Recently I had the joY of participating in the Energy Medicine for Women course delivered in Rotterdam by Prune Harris. In my energy counseling Facebook group I regularly share one of the many youtube video’s of Prune demonstrating simple yet effective self-supportive energy medicine techniques; all aimed to help regulate the 24/7 energy flows and to encourage what is known as the radiant circuits in ancient Chinese medicine; the energy system in our bodies that give us the power and understanding  to let the energies flow and live life to the fullest.

Fortunately at this very point in time and human evolution; a rising awareness is emphasizing the importance of waking up and living our potential rather than doing the daily survival-driven drone.  This shift from money, power and ownership-oriented cultural conditioning to sharing, caring and valuing each others creative talents is highly necessary.

At the root of it lies the way each of us in our individual way responds to outside influences, misunderstandings and injustices. The world outside of us can anger or threaten us or make us feel powerless against the injustices we encounter in daily life.

The place to start and change that is with One Self. To know who you are, to know what you are capable of ( both the good and the dark side) , to position your potential into the world of good are the main ingredients to toss off the shackles of dependency on the outside world for your well being AND it helps contribute to make the world a better place at the same time.

The weekend workshop of Prune Harris reminded me of the importance of 3 simple ways to do your thing with all of your strength and support yourself in being energized and empowered. The exercises take a from 20 seconds to as long and as often as you like.

1: Be Grounded. Be Here and Now.

With our heads in the clouds, it’s hard to manifest anything on earth. We are often unaware of our thoughts or emotions drifting away to other places in time and space.

A simple exercise to ground is to march your feet on the spot where you stand, at the same time tapping your cheekbones with your fingers; gently, rhythmically, while minding your rounds of breath, take nice deep breath in through your nose exhaling, letting go of your breath through your mouth.

When you are sitting on a chair, make sure your feet are connected to the floor side by side resting on the whole sole of the foot.

When lying down pull up your knees so the soles of the feet are in touch with the surface that is supporting you. Feel the connection of your back and buttocks in touch with the earth gravity, allowing your bodyweight to be carried.

2 Be hydrated.  Water is a great transporter of energy. The better the body is hydrated; the better the energies can flow; plus water helps to flush the system of toxins.  Depending on other intake habits; a minimum of 8 glasses of  water is a good place to start.  (coffee, tea, cigarettes, salty foods and sugary things use up water for themselves and need to be compensated with extra glasses of aqua.) 

 3. Be Connected.  This refers to the inner energy circuits. Much like the electricity coming out of your living room wall, the human body functions on crossed energies., i.e. it flows from plus to minus, from yin to yang.  Without that flow energy becomes stagnant. A simple way to cross the energies is to firmly place your right hand on the muscle of your left shoulder and visualize pulling energy from the left shoulder diagonally over your upper body towards the right hip. Engage your breathing again into this process, inhaling while placing the fingers on a shoulder, exhaling while pulling the energies diagonally over to the other side.

Another exercise to help you ground and connect the energies (yin and yang) is connecting heaven(yang) and earth (yin),

demonstrated here by Donna Eden

but of course the best thing is to do the daily energy routine designed by Donna Eden, demonstrated here by

daily routine by Prune Harris 

The card to go with this balanced way of grounding yourself and finding your inner core and strength is card number XI ‘The Force’, depicting the image of the Yin being in touch with the Yang (the lion) . To read more click the card.

Wishing you a wonderful energized and empowered day. May the Force be with you

Ingrid

Visit my website  to draw your own card or for more information about card readings, either by Skype or in person; and Nan Yar- Who Am I Life Make Over courses

More Questions? Mail me at info@energycounseling.nl

The abridged spoken version of this blog, features as end note on  ‘Dutchbuzz’, the radio hour for Internationals every Tuesday  from 10 to 11 pm on ‘Den Haag FM and can be found in the Programme Archive of  the Dutchbuzz podcasts, dated  October 9, 2018.

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With the sun shining bright as it did and the sky ice-blue as it was; I went to  The Hague’s Scheveningen beach this weekend in spite of the freezing cold February weather. I went there to do what is called the  Daily Energy Routine, a series of simple exercises designed by Energy Medicine author and pioneer Donna Eden together with her husband David Feinstein.

This series of exercise only takes 5 minutes out of my day. They set the flow of the energy in my body in motion and open up the energy pathways.

This way they help and prepare me to meet my daily challenges and more importantly secure my energy supply so I don’t flip out of it and start feeling drained when certain events or energy vampires bump into me during the day.

The coastline is a particularly fantastic place to the 5 minute daily routine as the surf itself is a place that contains special energies. The spot where  seawater meets land and  waves break on the sand contains a lot of  specially energized atmosphere, filled with what is called ions.

Ions are basically electrons, the stardust everything on earth in some form or another is made of. Under certain circumstances however, like the surf of a beach; the foot of a waterfall or centre of a thunderstorm, more of these specific ions are being produced; causing enhanced power to flow into the atmosphere.

The human body reacts very positive to this extra influx of energy  and responds by producing more serotonin; the human feel good hormone. So when exercising near the coastline; not only does the daily energy routine supply energy for the day; it also adds the bonus of  extra increasing my happiness levels.

Knowing this; you would think I go to the beach every day and do these wonderful exercises in order to get, -Dutch as I am- my free supply of resilience, but ‘Alas dear Yorick’, I have to shamefully admit, that even though I live only a short bike ride away from Scheveningen beach. I have to really bring myself to do this.

Nothing seems more difficult in that sense than overcoming my own shadow. I know exactly what is good for me; yet the more angry with the world I feel  or the more under the weather I am; the more difficult I find it to set myself in motion and put in the effort of energizing myself.

Rather than judging that however, I decided to praise myself this weekend for dragging me and my shadow down the arctic Dutch climate. Once there I found the sun had come out to greet me. I came back energized and filled with good stardust

Ingrid Schippers, 20-02-2018

For a surprise card this week, click on the bright blue sea…. 

To see the 5-minute daily routine presented by Donna Eden, click  HERE

The spoken version of this blog, features as end note on  ‘Dutchbuzz’, the radio hour for Internationals every Tuesday  from 10 to 11 pm on ‘Den Haag FM and can be found in the Programme Archive of  the Dutchbuzz podcasts, dated February 20, 2018.

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While we live in the 21st century, the human body is in fact still designed to survive conditions of over 5000 years ago. The fight, flight or freeze response for instance, the body’s defense mechanism to immediate danger. It was designed to protect your self and ignite the right decision when you met a sabertooth tiger on the road.

The problem however is that it is not about the occasional saber teeth any more.  The stress triggers in the present day and age, have been replaced by totally different phenomenon. Careers, mortgages; creditcard debts; addictions, children drafted in warzones; refugees being denied a safe haven; the president of the united states threatening to kick you out from everything you’ve lived and worked for.

In their pioneering book  ‘Energy Medicine’, Donna Eden and David Feinstein, devote a lot of their writings on how this reflects in the modern day human body. A certain meridian, known as ‘Triple Warmer’, goes on the alert when danger is on the prowl.

When danger is constantly on the prowl, when the basic needs in life are contineously under attack; Triple Warmer is constantly on the alert. While in the hunter and gatherer days danger would appear only once in a while;
the burden of mortgage, careers and the need to make money, the danger of being expelled for no other reason than your former nationality; breaking news on terrorism all over the world, are now constant stress factors 24 hours a day; something to have nightmares about during sleep and to wake up to every morning.

At least in the hunter and gatherer days we could take on one calamity at the time. Nowadays, we live in an overstressed society 24 hours a day.

This poses a problem, considering the human body  has only so much fossil fuel to spend in case of emergency. There is a whole lot of difference between the occasional threat from wild animals or other natural causes and the constant, – mostly financial/economic- pressure of modern day society

When ‘triple warmer’ , the stress meridian is on constant overdrive; it constantly draws energy away from the other meridians, other energy pathways that serve other body functions, such as that of the lungs, stomach, kidneys,bowels, who, depleted as they are from energy, begin to grow weak.

Now the good news is that the human body has self help ways to regulate this by doing energy exercises that promote the energy flow through all organs. The main lesson to be learned from this is to live life in favor of  yourself first; embrace yourself first rather than focussing on the economic demands from the outside world; supporting your own needs without damaging your environment; so you can be valuable and participate in what really matters in the outside world later on.

Ingrid Schippers, October 2017

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The spoken version of this blog, features as end note on  ‘Dutchbuzz’, the radio hour for Internationals every Tuesday ( with the exception of summer and Christmas recess) from 10 to 11 pm on ‘Den Haag FM and can be found in the Programme Archive of  the Dutchbuzz podcasts, dated October 10th 2017

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Coming Sunday October 15, free energy medicine session from 10.45-11.15  at Zee van Licht, Scheveningen

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The Trick is to EnjoY it.

Get the most out of your day with Energy Medicine,
modeled after the methods of Donna Eden

Try Out Body Language of EnergY session Saturday 26 September from 1.30 to 2.30  pm

Presentation of  simple techniques for all ages and all walks of life.
No previous experience required.

Program:

• The 5-minute daily routine to go with the flow
• Tracing the meridians, cleansing and energizing the body’s energy system
• Energy Tips for Daily Life, the FAQ list.

Presentation: Ingrid Schippers

Location: Hellingweg 98k Scheveningen Den Haag.

After clicking the link scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page to find the google map of the location. Contrary to the rather stubborn arrow on the google map, ‘Zee van Licht’   is located directly at the harbor, as opposed to the indicated highroad behind the apartment building.

Try out fee: 10 euro pp.
Register in advance  This is mandatory, There’s room for 12 participants.

You can register by sending a mail to: info@counseling.nl
or via the contactform

Free parking at Hellingweg
Zee van Licht can be found at the West side (beach side) of the yachting section of Scheveningen harbour

Try out session in Dutch, same day Saturday September 26,  from 12 noon to 1.pm.

More on Energy Medicine: What if it only takes 5 minutes a daY…

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There are those moments where suddenly the light bulb goes on.
Things I’ve seen happening right under my very eyes for very long, yet as I’m so used to seeing them happen the way they do, I hardly ever question their validity.

Recently I came to notice certain patterns about myself, that I had never even recognized as such and by that I mean I had not even recognized them as a patterns, but simply as something I was used to doing a certain way. Something I was used to doing the way I was brought up to believe was the right way to do.

Obviously everyone needs certain convictions to go by, a springboard from which to start and base decisions on, but convictions can be very binding and blinding and close off doors to new opportunity if we don not question them every now and again.

While some convictions can be there to protect us from doing things rashly, they also have the ability to ground someone in the negative sense of the word, preventing that person from evolving.

A recognizable pattern, familiar with many is arachnophobia: Fear of Spiders.
Regardless of where, when or how it developed, many shy away from spiders and are unable to touch them. Spiders instill a certain fear.
Yet even though these fears consume precious moments and situations, only few people will actually do something about it. Instead ‘they learn to live with it’, as such creating a reality that includes a pattern that accepts fear of spiders as a fact of life.

This while it is relatively easy to get rid of fears. Hypnosis, Tapping, Behavioral therapy, self-reflection, a wide range of methods live out there next to spiders; some only taking little time and effort. Even simply holding a spider just for once can be effective and make way for other things in life, provided of course the fear is unfounded and you’re not squeezing a black widow or other poisonous spider between thumb and index finger.

‘But why should I get rid of my fear of spiders?’ one may wonder. ‘As long as I avoid them I’m perfectly all right.’

But see here’s the point. Avoiding things, avoiding confrontation, takes time and space and consumes a certain percentage of an every day allotment of energy. Just imagine you would have an certain quota of energy of 100% that equals 10 hours of a day and even as little as 2% goes to looking out for spiders on a daily basis, meaning 12 minutes per 10 hour day. On a yearly basis that is 12 minutes times 365 is 4380 minutes is 73 hours, is more than 3 full days and 7.3 10 hour energy days that are spent on looking out for spiders. Just think how you could spend that time differently and what you could spend it on.

Next to being liberating and therewith rewarding, getting rid of a fear opens windows of opportunity, that we do not sense or foresee as long as we stay in the old pattern of fear. Energy invested into one fear, cannot be used for something else, so my point is that even though I fool myself at times by saying I’m perfectly fine with the way things are; getting over my fears and changing these things can give me space I could not even have dreamed of. That is the reward for initiating change.

In their book ‘Energy Medicine’, Donna Eden and David Feinstein present a surprisingly easy exercise called the temporal tap, involving tapping the left and right temple area above the ears while using an affirmation.
I’ve found a little video for you to watch where Donna explains the principle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6yH0gdyu8Q

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It may sound too simple to be taken seriously,
or so basic that it is taken for granted and overlooked.
It may also go against what would you would want to be true;
because you want things to be different.
You might want to be able to eat ‘all you can eat’ without gaining weight or minding the fact that many mass-produced foods deprive you from important nutrients.
You might want to be able to drink alcohol without it affecting your health.
You might want to be able to smoke for the same reason.

Yet as the saying goes:

A healthy mind needs a healthy body

and that goes the other way around as well:

a healthy body needs a healthy mind.

The two go hand in hand like water goes with thirst, food goes with appetite and laughter goes with happiness. They are inseparable.

What triggered all this is a very meaningful interview I recently listened to by Donna Eden and David Feinstein, with John Grey, author of the book: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

It woke me up again to the fact how a healthy lifestyle and a healthy spirit are interdependent.
How the way we eat, influences the way we function physically and how the way we function physically, influences the way we feel energetically,
(and how that is different for men and women.)

Now of course, as an another saying goes: There’s no sinner without a future, or a saint without a past. We’re all human, most of us drink a glass at times, as do most of us occasionally eat a piece of triple chocolate cake. (I know women do)

In a society where we get our nutrients in supermarkets that are filled with sweets; and even worse where the majority of products holds sugar;
In a society where ‘all you can eat’ restaurants are the place to go,
where environmental pollution is rife and where stress is the number one emotion in men, women children alike; it is virtually impossible to live a hundred percent healthy lifestyle.

What we can do though, is refuse to toss the towel into the ring and think: what the heck; they do it so why shouldn’t I?.
Instead take responsibility over your own habits, patterns and actions;
in effect influencing your own physical and mental health.

At birth we were all given tailor-made natural resources to nourish, educate and take care of ourselves, and each of us was given a mind of our own to set it all in motion.
To avoid making it rigid or ‘religious’, give yourself some slack every now and again, say 20% of the time, doing it right for 80.
Try it; and find it beats having bad habits 7 days a week.

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Stretching after waking up is a natural mechanism of the body to open the energy pathways. (…if we allow it to do so.)
How do you start your day?

In the ‘Bodylanguage of Energy’ sessions, we share rituals from different energy arts.

Here are three examples *:

1. Yoga

The Sun Salutation or its adapted form: the Egyptian Sun Salutation, where the emphasis lies on the 6 primary movements of Yoga.

1. Backward bend
2. Forward bend
3. Spinal twist to the right
4. Spinal twist to the left
5. Stretching sideways to the right
6. Stretching sideways to the left

2. Energy Medicine

From the groundbreaking book by Donna Eden and David Feinstein, ‘Energy Medicine’: The Daily Energy Routine *

1. The Three Thumps
2. The Cross Crawl
3. The Wayne Cook Posture
4. The Crown Pull
5. The Lymhatic Massage
6. The Zip-up
7. The Hook-up

* All these techniques can be found in the book ‘Energy Medicine’ by Donna Eden en David Feinstein.
ISBN: 9781585326508

See also Donna Eden’s website: www.innersource.net

3. Qi Gong

An Qi Gong exercise consisting of a sequence of 6 body movements combined with your breath:

1. Moving Energy forward to the path of the future
2. Moving Energy backward to unresolved issues from the past
3. Moving Energy around to the direct surroundings
4. Moving Energy upwards towards the heavens
5. Moving Energy down, towards earth
6. And finally gathering Energy from all these sources and giving it to the heart

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It only takes one minute to revive your week with an Eden Energy Medicine exercise! This minute is about preventing a sore throat.

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