Welcome

You are here to feel more alive – for you then for all around you who may wish to also be more present in their body/life.

Reminder – when all flows – pain free. Shen – Qi – Blood – Lymph – Nerves

This is a taster into the Gentling Way. We begin with ourselves to FEEL the shifts.
Showcasing the merging of TCM acupuncture concepts with the physical body.
We embody the model of Damp, Stuck Liver QI and lack of Qi and ease these with our hands.

Basic understandings (tenets) of The Gentling Way

We must embody these
1 – The body heals itself
2 – The body Remembers Everything That Has Ever Happened To It (Rebreathing to FNS – all acknowledge this).
3 – Energy Follows Thought – you are what you believe – it is up to you to shift this game plan
4 – Flows MUST flow – Qi, Blood (red, blue, colourless – lymph), Nerves
5 – Structure Determines Function.

6 ‘T’s

Temptation – to hand over your own sovereignty/ways of knowing – to ‘experts’ outside yourself. Question/test out everything. Does it work?
Tension – Unrelenting inability to let go – thus stopping natural flows (body works on automatic).
Temperature – Body is set to be ideally functioning within a set variation – when made to constantly be outside this – expect trouble.
Torpor – Often enough stretched past the limits – shut down may begin. Either physical or emotional (Damp also involved)
Trauma – STUCK in the past – as not then able to clear what it meant to the body/mind to undergo extremes.
Toxins – Anything – not only physically present – that poisons perfect functioning.

FREE YOUR Qi: 1 – lymph (introduction)

Ingredients and flows – always start there – are BOTH working for us?

We begin with our inner sea – fluids bathing all inner life.
Rivers, streams and the trickles of life
Circulation of wastes out
Qi can then move

Structural – the Cysternii (CLICK)
(‘The cisterna chyli typically receives lymph from the right and left lumbar trunks, the intestinal trunk, and some of the lower intercostal vessels. The lumbar trunks receive lymph from the pelvis, kidneys, adrenals, and most of the abdominal wall’).
Understanding the concept of Damp – also when severe – Phlegm. PRICKLIES VERSION is available
Bodily NEED for micro nutrients – Iodine
(When nothing else works it IS DAMP – and iodine is needed to resolve – bio available .. more than getting it onto/into the body – you HAVE to be able to use it – that is DETOX DROPS as well.
MERCURY – from past generations’ exposure plus your own (flu jab anyone?) will block all your good intentions.

Weight and fluid distribution and clarity of thought are directly tied back to how well you can access raw ingredients. Micro nutrients though selenium (to allow the iodine to be transferred from the thyroid hormone T4 to T3) or the base iodine – to get all fluid moving in the cells – is within you. To help the accumulation of fluid (see note on iodine (CLICK) above – paint it topically on your trunk – breasts and belly and any areas of concern – moles – sun spots, aging spots, changes in the skin – as Iodine is needed for programmed cell death – aptoptosis. Contractures on your hands also (CLICK).
(NOTE – no ‘medical’ ideas – there is the answer – it is IODINE depletion – and just add this . . topically – and diligently).

**GO WITH LIFE** – not current medical dictates

Intention – and where we are starting from – where do we wish to head?
We are we now?

Where is the spleen organ? In energy model we are not only in the location – so much as what it DOES

LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE – HOW TO

Envisage the physical expressions of the lymph circulation. Fluid leaks intentionally from the blood circulation to bathe the extremities.
Must return into the heart to rejoin the fluids (blood) as they bathe you.
GENTLE – Warm hands, butterfly touch.
Always do one side at the time – start on the least painful side.

Pull ups. . (click to learn more)
Yes – I really do mean let’s become more toned within!
From here you can evaluate just how impressive even the smallest massage moves can be for you.

Checking – A baseline is needed

Perineal pull-up is crucial (see below)
Flexibility – toe touching? Swiveling around?
Head turning (remember to start with P.V. as we all have more than enough stored shock)
Tongue – even if you yourself do not understand – take pics, have a mirror there – and get them to start being more conscious
Sore points – List later
Temps – esp if you have a non contact gun. Check all over body to show them that what we do is real – it shifts/warms up.
Whatever else – range of movement, touching toes to gauge flexibility. .
As we get further in this work – the scar sensations, the sacral geography and the tension and placement of the L2/3 vertebrae (O.S.L.) are all taken into account.

Lymphatic drainage

WHY – we want to feel freer . .
These videos have been recorded at various times, for different purposes – and may seem to overlap.

What it is – A way to easily move what can clog up the system
Origin – ?? I learned in the acupuncture class in 1977 – from the lecturer who was also a chiropractor.
Why it is – Damp – from an acupuncture model – what is obstructing flows – wastes – not moved on – create havoc.
How to do it – Using the pads of your fingers – not the tips, warm hands, gently move down and towards the sides of the body – under the ribs, starting in the mid line – and from the pubic bone OUT to the sides – also across the chest to the intervertebral spaces – always shallow to begin with and gradually getting deeper slower the better.
Always start gently, slowly and watching the person’s face, taking cues from whether it is too distressing or relaxing.
What it may feel like – under your hands/fingers – Sometimes toothpaste. Occasionally somewhat thick – and even lumpy. Gently does it
When to use – On everyone – at the beginning (very gently as a checking move and as you go onto more clearing – often ending with this.
When not to use – Always needed. If someone is concerned as they have been told/learned that lymphatic massage is inappropriate – go back to basics – flows MUST flow. By allowing blockage, you are fostering dis ease and the rubbish MUST move through.

UPPER BODY – can do this through your clothes, or with a little lubricant to slide – coconut oil on your fingers

This has been lifted from my 2005 work – Massage What Dads Can Do.
All of this work is appropriate for all at any age or stage of life/unease

We are encouraging flows to return to normal – homeostasis

One side GENTLY at a time – all rib spaces with your finger tips

Below you see what is NOT what is ‘out there’ usually – but what works .

How to . . .

Your choice where you begin – there is also a case for starting by pulling the cold out, by undoing Stuck Liver Qi and/or by using moxa to warm the sacrum, so you have more Qi to work with. This is the lymph component, as we are all supposedly 70% water – I start here. . .

My suggestion is that if you HAVE NOT already done the Selfing online courses – that are in a package – here – please do so.
The Unlocking Your Scar and the After C Section one are being developed as an add-on . .

WHAT NEXT?
Have fun – listen to your body and love life.