Supporting fertility
How to strengthen your Essence
Apologies for not having written many blog posts since early February. This was mostly because I have finally found an agent to represent my new book on the Extraordinary Vessels and how they support us from birth to death. We are working together to rewrite everything in a clear way. I am loving the process but it is taking up a lot of my creative energy.
As springs bursts through, I want to re-visit fertility. I have written quite a few posts in detail on this. Here is the first one in the series of three.
Shiatsu: a way to support optimal fertility and physical and emotional health
This is the first blog I wrote for the French website info-lux.com. It is in three parts. If you would like to read it in French, please click the link. Thanks for reading Rewriting your Life! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Today I thought I would focus on the importance for men and women of supporting your Essence. If your fertility is weak, then it is always an indication of weakness in your Essence.
What is our Essence? It is how the ancient Chinese viewed our DNA, but, like our DNA it changes through its connection to the outer world – our Epigenome. This is why they emphasised the importance of the health of our parents at the moment of conception. They saw that when we give our Essence in the form of an egg and sperm this is the greatest gift we can give to our children. It lays down the foundation for the rest of their life. They considered semen and menstrual blood to be sacred because they nourish new life and used in healing and rituals. The maturation of sperm and eggs is a transformation of Blood and Essence into “Tian Gui” (“Heavenly water” ). As we move through life the nature and expression of our sperm and eggs changes and this influences our fertility.
Already when you are in your mother’s womb, you have the primitive cells which will become your future sperm or eggs. Boys do not have many sperm cells when they are in the womb and those that exist are dormant. Girls, by contrast, have the greatest number of primitive egg cells they will ever have: at 20 weeks, when they have five to seven million. Yet this time in the womb imprints deeply on us. We absorb everything that our mother does – our food, her emotions, her Blood.
During our life, your Essence flows in seven year cycles for women and eight year cycles for men, mirroring key stages of development, especially our fertile cycles. An aspect of our Essence relates to our changing hormones. The ancestral part is important, and while we can’t change our parents, we can change the nature of our relationship with them. Clearing limiting patterns is important with this. We can also chose how to relate to our environment: what we eat, how much we are outside, the nature of the relationships we have with others. All of these influences modify our Essence.
Shiatsu is a powerful tool to support this. By working with the pathways of the Extraordinary Vessels which flow through our Heart, Brain, Kidneys (which store our Essence) and our Palaces (the name I now like to give our sexual/reproductive organs) you can modify your Essence. You can feel the effects immediately. The name “palaces” for our sexual organs is from the Chinese names: Palace of the child for women and Palace of the Essence for men. Our “Palaces” include all the different parts of our sexual organs: prostate/womb; vas deferens/fallopian tubes; testes/ovaries; penis/clitoris and so on.
The Girdle Vessel is an easy and powerful way to support your Essence. Try now! Place your hands on your lower back and feel its hollow. This is where the Chinese felt lies the source of our energy, our Essence. It is fascinating that this is where we develop our third germ cell layer when we are two to three weeks old in the womb. Cells stream from this place in our future lower back, creating our blood, our heart to nourish our brain and help grow our Palaces. Sense its power. Hold it with the amount of pressure which feels good. Hold it or gently massage it. Now feel out to each side in your spinal muscles.. These are two powerful points which also relate to your energetic Kidneys: Bladder 23. Hold these two points. Now move out again in the same line about another thumb and half width. These Bladder 52 points also support your Kidneys. Now move out to your 12th rib, your lowest floating rib. Here is another point Gall Bladder 25. Next gather round to your hips and hold over your pubic bone. Connect to your Palaces. Breathe deeply. Repeat this as often as you want.
If you’d like to learn more about the Girdle Vessel you might want to watch my video on YouTube.
I have a free online class on March 28th if you would like to explore more of these practices. You might also have questions about Essence and the Extraordinary Vessels.
Free Online class Friday 28th March - 7.15 pm-8.15pm UK (GMT)supporting fertility
How to support fertility
The role of the Extraordinary Vessels
How the 12 meridians support the Extraordinary Vessels
Seven and eight cycles in our lives: our fertile cycles
How we can support ourselves with movements and meditations.
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