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Energy Medicine Glossary
This glossary includes definitions of Energy Medicine terms that are used in the
Journey to Vitality course. If you are looking for descriptions of an Energy
Medicine exercise demonstrated in one of the videos, please refer to the
corresponding handbook chapter.
The terms that are included in the Glossary are listed below, in groupings that can
help you explore related Energy Medicine concepts. If you want more information
on any of these terms, Energy Medicine (Donna and David's classic book) is a great
reference. You could also check the free resources in the Energy Medicine
Handout Bank at http://handouts.EdenEnergyMedicine.com
A variety of cultures have described the configuration and use of subtle energy
systems (think for example, of the meridian system that underlies the practice of
acupuncture). Many of these descriptions are now backed by electromagnetic
measurements. Those (like Donna Eden) who can clairvoyantly read these energies,
have detected and described systems that make up the anatomy of the energy body.
Although Donna sees and recognizes a wide range of energy systems, she has
identified nine with very important impacts on the health of body and mind.
These nine primary energy systems are the focus of learning and practice in Eden
Energy Medicine. They include:
The Meridians
The Chakras
The Aura
The Radiant Circuits
The Triple Warmer
The Celtic Weave
The Five Rhythms
The Electrics
The Basic Grid
The Meridians
The Meridians carry energy similar to the way your arteries carry blood. Each of the
body's fourteen meridians run along the skins surface and deep inside the body, to
support specific organs, muscles, and cells. Meridian pathways also connect
hundreds of tiny, distinct reservoirs of heat and electromagnetic energy along the
surface of the skin. These are your acupuncture points, and they can be stimulated
with needles or physical pressure to release or redistribute energy along the meridian.
The Chakras
The Chakras are seven swirling pools of concentrated energy positioned at points
from the base of your spine to the top of your head. Each of these major chakras
supplies energy to specific organs, corresponds to a distinct psychological theme
and aspect of your personality, and codes your memories energetically (just as
memories are chemically coded in your neurons). Clearing and balancing chakras
can release congested energies (including emotional blocks), or even free stored
memories to encourage deeper healing and personal growth.
The Aura
Like a personal atmospheric field, your aura is a multi-layered shell of energy that
emanates from your body and interacts with the energies of your environment. It
serves two major functions: Like a space suit, the Aura protects you from harmful
energies; and like a radio antenna, it broadcasts and pulls in resonant energies.
The Aura also enables transfer of energy to and from your chakras and the
environment.
When you feel healthy, happy, and spirited, your aura may fill an entire room.
When you are ill, sad, or despondent, your aura crashes in on you, forming an
energetic shell that isolates you from the world. Because support to the Aura
improves your ability to filter out disruptive energies and attract those you need,
it can improve your physical, emotional, and spiritual balance.
The Electrics
The Electrics, like the Celtic Weave and the Five Rhythms, is a system that acts on
all the other energy systems. Thats because the Electrics are comprised of the
electrical dimension of each of the other energy systemsfrom the Aura down
to the Basic Grid. The Electrics help to charge and connect the cells, organs, and
other energy systems at an electrical level and both affect, and are affected by, the
nervous system and the heart. Electrical energy is the densest and most easily
measured of the bodys energies.
Help you communicate with and influence your bodys energy systems.
Support your own healing through direct dialogue with your body and a better
understanding of what is happening energetically.
Meridian Tracing
The energies coming off your hands are electromagnetic. This means that when you
trace the pathway of a meridian, the energies on that meridian will follow as if you
had a magnet in your hands. Tracing a meridian in a forward direction along its
pathway will strengthen its energy. Tracing a meridian backwards from the end point
to the beginning point will sedate or reduce its energy flow. Remember that you
never trace Heart meridian backwards.
You will become more attuned to the flow of your meridians if you trace them
regularly, and you will also be encouraging energetic balance throughout the entire
Meridian system. Before tracing your meridians, do the Four Thumps. This insures
that the meridians are flowing in the right direction and gives you a jumpstart. Then
lightly trace, with your full open hand, the meridian pathway from the beginning
point to the end point of the meridian. You can touch the surface of the body or
trace slightly above the skin. Diagrams for tracing or flushing Spleen and Triple
Warmer meridians are shown in the third chapter of the handbook for this course.
You can find similar diagrams for all fourteen meridians in Energy Medicine (Donna
and David's classic book).
Flushing a Meridian
Like backwashing a pipe, flushing a meridian clears out toxins and blockages and
creates a strong fresh flow. To flush a meridian, trace it backwards once and then
trace it forward three times (see Meridian Tracing in this Glossary for further
information).
Important Note: Never flush or sedate the Heart meridian.
Energy Testing
Energy testing allows you to assess the flow and function of energies that most
people cannot perceive with their senses. It is a potent bio-feedback mechanism
that can show both you and the person you are working with what is happening
with the bodys energies. EEM uses a range of testing procedures to track energy
flow, blockages, and patterns. In this course the emphasis is on Meridian Energy
Tests (described in a separate Glossary entry). Chapter 4 provides more
information on this topic
A separate energy test has been devised for assessing the flow of energy in each of
the 14 major meridians. These energy tests are used in a variety of ways to assess
the flow of energy in meridians as well as other energy systems. If you are the
one being tested, you might pay attention to the nuances of how the energy feels
during the energy test. Meridian Energy Tests can also be used with energy
localizing to self-test your energies and systems.
Energy Localizing
Energy localizing involves touching a location on an individual's body, and then
(while still holding that point), using a General Indicator test to detect energy
imbalances. For example, energy localizing over an organ will provide information
about the flow of energy through that organ. Energy localizing can add much
greater precision to energy testing.
Acupoints
Just as there are locations along the blood vessels where the pulse is most clearly
felt, or where transfusions can most easily be given, there are points on the body
that act as portals to the various energy flows.
Acupoints (also called acupuncture points) are hundreds of tiny, distinct reservoirs
of heat and electromagnetic energy on the surface of the skin, located along your
meridian pathways. These points can be stimulated with needles or physical
pressure to release or redistribute energy through their meridian.
Clogged Neurolymphatic reflex points will be tender, so the soreness itself may
indicate problem areas. Clearing these points can enhance movement in the
lymphatic system and help balance the meridian and organ systems associated
with the specific reflex point. See Chapter 1 for a description of how to do
Neurolymphatic Clearing.
Electric Points
The body's Electric system can be accessed by touching and holding points on
the body that activate specific electrical circuits. Two important Electric points
are located at the base of the skull (where the spinal cord comes into the brain
stem). Holding these points for an extended period of time can stimulate deep
healing. See Energy Medicine for further information on the use of Electric
points.
Like a vacuum, your Assemblage Point magnetically sucks into your life the
required people, events, opportunities, and connections needed for your souls
journey. Work with the Assemblage Point may be appropriate when there is a
sense of disconnection, a crisis of faith, a loss of hope, confusion about identity
and personal values, or after a sudden shift in perspective that seems ungrounded.
Energetic Polarities
At the bottom of each foot is an energy vortex that pulls energy in from the Earth.
When an individual's energetic polarities are aligned with the field of the Earth,
energies are aided in entering through the base of his or her feet (at the beginning
point of Kidney meridian). These energies rise through the legs to the pelvic
floor, and then separate into two streams. One stream continues to rise through
the central column of the body to emerge at the top of the head, spilling down
like water in a fountain; another spirals down from the sacrum and back to the
Earth. Both energy streams help ground people.
All oppositional exercises that involve using the left arm with the right leg and
the right arm with the left leg (such as swimming or walking) can strengthen the
necessary crossover patterns in the brain if those crossover patterns are active. If
they are not (which means you are in a homolateral state), then crossover activities
will cause fatigue and further disorganization in your energies. See Chapter 2 for
instruction on the Homolateral Repatterning exercise.
Belt Flow
The Belt Flow surrounds the waist, and connects the energies of the top and
bottom parts of the body. Its vital health task involves distribution of the energies
up and down the body. It also helps all of the meridians to move in harmony, and
orchestrates the chakras. Psychologically and spiritually, the Belt Flow is involved
with: How grounded we are; how inspired we are; and how grounded we can stay
when reaching to our spiritual heights.
Spinal Flush
This exercise is a form of Neurolymphatic Clearing. Starting at the top of the
spine and continuing all the way down to the sacrum, press in deeply on the
fleshy tissue on both sides of the spine. Do NOT press directly on the spine itself.
At each spot, make a few tiny circles with strong pressure and then move down
about an inch or two. You are moving lymph to help the body release toxins and
are, at the same time, calming the nervous system (Bladder meridian, which
governs the nervous system, runs through this area).