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Business Presentations- Enhance Ability to Focus

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 The audience was primed for an engaging presentation by a national speaker, but within several minutes many began yawning, fidgeting and pulling snacks from their bags… sound familiar? From an energy view, this person’s energies were scrambled deep in the brain and thus he was energetically scrambling the entire audience, so they couldn’t focus on the words even though they wanted to! At workshops, I frequently demonstrate this effect by having a person read several words forwards (they will “test” weak energetically) and then read backwards (they test strong). Of course we want to be strong when reading forwards, not backwards. I also test 3 others to show how they are strong energetically before reading begins but after the words are spoken, their energies go weak. 

                So, before a presentation or task that requires focus i.e.: to a group; teaching a course; talking to your boss; preparing for an exam; beginning a new painting, learning to windsurf etc.,  try this exercise and the one next week—Wayne Cook. The Crown Pull brings cerebral fluid into the head so you may think more clearly, focus your attention. As a comment, my husband, a law professor, does this exercise before each class!

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  • Place thumbs at temples, fingers in middle forehead. Stretch fingers across forehead to meet fingers at temples
  • Place fingers of both hands at the hairline on the suture that runs from the forehead over top &back of head With pressure, pull fingers apart from the midline of head toward outside of head , about 2 inches on each side.
  • Continue moving fingers on the suture line over top head, back head, neck and then back of shoulders.
  • Dig fingers into back shoulders while inhaling deeply. Pull fingers across shoulders with pressure


You will feel a slight buzzing on and in your head—your energies are now set to engage the audience! Deep focus is further enhanced by the exercise you will learn next week.

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Business Presentation?- Focus Mind at Deep Level”.  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.

 

 

 

Hand to Heart with Partner Creates Bonding

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No relationship is free of turmoil. After all, each of you has your own unique view of the world, and knows the best way to clean the counter, wash the car, location for car keys and where to put tools after use, etc.  Sound familiar? But sometimes one gets tired of being “nice”, may get frustrated and lash out- and off we go into a chain reaction of “you said” and “you did”…………

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              Today, learn a great technique to stop the cycle. Donna Eden and David Feinstein just published a book this September, titled “Energies of Love”. You will learn more of this book next week. However, before this book, they both lectured extensively on creating a loving energetic connection when the relationship runs aground. My husband and I have found one technique very effective and use it regularly.  After the “you did” starts, we take a break, call time out and do the following:

  1. Each partner turns away from the other and comes home to themselves. A good way to do this is to place both hands on your heart, close the eyes and find center inside. Hold this space for several breaths.
  2. Check in with your partner and see if they are ready to connect
  3. When ready, face each other with hearts across from one another. Each places their left hand on their own heart and with the right hand reaches out to the other placing the right hand on the other’s hand over his/her heart. You are now linked.
  4. When ready, raise your eyes to meet your partner and hold the gaze until you each take a deep breath.

What did we learn last week that just happened? We just released the “love hormone” oxytocin; activated the solar plexus chakra (which stimulates the thymus gland and thus boost the immune system too); and helped balance the nervous system.  Happy Valentine’s Day!  Oh, it works with anyone, your kids, friends, family…..

 

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “What are the Energies of Love”.   EEM does not diagnose or cure illness, but working with subtle energies of the body has been shown to help many conditions.

 

 

 

 

Change Eating Patterns by Blow-out; Zip-up; & Hook-up

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Can’t stop munching potato chips? Are they carefully tucked away in a tin in the cupboard so you WON’T be tempted, but you sneak in and eat them anyway (and sometimes 4 & 5 times in a row)?  Food cravings satisfy emotional needs by calming stress and reducing anxiety.  But the cravings kick into high gear when we’re stressed or anxious.  By eating carbohydrates, we boost the levels of the hormone serotonin, which has a calming effect; thus eating more! So, how to stop this incessant habit loop?

We know Triple Warmer controls our energy habits, so we need to shift the internal energetic fields to create a new internal atmosphere that supports new ways of thinking and feeling. This tool enables, with your deep intention, the shifting of deeply embedded energetic habit fields

Set your intention before you begin- “I feel empowered to say no to potato chips”

  1. While standing, place arms in front of you while bending elbows slightly. Make fists with inside of wrists facing upward.baby w fists expelling energy
  2. Take a deep breath while swinging arms behind you and over the head.
  3. Reach up as high as possible while turning fisted hands facing each other. Throw your arms down the front of body as you bend over, releasing the breath and fists while emitting a sound that feels right for you. Repeat 3 times. On last repeat, bend slowly and with controlled intention release.
  4. Stand up and breathe deeply while stating your intention (Step 1 above)
  5. Zip-up this affirmation by placing both hands at pubic bone, inhale while stating the affirmation AND moving hands slowly up the front of body to the lower lip. Repeat 3 times.(This acts much like hypnosis by tracing the central meridian)

6.Hook-up by placing middle finger of 1 hand in navel and middle finger other hand between     eyebrows while pulling both fingers in and upward for 15 seconds on deep inhale AND stating you affirmation.

Welcome to your newly created energetic habit field. Now take out the tin of chips and give them to your???????

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Hugging Increases Your Love Hormone”.  EEM does not diagnose or cure illness, but working with subtle energies of the body has been shown to help many conditions.

 

 

 

Seeking Inspiration? Let Heaven Rush In

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We all have moments when we feel alone and don’t know which way to turn to seek the answer we so ache to find. So, if you are feeling the need for inspiration; or are feeling anguish because you have a long standings illness that just won’t heal; or you are at a cross-roads in your life where the next step will dramatically change the course of life’s journey; or literally or figuratively you are feeling shut-in or confined or just seem to have your mind going in continuous tight circles; or just simply are feeling lost, forlorn, alone or in despair—then it is time to connect with energies that will feed and nourish you.

Donna Eden likes to remind us that matter follows energy and that our universe is comprised of multi-dimensional intelligence. By engaging in the exercise of “Heaven Rushing In”, you are touching the sacred dimension of that higher intelligence to provide answers and guidance that is easily attainable if you just ask and open yourself to the experience. Although the exercise’s name includes the word heaven, the concept is to seek connectedness with the source, whatever that source maybe in your belief system, which is viewed as having divine energies larger than your own.

If possible, do this exercise outdoors or even better, under the stars to invite the physical and metaphysical energy fields to you. Remember that we are all part of an interconnected universe and can access that sense of oneness with practice.

The technique is as follows:

Step 1. Stand with feet hip width apart. After rubbing the palms of hands briskly together, place the palms on the front of each thigh. Feel the connection between your hands, legs and the Earth, all grounding you

Step 2. On an inhale, bring your hands together in a prayer position in front of you heart. Hold for several seconds and then exhale.

Step 3. On an inhale, extend your hands out from the sides bringing then in an arch overhead, while opening your hands, heart and arms to the heavens to allow the energy to enter. Both hands are touching the “heavens”.

Step 4. Exhale. Continue to hold this position as long as it feels good to you, while breathing at a normal rate.

Step 5. Move the hands to your heart as you bring the source energy to you. Your hands are on a vortex called “Heaven Rushing In”. Experience the energy rejuvenating you.

Step 6. Place your energized hands at any place on your body where it is needed.

The exercise can now end by placing your hands over your heart as you started or open your hands again to the Universe for more….. Either way, you should now feel much more connected, in tune and nourished!!! Enjoy the journey.

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Meridians-the Most Physical of the Nine Systems!”

* If you have a question for Karen, email her at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com. 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.

Clear Physical Sludge—Reset Ileocecal/Houston Valves

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Since last week we cleared Etheric sludge, it seemed apropos to clear our physical sludge too. So, if you are prone to diarrhea, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, have digestive issues, or feel you are holding onto unwanted waste or behavior or ideas, this exercise will help.

The Ileocecal valve is located between the small and large intestines on the right side of the body. Governed by the kidney meridian, its function is to open and close in order to process wastes from food, chemicals and hormones that flow through your bloodstream. If not working properly, then waste backs up into your system, which can result in digestive issues, toxic overload in the kidneys, bronchitis or many other illnesses that may diminish or disappear after clearing these valves. So, if you have a chronic condition that just does not want to heal, this is a worthwhile exercise to consider. The Houston valve is not a real valve, but serves a similar role to the Ileocecal valve. It is located between the descending colon of the large intestine and the rectum inside the left hipbone.

To make certain your body releases unnecessary material for evacuation; Reset the Ileocecal and Houston valves as follows:

Step 1. Place the right hand on right hip bone and left hand on left hip bone with little fingers at the inside edge of the hip bones. Under right hand is on the Ileocecal valve and left hand over the Houston valve. Correcting both together creates symmetry between them

Step 2. As you begin a deep inhalation, push in with pressure through your fingers as you slowly drag the fingers of each hand up 6 to 7 inches ending at your hip bones.

Step 3. Shake the hands to remove the energy

Step 4. Start at position in Step 1 and repeat at least 4 times.

Step 5. Return to original position, but this time drag the thumbs down from the waist to the hipbones.

You are done. Not only have you reset these 2 valves, but since they are linked with all the other valves in the body, you have effectively reset those valves as well. If after doing this exercise, you find you still have constipation or diarrhea, for example, then lay down. Push the fingers from both hands into the Ileocecal valve while lifting your right knew slowly toward the trunk of your body to a 90 degree angle. Continue holding the pressure with your fingers while straightening the leg. You now have changed the sludge of energy in this sluggish valve.

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Seeking Inspiration? Let Heaven Rush In.”

* If you have a question for Karen, email her at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com. 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.

Clear Etheric Sludge—Connect Heaven and Earth

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Feel a cold or flu coming on? Have sore or achy joints? Taking on the energies of others? Feel you have taken on too much and are ready to explode? Feel emotionally un-nourished? In transition between work or moving or just dealing with family? If any of these apply, than it is time to open the meridians, throw the toxins out of your system and pull in fresh energy to all your joints!

Of course you are thinking “get real”, what exercise can accomplish this? The exercise is Connecting Heaven and Earth. It is one of Donna Eden’s favorites since it is so powerful. By encouraging our buddy Triple Warmer (remember that warrior of our body who protects our habit fields for survival and monitors our flight/fight/ freeze response) to act as a Radiant Circuit (that energy system that is our joy-juice), we are literally pulling energy in from above through our head (Heaven) and from below through our feet at Kidney 1 meridian (Earth). After we pull the energy to us, our joints are replenished helping to prevent arthritis; boosts the immune system by stretching the torso and activating the Spleen meridian; and stimulates the removal of all that stale etheric sludge in our systems.

Although in Energy Medicine Donna comments she thought she created the exercise, her research disclosed this exercise or variations of it have existed for centuries in other countries including Egypt, China and India (page 266). So, doing this exercise releases all those excessive accumulated energies seeking to be expelled and makes space for new fresh subtle energy to enter so you can smile!

The technique for Connecting Heaven and Earth follows:

Step 1. Rub your hands together, shake them off and place them on thighs with fingers spread.

Step 2. While inhaling through the nose, move your hands in a circle out from your sides and up over your head, bringing them to a prayer position in front of your heart. Exhale through the mouth

Step 3. While inhaling through the nose, stretch one hand up over your head with wrist bent so the palm is facing to the sky and stretch the other hand downward with wrist bent so the palm is facing the earth. Push with both palms creating a strong stretch along the side while looking up at the heavens. Hold your breath during this stretch. When ready to release the breath, exhale through the mouth and return your hands to prayer position.

Step 4. Switch arms and repeat with this side. After this set, do 2 or more sets.

Step 5. Bend at the waist to fold toward the floor, with bent knees if necessary, and hang there for 2 breaths.

Step 6. Slowly bring your body upright while you roll the energy to you with your hands from the feet to the head. I like to sprinkle that new fresh energy over my head and place my renewed energized hands wherever I feel I need a boost, perhaps my back or shoulder. Smile, do a little wiggle and start the day!

Have fun with your energy! Next week’s topic is “Clear Physical Sludge-Reset Ileocecal/Houston Valves!”

* If you have a question for Karen, email her at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com. 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.

Plump the Diaphragm to Oxygenate the Body

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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 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 functioning 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; having 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.

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.

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! Send me your questions. Next week’s topic is “Safeguarding Your Breasts”

* If you have a question for Karen, email her at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com. 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.

Weave Your Energy Systems for Balance

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From previous Columns, you have learned that EEM recognizes 9 energetic systems. The exercise addressed today reinforces The Celtic Weave energy system. Our bodies’ energies spin, spiral, crisscross (remember that the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left hemisphere controls the right side) and weave our subtle energies into invisible interconnected threads that literally weave all other energy systems together to function as a whole integrated unit.

Perhaps you have heard reference to Tibetan Rings (from The East) or noticed that in our own culture, the caduceus depicts 2 serpents on a staff intertwined 7 times to symbolize medicine. The caduceus is generally displayed in your doctor’s office. Crossing 7 times is associated with another of our systems – the 7 basic Chakras. This recognition in many cultures of the crossing of energy, including the double helix of our DNA, reflects the fundamental knowledge that these crisscrossing energies permeate our body to serve as the connective tissue of our energy system. Thus, The Celtic Weave system weaves your subtle force fields together creating harmony with all systems. During the article on the Cross Crawl exercise, you learned more about the benefit of keeping the energies crossed.

The Celtic Weave exercise, part of the 5 Minute Routine, will enable you to strengthen your auric field (the field that has 7 layers and surrounds the body, acting as an antenna to filter information); weaves all systems together and enhances your inner strength to create a network of communication between systems.

Use this exercise if you feel vulnerable to others’ energies; or feel too extended or as if you invisible; or feel disoriented from the environment itself (too many electro-magnetic frequencies); or find it difficult to communicate. The exercise works since it “fluffs” your energies, enabling protection.

Step 1: Stand straight with hands on the thighs. Imagine energy being pulled through the feet to meet the hands as you breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth throughout the exercise.

Step 2: Rub the hands together vigorously, shake them off, and place your palms close together as you feel the energy between them. Rub and shake the hands again, taking the palms and bringing them close to the ears. Take a deep breath. Visualize bringing in fresh energy to your head.

Step 3: While inhaling, bring your elbows together. Exhale, cross your arms and swing them out to the side. Visualize that you are clearing stale energy from your field. I like to make a “whoosh” sound.

Step 4: Cross and swing them out again. Bend forward, repeat at the waist, at the knees and again at the ankles. Stay bent forward.

Step 5: Bring the hands behind you with palms parallel to the floor, cup the hands and scoop the energy from the earth all the way to your head as you stand. Then sprinkle the energy over you.

You will now feel invigorated, more balanced and your energetic systems all integrated!

Have fun with your energy! Send me your questions. Next week’s topic is “The 5 Minute Routine-Your Recipe for Health”

* If you have a question for Karen, email her at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com. 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.

Settle Tiff With a Spinal Flush

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

Last week we reviewed Neurolymphatic Reflex points, those points located on the surface of the body, that when rubbed, enable toxins to be released from the system, clearing stagnate energies (including emotional energy) and thus leaving you feeling invigorated and energized. Remember that our lymph system has no pump so rubbing these points is quite beneficial to release toxins. Points exist on the front and back of the body. The exercise reviewed last week enables one to clear the points on their own body by using your hands to circle the points.

This week you will learn how to do a flush of the Neurolymphatic points on the back, which points are parallel to the spinal column. So, when you and your significant other have a “tiff”, say to him or her “Hands against the wall”. At this point you are wondering how this position can possibly resolve the conflict. It is easy. If you are both stressed, the frustration is high, you believe you are right and your partner believes he or she is right, a great way to expel the emotional toxin is to flush it out! How? Step 1: Have the partner stand about 3 feet from the wall with both hands against the wall with elbows locked. By standing firmly in this position, the person is stable since the other partner will be exerting pressure. The other partner stands behind the person facing the wall, placing both thumbs on either side of the spinal column beginning right below the neck

Step 2: The partner circles, with pressure, the points that are on both sides of the spine at the notch of each vertebrae (being careful to never push on the spine itself), using either the thumbs or middle fingers and applying his or her body weight to lean into the points.

Step 3: The points are deeply rubbed or circled for at least 3 seconds each as you move from the base of the neck all the way down to the sacrum area. If there is a point that is particularly sore, then give extra attention to that point—it needs it in order to release the toxins. Always check with your partner to make sure the pressure is comfortable.

Step 4: Sweep the energy off the body from head to toe by running your hands over the body 2 or 3 times. Do the massage a second time if possible and then sweep the energy off the body again.

You have just made your partner feel better and you feel better having released that frustration from both of you! Switch partners and both will feel doubly better. The Spinal Flush works since each of these points is associated with a meridian, and each meridian is associated with an organ; thus creating an immediate release for both giver and receiver!

Other options include having the receiving party lay down; or if you don’t have a partner wrap 2 tennis balls in a cloth napkin with rubber bands at each end to hold the tennis balls in place and then put the tennis balls behind your back against the wall and lean into them. You will receive immediate gratification!

Have fun with your energy! Send me your questions. Next week’s topic is “Weave your Energy Systems for Balance”

* If you have a question for Karen, email her at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com. 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.

Find Inspiration and Sharpen Memory with “The Crown Pull!”

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Part of the 5 Minute Routine includes The Crown Pull, where the sutures in the skull are literally being pulled open with your fingers. In the column on Chronic Headaches, the sutures in our brain were discussed, i.e. those plates in the skull that move with each inhalation and exhalation to create a cranial adjustment that helps to pump the cerebro-spinal fluid into the brain providing oxygen and nourishment to the brain. As the skin on the skull becomes tight, the muscles of the head get rigid and tight, or the sutures’ movement is limited—we literally have clogged energy stuck in our heads!

So, how do we release this energy that is stuck in our skull? It is released at the top of the head, through the Crown Chakra (the chakras are frequently referenced in Yoga). The Crown Chakra provides a gateway to our own inspiration and spirituality, enabling the feeling of connectedness to a higher presence, whatever that presence may be. Consider doing The Crown Pull when: refreshing of your thinking ability is needed; you seek inspiration; the head feels full or clogged; your nervous system needs calming; you want to sharpen your memory. Given the stressors of daily life, it is delightful to have a technique at your fingertips, literally, that provide an opportunity to tap into inspiration.

I find it extremely helpful to do The Crown Pull right after I have finished Wayne Cook Posture. When working with clients, they frequently tell me that their head is tingling and feels so much more open, after I have done a crown pull for them…. The technique follows:

Step 1. Place the thumbs at the temples with fingertips resting in the middle of the forehead.

Step 2. With pressure slowly pull the fingers apart, stretching the skin on forehead.

Step 3. Place the little fingers at the hairline and repeat the stretch (about 1 ½ inches on both sides of the sutures).

Step 4. Continue this pattern of stretching the suture line over the top, center and back of the head, then down the back of your neck.

Step 5. Press your fingers into the back of the shoulders and hold for 2 breadths. Pull the fingers across the shoulders toward the front of the body. Hold as long as you like and then release.

You are done—having creating vibrancy, clarity and fresh energy to your being on all levels!

Have fun with your energy! Send me your questions. Next week’s topic is “Toxins be Gone-Rub those Neurolymphatics!”

* If you have a question for Karen, email her at ksemmelmanenergy@gmail.com. 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.