Hun Men, Door of the Ethereal Soul, Urinary Bladder 47

As follow-up to the last blog post, “How to Prevent Disappointment,” here is the intuitive acupuncture to help you do just that!

This point is located at about your mid-back.  Ladies, it’s usually just underneath your bra-line.  About 3 inches to either side of your spine at the lower border of your scapula/shoulder blade.

So, last week we spoke of disappointment. Expectations may lead to disappointment, yeah? And furthermore, expectations may be limiting in perspective, so that when new wonderfulness is happening, we may not even notice it cuz of our original thoughts/plans/goals/expectations.  Remember?! (If not, here’s a reminder)

How to discontinue such patterns, go with the flow a little more and stay in the realm of infinite possibilities? Well, the Door of Ethereal Soul is how!!! What a cool name for a cool point!

This point will root the ethereal soul back into your body, it’s home.  It’ll make it so you CAN set goals, make plans, AND flow with the process of life all at the same time!  Rad.  It makes it so your goals and plans serve to inspire you rather than be potential for more disappointment.

A little Chinese Medical Theory background before addressing our monthly point:

The wood element is well, like wood.  It likes to grow up and out.  Like you and all your personal growth!  Making plans, setting goals, moving forward in life.  When healthy, wood will simply grow around any presumed obstacles in it’s path.  Like you!  It flows with the process of life.

If unhealthy, when a presumed obstacle shows up, the wood stops growing.  It stops right there.  Gets stuck.  Like, “urgh, now what?!  This building is in my way so now I can’t grow, I’ll never be tall.  All my dreams are shattered!  Shattered!!”  Stagnation. Disappointment.  Remember how expectations may lead to disappointment?  Yeah.

Meanwhile, there may be plenty of space to grow only a few inches to the side.  Space that the tree is so not even noticing cuz its all fixated on the building.  Ever experienced this before?  Yeah.  Back to the Alexander Graham Bell quote,

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

So, the wood element houses the ethereal soul.  It’s the ethereal soul that is responsible for our growth, plans, goals.  Good thing to take care of, yeah?  Good idea to keep it grounded and rooted in our bodies, yeah?  Cuz when grounded in our bodies, it expresses itself from a place of security and trust (= health = lack of disappointment).  When healthy, we flow with the process and presumed obstacles are not disappointing or stagnating, they’re just a part of the of path.

Shall we ground our ethereal souls and prevent any future disappointment?  Yeah!

This is a fun exercise cuz you get to lay down and massage some muscles!  K, place a tennis ball on the ground and lie on top of it so that it is at your mid-back.  The tennis ball is bigger than the actual point, itself, so being precise isn’t totally necessary.  If you are just below your scapula/shoulder blades, you’re probably at the right spot.  Simply roll on the ball from side to side, from your left door of your ethereal soul to the right door.

The ethereal soul and the wood element like movement  (growth, evolution, actualizing goals) so the movement, coupled with pressure on this point is pretty much the best way to ground your ethereal soul and help you flow with the process!

As you’re rolling from side to side on top that tennis ball, try taking in a few deep breathes and repeating to yourself, “I flow with the process of life.  I live in the realm of infinite possibilities.”

Hey, lemme know how it goes!