When
I say HARVESTING emotions, I mean to make USE of EVERYTHING the emotion (or
emotional element like feeling, sensation etc) has to OFFER:
- it’s biological and conventional message
- it’s metaphysical message
- it’s Energy and vitality
The
first two are theoretical and spiritual topics, which we have covered pretty
much in the last chapters, and which have an endless field of speculation and
dissection to them, which is why I don‘t see much reason in dwelling in them
too long, plus there is tons of literature on them ( basically all the books
form psychotherapy and esoterics).
But
number three offers a practical approach, and something, that we can actually
start working right here right now, with exercises, that will not only help us
deal with emotion, but will do something for our biological HEALTH!!
and
yes there is little TRICK or HACK hidden them too…
So
lets get to know:
The 3 Step method
Before
we get started, know this:
Everything
that aims on a longterm effect needs practice… at the beginning in a safe
environment, later with less and less preparations more direct and in the
moment..
There
are certain emotional patterns though which are so strong they can ONLY be
adressed AFTER they happened.. during their outbreak the best you can do is to
let them MOVE OUT of you or at least move WITH you… thats why partydancing
can be a very helpful tool too (as long as it does not involve alcohol or
drugs, during the time of the crisis, because they take away too much of the
memory of the transformation)
But
with time and space you WILL get better until some incidents you might actually
be able to prevent, some to transform on the spot!
1. Creating a safe space for your work
No
matter whether you are a spiritual person or not you will agree: Every work
needs it‘s space! You cannot build a house, without a land that is suited for
building, and which has been scanned for risks of accidents…
Well
believe it or not, this applies to your emotional body&soul too, if you
want to work on and in it, you at least have to set the intention, that you
want it to be in a safe place…
Every
shamanic tradition has the ritual of drawing a circle around a certain area to
transform it into „holy ground“ for the reason of ceremony, healing and/or
protection! You don´t need to believe in shamanism for you to give it a
try, and see, if it has an effect on you…
It
is basically a way to anchor yourself with the intention that all directions
around you are guarded with qualities that YOU have empowered, so no energy
that does not help this process can come in or out! For those who are new to
shamanism, this might sound a bit odd, but trust me in makes sense, once you
tried it… it has to do with our ancestral memory: our genes carry the
information, that creating space with the help of our natural environment for
our personality, will naturally help the inner realm of our personality!
In
the celtic tradition after drawing the circle all 4 wind directions are
invocated :
East
with Air, South with Fire, West with Water, North with Earth plus the 5th
direction: Spirit of the place in connection with Spirit of the SOURCE and
Space that governs all!
If
you are not in a group, or if you need to have something more personal, you can
draw your personal circle around the aura of your body:
- Your front being the guardian of your future
- Your back the guardian of your past
- The left side, guardian of your intuition
- The right guardian of your strategic mind
- The sky for a benevolent fatherly protection from above
- The earth for a benevolent motherly protection from beneath
- And your HEART for the your Love within and around you
This
can be done with a lot of mojo, and ritual or simply by being aware, but if you
are not a shy person in the beginning I always recommend mojo and ritual
especially your words, so that you can be witness of your intention!
Then
you can activate
2. „THE CHIPUMP“!
The
chipump has its origins in the TAO system, it is known in qui gong training,
the Kundalini-yoga has similiar techniques…
The
way I do it conveys two more extras which make it special, unique and safe. It
is one of those exercises that has an immediate effect on your whole system,
even if you don‘t do it completely correctly and lack concentration or belief!
Yes you heard me, it is a body-medicine that will work no matter, if you
believe in it or not, and even if you screw it up a bit !! How many energetic
exercises do you know of that actually can do that??
But
if you have no experience with body-energetic exercise at all, it is a lot
easier to experience this in a group-seminar with a skilled instructor of our
team! (for more annoying ads visit our website or give us a call,…
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Before
I tell you what it does, let me show you how it works so you can FEEL for
yourself:
- sit upright ideally at the edge of a seat, feet on the ground hand on your legs palms looking upwards…
- imagine your crown being pulled upward., the lower end of your spine being pulled downward so your spine gets an ongoing gentle stretch, imagine air between each element of your vertebras
- now start rocking your pelvis forward and backward, you can imagine your pelvis like a spoon, that scoops water in front of you and releases it at the back
(Do
not wee yourself! ;))
- when you scoop front squeeze your buttock muscles and your perineum, relax when you release
- this should create a wave along your spine, go with it and let your head be moved by it too, it feels like the walk of a CAMEL( you decide whether to RIDE or to BE the camel in this scenario ;))
- start rolling your shoulders backward ideally in sync with your pelvis
- this should create a pulse in your body like a heartbeat… now you activate your breath: INHALE on 5 pulses, exhale audibly on a “sh” “ff” or “ss” sound 5-8 Pulses… inhalation should be silent, exhalation should be massive and remind you of an elemental force!
- it is clear that this will take time to master, but I will
let
you in on a little secret, the three most important components are:
the
squeezing of the buttocks/perineum; the rolling of the shoulders
and
the breath… especially the last two need constant reminding, or else your
body tends to forget to continue them…
And
for those who already had a bit of Kundalini or qui gong experience, and are
afraid of their side effects… as I said I have put in a few extras to make
this exercise pretty safe… one are the LONG BREATHS they keep the process in
check, without denying it its transformational potential (took me over 15 years
to find this formula, so please treat it with respect)… but should anything
feel completely off,… then you always can LIE DOWN on the ground and wait
till the imbalance wears off…
TRY
the ChiPump NOW FOR THE NEXT 10 Minutes, breathe deeply, and let any emotion
that should come up be expressed in the breath and the squeezing…!
….
(10 minute break)
Now
ask yourself:
- What do I feel?
- Where do I feel it?
- When did it start become painful-comfortable?
Ok
these question should just help
you
realize, that no matter what, where and when you felt something, it was
something DIFFERENT than you felt before…right?
Some
of you might have felt warmth, a tingeling feeling, going up and down your
spine, a little bit of weight lifted from your shoulders, or burning pain in
them, because they already were very soar…
And
a little bit of sensuality or sensitivity on your skin and in your organs…
All
these are signs that a very powerful source of energy was opened within your
body:
In
the field of enegetics this has a name:
Chi,
Ki, Prana, Vis Vitalis, NUYFRE (in celtic tradition); Orgon; Life Force (psychology
and philosophy) etc…
There
are two forms of it, one that floats around and through you…
and
one that is centered in your pelvis below the navel and can be awakened softly
and gently with these kind of exercises..
This
second energy is not completely neutral but also linked to our Lust and
Sexuality… the creative life bringing force within…. and this is where
everything gets interesting, yes SEX sells, also in this field..;) !
Because
once this juicy, creative flow is started it becomes a little bit of hungry
snake, which loves to devour EMOTIONAL energy! That means we can FEED it with
memories, images, sounds, and sensations, which trigger our feelings and
emotions, even if they are quite challenging, because the snake will transform
them into something lustful and vital! Now I am not going to lie to you:
There is a possibility that you might not come up with any food for the snake at the beginning, because you are too busy, following the instructions to get the exercise right… then I suggest you do that and explore what feelings the snake offers you!
Important
is to do long breaths, and every now and then, stop the process to check on
yourself …
With
time you will be able to activate the chipump more easily!
And
now comes the next little challenge:
How
to trigger an emotional process to have food for the chipump-snake?
Well
if you have just recently experienced something very emotional, or are in the
middle of a crisis you will most likely still be in this emotional process or
have access to the fresh memories of it…
if
not, slow down your pulse and let your mind wonder in your distant memories,
soft massages of your skin, music and fotographs ( yes movies too, but I would
rather have you in an environment with less electronics ;)) can stimulate
feelings….very helpful is a sharing circle with friends, before you start the
chipump-process) … once you have found a good triggerpoint for your feeling
to float through,
then
you will have more than enough food for the energy-snake!! And I encourage you
to feed it as much as possible without stopping the exercise… you can adjust
the tempo of your pulses to a faster pace, but the breaths should be at least 5
pulses long in the in- or exhalation… if the feelings are very strong , buttocks,
shoulders and breath can be the anchor points for the physical expression of
the emotion, also the face muscles can help!
The
important thing is to keep the energies constantly moving, and to go directly
from inhaltion to exhalation without pause!
If
you do this in nature a tree can be a great stimulator and transformer too (
see our Dryalela-video on the website, and the blog about treemeditation) .
You
will feel a lot of changes during the process, temperature blood pressure, and
emotions and at the beginning it is wise to have an experienced instructor at
your side who can guide you through them, if you want to go deep enough to
completely transform one challenge….
BUT
even if you only scratch the surface, and do the emotional-chipump until you
feel something tiny has integrated itself in this new flow, you will BENEFIT
from this smaller process too!! This should at least be another 10minutes
Now
the next steps are:
To
change into SHAKING your whole body very fast, as fast as possible, still using
long breaths… until you reach a point of physical EXHAUSTION!
Here
you can end the chipump with an emotional SIGH or a CRY if you wish… ( If you
prefer shouting use the vowel “Ey” or “Ooh” like expressed in chapter one, they
do not harm your voice)
Alternatively
to shaking one can use drumming on the meridians, but this only effective if
you know where, and the point of exhaustion (very important) is not so easily
found…
3. Enjoying the Emotional- Energy field
After
shaking like a wet dog for several minutes and finishing with a sigh or a cry..
you
open all your senses and observe you body in the inner and outer realm… how
does it feel now? what feelings have changed? Where do you feel your heart and
blood pulse running…?
How
much sensual vitality can you feel now?
Now
imagine thoughts and feelings in and around you like a huge orchestra, that is
tuning itself…let all THOUGHTS of judgment and RATIONAL thinking play a
BACKGROUND music, which constantly changes, thoughts blur into each other on
the horizon of your minds and like clouds they move in and out… they are only
decoration, but have no importance!
Important
is NOT to silence them but to let them run in and out of the mindfield.. they
should be MOVING…
In the FRONT rows, plays this beautiful COCKTAIL of feelings, emotions, instincts and sensations the SOLO parts… it glows prominently and like an energyball of different colors and sizes…. but with one and one purpose only: TO FEEED YOU… and feeding you should on it now:
- by experiencing it with deep breaths of joy
- by trying to touch an massage it with your hands and feel it in the flesh and bones
- by DIRECTING IT into your LEFT SIDE from the top to the ground, and the directing it into the RIGHT SIDE, from the top to the ground: you can do this physically, and later mentally…. once seated and once in STANDING position
- by giving it the most POSITIVE MINDSET and JUDGMENT you have, like “this feels soooo good!” This is the greatest present you can give yourself, this will make the emotional energy valuable and harvestable in your body!
By
the way sitting is not a must in this exercise, you can do it in any posture as
long as you direct the energies into left and right hemisphere of your body in
the end, but sitting has its benefits to wake the snake more easily..;)
Also
you can do this ANYWHERE, preferably in the forest or under your
POWER-tree!
I
encourage you then to REPEAT the last two steps (chipump and energyfield) at
least once or twice… to have longer effects and a more concrete
„transformational energy“ at hand!
NEXT
STEP: REPROGRAMMING
Feeling
and enjoying is only half the trick, although it IS pretty amazing RIGHT?
The
other half consists of three parts, who are complementary to each other,
meaning what one lacks is bestowed by the other (sounds very epic hugh? )
a. Mantras, which enhance positive thinking and feeling
b. complete Integration
c. divine support
a. Mantras
are
short positive phrases which by constant repetition allow you to access your
subconscious and plant a seed of new behaviour in you… they are especially
helpful if combined with deep meditation and/or music…. the idea of a mantra
is that you repeat it so often that it dissolves to its essence, which then
infiltrates your old mindsets…
In
regard to the 3 step method the ideal place for starting the following mantra
session would be after you ran the chipump and energyfield at least 2-3
times… Then in the last round, in which you harvested enough „emotional chi“,
you then go into deep relaxation, focusing on your breath, and speak the
following mantras either one at a time, or in the whole bunch, important is,
that you speak the words with the feeling, that you just harvested!
And
they go like this:
- I LOVE this feeling
- I THANK this feeling
- I FORGIVE myself for judging this feeling
- I FORGIVE this feeling for judging me
- (These are the two most important ones!)
- I TRUST this feeling
- I PROFIT from this feeling
Here
the “good guys” in the emotional circuit are your best friends,…
Any
mantra, in order for it to become effective, needs a positive feeling that is
in complete sync with the positive thought that it conveys…
You
know that your body is starting to integrate, when it reacts with emotional
symptoms like:
- Little shivers,
- Laughter
- Tears
- Sighs
- Muscle toning
- Relaxation
These
are the same symptoms you are looking for if you go for the
b. Complete Integration
This
is a process which I ONLY recommend doing WITH an instructor or therapist (if
you cannot find one of us, or live too far away,…The REBIRTHING or ORGON
Method is very compatible to this one, though the breathing techniques are
slightly different, the accompaniment is the exact same!)
But
let me also stress that if you follow the instructions with long breaths, and
keep the movements, squeezes and rolls soft and organic, in a safe environment
(driving a car, or scubadiving are NOT one of them) this exercise CANNOT be
OVERDONE, and no sideeffects have yet been reported, except increase of
vitality, sexuality, better bloodcirculation, less to no tention in neck or
lower back. and the feeling of happiness on a cellular level , guess you can
work with that..;)
So
what do you do?
Simple,
you do the “Chipump” AS LONG AS IT TAKES to integrate one emotional
challenge:
No
matter how long you have to do it you keep pulsating and breathing…
Even
if you get a cramp in your shoulders or your ankles, you keep pumping,
Even
if you get all kinds of emotional outbursts you keep pumpin!
Even
if you feel its getting worse and worse, you breathe and do the
CAMELwalk!
Even
if you feel tired and sleepy.. you persevere!!
If
it takes 4 hours it takes 4 hours, if it takes a night, it takes a night…
You
will feel complete integration having taken place in your body,… when it
feels so GOOD, that you DON’T WANT TO STOP ANYMORE; but could go on pulsating
and breathing forever…
This
is when you have shed all conventional mindsets and become one with the part of
your soul, which is just here to ENJOY everything life has to offer!!
This
is also the part, where you could start to dissolve ANYTHING you want to, where
nothing seems impossible and everything accessible, where you could become one
with the ONE, if you chose to believe it.
Or
at least not feel sorry anymore if you did not get PISTACHIO – Ice
cream!!!…;)
But
sometimes neither mantras nor full integration seem to work; the latter because
there is no time, space or accompaniment there!
The
first one, because you are just not a mantra-type, or you need your own
mantras, and have not yet come up with them!
Then
I recommend to ask and trust in
c. DIVINE HELP:
Like
everything with me, this is not necessarily a religion or spiritual path, but
rather a mind technique! You can be an atheist in order for you to make use of
DIVINE HELP, just by „adopting“ this concept for the moment of need and then
letting it go again!
In
this case, divine help has a much more practical approach too:
Remember
when I explained you about the energy that is working within you, when you do
the chipump? I even mentioned that this energy, which in many cultures is
called EARTH energy, has an equivalent on the outside, an Energy that floats
around and through you, which the old cultures called ETHER (Sky, Celestial)
Energy….. it is exactly what the Reiki-masters and practitioners channel when
they do their healing work.
The
direction and principle is pretty much the opposite of the earth energy… it
needs no movement just a feeling of being open to RECEIVE, in this case
golden-divine LIGHT flowing from above of your crown through your spine
downward and into your hands and feet…or wherever it is needed in your
body…
Everybody
can access this energetic help, and YES it is helpful to imagine something
bigger than you, like a version of your angel, higher self, or source of the
ONE, actually DOING the work FOR you…
A very relaxing, and somewhat „comfy“ thought isn’t it? You don‘t have to do NOTHIN’, except become a channel for everything benevolent angelic, cosmic that is out there, which you do not even have to imagine or name!
What
I DO recommend you to do, is -like in the creation of a safe place- set a very
CLEAR INTENTION, that you are gratefully calling for all the HELP that is in
the BEST INTEREST for YOU and THE GREATER GOOD! Because like with the emotions,
it is the mindset that makes the energy a helper or not!
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