have those breathtakingly, remarkable days do you wish you could feel that way all the time?
You can feel more joy more of the time!
You can reprogram your nervous system to be more joyful, uplifting, and life-affirming. The next time you feel fabulous, riveted, connected, on a a high, or otherwise happy, reinforce this energy by "tapping in" the joy at your third eye, the point between your eyebrows just above the bridge of your nose. Tap with a steady beat for 10 to 12 seconds.
Does Spring time weather have your sinuses congested? Use the Cheekbone Press to release tension, drain the sinuses, and clear the lymph glands in the neck.
Place the pads of your fingers beneath you cheekbones, next to your nose.
Apply pressure in and up. Hold about 15 seconds while breathing slowly, in through your nose, out through your mouth.
Continuing to press in, drag your fingers up toward the openings of your ears, pull them down the side of your neck, and finally drop your arms and relax.
How do I maintain my center while interfacing with family and friends during large holiday gatherings?
Sparky is preparing to host Thanksgiving at her house tomorrow and is in search of how to keep her energies humming and triple warmer calm. Sparky reached out to Donna and some EEM Certification Program graduates for advise on how to get through the holidays and keep her cool.
"Above all, stay out of fear. If you find yourself there, blow it out.....and then zip up with grand affirmations. Stay hooked up, do a Celtic Weave as many times as you want during the day. Do Faerie Flows and also do Blow Outs if something hits you, then zip up with confidence. Do not forget the 5 minute routine 2 or 3 times a day or any part of it that especially affects you.
If you get on overload, sit down and do a crown pull & hold your neurovasculars. Hook up again."
"Get your energies solid before you get there - ground yourself (gaits, hook-up, belt flow), strengthen your aura (celtic weave, darth vader breath, more hook-ups), make sure people that zap you are not seated on your left (more vulnerable side), & cross over as much as you can (ankles, Tibetan prayer pose, etc). The Triple Warmer/Spleen hug is good too - and if people ask what you are doing, you can just pretend you are cold. ; )"
So what is Sparky going to do? Lots of hooking up, weaving my energies and figure eights ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ all over me, the turkey and the whole house!
The Crown Pull: • A great deal of energy is processed in your brain and skull, but it can become stagnant if it doesn't release and move out through the energy center at the top of your head. (Called the Crown chakra in yoga tradition.) The Crown Pull is a physical stretch that literally opens this chakra so energy can move through it. The Crown Pull clears the cobwebs from you mind by calming your nervous system and stimulating blood flow to your head.
Other benefits of this exercise are: • Releasing mental congestion. • Helping overcome insomnia. • Strengthening memory. • Opening the Crown chakra to higher inspiration. • Refreshing your thinking ability.
Here is how it works…
To do the Crown Pull (time - about 15 seconds), breathe deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth and:
1. Start with you thumbs on your temples, fingertips resting at the middle of your forehead. 2. Apply pressure and slowly pull your fingers apart, stretching the skin. Breathe deeply, in through your nose and out through your mouth Repeat as feels good. 3. Place your fingertips at your hairline and repeat the stretch. 4. Repeat this pattern starting at the top, center, and back of your head. Continue until you reach the base of your neck. 5. Move down to your shoulders and push your fingers in and hold. Then pull across your shoulders towards the front. Hold your hands there until it feels right, then release and drop your hands/arms.
Quote: “Never confuse motion with action.” --Benjamen Franklin
Where the Homolateral Crossover addresses large patterns within the Celtic weave, doing Rhythmic Eights brings all of the energies, from those that surround you down to those of individual cells, into a crossover pattern. If you are having difficulty relaxing, are caught up in your daily troubles, or are just feeling the blahs, Rhythmic Eights are fun to do and are always a good energy boost. It adds a touch of joy to do them to music that makes you want to move.
1. With your hands hanging, sway your body shifting your weight from one hip to the other, moving to music or moving as if you are moving to music.
2. Let your arms sway with your body. You will notice that there is a natural figure eight movement in both your arms and body as you sway from side to side. Let your arms move out farther so they are swinging wide.
3. Stretch your hands out in front of you and make a sideways figure eight with your arms. Go up and over on the right, circle down, and then again up and over to the right. Twist at the waist in the direction toward which you are reaching, allowing your body's rhythm to move with your arms. It is more like a free-form dance than a tightly patterned exercise.
Several Rhythmic Eights will help get the left and right-brain hemispheres into better communication. This technique is used in "Educational Kinesiology," an application of Energy Medicine that helps children with dyslexia and other learning handicaps.
If you are starting to feel sick, you can often reverse an illness at the onset with a few well-chosen energy techniques. The following exercises can be found in Donna Eden’s book Energy Medicine. (Time- 5 to 20 minutes):
1. Do the Connecting Heaven and Earth exercise. (Page 266) 2. Do the Hook-up (page 98) and the Three Thumps. (Page 74) 3. Massage you Neurolymphatic Reflex points to detoxify your body. (Page 92) 4. Have a friend do a Spinal Flush on you. (Page 93) 5. Have a friend clear your chakras. (Page 183)
How to Overcome Nervousness About an Upcoming Presentation, Job Interview or Confrontation!
The Three Thumps (page 74 of the Energy Medicine book) , The Wayne Cook Posture (page 84), and a vigorous Cross Crawl (page 80) are a potent one-two- three routine for unscrambling your energy field, crossing the energies in the right-and left- brain hemispheres, and moving stress hormones out of your system. Use it while preparing for the event, and just prior to it, zip yourself up with an affirmation (page 94).
The Three Thumps:
1. Use several fingers or knuckles to tap the spots shown in the pictures. Tap vigorously on each set of spots.
Focus on breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth during all the tapping.
2. To locate K-27 points place your fingers on your collarbone and move them inward towards the U-shaped notch at the top of your breastbone. Move your fingers to the bottom of the U and then move down and out about an inch to find the spots. Tap or massage for ten to fifteen seconds.
3. Place the fingers of either or both hands in the center of your sternum at the thymus gland. Tap there for fifteen to twenty seconds with your fingers or your knuckles.
4. Tap the Neurolymphatic Spleen points, beneath the breasts and down one rib, for fifteen seconds. Alternately, tap the spleen acupuncture points, located on the side of the body about four inches down from the arm pits, for fifteen seconds. If either set is more tender use these points in the future.
The Wayne Cook Posture:
1.Place your left foot over your right knee. Wrap you right hand around the front of your left ankle and your left hand over the ball of your left foot, with your fingers curled around the sides of the foot.
2.Breathe in slowly through your nose, letting the breath lift your body as you breathe in. At the same time, pull your leg toward you, creating a stretch. As you exhale, breathe out of your mouth slowly, letting your body relax. Repeat this slow breathing and stretching four or five times.
3.Switch to the other foot. Place your right foot over your left knee. Wrap your left hand around the front of your right ankle and your right hand over the ball of your right foot, with your fingers curled around the side of your foot. Use the same breathing.
4.Uncross your legs and “steeple” your fingertips together so they form a pyramid. Bring your thumbs to rest on your “third eye” just above the bridge of your nose. Breathe slowly and deeply, in through your nose and out through your mouth, about three or four full breaths.
5. On the last exhalation, curl your fingers into the middle of your forehead and separate them, firmly and pleasantly, pulling across your forehead to your temples.
6.Slowly bring your hands down in front of you. Surrender into your own breathing.
The Cross Crawl:
1. While standing, lift your right arm and left leg simultaneously.
2. As you let them down, raise your left arm and right leg. If you are unable to do this because of a physical disability, there is an alternative. While sitting, lift your right knee and touch it with your left hand. Then lower them, lift your left leg, and touch it with your right hand.
3. Repeat, this time exaggerating the lift of your leg and the swing of your arm across the midline to the opposite side of your body.
The Zip-up:
1. Place your hands at the bottom end of the central meridian, which is at your pubic bone
2. Inhale deeply as you simultaneously move your hands, slowly and with deliberation, straight up the center of your body, to your lower lip, where the meridian ends.
3. By continuing upward, however, bringing your hands past your lips and exuberantly raising them into the sky, you connect your central meridian with your aura and with forces that are beyond you.
Q. Dear Donna: I am an elementary school teacher who was in your workshop last week in Cincinnati. Is anyone teaching your work to schoolchildren? I am interested in doing this, but if the formula already exits, I do not want to "reinvent the wheel."
A. This is wonderful work to take to the schools. The Educational Kinesiology Foundation (www.braingym.org) has been a pioneer in bringing Energy Medicine into schools. They have also sponsored or supported an impressive series of research studies to back claims that energy methods can help children with learning disabilities, enhance academic performance, address the causes of some behavioral problems such as hyperactivity, and increase self-esteem. Our own non-profit Energy Medicine Institute has been conducting a very small program with the St. Louis public school system and you can find updates about it at www.energymed.org. I think that energy methods should be in the tool kit of every public school teacher.
This question and answer was found in the question and answer section of the innersource.net website.
The Wayne Cook Posture is named to honor Wayne Cook, a pioneering researcher of Bioenergetics force field who demonstrated the effectiveness of this technique for treating dyslexia and stuttering.
This exercise can also help with a wide range of psychological problems, including confusion, obsessiveness, compulsivity, disorganization, depression, and excessive anger.
If you are in a relationship with a partner who doesn’t seem to hear you, or if you have difficulty speaking your own truth, this is an excellent technique to use prior to any confrontation or important discussion.
This technique is also effective even when the upset is so intense that you are unable to quit crying, or find yourself snapping or yelling at others, sinking into despair, or feel that you are beyond exhaustion. The Wayne Cook Posture helps process stress hormones.
To do the Wayne Cook Posture, sit in a chair with your spine straight (time-about 90 seconds)
Place your left foot over your right knee. Wrap you right hand around the front of your left ankle and your left hand over the ball of your left foot, with your fingers curled around the sides of the foot
Breathe in slowly through your nose, letting the breath lift your body as you breathe in. At the same time, pull your leg toward you, creating a stretch. As you exhale, breathe out of your mouth slowly, letting your body relax. Repeat this slow breathing and stretching four or five times.
Switch to the other foot. Place your right foot over your left knee. Wrap your left hand around the front of your right ankle and your right hand over the ball of your right foot, with your fingers curled around the side of your foot. Use the same breathing.
Uncross your legs and “steeple” your fingertips together so they form a pyramid. Bring your thumbs to rest on your “third eye” just above the bridge of your nose. Breathe slowly and deeply, in through your nose and out through your mouth, about three or four full breaths.
On the last exhalation, curl your fingers into the middle of your forehead and separate them, firmly and pleasantly, pulling across your forehead to your temples.
Slowly bring your hands down in front of you. Surrender into your own breathing.
Excerpted from Energy Medicine by Donna Eden and David Feinstein, Ph.D pgs 85-88.
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