Scrambled Energy: How it occurs; How to unscramble it

I want to keep on track with my client, practicing embodied energetic techniques; and avoiding a more analytical, self-explanatory, defensive mode. Today my client resists making this transition, which leaves me somewhat puzzled, because she is familiar with energy work and seems to both understand it and like it.

It is not unusual for people to quickly gauge the prevailing energy in an environment. However, stress can distort such interpretations. This can result in taking things that other’s say personally.More likely, however, the behavior that triggers our reaction has more to do with what is going on with the other individual than with us.

I want to assist my client to realize that although other people are talented at pushing our buttons, the more objectively we can hear what others say or notice how they react to us, the more able we are to access the internal emotional content. This is not always an easy concept to present to people who unfamiliar with this perspective. For, while I may think that my emotional response is caused by external events that are beyond my control, no one but me is actually responsible for my emotions. Rather, my emotions, thoughts, and beliefs attract outside events that reflect what I am feeling and thinking. Others mirror back to me through their reactions the things that I may have ignored or suppressed that require my attention. At the same time, if someone does say something mean to me, it is helpful to remind myself that it reveals more about that other person than about me.

Following a difficult interaction, it is all too usual and natural to start wondering what led to that happening or why another person said what they said. This kind of thinking often leads to what is referred to as “scrambled energy.” Some indicators of scrambled energy are fatigue, awkwardness or clumsiness, sleepiness when reading, difficulty completing a thought, sibstituting a word for the intended one. if I drop something, or can’t find my car keys, or get mixed up about the time an appointment is scheduled, I will suspect that my energy is scrambled.

My client and I were able to ascertain that self-explanatory statements and defensiveness were reliable indicators that energy is scrambled. It could be either the emotional charge that precedes the analytical thinking, or the attempt to understand a situation that is the culprit. The fact is that it matters little what causes scrambling to occur, as long as we observe and treat the scrambled energy. Noticing defensiveness gives us the option to release the associated emotions. Identifying that vital energy has become scrambled provides the option of using a qigong posture that unscrambles energy.

When we try to “figure it out”, that leads us to lose the spiritual connection to heavenly energies that flow down through the crown and with earth-centered energies that flow up from the feet. These yang and yin energies meet in the dan tien (hara – in the belly), and in balance result in homeostasis. This creates an optimal state of consciousness, focus, productivity, and calm. It results in balance between left and right brains, between intuition and analytical talents, between conscious thought and subconscious information.

It is very easy to lose this sense of connection, particularly since we are part of a mainstream culture that has few rituals to encourage those personal and group connections. We could be more heart centered, yet most of us were told since we first entered grade school to “put on our thinking caps.” I never had a teacher remind me to drop down into my feeling center or to ground my energy in the Earth!

In Eden Energy Medicine we learn both a standing and a sitting posture that will bring scrambled energy back into balance. The standing posture is known as the Tibetan Prayer Pose. In this posture, one extends arms in front of the body with the backs of the hands meeting. Then one lifts the right hand over the left and interfolds the fingers. Next, the elbows are bent, which brings the folded hands up in front of the breast bone. Then one crosses one’s legs, places the tongue on the palate, and breathes the energy up the spine and down the front of the body a minimum of three times. The hands and feet are then reversed and the breathing repeated with tongue on the palate.

In the sitting posture, known as the Wayne Cook (after the man who developed it to cure stuttering), one sits with both feet flat on the floor. Then the left ankle is placed over the right knee. The right hand holds the inside of the left ankle, while the left hand wraps around the ball of the foot to grasp the fourth and fifth toes. On the in-breath, the foot is lifted as the back is straightened up. On the outbreath, the body relaxes. This is repeated three times on that side, and then repeated three times, lifting the opposite leg.

For both sitting and standing postures, the next step is to bring all the fingers together forming a “cathedral” pose, with the thumbs pulling up slightly on the skin over the third eye on the inhale, and relaxing on the exhale. This is repeated three times.

The final step is to “open the crown”. First, bring the four finger tips together at the midline of the forehead, then drag them from the center to the edge of the forehead and shake the excess energy off.

These postures restore the necessary polarity to the body’s yin and yang energies. Neurovascular reflex points to the liver are located in the forehead. The third step helps to clear that area of congestion, and helps release stored emotional energy.

My client and I had discovered that defensiveness and self-explanatory statements tended to lead to scrambled energy. We also found it obvious that a defensive stance helped overlay other emotions which were then suppressed. As an experiment, we identified some of the emotions and somatic sensations that had arisen when a defensive attitude surfaced. We then used a process from the Sedona Method to access and release those emotions and sensations. Our experiment revealed that emotional releasing is an additional way to unscramble energy.

It seemed that together we completed an important loop.

An event happens in “the real world”. Someone says or does something that is beyond our comprehension, or that we don’t like. If we focus on trying to figure out why that event occurred, we are likely to end up scrambled. Further it is not likely to bring us back to a neutral comfortable state of mind. Rather, the kind of analysis of such events that naturally follows tends to be unending. The feelings may be buried for a time, but if we recall the event, those feelings are just as immediate as if the event is happening all over again.

Each of us has a different innate pattern in response to scrambled energy. Suffice it to say that when energy is scrambled it throws vital energies out of balance.
It happened in the case of this particularly client that initially her triple warmer, pericardium, stomach, kidney, liver and gall bladder meridians were all out of balance.
When she sedated Triple Warmer, and did the Spleen Hug (holding Spleen and Triple Warmer points simultaneously) we retested. Everything was then in balance. She observed that she felt a little sleepy, happy, and bright-eyed.

As soon as she recalled an instance where she was trying to figure out why someone did something that she perceived as mean, her energy scrambled, and threw the same energies out of balance all over again.

Now, when she noticed somatic sensations, accessed feelings, and released that energy, it restored her energies to their natural homeostasis again, and she was no longer scrambled.

Because energy has to be expressed in one way or another, untreated suppressed energy usually leads to somatic complaints. Such suppression can show up in tendons, muscle pains, and the fatigue of many autoimmune conditions. Our experiments were fruitful, providing a prime example of the mind/body connection at work.