Flow or Constriction: What Do You Choose?
Constriction is a narrowing in the face of adversity. The teaching of adversity, however, is expansion.
Why, then, would we tighten, close down, restrict, and move away from flow?
One possibility lies in the difference between shock and trauma. When the human nervous system is overloaded beyond its window of tolerance, then shutting everything down may seem like the only way to survive. The order of magnitude that defines shock has that potential.
The constriction I speak of is physiological. It tightens the pelvic floor into a fist. It limits vision and compresses the spine. The neck shortens. The hands tremble from holding back their impulses.
Constriction stunts creativity.
How do we move from constriction to flow so that poems tumble from our hands like a good harvest?
I will be speaking about this in detail, from the perspective of The Crone, in coming posts.
For now, I offer you an energy medicine practice to shift out of constriction when it afflicts you. The practice, most significantly, is called a flow!
The numbers of the sites depicted below are based on a map of the body that I received from my teacher, now my ancestor, Mary Iino Burmeister, who brought the Art of Compassion, Jin Shin, to me. You can learn more about this map and how I have fused Mary’s transmission with cutting-edge neuroscience, by visiting my (www.Tara-Approach.org) and reading my books.
The sites depicted here (4, 12, 13, 15 and 20) have the following names:
4: Shamanic Gateway
12: Surrender
13: The Mother
15: Wash Your Heart with Laughter
20: Genius
Each site is considered a field, with a wide radius in its vicinity, so do not be concerned about exact locations.
#4 is at the lateral aspect at the base of the skull;
#12 is on the neck, between the cervical spine and the ear lobe;
#13 is on the chest, between the third and the fourth rib;
#15 is alongside the pubic bone; and
#20 is over the arch of the eyebrow, on the forehead.
Tune into your sensory experience to follow the flow out of constriction, distraction, restriction, procrastination and despair into creative flow.