Unscrambling Your Energies

As I sat and began writing this blog, my fingers were constantly typing the letters in an incorrect order. So I stopped and sat back in my chair to do an Eden Energy Medicine exercise to unscramble my scrambled energies. I want to share this exercise in my blog today rather than writing about something else.

To be honest, I don't know what that "something else" might have been. I have made a sort of agreement with myself with regard to writing my blogs. I have agreed with myself that if I did not have a topic I really wanted to blog about at "blog time," I would sit in front of my computer and trust my Inner Wisdom and Universe to guide me. I place my fingers on my keyboard, close my eyes and say an affirmation which goes like this, "I choose to let the information flow easily to me that will allow me to share something from my heart that may inspire others." I tune into my breath, then wait for insight and inspiration. It's a fun little experiment. I like being able to look forward to discovering what the topic will be. It feels good to be able to trust and let go.

When I feel afraid that nothing will come, I do a little Emotional Freedom Techniques tapping to help me let go of my fear. I tap the side of my hand, the area with which I would give someone a karate chop with. This is called the karate chop spot. I tap it while I say the following three times, "Even though I'm afraid nothing will come, I deeply and completely love and accept myself." Then I tap the following meridian points firmly but gently, five times each, while repeating the phrase "I'm afraid nothing will come":
              -  the top of my head,
              -  the beginning of my eyebrows nearest my nose,
              -  the outside corners of my eyes,
              -  under my eyes on the bony edge of the eye socket
              -  under my nose above my lips,
              -  on my chin under my lower lip,
              -  on my chest, 3/4 of an inch below the two bumpy ends of my clavicles, below my throat,
              -  and on the sides of my rib cage about where my bra strap wraps around.
This helps me to relax and let go of my fear.

Today I am inspired to share the exercise I mentioned earlier which helps to unscramble scrambled energies. This exercise is helpful in those moments when you confuse left and right, or reverse numbers or letters, like I was doing. It can be helpful to you in moments when you feel overwhelmed and find yourself ready to explode, maybe for no apparent reason. If you find yourself reading the same sentence or paragraph over and over without comprehension, or if you are feeling "scatter-brained," this exercise can help you to feel calmer, clearer in thought and able to process new information better.

The exercise is called "The Wayne Cook Posture." It is an Eden Energy Medicine exercise. I am sharing a modified version which is easier and less conspicuous to use during a class or business meeting, than the unmodified version.  The modified version goes like this:

From a seated or standing position, cross your ankles. Cross one arm over the other, bring your palms together and clasp your fingers closed, as in the picture to the left. Take five to ten deep breaths in this position. Breath in through your nose with your tongue pressed against the roof of your mouth, and breath out through your mouth.







Repeat this exercise switching the bottom ankle and arm to cross on top this time. An additional modification would be to bend your elbows to bring your clasped hands to rest on your chest while you do the breathing. Do more breaths in the "posture" if you feel there is more unscrambling needed.






A healthy body is a reflection of the healthy flows and patterns of its energies. When the energy flows or patterns of the body's energies are irregular, we can correct them to support the health of the body. Bio-energy health, the healthy state of the body's energies, is important to, and interrelated with the body's health. Bio-energy health is the focus of energy medicine. You can learn other Eden Energy Medicine exercises from Donna Eden's book, "Energy Medicine."

As I look over what I have just written, I feel this blog is complete. I had fun writing it. I hope you enjoyed reading it.

Going Back In Time To Help Myself In The Present

It's Sunday morning and I'm enjoying laying in bed taking my time getting up. I'm in that state of being half asleep, but slowly becoming conscious of my thoughts. I should probably get up soon. My husband,  laying next to me is starting to toss and turn. I know he's just making his way back from dreamland too.

He stretches and says, "Hi, beautiful. How are you? Did you sleep okay?" I love that he greets me as if we've been apart during the night. I suppose he is right, we have been apart in our different dreamscapes.

He props himself up on one elbow and tells me a little about what he remembers of his sleep adventures. He tells me we were hiking in many different places. I laugh because I don't even like to go with him to walk our dogs, and there I was in his dreams, hiking with him. He lays his head back on his pillow amused at the irony I just pointed out.

My own dreams start to come to mind, so I excitedly start to tell him about them. Seconds into my story, I realize he has fallen back asleep! I feel anger well up inside me, yet I know he did not fall asleep in the middle of my story on purpose. I am also feeling hurt. The intensity of my emotions seem out of proportion to the situation and I know that it isn't the first time I've felt this hurt, frustration and anger when I've been cut-off from telling a story or sharing an idea.

My training as a Law of Attraction counselor and energy psychology practitioner has taught me that my emotional response to any situation is "an inside job." Although it feels satisfying to justify to myself that my anger and frustration is because my husband fell asleep in the middle of my story after I listened to his whole story, it is really something within me that is causing these feelings of anger and hurt.

Okay, what is my inside job then? I decide to use this opportunity to release whatever inside job I have going on that makes me react with such negative feelings to a situation that is harmless and even funny from a different perspective.

I begin processing my thoughts with the help of an energy technique called Emotional Freedom Techniques that involves tapping on energy meridian points. It helps relax the body and mind for clearer thought processing. All the while, as I'm processing my thoughts, I'm tapping.

Let's see. His falling asleep while I was sharing my thoughts makes me feel like what I have to say is not important to him. Yes, I can definitely feel my anger and frustration with that thought! When my kids interrupt me in the middle of a story or idea I'm sharing, I feel a similar frustration, anger and hurt. In fact, whenever I'm cut off in the middle of sharing a story or idea, I feel the same way. I perceive the situation as evidence that, "what I have to say is not important." That hurts. Often times I choose not to share my ideas because I don't want to take the chance of feeling that hurt. Wow, that really limits me in my life. This is something worth getting to the bottom of.

Where did I get this belief from? Was there a time when I was younger when I felt frustrated, angry and hurt because someone made me feel what I had to say wasn't important? Nothing comes to mind so I just continue to tap on meridian points waiting for something to come into my thoughts. I start seeing flashes of me as a child of age 5 or 6.  Maybe I am 7? A definite sense in me tells me, "no, not 7." The young image of me in my mind's eye is like a school photo from the chest up. It has no context, just my expressionless face in front of a washed out whitish background. I just keep tapping, waiting for more information to come. After a few seconds, I see in my mind's eye, my young self crying, frustrated and angry, surrounded by many of my adult relatives. I realize I'm seeing a moving scene from an actual photo my parents have from when I was a child. This photo was taken at the Philippine airport, the day my family left the Philippines to move to our new life in America.  My father had received a position as a mechanical engineer with Boeing Aerospace in Seattle, Washington.

I see my 6-year-old self upset that she is having to leave the Philippines. She doesn't want to go. She has told her parents, aunts and uncles she doesn't want to go, but nobody will listen to her. Everyone is at the airport to see them off. No one cares that she doesn't want to go. No one listens to her as she tells them she doesn't want to go. She feels that, what she has to say isn't important!

I continue to tap as I go back in time to help my 6-year-old-self feel better. I'm there now. I see her. I tell her not to be afraid of me because I'm here to help her feel better. I tell her I am her when she is grown up and I came back to be with her because I know that she is upset. She comes to me and sits in my lap. She is holding a little red straw and a tube of plastic balloon. She is crying. She tells me that she is scared about going to America and leaving everyone. She doesn't want to go. I tell her I know exactly how she feels. I explain to her that I will tap on her gently while we talk because the tapping will help her to calm down and feel better. She is okay with that. As I hold her in my arms, I gently tap on her meridian points. She tells me that no one will listen to her. She has told her parents and her aunts and uncles that she doesn't want to go, but they are still making her go. I explain to her that her parents know she doesn't want to go, but they love her very much and don't want to leave her behind. I tell her that her parents are a little scared too, but they feel going to America is a great opportunity for a better education and a better life for her and her sisters. My 6-year-old self is calmer now. She has stopped crying and is sitting calmly in my lap fiddling with her plastic balloon tube and straw. I tell her that she is going to do fine in America and that she will even meet her future husband there. I tell her that there will be hard times, but not to worry because I will always be with her like a guardian angel, helping her through those hard times.

As I say this to my 6-year-old self, I have a huge epiphany. Growing up and even now, I have felt the comforting presence and guidance of a guardian angel in my life.  Have I been my own guardian angel all these years? Was a future aspect of me going back in time to help me, as I am doing now with my 6-year-old self?

Little me is now feeling much better. She is calm, content and smiling, sitting in my lap. I ask her if there is anything she would like to do together before I go. She says she wants to dance! This is humorous to me because, of course my 6-year-old self would want to dance! Dancing is one of my favorite things to do! I tell her she is going to grow up to be an awesome dancer. I dance around with her for awhile and we have a great time. Now it's time for the group picture to be taken before she boards the plane with her family. I stand beside the photographer watching the group get assembled. My 6-year-old self is standing in the front row smiling at me. In the actual photo taken in 1968, however, I am crying. I'm really curious to find that photo now and look at it again.

I finish my tapping and look at my husband, still asleep next to me. I feel good that he is able to sleep in on weekends. He normally wakes up at 5 a.m. to workout before going to work. I no longer feel anger or frustration at him. Nor do I feel any hurt over the situation.  Now, it seems funny to me that he fell soundly asleep within seconds of being wide awake telling me about his dreams.

I am bursting with excitement to tell him what I just experienced. I wake him up and tell him my story. He listens attentively. We end up having an energized conversation about time and time travel. We contemplate how the past is linked to the present, the way this past event in my life, kept me, as an adult, from sharing ideas for fear of being hurt. This event that I was no longer consciously aware of until now created feelings of frustration, anger and hurt whenever I found myself in situations that reminded me of my 6-year-old self's belief that, "what I have to say is not important."

Did I really just travel back in time? Why not? I just visited with my 6-year-old self on a September day in 1968 and I left her feeling better. Now the thought of my husband falling asleep while I was sharing my thoughts with him seems funny to me instead of making me angry.

Wait a minute. If I really went back and helped my 6-year-old self in 1968, why have I been living with the limiting belief of "what I have to say is not important" all these years until now? My husband explains with impressive clarity of thought, "But you don't have that limiting belief now. You just went back and helped your 6-year-old self, so it's like you never had that limiting belief. It's like you changed your past and it changed your future."

Letting Go of Fear

I  used to have many fears that kept me from being able to really enjoy life. Then one day, about 3 years ago,  I was sitting in my car at a traffic light, and I had the sudden awareness that it was time to let go of my fears.  I heard a voice within me clearly say, “Too many fears in your life. It’s time to clear your life of fear.”

In my mind I started to review the list of fears I had.  It was a long list all right. Too long. I asked myself why I had all these fears. I had a fear of disappointing people, fear of something harming me when I’m alone in the dark, fear of failure, fear of uncertainty, fear of something bad happening in my life, fear of something bad happening to my children, and the simple fears of being late to places, fear of getting a parking ticket, fear of being seen by elders as disrespectful….the list went on. The answer to my own question was that I wanted my life to be peaceful and happy, but I was constantly afraid of things I felt could threaten my happiness.

Then I heard the voice of my Inner Wisdom ask, “If you were the designer of your own life experience prior to being born into it, do you think you would design your life with challenges for the purpose of sabotaging yourself, and design those challenges in a way that would ensure your failure to overcome them?” Without hesitation I answered, “NO, I wouldn’t design it to sabotage myself.”  Then my Inner Wisdom said, “Then trust in yourself. Trust in your life’s design because you, in your higher wisdom, did design your life experiences.”

So for the next few minutes I imagined myself before being born, planning my upcoming life experiences. In that moment of imagining, I felt I stepped into the consciousness of my Higher Self and I could feel the immense love my Higher Self has for me in this physical body.  I sensed that as I designed the general course of my life, I wanted to create opportunities that would allow me to rediscover my inner strength and power in profound ways.

I could feel fears within me melting away as my realization that I was, and am the designer of my life began to sink in. It is a comforting revelation that no challenge in my life is designed to ensure my certain failure. I continue to diligently release my fears as they come up and it feels great to have let so many of my past fears go. I don’t fear the unknown of the future as I used to. I don't expect tragedy. I feel that whatever life brings, it’s more than likely to be something wonderful, and if it doesn’t seem so wonderful, then I know I just have to look a little harder for the blessings, that I am certain are there.

I share this story because I believe that all of our lives are designed for our happiness, but don’t take my word for it. Get quiet and ask yourself, “Would I, in my Higher Wisdom, design challenges in my life for the purpose of sabotaging myself and my happiness in life?” If the answer you get is “no”, then consider trusting in the design you created as your Higher Self and begin the process of letting go of your fears. With the fears you let go, you’ll also be releasing the related burden of stress they impose on your body and you’ll feel a freedom that will allow you to enjoy life more.

The Energetic Vibrations of Thoughts, Attitudes and Beliefs

                                        

We feel the energetic vibration of our positive thoughts as a feeling of centeredness, happiness, joy and other positive feeling emotions. Positive thoughts are in vibrational harmony with the wisdom of our body's innate intelligence, which knows our unlimited creative potential. Negative thoughts, attitudes, and self-limiting beliefs, are not in vibrational harmony with the wisdom of our body's innate intelligence and create energetic disturbances within our energy system. We feel the energetic disturbances as fear, anger, sadness, shame, anxiousness and other aspects of negative emotions. Energetic disturbances add a burden of stress on the body's energy system making it have to work harder to maintain the normal renewal and growth functions of the body. When we clear energetic disturbances, we clear energetic patterns of negative thoughts, attitudes and self-limiting beliefs. Positive Thinking and Tail-enders  You may have heard by now that positive thinking is important for a happy life and good health. Thinking positive, however, is often easier said than done. It is important to know that for positive thinking to work, it is not enough to just say positive things to others and to yourself, you have to FEEL positive, because what you feel is your indication of the vibration of the thoughts you are thinking, and the vibration of the types of situations, circumstances and people you are attracting. It is understandable that it is not always easy to think positively when you find yourself in tough life situations. Attempts at thinking positive thoughts are often undermined by underlying negative thoughts and conditioned limiting beliefs that keep us from really feeling positive. Try this test for yourself. Say the following statements out loud and listen for what your thoughts are after saying each statement. 1. I am healthy and vibrant. 2. I am smart and capable of being successful at what I want to accomplish. 3. I am free to be me in the world. Did you hear yourself say yes in agreement to each statement? Or did you hear yourself say something like, "yeah, but....". These "yeah, but..." thoughts are what EFT founder, Gary Craig, calls "tail-enders". Tail-enders are the limiting thoughts and beliefs that keep us from being able to move forward in our lives. They create feelings of doubt and fear in us. TFT and EFT can help reduce your feelings of doubt and fear. They can also help you experience cognitive shifts that allow you to perceive your reality from a perspective that is more in alignment with your innate wisdom and your unlimited potential so you can genuinely feel more positive and move forward in life.