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7.12.1997
BALANCE THE ENERGIES IN YOUR HAND
ENERGY CENTRES OR CHAKRAS
Energy attracts fluid to form a solid unit - the energy blockage.The free life energy is thus imprisoned and cannot move freely anymore. Thus we have less energy for everyday activities.
Through the energy channels, the so- called meridians, energy is moving up and down the body. If energy and fluid are not "fighting" , they can come together in the middle of the body all along the spine and form energy centres, the so-called chakras. Clair-voyants can see those chakras as coloured flowerlike shapes spinning round all along the spine. That's were our third party the "higher self" can settle down and create harmony between the right and left side. When people start to become more aware of themselves and start working towards inner and outer balance and harmony in their life, these chakras will start to open and spin around. Through those chakras we create invisible links with other people, with past and future experiences and with higher consciousness and spiritual realms.
There are small chakras on the top of our toes and fingers as well. They start spinning round when our hands and feet are feeling vibrant and full of life.
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Put your favourite slow music on. Then sit down in a comfortable chair and relax. Breathe through your mouth. Your hands are resting on your legs. Imagine that the music is slowly waking up your fingers of the right hand and they begin to move gently, one after the other to the music. Then the hand starts to move about and eventually your whole arm is dancing and moving to the music. After a while the right hand starts to wake up your left hand like the prince of the fairytale "sleeping beauty" and the two hands are slowly dancing and moving together. They stretch and move upwards and downwards, backwards and sideways. After five or ten minutes let them settle down again slowly. close your eyes and rest. Breathe and feel your body.
Nowadays so many people develop pain in their hands. Automatic movements as well as tense activities with hands and fingers can cause energy blockages whereas creative expression such as dancing, tai-chi, creative writing, free creative painting, forming sculptures or cakes and the exercise above can help to unblock and free energies and dissolve blockages.
3) Love from the heart to the hands
Once the energies in the hands are released, we need to work on blockages in the bones and muscles of the lower and upper arm, the elbow and the shoulder. One of the most relaxing techniques that I know is called "lifting". But you will need a partner to practise.
L I F T I N G
Ask your partner to sit or lie down comfortably. If they lie down, give them a blanket to keep warm. Ask them to breathe through their open mouth if possible and relax. Then start working on their left arm as follows. Put your right hand under their elbow for support.With your left hand you are gently lifting their hand up. Try to move the arm, bend it carefully in different directions towards the heart, up the head and then down again. If you can feel any resistance to move in your partners arm, rest a moment and then gently encourage the arm to go along with you. If there is resistance, you can practise the same movement a few times until your partner starts to let go and trust you a bit more. For many people it is not easy to allow another person to move their arm. It sometimes needs a big amount of confidence and concentration to relax the arm and to release old patterns of tension. If someone has been shocked by an accident, if the arm has been broken or bruised it will take a long time to relax the muscles and tendons. You will be surprised how relaxed the left arm will be compared to the right one after having worked on it for about ten or fifteen minutes!
THE HEART
People who have been brought up with foster parents or in an orphanage, those who lost one or both of their parents in childhood or had to be separated from them early in life usually feel blockages in their chest. The chest might be sunken or they could be suffering from asthma. There are lots of ways blockages could show as illness or disease in early or later stages in their life. Once a child has been abandoned by the parent, especially in early childhood, the energy in the heart tends to "freeze". The energy cannot move towards the mother any more and attracts fluid to form a blockage that makes the child feel safe and able to survive. The child withdraws the feelings it had for the parent, especially for the mother. This does not happen without tears and dramatic scenes where the child will do everything to overcome the separation and the feelings of loneliness. But since children usually are small and dependent, there is not much they can do if the parents decide, for example, to send them to a boarding-school at an early age. The separation of the parents in early childhood will always leave severe scars for the child.
Body-orientated psychotherapy is usually very helpful for those people. The biodynamic therapist will usually work a lot on the heart and chest to help the frozen energies to be released and move into the arms. Emotional expression will go together with the treatment. The client will try to talk to their parent, cry, and express their anger and sadness for a long time until they can start to forgive them and trust other people as much as they trusted their parents in the very beginning.
Self-Massage
Lie down in a comfortable position. Make sure that you are warm. Breathe through your mouth into the upper chest. Then put your right hand on your sternum and breathe into your hand. Watch your breath getting deeper. Then start to massage your sternum. Find the right pressure by watching out for "responses from the body"(see last weeks chapter). Start to massage your ribs. Painful bones are always an indication for blocked energy. Take plenty of time for your massage. There is space to say things to your parents or friends, although they are not there. Saying things that you feel can unblock your energies, especially if you are saying them in an emotional way. Making sounds is another powerful way of unblocking energies. If you feel the energy in your heart moving, finish the session with gentle strokes from the heart to the hands.Afterwards allow yourself some leisure time without any pressure .