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HEATHER BRUCE 2007

www.sharpen-up-your-results.com 2007 What Dads Can Do p 114-2

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www.sharpen-up-your-results.com 2007

Dr Shen’s Stages of Life

What Dads Can Do p 70



LIFE PIVOTSWe start breathing.

Our first moment of independent breath sets us into who we are & will always be

Is it fear & panic, OUR CHOICEor loving acceptance.



FIRST BREATH

• How to get this as calm and easy as possible. If we can achieve this for all in our charge, we will be enhancing every aspect of who they will ever be able to become.

• Also see Dr Michel Odent’s work –

• www.WombEcology.com


HEALTH

The ability to adapt to change


WHAT WE ARE MADE OF



Yang

all metabolism functions circulation digestion all levels of protection including immune function structural integrity esp holding blood, tissues & organs in place temperature regulation esp feeling cold

WDCD p 17

Yin

cooling

nourishing

lubricating

rest & regeneration

general stability on all levels of prematurely aging & body breakdown.



How to maintain wellbeing



Dr John Shen• Very wonderful Chinese herbalist and

pulse master (now dead) who studied people all his life

• Gave acupuncturists a totally different take on our medicine – through acute & reasoned observation, deduction & dedication.

• He said . . . .



4 PIVOTAL TIMESIn a woman’s life, when she

can either amazingly

IMPROVE her state of being,

Or seriously WRECK it.



Why do I mention this?• During our own lives, we know

when things carry greater weight/magnitude

• None more so than when pregnant & birthing & then being in that primal state where we are subsumed in maternity & maternal urges



FOUR TIMES FOR WOMEN

•Puberty•Onset of sexuality•Pregnancy•Menopause


• The essence of all maternity - can we open our hearts and nourish our wombs?


Well pregnancy• Need to have had easy periods

first.

• Normal qi & blood flow & production = normal periods.

• Normal periods should lead to easy conceptions & well pregnancy



Normal pregnancy

FOR THE WOMAN• Increase in HEAT• Increase in BLOOD• Increase in DAMPNESS• Increase in LIVER QI

• Decrease in available KIDNEY QI



Digestive issues• Work especially on the back - at

the level of the bra strap.

• A Rolfing technique, out form the spine. Slowly and very deeply.

• It does hurt, but feels wonderful afterwards.


Pc 6 – chest /calming



• Points to check

• If Liv 13 sore – is digestive /Spleen issue

• If GB 25 – is a Ki – deeper problem

• Straddling a chair is the easiest position

• Ensure mum is warm, with something on her feet.

• Arrows show directions of massage flow.

• The points are for very slow deep pressure


Direction of chest opening


GV 20

When wanting to keep things in place


Healthy Liver Qi




Stuck Liver Qi

Qi, blood and our being gets stuck

LIFE FORCE?

ORGASM?

BLISS?


How we get stuck


“Stress”

• What about all those people on antidepressants/antacid medication?

• Irritable bowel syndrome?What Dads Can Do p 51


Mid back/thoracics

STUCK LIVERQI

When this is released, everything in the body ON ALL LEVELS can move again . . . .



What creates a deviation from the textbook

blueprint?

Anything that is heating

distresses/destroys yin

Lack of flow toxic substances(Stuck Liver Qi) (modern

life)


Yin Deficiency

•Body fluids have been damaged and dryness and heat symptoms result. This brings problems with: - Cooling

– nourishing

– lubricating

– rest & regeneration

– general stability on all levels of prematurely aging & body breakdown.


Yang DeficiencyMetabolism & normal body temperature

regulation have been damaged, so the person feels cold & lacking ‘oomph’ on all levels. This brings problems with:all metabolism functions circulation digestion all levels of protection including immune function structural integrity esp holding blood, tissues & organs in place temperature regulation esp feeling cold




HEART - UTERUS




Tibetan Medicine

‘CAUSES OF DISEASE’

To be breathing, we suffer

Ignorance gives rise to desire – hatred – pride – jealousy – harsh speech – more obscuration – and around you go . . . . .



CLASSIFICATIONS OF DISEASE

• Karma – reaping of past actions• This lifetime – manifested later

in the same life (see Dr Shen heart conditions)

• Spirits (possession)

• Superficial (lifestyle changes will alter these)


• Straddling a chair is the easiest position

• Ensure mum is warm, with something on her feet.

• Arrows show directions of massage flow.

• The points are for very slow deep pressure

Starting up


PAST 36 WEEKS

In later (past 36 weeks) pregnancy,

heavy massage on the hips is indicated.

During labour, & in let down issues, the GB 21 is very helpful



‘WHAT DADS CAN DO’

manual & DVDs to assist easy birthing

available here today & then fromwww.easybabies.com.au


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Massage & Moxa

• Settles people down

• Makes them feel better – more likely to return

• Moves the qi/blood/lymph

• ‘Smudges’ – vibrational clearance

• Feels good – warms & moves

• Clears obstructions in ALL levels



From 36 weeks – or 34 if first baby

Getting baby ready – mum’s pelvis meets opening



PREGNANCY- birthing

preparation



VERY DEEP (& slow)

PRESSURE


• Directions for massage

• Can use broad sweeps to finish, to help clear what has been loosened


Why the bottom?

THINK GALL BLADDER MERIDIANPATHWAY

• Women - especially• What do we store there?• Sexual frustration• Resentment• ‘Crap’ in general(& fat & cellulite & fluid –

very painful to release)



MOXA moves whatever is there

Thus it is less painful to massage


SACRAL FAN


BEST POSITION

• After moxa on sacrum, start at the top, and then hone in on the bottom.

• After 36 weeks, a lot of deep slow pressure on the points displayed allows opening & shifting of focus to occur.

What Dads Can Do p 173-3

GB 21 & 30



Slow deep pressure outwards from the sacrum to ease all the stuck whatever to loosen & move prior to birthing.



What does this help?

Everything to moveEspecially useful for ALL structural issues – as we all have a component of ‘unhappy’ (Stuck liver Qi)

• Neck/shoulder• Migraines &

h/a• Back strains &

tension• Digestive

issues• All pelvic/gyne• Birth

preparation



BIRTHING Is all about

POSITIONING – like parking a car – an easy way & a hard way



Head down is only the beginning

It is a good start though .

May need to do much more than Bl 67 moxa

CORRECTLY PLACED

BABY O – A(occipit

anterior)



PERFECT

BABY O- A

Baby needs to hit the right part of the cervix to initiate labour



What should be happening




Downwards - GB 21



Liv 3 – open cervix



Co 4 – pain relief



Sp 6 – general allrounder



Ki 1 - emergency



Du Yin - difficulty



OFTEN I AM ASKED TO HELP

BUT baby is obviously NOT in position

No use wondering why waters not breaking, contractions starting

orShe is now ‘overdue’

Or not ‘progressing ‘ if put into labour


‘OP’ PRESENTATION

An OP baby tends to not go ‘on time’,

not break waters, not progress when finally in

labour, & give excruciating back ache

labour,End up distressed, UNLESS mum

is able to move baby to correct spot. THEN labour progresses.


It is all about engineering

Coming out of a tight fit . . .


Is the baby in the right spot?

NO!!!!!

What Dads Can Do 171-3


Is the baby in the right spot?

NO!!!What Dads Can Do p 171 -4


CONCEPTION - BIRTH

• The closer to our beginnings, the bigger the BANG ! ! ! ! !

• Birth – the transition between dependence and being separate.

• Fetal to adult circulationin one breath . . . .


Dr Shen’s Stages of Life



Dr Shen (paraphrased) also said

• That the impact of things on us decreases the further away we are from our source

• That the first 1/3 of affect happened before we were even born.

• Think on this . . . . .


OUR SPIRIT RESIDES IN THE HEART

Our heart is guarded by our ‘pericardium’.

We are who we are

We perceive the world & respond to it, due to its health or

otherwise.

HOW NOT TO DO IT

Distressed mum & baby

(forceps)


Deviations from the ordinary life script

Not feeling special

Not being included

Having a disconnectionBROKEN HEART


CONNECTION?• To ourselves

• To others

• To someone special

• To ‘God’/higher force


WHAT STOPS THIS?

• Think of a sapling

• Prevailing wind

• Not enough nourishment, water

• Marauding animals, pests, diseases


FOR CHILDREN?• Need – orderly, safe and happy

growing medium – happy family.

• When this is missing, or if a BIG shock at the beginning – guaranteed to be difficult – not what genetic potential showed was possible.

• Maybe what was MEANT to be though


No one thinks to force a flower open

When it is ready, it just blossoms


CONCEPTION - BIRTH

• The closer to our beginnings, the bigger the BANG ! ! ! ! !

• Birth – the transition between dependence and being separate.

• Fetal to adult circulationin one breath . . . .


OUR SPIRIT RESIDES IN THE HEART

Our heart is guarded by our ‘pericardium’.

We are who we are

We perceive the world & respond to it, due to its health or

otherwise.


LIFE PIVOTSWe start breathing.

Our first moment of independent breath sets us into who we are & will always be

Is it fear & panic, OUR CHOICEor loving acceptance.


Flowers open in their own time


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