Ok so there’s a small lump above my right breast. It’s been there before, disappeared, but now it is back. For those of you who know energy meridians, it is near the beginning of the Lung meridian. On the chest above the breast tissue. It feels fluidy.
Now my body is always giving me signs when something is amiss. This brilliant body has its own language. Here I am at 76 still learning to translate what I am being told. That’s kind of my job as an energy practitioner. Yet why is it so easy to hear other people’s bodies but not my own??? Perhaps I am deaf – or simply not listening? If I don’t listen, it will send bigger, more tangible messages – a bigger lump?
So the Classical Chinese Medicine (C.C.C.) that I study tells me that anything to do with the Lung Meridian is linked to grief, sadness, longing…unresolved.
When I am asked by my wonderful C.C.M. practitioner (Healer Henry) “Is there sadness in your life?” I hesitate at first and say yes (thinking it is all resolved). Further questions are asked: Are you married? No, I answer. As we explore together the relationship part of my life, I feel teary… He pushes further and asks if I had children. I answer yes. He ponders.
I hesitate at first and say yes (thinking it is all resolved). Further questions are asked: Are you married? No, I answer. As we explore together the relationship part of my life, I feel teary… He pushes further and asks if I had children. I answer yes. He ponders.
Then I realize I wished deeply I had a better, closer relationship with my daughter who is distant. He pushes further and asks more… Then I realize there is a mountain of sadness living inside of me. Unresolved. Hidden. But my ever-so-wise body has already been telling me that for years. The lump is certainly a visible way to catch my attention.
A few minutes ago I watched a wee bit of a tv programme where there were moments of tragedy. I wept. I wept for that scene. I wept for the losses of my life – and they are many. But realize I cannot go forward without letting the tears flow. The tears allow me to let go so that I can go forward, lighter. So that I can be more open to the world. So that I can again heighten my curiosity, my joy, my creativity. Sadness within takes energy from tomorrow, from today. It takes energy from my constitutional energy. From the lightness of my spirit.
To explain deeper what happened to my body from a C.C.M. perspective (I hope this makes sense as this is such a different way of thinking about our energetic self). That Lung meridian line runs from that point on the chest above the breast, under the collar bone and down the side of the arm and off the thumb. Stuck energy is created along that line in the form of little bumps or gummies holding emotions of sadness, grief and longing every time I had a major hit: a sense of abandonment, a loss of friendship, a broken relationship. These wonderful little nodules hold the emotional pathology protecting the heart. They sometimes form little spider veins (even varicose veins) along the pathway in order to protect the lung organ itself.
The wisdom of our body is unbelievable. It is always seeking to protect the organs. Too much unresolved emotions and eventually visible signs occur. Over time, decades even, the lung luo point (Lung 7) where unresolved emotions of grief and longing are held, get overfilled, the lung holding point (that Lung 7 point) gets breached perhaps putting the lung organ in jeopardy, hence larger nodules appear – like my lump above my breast.
Always the first thing to do in a case like this is to get immediate Western medical advice.
The second thing I would do is to work on my energetic body.
Here are the steps I am taking… Perhaps some of these suggestions might be useful to you:
- Get my unresolved emotional baggage in order – deal with the losses – work to revaluate those happenings as positive events: as turning points in my life which (in most if not all cases) forced me to move forward towards my real Destiny.
- Ensure my diet is pure – no inflammatory food (for the next while) which includes no dairy, wheat, caffeine, sugar, etc. In an earlier article of mine in this magazine you will find a full list of inflammatory foods. (DM Dog)
- Hold Lung 7 (the lung luo point) quietly with my fingers collecting all the sadness into that point where it can be reheld safely.
- Flush the Lung meridian – How to do that? With my fingertips trace the lung meridian 1x backwards and 3x forward with the intention of clearing out the old and adding in new fresh energy. (see diagram above of the Lung meridian).
- Clean out my closets or drawers of “things past” – letting go of what is no longer relevant to my life. (Yes I still have my wedding album from my 16 year marriage which ended 30+ years ago) still in my space. Sigh! (healer heal thyself!)
- Forcibly focus on opening myself up to the world as when the lung meridian is affected we naturally close in on ourselves. Living fully in the world – my world as it is today – then my lung and large intestine meridians can do their work properly – to connect me with inspiration and allow me to let go of what is no longer relevant.
- Do take a minute and try doing just that: think of a sad moment in your life and watch how your body subtly changes. Do you sense less breath coming in; a closing of the body as I you do?
- Allow space, time and quietness for me to grieve.
- Explore the freedom and deeper breath that will come with this work. Finally know that grief/sadness/longing are part of being a human being. Accept this most difficult of emotion, experience it and let it go.
Your healing friend,
Helene Anne Fortin – www.kindmentor.com
Helene Anne Fortin • kind mentor 