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The days are short and the nights are long, but we go on at a pace worthy of high summer, and wonder why we are tired and depressed. The planet is still and quiet, the magic of gestation going on under the surface, while we run around like chickens with our heads cut off. This is especially apparent (in the northern hemisphere) during the month of December, our most yin month, the deepest of winter – when we are going crazy getting, doing, having, showing up – for the multitude of commitments and events that the holidays generate. With the many mechanisms that modify our environment, like lights and heat and hot water (and snow blowers and snow plows and cars) and so much value put on work and production, we are a species that is living in overdrive, missing out on the beauty and grace that comes with embracing the ebb and flow of our internal, as well as external, seasons. In our modern era we are relatively out of touch with the rhythm of our planet, let alone with our own animalistic rhythms – rhythms that yearn to be in sync with Gaia, whether we are aware of them or not. Wherever something is allowed or forgiven, there is the Mother. Wherever compassion in present, there She is. She is present when you are giving birth to something she is the endurance and supra-human strength that gets us through difficulties when we’d rather just curl up and die. She is fearless, eternal, unconditional Love, present when we are a puddle of snot and tears, as well as when we are adorable and clever.
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She is present at the height of joy, celebrating our success in harmonizing with The One. She is present in the depth of grief, holding space for the regeneration of the heart. She is present in the garden, in the school, in the hospital she is the nurturance, guidance and support necessary for the flourishing of Life as it lives through the earth plane. She shines through any vehicle available She is present in the soldier cradling a motherless child, She is present in the soup kitchen, She is present in the father who relinquishes his stance on homosexuality in the face of his gay son. Though we refer to Her as she, her presence is genderless. This beloved attribute of the I AM presence, shows up in myriad ways, and is undiscriminating in who She loves.
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Since this day our collective focus is on Mothers, I would like to broaden the perspective and evoke our memory of The Divine Feminine, the One Mother who informs all that we consider to be mothering. This physiological function of the spleen organ is the correlation with the meridian’s energetic function associated with the lymphatic system and immunity. On the other hand, the spleen organ is responsible for filtering and purifying the blood, as well as the creation of red blood cells and the storage of both red and white blood cells. This metabolic function of the pancreas is the physiological correlation with the meridian’s energetic function of metabolization. The pancreas organ is part of the digestive system as well as being an endocrine gland, which produces enzymes and hormones (like insulin and glucagon) that help to break down foods. Since we generally refer to the meridian channel as simply “spleen”, the pancreas’ inclusion is too oft forgot. In Chinese medicine, what we know as the “spleen meridian” governs both the spleen and pancreas organs. In order for energy medicine to continue to gain traction in the mainstream, it’s vital that EEM practitioners understand the difference between the function of the meridian energy and the physical organ after which the meridian is named, and to be able to dialogue knowledgeably with the medical community. I have recently been asked by several energy medicine students to clarify the difference between the meridian energy, which governs an organ, and the metabolic function of the organ itself.įor instance, in Eden Energy Medicine we talk a lot about how one of spleen meridian’s primary tasks is the metabolization of energy – but metabolization is not the primary task of the spleen organ. The spleen and pancreas are closely related.