The Trinity of Care for the Energetic Anatomy
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Breath, Movement, Sound
 

All too often in our busy lives pain, fatigue, mental overload and emotional distress make it difficult to enjoy life to the fullest. More people have come to realize the necessity of taking a participatory role in their own health and growth as human beings.

Breath
 

Breathing massages our body in a wave. While you are resting, you can feel the breath moving through you body. Right now feel the wave move through your chest and abdomen, all the way out to your fingers and down to your toes and up into your head and around your eyes. Experience this for awhile, until you can feel your whole body expand and collapse as you breathe in and out. You will find that thinking dissolves momentarily.
Our thoughts, feelings and emotions are reflected in our breath. In many traditions, the breath is often used as an object of meditation because by watching it, you can watch your mind.

You can watch your world come and go as you breathe in and out. When we get angry, we breathe in a harsh, rough way. When we feel sad, our breathing is very shallow. Every thought and emotion has an accompanying kind of breath. Therefore when we change our imprinted breathing patterns we change the way we view the world.

To begin understanding ourselves, we must have some basic level of attention. Otherwise, we will drift like a boat without a rudder. The focus of attention on the breath is perhaps the best place to begin our focus. It is so easy to take breathing for granted. Breathing is a fully automatic process.

With the breath, however, we discover something of great importance. While breathing can be a completely unconscious process, it also can easily become a conscious, intentional practice. This unique quality of breathing, either an unconscious or conscious activity, makes link between the unconscious and conscious aspects of our being.

Ultimately, in any moment we are even slightly aware of the movement of breath within us, we are more conscious as individuals and more directly involved in the process of integrating the functions of the body, mind and spirit. Conscious breathing encourages the expansion of awareness throughout our bodies and beyond.
To inhale consciously allows us to positively stimulate and expand the whole environment of which one is a part. To exhale consciously is to support the relaxation of all surrounding and connecting energies that influence our bodies, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Truly, every moment of conscious breath is an inspired co-creation with life itself. 

Breathing
 

Our nerves have direct contact with every cell in our body. Our breathing energizes and revitalizes every cell of our body. It takes healing to each cell. As you breathe you can feel the flow of energy flowing throughout your body. Breathing helps break up the conditioned way we have been imprinted to breathe and emotional patterns associated with that pattern.

Bring to your mind two of the main energetic centers of the body, The Base or Sacral Center of the Reproductive Glands at the bottom of the spine and the Thought Center of the Pineal Gland located on the brow between the eyes. The Base of the Spine connects us to the Earth and grounds us. The Pineal Gland is light sensitive and connects us to the sun that is fire energy. This mere act of focused attention integrates survival energy with higher thought. 

While retaining this connection to the sun take in air through the mouth sending it to the Base of the spine and the Earth. With this activity you are inhaling a breath from the sun, through the Pineal Gland sending it to the base of the spine and the Earth.

Exhale through the mouth returning the air from the Earth to the sun. Through our breathing we create an invitation to the sun and to the earth to join in our body. We unite the two energies of the sun and the earth.
As you exhale, pull your abdomen in and as you inhale push your abdomen out. It is easier to start with the exhale of air and pulling the abdomen in. However, make your connection to the Sun and the Earth before beginning. Soon this will become automatic. This breath is rapid, 

Use of the Eyes
 

It has been said that (the eyes are the windows to the soul). Eye movement can also be used to identify which representational system is currently being used to access stored information in BMS.  Eye accessing cues tell the entire story.

One of the body's many contacts with the inner workings of the BMS is the eyes. If a person wants to access, a particular memory or image, the eyes will physically move towards that part of the brain where the memory has been stored. And so, as you speak you are constantly moving your eyes locating the areas you need to retrieve information. When you feel sad you tend to look down. When you are recalling you tend to look up. This natural movement of the eyes is very important in accessing memories and processing data we receive.

When we sleep, we go through a period of sleep called REM or Rapid Eye Movement. During REM, the mind is sorting out all the happenings of the day and placing information its proper place. The eyes are the access for this filing function. As the files are being sorted, the eyes follow along. It has long been known eye movement can also be used to identify which representational system is currently being used to access stored information in BMS.

When we are accessing information that is to be visually recalled, we tend to look up to the left. These are things we have seen before and recalling, such as the color of our mother's eyes.

When we are accessing information that is to be visually constructed we look up to the right. These are things we create visually, such as a pink gorilla.

When we are accessing information that is to be auditory recalled, we look to the left side. These are things we have heard before, such as the sound of our grandfather's voice.

When we are accessing information that is to be auditory constructed, we look to the right side. These are things we have never heard before and are thus imagining such as the sound of a train whistle under water.
When we are having an internal dialogue with ourselves, we look down to the left. These are things we are saying in our heads to ourselves, such as reciting a favorite poem.

When we are accessing our feelings, we look down to the right. These are things we are feeling emotionally, or feelings of muscle movement. When we think about what it feels like to be happy, or what a potato chip feels like, we will look down to the right.

Sometimes the eye accessing is quite rapid. Sometimes it is not. Always, however, the eyes will access according to the individual. Described above are tendencies of people in general.

People process information in a number of ways. Basically, we input data via our senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, taste and others. We tend to favor sight (visual), sound (auditory), and touch (kinesthetic).

For some, sight becomes all-important. Everything must be seen in order to experience. They make pictures out of everything they experience. When someone talks to a visual orientated person, she will "see" the words as pictures. A response might be "I see".

For others, hearing becomes dominant. They love to talk and listen. Music has a special meaning for them. They prefer to hear things said rather than to see them drawn or pictured. Auditory orientated people listen very intently to the sound of your words and intonations of your voice. A response might be "I hear you".

There are those who prefer to experience their reality via the sense of touch. They are feeling people. They prefer to get in touch with things. They often speak slower than do auditory or visual people. Kinesthetic orientated people feel what is being said to them. A response might be "I feel".

At night when we are dreaming we naturally have REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement). This movement is necessary for dealing with stresses of the day. When we watch a movie and get teary or angry, this movement and reaction of the eyes is very important, in order to discharge what we are feeling. All these movements are done on an unconscious level. 

Eye Movements
 

Eye Movements do require a bit of practice in order for the BMS to know what is required for release and focus. This education is similar in learning to ride a bicycle. The process involves a learning curve mentally, emotionally and physically. However, once the system is educated, discharging unwanted feelings becomes second nature. 

The eye movements replicate Rapid Eye Movement (REM). This movement is a natural movement the eyes make while dreaming. Recent sleep research seems to show dreaming processes information received for release and storage in the brain. When suffering from intense or unwanted emotions, you can duplicate this process for immediate release by following these seven simple steps.

1. Sit or lie down, where you are comfortable

2. Take in a deep breath. Blow it out.

3. Notice how you feel. Take in a deep breath, say out loud..... "I feel angry" (or what ever the feeling is). Blow your breath out.. Do this three times.

4. Notice how you feel. Is the feeling more, less or staying the same? If the feeling is less intense, Repeat step #3. Continue until the feeling is comfortable.

5. If the feeling remains the same, look up to the ceiling and focus your eyes on one corner. Then move your eyes and look at the opposite corner. Move your eyes as rapidly as possible right and left, while saying (the feeling) anger, fear, etc..... telling yourself to release it....let it go, 6 times. Blink your eyes tight/open several times. Notice how you feel.

6. If the feeling intensifies, complete this sentence and write it down....I feel (the feeling) angry, fear, etc., because.... Repeat it again. Keep repeating it until you feel complete.

7.Repeat step #5  Notice how you feel .

Movement
 

In the same way we become locked into a way of breathing, we become accustomed to a certain way to move from the people around us. As we grow we learn to move. Just as our mother imprints our breath and our eyes with her view of the world she is also training us to move. In the same way we look for agreement through our eye movements, we also look for agreement in motion. We set up this action-reaction, stimulus-response with other people through our movements. Social interaction becomes a ritualized dance. If you move in a way that people don't expect, they can become confused, frustrated and even frightened. Notice that people from different cultures move differently. The main way this training is instilled in us as children is through fear, threat of loss of contact and affection and sometimes, physical punishment. 

As babies we take in information through all our senses. Babies put everything in their mouths in order to taste it. They smell, hear, see, and touch everything in their environment for exploration. Babies experience totally. As we grow, we explore and experience our world, initial sensory patterns are laid down on elaborate nerve networks. 

These initial sensory patterns become the core of our information-retrieval system and become more complex with each novel experience. These initial sensory patterns become our reference points and give us the context for all learning, thought and creativity. From these sensory bases we add emotions and movement. When a child begins to walk the muscles have matured enough to support the body and certain brain functions become activated through the walking movement. 

The brain and spinal cord along with the eyes and ears are the first sensory bases of womb development. Movements associated with these areas are most important in brain activation. Movement in the womb demonstrates this concept clearly. This activity gives us the first sense of our relationship to the world and the laws of gravity. As we mature we build on these first movements to shape our perceptions of the world, to explore our environment and to interact with our external and internal realities. Every movement registers as a survival event with primal emotions. Movement of our head aligns our eyes, ears, nose and tongue to external output. Movement aligns us to pick up smells that can key our memory to events or sounds that will form internal images for protection. 

Sound

The indigenous people of Africa say "the words we speak drop to the ground like stones,
 but the sounds we make go on forever."
 

We are conceived and born living in tones and vibrations. It is as if we are in the midst of a huge orchestra, with countless sensory experiences. As we get older, this concert is still going on, but we don't realize it because of the way we have been trained.

In the same way that we are taught a pattern of breathing, seeing and moving that limits our possibilities, we are also taught a way of speaking and making sounds that is also limited. Different peoples speak different languages, and in doing so isolate themselves to certain physical sounds. We become more interested in the meaning of words we are saying in their cultural context, that in the resonance of the sounds.
Toning and chanting can allow us to focus the vibration of sounds throughout our body cavity so that our whole body is filled with the sound.

The purpose of the following suggestions is to recapture the pure, elemental nature of sound. 

Tone and Voice
 

We can learn to talk with our whole bodies. It is important to become aware that you can resonate from deep with in the body, instead of speaking from the throat when you become aware of your Sacral Base and your throat at the same time. You can learn this awareness by placing the palm of your hand on your sacrum and throat at the same time and speaking or sounding tones such as Ahhh.

Then try moving the sound up and down the body.

Sounds such as Uhhh, Oooo, Ahhh, Ohhh, Eyee, Eeee and Ohmm are whole sounds that can help break up the early imprints of conditioning.

Humming can do wonders for opening up the life view well beyond reason and limitations.

Once you become aware of the Trinity of Care and learn them these practices can be done at anytime. While waiting at a stoplight, a person can practice fire breathing or toning. In the midst of housework, one can hold a statues purpose and breathe consciously. While standing in a line at the bank of post office you can move you eyes around in circles and across the room to release stress. The purpose of all practices is to become conscious in the present moment.