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ENERGYEveryone's talking about energy these days. Worrying about not having enough. Or it costs too much. I'm talking about how cheap it is and how it flows. Constantly. In our bodies. Through our bodies. Easily if we're lucky. In Asian medicine it's called Chi or Qi. Do you have a Chi Machine? I do. I bought it in 1999 and have used it almost every day since. It's a lazy man's (or woman's) 20 minute meditation. You lie on the floor on your back with your ankles on the machine and turn on the timer. The machine gently rotates your ankles. That's all it does. When it stops you feel like a river is flowing through you because your breathing oxygenates every one of your cells. It was invented by a Japanese doctor from observing the motion of goldfish. I first learned about Chi when a Korean MD hired me to write an article to explain Eastern medical practice to Western patients. (I earned ten cents an hour on that task. I had to go all the way back to Plato just to get started.) Writers tend to have tight shoulders. By 1999 my shoulders woke me up every night shouting at me. The Chi machine shut them up for four years. Then I slipped in some grease in a gas station and turned back to Western medicine. I now have two new shoulders. If you'd like one to cry on, let me know. But, back to ENERGY. Thanks to quantum physics proving to us that our bodies do constantly flow, Eastern and Western medicine are merging to our benefit. A treatment called EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, is making headlines lately because it seems to help all kinds of ills. It is based on the premise that "the cause of all negative emotion is a disruption of the body's
energy system." This quote is on all EFT material. I believe they make a distinction between feelings and emotion. You can have a negative feeling but it passes by much like a smelly truck. If it lingers more than five minutes it becomes a negative emotion. The process in EFT to get the energy flowing smoothly again follows the meridian outlined 5000 years ago in Eastern medicine. And, evidently, it works. It won't put gas in your car, but it will power your feet and heart. Evy
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