08/04/2024
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Preamble…
Well, well, well… guess who got Covid—for the first time. That she knows of, that is. The day before her son’s wedding. She’s nothing if not dramatic and timely 🙄.
It hasn’t been horrible, just surreptitiously inconvenient. Just when I think I’m better, I can’t keep my eyes open… or I nearly faint … or I can’t stop coughing … or I’m nauseous 🤢. Now, after 12 days, I really do think I’m on my way back to normal. I’ll let you know ... if I get through 9 holes of golf on Tuesday, I’m good to go 👍.
But now that I am re-emerging, I am a taken aback by all my “tricks of the trade” that I would have lavished on someone else (whether they asked for it or not, I might add with some chagrin), that I didn’t pull out of my own back pocket. Where have I been??? I’m starting now, but it would REALLY have been helpful if I had done it from the get-go.
But there’s a lesson there as well, I tell myself: rest was probably the best “trick” at the very beginning. And I would likely have snapped at anyone who “suggested” I get up and do a Cross Crawl or Tap 🥴.
So, I’m sharing this for what it is worth: when you are getting a bit of a leg up on whatever you are going through health wise — physically, mentally, emotionally, and dare I say spiritually, here’s something I cobbled together eons ago. Many of you will recognize the modalities, but maybe, like me, you have forgotten to access them! Gentle healing, Friends.
Re-Establishing Cross-Over and Meridian Energy Flow
To facilitate the body’s innate healing capability:
When feeling unwell, here are some steps to take:
1. Marching in place, crossing midline of the body (Cross Crawl): When not feeling well, your body energies are running “parallel” instead of crossing from left brain to right side of body and vice versa.
--First, meet your body “where” it is and march in an exaggerated parallel way: swing left arm and raise left knee; swing right arm and raise right knee. 12 x each leg. Stop and Rest for 10 seconds or so. Repeat.
--Then “show” your body how it’s supposed to flow with an exaggerated cross-over march: swing left arm across midline of the body, raise right knee somewhat angled across body (you could bring left elbow to right knee); repeat with other arm/knee. 12x each leg. Stop. Rest for 10 seconds. Repeat 2 more times.
Repeat this process (and the tapping below) every couple of hours until you can feel your body beginning to regain its strength and flow. Then reinforce the process by marching only in the cross-over method and keeping up the tapping cycles. You’ll naturally taper off as you begin feeling better.
The Cross Crawl can be done sitting and lying down as well!
2. Tap gently on the following areas (about 7 taps per location). Tapping helps to stimulate the meridian system that flows through your body and affects all organs in your body. Chinese medicine states that illness and disruptive emotion are due a disturbance in the body’s energy system. Tapping helps to re-establish the normal energy flow.
Tapping points:
--Top of head
--Eyebrows where they meet the nose
--Sides of eyes (on the bone)
--Under eyes (on the bone)
--Under nose
--In crease of chin
--Collarbone (just below bone on either side of sternum)
—Middle of the sternum (not in picture below, but it stimulates the thymus which boosts the immune system)
--Under arms (on torso, at bra line/hand-width below armpit)
Repeat cycle 3 times, resting about 30 seconds between each cycle to allow for integration.