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Back to Basics: New Year, New Knee, ABC, 123

1/13/2015

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I was reminded this past week, that even in energy healing, going back to the basics can be just as effective as turning to the complex, and sometimes even more effective. Many, many years ago, I had a number of slight left knee injuries: twists, sprains, and bruises from playing volleyball and doing some gymnastics in school. Having also been a runner for most of my life may or may not have contributed to the decline of my knee’s health in recent years, but pounding the pavement is no longer an option for me.

Anyway, my knee was descending into complete pain and weakness, even on my daily walks, and none of the healers that had worked on it had been able to bring it up in overall health any more than a notch or were only able to bring me a temporary reprieve from its suffering.

So, I lathered it in castor oil every night over the holidays to see if any cell-memory or the like was coming through that hadn’t yet emerged in prior attempts at healing it. I did have a few small dreams that each gave a bit of insight, but there was no noticeable improvement in the knee. Then I’d finally had it! Enough! I’m going to try to heal this “the old-fashioned way” (ha!), and so every night before bed I started to doing the most basic of chakra clearing techniques over my knee. (Our joints and organs all have their own minor chakras.) I first made counterclockwise circles to unwind and release any stuck energy, then I made clockwise circles to re-energize and strengthen the knee’s energy. This is like going back to A B C in terms of energy healing. It’s one of the very first things I learned as an energy healer-to-be—maybe the first, actually.

Different evenings, I could tell that my chakra clearings were connecting with the energy in my knee as I could feel the pain moving through my knee as I circled the energy back and around, telling me that I was definitely connecting with the injured energy and moving it. Then the third night, I circled up much higher through the various layers of my auric field and felt and saw a very sparkly energy and started the circling at that level. Voila! Since then the pain in my knee is gone and I’m having no more weak knee moments while walking. Gosh, why did it take me so long to try the most basic of energy healing techniques?

Isn’t that so human though? To think the more exotic, the more new-fangled, the more complex must be more sophisticated and effective? In my knee situation it really was as easy as A B C, 1 2 3 and being a child ages 5-15 in the 70s, means cue the Jacksons…
And here’s a funny but longer version if you’d rather, with the classic Carol Burnett (has any new comedy ever improved what her show did??) AND the Jackson 5 (and an earthquake!)
In any New Year, we often think we have to come up with something NEW to fix our lives. But perhaps, rather than just pursuing newer and better, look at the things that HAVE worked for you in the past that maybe you’ve let slide. Although the newest teacher or teaching, the newest technique or book, the newest tool or recipe may indeed have just what you need—I know I’ve learned plenty from many new things—however, the balance is also remembering what is now and what works now.

Breathe slowly and mindfully to find peace. You don’t necessarily need a new meditation technique.

Take gentle walks in nature alone or with loved ones to restore and renew one’s energy.

Eat good nourishing live food in simple recipes that are old favorites.

Take one’s time with whatever craft or art you love or that brings you joy. I mean, look at all that master workmanship in European cathedrals and castles (Downton Abbey, anyone?) we still celebrate centuries later that cannot be duplicated by the fast and the cheap.

Enjoy what is now and what is working. The pursuit of the new and exotic may just be a symptom of something you’re running away from or an addiction to our consumeristic systemic consciousness in which enough can never be enough. “Everything I needed to know I learned in Kindegarten” isn’t quite true in my case—I doubt it is in yours, either. But returning from time-to-time to the basics in any endeavor can often bring healing or satisfaction beyond any new pursuit.

Happy New Year!

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Monica McDowell is a dynamic speaker, author, and practitioner in alternative wellness and spirituality. She is the author of Confessions of a Mystic Soccer Mom, You are Light (internationally published by 6th Books in over 14 countries) and My Karma Ran Over My Dogma, and has the distinction of being the first ordained minister in America granted civil rights by a federal ruling. She lives in Seattle, Washington, USA, and can be reached at monica@monicamcdowell.com.

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