Previously, in Light Lifting…
We covered these Big Ideas last month. Keep them in mind as your read this issue:
You’re wired to feel nervous. Your body WANTS you to know when you’ re in danger so you can get ready to meet it.
Your mid-brain is always scanning the scene, looking for danger. As it finds it, it learns to tie events together so that it can do an even better job of protecting you later.
Making this automatic system of protection even more efficient is a special “energy highway,” or meridian, called Triple Warmer.
Together, the mid-brain and the Triple Warmer meridian cooperate to make sure your body knows trouble’s brewing. You perceive the message as nerves.
The trick isn’t to smother the nerves. The trick is to teach your brain and body the difference between actual danger and ego danger.
- Brancusi |
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Okay. Now on to some New Stuff.
In today’s society, we live lives with Triple Warmer on full blast. We need to teach it to stand down and fi
Palming Off The Stress
This is another great exercise from Donna Eden, which takes maybe 90 seconds to do. It works with the Triple Warmer meridian (or energy highway), responsible for the fight, flight and freeze response.
It teaches it to relax and stand down.At the same time, the exercise adds energy to the meridian most in charge of boosting your immune system and metabolism.
Taking care of these two systems, simultaneously, is a great boost. Add it to the Five Minute routine if you are under daily stress.
1. Cover your eyes with the palms of your hands, fingers touching the hair line (or where the hairline used to be). Take a deep breath in. Let it out, like you are blowing out birthday candles.
2. Take another deep breath in, still with your eyes covered. Let your breath out, like you’re blowing out candles – but as you exhale, drag your fingers across your forehead and out to your temples.
3. Now take in another breath and, at the same time, push your fingers up your scalp, through your hair, to above the ears. When you exhale, birthday-candle-style, drag your fingers behind your ears, like you are sweeping you hair behind your ears.
4. Continue to drag your fingers down your neck, and let them rest on your shoulders. Shake off your hands.
5. Wrap your arms around yourself as far as you can go, on the inhale. Exhale, and drag your hands down your arms to your hands. Shake it off.
6. Hands on your rib cage, below where your bra line is (or would be, if you had one). Inhale. On the birthday-candle exhale, drag your hands down the front of you, over your thighs, over your shins, over your feet, and off the first two toes.
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7. Now, inhale, and drag those hands back over your feet, up the inside of your shins, across your knees to the outside of your thighs and torso to the SIDE of your rib cage, all the way up to your arm pits. Exhale, and drag the hands slowly the few inches down to the end of your rib cage.
The more you do this, the faster your body will learn to re-set its stress levels…and allow you more peaceful freedom moment to moment.
It’s out of that freedom that you get to CHOOSE how to use your energy, rather than have your energy diverted by default.
I have given this exercise to many clients, and told them to aim for 6-8 times a day, as a way of teaching their energy systems to relax. Then I began to hear from them that they were loosing weight without effort. |
That makes total sense. Triple Warmer holds on to habits it feels the system needs. Once you get it to take a break, it can start to let go of weight you no longer need for “protection.”
What a fabulous feature!
