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Acid Reflux? EEM to the Rescue

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Eden Energy Medicine                                  February 26, 2016

Acid Reflux? EEM to the Rescue

by Karen L. Semmelman, Certified EEM-AP, JD, AAML(03-12)

 

What causes and what is acid reflux anyway? To answer this question, let’s look at the esophagus, a muscular tube about 8 inches, which connects the throat (pharynx) with the stomach. The esophagus sits behind the windpipe (trachea) and heart, and in front of the spine. Just before entering the stomach, the esophagus passes through the diaphragm. At both the top and the bottom of the esophagus are bundles of muscles which keep food & secretions from going down the windpipe (upper) and prevents acid and stomach content from going backwards from the stomach (lower). The lower bundle is not under voluntary control and this is what causes acid reflux—when the lower sphincter is incompletely closed.

So, if you have heartburn, also referred to as acid reflux, gastroesophageal reflux disease, esophagitis, Barrett’s esophagus, or an esophageal ulcer, the exercises today and next week will help you! EEM has many options when dealing with an imbalance of the body. Due to space, not all can be depicted in one week. These are some options that will assist and for those of you familiar with EEM, will be useable immediately. They include, Freeing the Diaphragm; sedating the stomach meridian; working with the Neurolymphatic points located over the sternum; and pulling the neck with fingers. Do the following now to find some relief: Cup both hands around both ears and trace backwards around the ears. When reaching the bottom of the ears continue by tracing on both sides of the front of the neck beside the esophagus and down the front of the sternum. This tracing calms the entire system.

Freeing the Diaphragm resets all the values in the body including the lower esophagus sphincter:

Step 1. Place the left hand under the center of your rib cage with the right hand placed directly on top of the left. Pull the elbows close against the body.
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Step 2. Inhale deeply and push your upper belly toward the hands while holding the hands firmly against the pressure of your upper belly. Hold the breadth while maintaining the pressure between body and hands. The longer the breadth is held and the more pressure exerted from the body being pushed out to meet the hands the better.

Step 3. When you release the breath, ease the hands. REPEAT this process 3 times

Step 4. On an in breadth, place the right hand around the left side of the waist and with pressure pull wide spread fingers toward the navel. Repeat 3 times. Switch and use the left hand at the right waist. Repeat 3 times.

Step 5. Sweep the energy from the waist down the legs.

Next week learn to trace the Stomach meridian and more!

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Acid Reflux an Issue? EEM to the Rescue-Part 2 ”

Menopause Headache?– Try Head Swinging

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Eden Energy Medicine                                  June 19, 2015

 

Menopausal Headache? –Try Head Swinging

by Karen L. Semmelman, Certified EEMCLP, JD, AAML(03-12)

 

Over the last several weeks tools for dealing with menopause have been explored. Remember this special time of your life when hormones are changing and offering so many opportunities for exploration and “inventing your new self”—I can attest to these shifts given my change in career from a high powered matrimonial lawyer to this second career as an EEM teach and practitioner. It is fun, but sometimes scary to embrace change, but that is what menopause is all about, right— change???blue jelly fish in water from Julie

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  1. Inhale deeply and on the exhale, drop you head forward toward the chest while relaxing the shoulders
  2. Inhale while gently moving the right ear toward the right shoulder while keeping your shoulders relaxed and squared off. A nice stretch is experienced in the left side of the neck. Take 3 deep breaths
  3. On exhale, allow the head to gently move to the chest and place the left ear over the left shoulder with relaxed shoulders. Take 3 breaths.
  4. Let the head gently fall to the chest. Repeat 2 more times

For more practical solutions and suggestions, EEM for Women is a wonderful resource!

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Feel Ungrounded, Disconnected- Meet the 4th Thump!”

Spongy Tummy—Menopause Crummy?

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Eden Energy Medicine                                  June 12, 2015

 

Spongy Tummy—Menopause Crummy?

by Karen L. Semmelman, Certified EEMCLP, JD, AAML(03-12)

 

Feeling crummy as you stomach gets soft and puffy? Let’s oxygenate.  Did you know that oxygen breaks down fat molecules, turning the molecules into water and carbon dioxide, thus increasing the digestive systems’ efficiency?  (Energy Medicine for Women gives us more exercises and facts). It does, so we want more oxygen in our system.  Yet we know that in our culture most of us are shallow breathers, only breathing into the upper part of our chest, which slows the metabolism. We want to be deep breathers, which can then increase out metabolic rate by 30%.  When oxygen is lacking, the ability of the intestinal tract to absorb nutrients and digest food is reduced up to 72%!!!

An oxygenated body prevents dis-ease from getting a grip and fat from accumulating. Prior articles have showed the Diaphragm Breath exercise, which is recommended for the thickening waist on a daily basis.  In addition try this isometric Metabolic Breath exercise to firm that spongy tummy. It is similar to the cat-cow yoga exercise but while standing and focusing on the breath.spongy stomach with flab

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  1. Bend forward at the waist while placing the palm of the hands right above the knees so the fingers gently fall over the knee caps. Support the upper body with the palms.
  2. Take a quick deep in breath through the nose as you round the back and squeeze the stomach and pull the belly button back toward the spine. Your head will naturally fall forward
  3. On the exhale and while still bent at waist, raise the head and force breath out the mouth.
  4. When all breath is expelled, suck in tummy and hold tight until feeling need to catch the breath.
  5. Release.

The metabolic rate just increased substantially so your digestive system is now processing that food you ate more effectively plus you tightened up those muscles!

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Menopausal Headache? –Try Head Swinging”.  Send questions to Karen at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com . Prior articles may be found on her website or through Island Sun. Learn more at www.semmelmanenergy.com.  EEM does not diagnose or cure illness, but working with subtle energies of the body has been shown to help many conditions

 

Hot Flash or Cold Splash-Pick One!

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Eden Energy Medicine                                  June 5, 2015

 

Hot-flash or Cool Splash—Pick One

by Karen L. Semmelman, Certified EEMCLP, JD, AAML(03-12)

 

                Yes this column is dedicated to women encountering HOT FLASHES! Throwing the sheets off at night, getting up at 2 AM drenched, suddenly sweating when the air conditioner is set at 62—we all know the symptoms. So let’s look at some options to get the feeling of cool relief—yes cool! Of course before we explore a cooling regulator point, it is assumed you have tried herbal remedies widely suggested to assist with hot flashes: flaxseed or flaxseed oil; evening primrose oil and perhaps black cohosh….. But remember, menopause, in Asian cultures,  is the time to  move into our years of wisdom, reseeding the community with new views and perspective.untitled

                Our body has powerful acupressure points throughout our body, each of them associated with a meridian. Meridians are known as our energetic bloodstream, feeding energy and seeking balance among all 14 meridians, forming a continuous flow throughout. Each meridian is associated with an organ and some meridians have several roles.  These Acupressure points are the points that an acupuncturist uses to access clogged or congested energy. Our hands, rather than needles are the tools.  By pressing or circling a point, we immediately impact one or more of our systems or organs.

Meet the “Cool-Down” Acupoint to use when in the midst of a hot flash to quickly and effectively redistribute energy to reduce the body’s temperature. As the hot flash encompasses you, place the middle fingers of each hand about 2 inches below the navel and press in (this point is the intersection of the central and kidney meridians) while taking a deep breath. Then breathe normally. Do several times until the body temperature shifts.  Oh, and if you are a yogi, try the Darth Vader Breath during a hot flash—it helps too! Thanks to Eden Energy Medicine for Women!
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Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Spongy Tummy—Menopause Crummy? ”.  Send questions to Karen at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com . Prior articles may be found on her website or through Island Sun. Learn more at www.semmelmanenergy.com.  EEM does not diagnose or cure illness, but working with subtle energies of the body has been shown to help many conditions

 

 

 

Plumping Diaphragm Invigorates

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Eden Energy Medicine                                  May 15, 2015

 

Plumping the Diaphragm Invigorates

by Karen L. Semmelman, Certified EEMCLP, JD, AAML(03-12)

 

In our culture, most of us tend to be shallow breathers, not taking those deep belly breathes that we learn in yoga. By breathing in such a shallow fashion, it impacts the diaphragm, the horizontal wall of muscle partition between the chest and abdomen that acts as a bellows, forcing oxygen through our body. If not used and exercised to its capacity, it will become tight, lose its rhythm and thus  does not function optimally; making you more susceptible to illness and dis—ease. Consider the impact on your breathing when sitting on Periwinkle Way for an hour during the high season, especially if you have an appointment. You feel the locking in your chest, perhaps begin to get a headache or experience muscle spasms in some part of your body. This is evidence that your diaphragm is not functionindiaphragm pic w lungsg well. When full, the diaphragm helps pump both subtle energies and oxygen throughout the body.

So, if you are experiencing short or shallow breathing; have memory problems; feel distressed or are fearful; have trouble letting go of emotions, ideas or events (i.e. continually rehashing the same issue over and over);experience acid reflux or hiatal hernia; or have a headache—– then it is time for this technique to Free the Diaphragm.

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Step 2. Inhale deeply and push your upper belly toward the hands while holding the hands firmly against the pressure of your upper belly. Hold the breadth while maintaining the pressure between body and hands. The longer the breadth is held and the more pressure exerted from the body being pushed out to meet the hands the better.

Step 3. When you release the breath, ease the hands. REPEAT this process 3 times

Step 4. On an in breadth, place the right hand around the left side of the waist and with pressure pull wide spread fingers toward the navel. Repeat 3 times. Switch and use the left hand at the right waist. Repeat 3 times.

Step 5. Sweep the energy from the waist down the legs.

You have just moved oxygen throughout the body, improved your circulation, enhanced your auric field, pulsed your energy field and restored the horizontal flow of energy around your waist!

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Boost Thyroid Resilience with a “Thyroid Smoothie”.  Send questions to Karen at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com . Prior articles may be found on her website or through Island Sun. Learn more at www.semmelmanenergy.com.  EEM does not diagnose or cure illness, but working with subtle energies of the body has been shown to help many conditions