New Dimensions in Women\’s Health, Third Edition
by Carol Tuttle
Everything at its finest level of creation is energy. We are exchanging energy and silently communicating energetically with every person with whom we come into contact. Energy impressions are always our first impressions that influence what we think or feel about others.
Everyone has an invisible energy system that flows energy on pathways or meridians. These same meridians have multiple pressure points that have been a means of working with the energy to keep it flowing. Acupressure, acupuncture, and reflexology are the more common modalities we have in the Western world.
The Chinese term for energy is “chi” which means life force energy. When our energy is blocked, scrambled or leaking, we feel depleted and heavy. When you are energy-depleted, it is more difficult to manage your emotions, think positive thoughts and stay healthy.
In the field of holistic health, energy medicine and energy psychology are growing rapidly. As a practitioner of energy therapies, I have assisted numerous women who are energy challenged.
I recently assisted a woman who was bedridden due to a severe case of chronic fatigue. After eight weeks of working with her body’s energy system to restore it to good health and teaching her how to take care of her own energy health, she has had a miraculous recovery. She is out of bed and fully active. Her parents see it as a miracle. Our energy responds very quickly when we know what to do to correct it. After all, it’s just energy.
The following are some of the most common energy problems for women and their corrections:
1. Taking on other people’s emotional energy. Our energies are magnetic in nature. A common codependent pattern for women is< to play the role of a "pleaser." The primary dysfunction of this role is to always put others' needs before your own. Women that are pleasers tend to be very psychic in nature. This helps them know what others need without even having to ask. A common aspect of this role is to take on the negative emotion other people are feeling or processing.
Emotion is energy in motion. We can attract that energy to us when we are not safeguarded from it. It is possible to take on the energy of people you do not even know! It can even happen at the grocery store. All you want to do is go in and buy a gallon of milk, and you leave not only with the milk but also with the sadness and loneliness of ten other women in the store!
Children process a lot of negative energy for their parents. If you are stressed, your children intuitively are aware of that and can play the role of trying to "please" or "act-out" in response to the negative energy you are running.
In the early days of my studies of energy medicine, my daughter would come home from junior high school nearly every day with a headache. As I came to understand this dynamic of taking on other people's energies, I realized she was doing that sub-consciously at school. I helped her correct it, and the headaches eventually subsided.
Correction: Your central meridian is one of your primary energy pathways that runs from your pubic bone up to your bottom lip. It is like a radio receiver that channels other people's negative thoughts and emotions into you. Pretend you have a zipper running up your torso between these two points. "Zip up" your central meridian starting at your pubic bone and continuing until you reach your bottom lip. "Zipping up" your central meridian will "zip-up" your energy. You will feel more confident and positive about yourself and your world, think more clearly, and be able to protect yourself from the negative energies around you. "Zip up" your children before they go to school.
2. Leaking energy. We have another invisible energy system called chakras. Whereas meridians are an energy transportation system, chakras are energy stations. The word chakra means disk, vortex, or wheel. There are seven energy stations positioned from the base of your spine to the top of your head. In energy health, if you are losing or leaking energy at the base chakra located at the bottom of your spine, you may feel depression, anxiety and exhaustion.
Many women are energy depleted because they are not able to hold enough life force energy or chi. In this energy condition, you are flushing energy down and away from you, much like a toilet flushes water down. In order to maintain good energy health, you want energy spiraling up into your base chakra.
Correction: When there is a leak, you have to patch it. Close your eyes and imagine you can see the energy leaking out of your tailbone. Imagine a patch large enough to cover the leak. Place the patch over the leak. Imagine you can go beneath the energy and reverse the flow to spiral it up into your body through your tailbone.
3. Homolateral energy flow. The left hemisphere of the brain sends information to the right side of your body, and the right hemisphere sends information to the left side. This crossing of energy helps you feel more balanced, think more clearly, and improves your coordination. When your energies are not crossing, they are running a homolateral pattern-straight up and down the body. In this state you cannot access or utilize your brain's full capacity or your body's full intelligence.
Babies naturally have a homolateral flow. It is the function of crawling that initiates the energies flowing in a crossover pattern. Everyone that I have assisted with CFS and Epstein Barr has a homolateral energy flow. People who actively participate in a regular exercise program usually have healthy crossover patterns.
Correction: To cross your energies and keep them flowing in a healthy crossover flow, march in place lifting the opposite leg and arm simultaneously for about 20 steps. Or just get on the ground and start crawling! Encourage your baby to crawl and delay walking until they are 12 months old. Early walking interferes with their energy establishing a healthy crossover flow.
My oldest daughter walked at nine months as a result of eager parents! She was challenged all the way up through high school in math, reading and spelling. In grade school, she was tutored on a regular basis. When she was 16, I was introduced to this process. I showed her the correction, and she faithfully marched daily. By the end of her senior year in high school, she was awarded a scholarship to a local university and has been on the Dean's list ever since.
There is much to be learned about energy health and taking care of our own energies. Good resources are Carol Tuttle's book, Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century, and Donna Eden's book, Energy Medicine, about how to boost your body's energy.
Carol Tuttle, author of Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century, is a gifted energy health practitioner. She is board-certified as a master level rapid-eye therapist, a form of energy psychology. She has assisted hundreds of clients restore their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. For more information on her work and writings go to http://www.caroltuttle.com
