Heart Mediator 9
ZHONG CHONG Rushing Into the Middle, Middle Rushing In, Right Into the Middle of Rushing, Full Tilt Into the Middle, Center Highway We could say that the Heart Mediator meridian begins at Heart...
View ArticleXi Clefts Points
What are the Xi Cleft points? The Xi Cleft is a little accumulation place, a crevice, where energy can gather; it’s a little extra pocket in the meridian, where there is a gathering of qi. It’s useful...
View ArticleBladder 4: Above the Horizon of Night
Many of us are deeply shaken right now by the ICE shootings in Minneapolis. I am considering these dire realities from the anchoring force of the Water element, and the deep winter cold. In Chinese...
View ArticleBladder 3: The World At Night
This is a very small excerpt from my CEU offering, Intro to BL 3-4-5 (on sale now). See previous blogs Bladder Intelligence, Bladder 1: Enter the Dark and Bladder 2: Dark Visions. This is the perfect...
View ArticleBladder 2: Dark Visions
This is a very small excerpt from my CEU offering, Intro to BL 1-2. See previous blogs Bladder Intelligence and Bladder 1, excerpts from the same CEU. This is the perfect time of the year to heal the...
View ArticleBladder 1: Enter the Dark
BL 1 is a point that serves as a profound entry to the Path of Endarkenment, the path of seeking the silence, darkness and stillness in which wisdom emerges. It re-sets the balance of light and dark in...
View ArticleBladder Intelligence: Healing the Winter Mind
This is a very small excerpt from my CEU offering, Intro to BL 1-2. This is the perfect time of the year to heal the Bladder meridian, starting right at the beginning… There are many kinds of...
View ArticleRamping Down
These days I am treasuring my Buddhist meditation group . We sit from 7:30 to 8:00 on Friday mornings, followed by 10 minutes of walking meditation, then a reading from Thich Nhat Hanh. Right now we...
View ArticleMetal ’25: Dignity and Grace
This is the fifth excerpt from the first free hour of my Metal ’25 retreat. You can find the previous installment here. May your autumn be gracefully honed. Thank you for using that word, yes. That is...
View ArticleMetal ’25: Evaluating our Value System
This is the fourth excerpt from the first free hour of my Metal ’25 retreat. You can find the previous installment here, with more installments coming over the next two weeks. May your autumn be...
View ArticleMetal ’25: From Alignment, We Bow
This is the third excerpt from the first free hour of my Metal ’25 retreat. You can find the previous installment here, with more installments coming over the next two weeks. May your autumn be...
View ArticleMetal ’25: Beauty and Majesty
This is the second excerpt from the first free hour of my Metal ’25 retreat. You can find the first installment here, with more installments coming over the next three weeks. May your autumn be...
View ArticleA Celebration of CV 11 and CV 12 During Earth Time
CV 11 JR Worsley translates JIAN LI as Established Mile, but Li isn’t a mile. LI means a neighborhood, a field, an acre, a common measurement of an amount of space that you might use for something in...
View ArticleGuilt and Pleasure
In my Earth study group, we are discussing pleasure—and guilt. First let me define pleasure in such a way that it makes sense in the context of the Earth element specifically. Pleasure is here defined...
View ArticleEarth, Now
I’ve been mulling what to say about the upcoming Earth season for quite some time, conditions being what they are. There’s an Earth season every year (every late summer), and I do an Earth retreat...
View ArticleSelf-Assess and Field-Assess: Should!
Here’s a second excerpt from my upcoming WHC mini-Intro class called “Self-Assess and Field-Assess: You Can’t Push the River.” (see previous blog for Part 1) This monthly mini-intro is for anyone who...
View ArticleSelf-Assess and Field-Assess : I Want
Here’s a little excerpt from my upcoming WHC mini-Intro class called “Self-Assess and Field-Assess: You Can’t Push the River.” This monthly mini-intro is for anyone who has been interested in learning...
View ArticleHeart 6: The Whirlpool of Peace and Emptiness
HT 6 YIN XI In the point name HT 6 YIN XI, the YIN is exactly what it sounds like: YIN as in yin-and-yang. It is interesting that HT 6 YIN XI is the only point on an arm meridian with character YIN in...
View ArticleFire Body Language
Especially during outrageous and unpredictable times, it’s important not to let the fire go out. One of the gifts of the Fire element is intuitive spontaneity, an ability to sync up with something...
View ArticleFire Slammed
A student in my 5 Element mentorship program, asked this question: My Fire element gets slammed by my older sister. When I am affectionate and playful, she frowns and treats me like a child that needs...
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