Everything at its finest level of creation is energy. We are 
exchanging energy and silently communicating energetically with 
every person with whom we come into contact. Energy impressions 
are always our first impressions that influence what we think 
or feel about others. 

Everyone has an invisible energy system that flows energy on 
pathways or meridians. These same meridians have multiple 
pressure points that have been a means of working with the 
energy to keep it flowing. Acupressure, acupuncture, and 
reflexology are the more common modalities we have in the 
Western world. 

The Chinese term for energy is "chi" which means life force 
energy. When our energy is blocked, scrambled or leaking, we 
feel depleted and heavy. When you are energy-depleted, it is 
more difficult to manage your emotions, think positive thoughts 
and stay healthy.

In the field of holistic health, energy medicine and energy 
psychology are growing rapidly. As a practitioner of energy 
therapies, I have assisted numerous women who are energy 
challenged. 

I recently assisted a woman who was bedridden due to a severe 
case of chronic fatigue. After eight weeks of working with her 
body's energy system to restore it to good health and teaching 
her how to take care of her own energy health, she has had a 
miraculous recovery. She is out of bed and fully active. Her 
parents see it as a miracle. Our energy responds very quickly 
when we know what to do to correct it. After all, it's just 
energy.


The following are some of the most common energy problems for 
women and their corrections:

1. Taking on other people's emotional energy. Our energies are 
magnetic in nature. A common codependent pattern for women is 
to play the role of a "pleaser." The primary dysfunction of 
this role is to always put others' needs before your own. Women 
that are pleasers tend to be very psychic in nature. This helps 
them know what others need without even having to ask. A common 
aspect of this role is to take on the negative emotion other 
people are feeling or processing. 

Emotion is energy in motion. We can attract that energy to us 
when we are not safeguarded from it. It is possible to take on 
the energy of people you do not even know! It can even happen at 
the grocery store. All you want to do is go in and buy a gallon 
of milk, and you leave not only with the milk but also with the 
sadness and loneliness of ten other women in the store!

Children process a lot of negative energy for their parents. If 
you are stressed, your children intuitively are aware of that 
and can play the role of trying to "please" or "act-out" in 
response to the negative energy you are running. 

In the early days of my studies of energy medicine, my daughter 
would come home from junior high school nearly every day with 
a headache. As I came to understand this dynamic of taking on 
other people's energies, I realized she was doing that 
sub-consciously at school. I helped her correct it, and the 
headaches eventually subsided. 

Correction: Your central meridian is one of your primary energy 
pathways that runs from your pubic bone up to your bottom lip. 
It is like a radio receiver that channels other people's 
negative thoughts and emotions into you. Pretend you have a 
zipper running up your torso between these two points. "Zip 
up" your central meridian starting at your pubic bone and 
continuing until you reach your bottom lip. "Zipping up" your 
central meridian will "zip-up" your energy. You will feel more 
confident and positive about yourself and your world, think 
more clearly, and be able to protect yourself from the negative 
energies around you. "Zip up" your children before they go to 
school.


2. Leaking energy. We have another invisible energy system 
called chakras. Whereas meridians are an energy transportation 
system, chakras are energy stations. The word chakra means disk, 
vortex, or wheel. There are seven energy stations positioned 
from the base of your spine to the top of your head. In energy 
health, if you are losing or leaking energy at the base chakra 
located at the bottom of your spine, you may feel depression, 
anxiety and exhaustion. 

Many women are energy depleted because they are not able to 
hold enough life force energy or chi. In this energy condition, 
you are flushing energy down and away from you, much like a 
toilet flushes water down. In order to maintain good energy 
health, you want energy spiraling up into your base chakra.

Correction: When there is a leak, you have to patch it. Close 
your eyes and imagine you can see the energy leaking out of your 
tailbone. Imagine a patch large enough to cover the leak. Place 
the patch over the leak. Imagine you can go beneath the energy 
and reverse the flow to spiral it up into your body through 
your tailbone.


3. Homolateral energy flow. The left hemisphere of the brain 
sends information to the right side of your body, and the right 
hemisphere sends information to the left side. This crossing of 
energy helps you feel more balanced, think more clearly, and 
improves your coordination. When your energies are not crossing, 
they are running a homolateral pattern-straight up and down the 
body. In this state you cannot access or utilize your brain's 
full capacity or your body's full intelligence. 

Babies naturally have a homolateral flow. It is the function 
of crawling that initiates the energies flowing in a crossover 
pattern. Everyone that I have assisted with CFS and Epstein Barr 
has a homolateral energy flow. People who actively participate 
in a regular exercise program usually have healthy crossover 
patterns.

Correction: To cross your energies and keep them flowing in a 
healthy crossover flow, march in place lifting the opposite leg 
and arm simultaneously for about 20 steps. Or just get on the 
ground and start crawling! Encourage your baby to crawl and 
delay walking until they are 12 months old. Early walking 
interferes with their energy establishing a healthy crossover 
flow. 

My oldest daughter walked at nine months as a result of eager 
parents! She was challenged all the way up through high school 
in math, reading and spelling. In grade school, she was tutored 
on a regular basis. When she was 16, I was introduced to this 
process. I showed her the correction, and she faithfully marched 
daily. By the end of her senior year in high school, she was 
awarded a scholarship to a local university and has been on 
the Dean's list ever since. 

There is much to be learned about energy health and taking care 
of our own energies. Good resources are Carol Tuttle's book, 
Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 
21st Century, and Donna Eden's book, Energy Medicine, about how 
to boost your body's energy.