Hey my loves, welcome back to Lavendaire, it's Aileen.
Today I'm going to share the one energetic principle
you need to know for good health,
essentially how to heal your energy.
So if you've been following my healing series in my past video,
I shared about my healing journey
and this new practice that I've been doing to heal
my mental, emotional, and physical body,
along with my boyfriend, Wilson.
This is one of those concepts that once you learn about
and apply it to your life,
you see how it actually improves your life.
You wish everyone knew this.
I wish everyone knew this.
I'll start by saying that this concept comes from this book called
Water Up Fire Down by Ilchi Lee
It's essentially
a teaching rooted in east Asian wellness.
So related to those practices of like Tai Chi, qigong , yoga,
just they're all in a similar family.
So first I'll explain the concepts in this book.
And then later I'll do demonstrations
to show you physically how to do the exercises,
to help your body balance
and heal your energy.
Water Up Fire Down basically means that
the ideal energy balance in your body is to have
water energy up here,
fire energy in your lower abdomen area.
So that means having a cool head and a warm belly.
And there's many reasons for this
because you want your belly to be warm.
This is where all your vital organs are.
Your stomach intestines, kidneys, liver.
Everything is just in this area.
So you got to make sure that they're functioning correctly,
having a cool head and water energy up here.
It means that your eyes are moist.
Your mouth is moist.
Your skin is moist. It's not dry, right?
If you have dry eyes, dry skin, dry mouth,
whatever that's related to too much heat
and too much fire energy up here.
Here's a diagram from the book that shows
the optimal energy circulation system.
So you have fire energy,
heat energy going down from below your chin,
down to your abdomen.
And then your abdomen kind of creates water energy
that goes up and cools your head
and your head usually you're thinking.
And when you think that heats things up,
so the heat goes down
and I believe your heart also creates heat.
So heat continues to go down to warm your abdomen,
and then the cycle continues.
So the problem with most people,
myself included is that
our energy is imbalanced
or there's blockages in your different energy centers,
kind of like chakras or meridians that doesn't allow energy
to flow the way it's supposed to. Right?
So for example, most people have a hot head,
whether they're stressed, anxious, angry, overthinking.
So having key energy up here is not only related to
dry eyes, dry skin, dry mouth, things like that.
But it also contributes to like trouble sleeping, anxiety,
you know, when your brain is overthinking,
it's kind of like a computer processor that's overheating
and you don't give it a time to take a break, right?
Because even when we're taking a break,
we're watching TV, scrolling social media,
our brain is still consuming information.
And that processing heats things up.
And if you have like blockages anywhere down here,
the fire is supposed to go down here, right?
But if you have blockages say like in your heart,
the heat can't go down to your abdomen.
It just like goes back to your head
and it's just like this negative cycle.
On the lower part of your body
if all the heat stays up here, then it's cool down here.
And when it's cold down here, you feel sluggish.
Your body feels heavy and your intestines,
your metabolism is not working well.
Things are tense. Things are dry, right?
If there's no heat energy, I would say your digestive system,
isn't working as well.
All the vital organs here are not getting the energy
and the heat and the circulation that they need.
And when I talk about circulation,
I also mean blood circulation and energy circulation.
For example, one way to bring more heat energy to the
bottom part of your body is by walking.
Walking is simple. Walking is healthy.
We all know that it's good for our bodies.
Walking promotes circulation of your blood
and your energy in your body so that
you bring more heat to your lower half of the body
and thus your head kind of cools down.
Cause the heat moves from here down here.
I also want to note that
when you have this ideal energy balance in your system
with a cool head, you're able to think better, to think more clearly,
to be more creative and have more ideas.
And personally,
this is an area that I definitely when reading the book,
I'm like, oh my god, I'm this, this and this.
I matched so many of the symptoms, right?
Trouble falling asleep, just feeling low, feeling sluggish,
unmotivated, and not feeling as creative as I used to be
my chest feeling constricted,
just feeling sensitive.
This book also talks about how to activate
your parasympathetic nervous system,
which is the rest and digest, right?
We have the sympathetic, which is the fight or flight,
the state you're in when you're stressed.
And then we have
parasympathetic nervous system,
which is the resting and healing state
that's the state that you need to be to be
fully relaxed and allow your body to heal.
So a lot of us don't even know how to get into that relaxation state.
We live mostly in the sympathetic nervous system,
meaning we live anxious.
We live stressed every single day.
And even though it might not be a huge stress at a time,
daily, tiny stresses add up and they accumulate in your body.
And if you don't take time to balance, like, you know,
taking more time relaxing
being in the parasympathetic nervous system,
obviously that's going to take a toll on your body as well.
So in this book,
there's various exercises on how to circulate your energy,
how to unblock anything that might be blocked
and how to get into relaxation mode
so that your body heals itself.
What I love about this book is
it's essentially teaching you how to reconnect with your body
because I feel like so many of us have become
disconnected from our bodies.
We don't even know what we're feeling.
We don't even know when we're in pain
or when something's not working. Right?
Like if I ask you, how does your stomach feel, right?
Is your intestines like tense or loose?
Like we don't know,
like I can't feel my kidneys. I can't feel my liver,
but doing these exercises gets you more in tune with your body.
And beginning to recognize where you might have some energy blocks
or somepainful points that you just never realized.
And I think Western medicine is all about reactive, right?
You wait until you get so sick
until the symptoms start showing
until, you know, it's life or death.
And then they do surgery.
They give you medication or whatever it is to heal.
Like I personally think
Western medicine is really great for physical ailments.
Kind of like if you break a bone or if you need to replace an organ
or something physical like that, but there's so many soft,
soft "illnesses" that we're still not good at tracking.
There's so many chronic or auto immune diseases
that Western medicine does not have the cure for yet.
And for example,
cancer is something that affects everyone, right?
I know someone that's had cancer, like, you know, someone that's had cancer,
it's just so widespread.
But Western medicine can still not be able to tell us
why this person has cancer
and this person doesn't right.
One person can be a smoker for 50 years and not get lung cancer.
Whereas this person that's never smoked got lung cancer, right?
We don't have those explanations yet.
I'm not saying that I have all the answers because I certainly don't
and I'm not even certified to like teach this.
I just read it.
And I'm just trying to share this idea with you guys.
But what I'm trying to say is
we have to take responsibility for our own health.
We have to get more in touch with our bodies
and find out how to take care of ourselves
to be preventative rather than reactive, right?
Take care of your health now.
Notice the pain points that you have now,
whether like this organ feels a little hard
or your shoulders are stiff.
Your neck is stiff, right?
These are all like baby symptoms that I think people take for granted.
They're like, oh, that's normal. Everyone has that.
But these are this baby symptoms before it gets to the next level,
before it gets to something with a name,
something with a label,
something that doctors can then treat because,
oh, now you have blah, blah, blah disease.
So I'm all about preventative measures,
taking care of your health and
being open-minded to just all the
teachings that are out there.
So now I'm going to share some simple exercises
you can do at home that are inspired by
this book and Ilchi Lee's teachings.
Again, I'm not certified to teach this stuff,
but I'm going to show you what I learned
and keep in mind this is not everything.
These are just some beginner exercises to get you started,
but I highly recommend you check out the resources
I linked down below. The book Water Up Fire Down -
they have a YouTube channel called the brain education TV
that's ran by my friend, Linda
and also they have over a hundred studios in the US.
They have some in New Zealand, Korea and China.
I'm not sure where else, but look them up:
Body and Brain Yoga. I'll link everything down below.
So let's begin the demonstration.
We can start by sitting down
practice breathing into your lower abdomen.
This is the ideal way to breathe throughout the exercises.
The first exercise is called Dahnjon tapping,
hold your hands into loose fists like this,
and then tap your lower abdomen area.
Your dahnjon is the area in your core,
about two inches below your belly button and two inches inside.
This is an area that you want to keep warm,
stimulate this area while deep breathing in through your nose
and exhaling out through your mouth.
The second exercise is belly button healing.
It's a find a stick with a blunt end to use as your wand
and using this crystal.
But sometimes I also use this hairbrush
and clearly Togi's chewed on this before
they also sell a belly button healing wand online,
but just feel free to use whatever you can find in your home that works.
So have one or two layers between the wand and your skin,
and then use the wand to pump
into your belly button while deep breathing.
So you're stimulating your guts
and relaxing any tense parts that you feel,
try doing this for about two minutes at a time.
And then you can try pushing and holding it in while deep breathing.
You can do this exercise sitting down,
standing up or even lying down.
Lying down is actually the hardest
because you feel the most sensitive.
After you get the hang of it.
You can try poking the wand in at different angles, going clockwise.
Make sure you're pushing in first.
And then at the angle,
this will stimulate different angles of your guts.
And it will feel like you're massaging areas
and organs that you're not used to feeling.
Remember to keep deep breathing.
These exercises are meant not just for physical healing,
but emotional and spiritual
as this area is connected to your second chakra.
You're working to unblock any stuck energies in this area.
The third exercise is solar plexus tapping.
Your solar plexus is in the middle
between the bottom of your rib cage and your belly button.
So tap that area to find the most sensitive spot.
You can start by tapping the solar plexus area.
Just deep breathing throughout.
The solar plexus is your third chakra
and it's where you hold suppressed emotions.
So these exercises help you release old emotions
and stuck energy.
You can also tap the rest of your body wherever you feel tense,
telling your body to drop all the tension.
If you feel called to try tapping your chest area
while making an audible sound,
this is a way to release emotions, energy and tension in your chest,
which is where your heart chakra is.
Next is solar plexus healing with a wand.
This is similar to belly button healing,
but you only go in straight without doing that clockwise motion.
So use a wand to pump the sensitive area of your solar plexus
and remember to deep breathe
and exhale through your mouth.
As you work on this area,
ask yourself what emotions am I still holding?
And allow yourself to speak out your feelings.
I feel _____. I feel _____.
And then finally you can say,
I choose to let go or whatever affirmations at your call too.
Just like with belly button healing,
you can do the pumping motion
and you can also push in and hold it in while breathing.
The fifth exercise is the rolling back exercise.
So sit with your knees bent
and your hands behind your thighs,
curl your spine
and then roll back and forth slowly,
massaging your spine,
just feeling every part of your vertebrae.
Breathe in while you're up and
breathe out while you roll down,
try to see if you can touch your feet on the floor behind you
do about 50 of these
before rolling back into a plow pose,
Plow pose is a yoga pose that helps you stretch your upper back
so you can deep breathe while you hold this pose.
The sixth exercise is hip bouncing.
Lay down with your knees bent and your palms facing up.
Raise your butts a little bit off the floor
and then drop it onto the floor.
Stimulating your tailbone.
Focus on the dropping motion of your tailbone to the floor
to stimulate your first chakra and your lower back.
You can do this slowly at first to get a hang of the motion.
So do this one for about two minutes at a time.
With this exercise, you're bringing energy and heat
into your lower abdomen area,
promoting circulation and the vital organs in this area.
Notice how your mind clears when you stimulate your lower body,
because energy is flowing down from your head to this lower area.
The seventh exercise is knee bouncing.
So lay down and start bouncing your knees up
and down deep breathing throughout.
You're basically warming up your knees
and bringing energy down to your legs.
Creating a water up fire down state.
After you finish each of these exercises,
take a pause to breathe
and notice how differently your body feels.
Exercise number eight is toe tapping.
Lay down with your legs and feet together.
Then rotate your legs out
and back in to tap your toes together like this.
So tap your toes while deep breathing for about two to three minutes at a time
after you're done with a set,
take a break and notice the tingling energy feeling on your feet.
Imagine stagnant energy, flowing down your legs and out through your toes.
This exercise is really relaxing
and I usually do it before bed.
The next exercise is called sleeping tiger.
This exercise is part meditative
and part core strengthening.
It's an energy collecting exercise.
So lay down and bring your legs up.
Then bend them at about a 100 degree angle with your feet flexed,
keep around two fists distance between your legs.
Now bring your arms up
and then flex your palm so that they face the sky,
close your eyes, and then breathe with your mouth closed.
Imagine energy flowing into your body
through the palms of your hands and the
bottom of your feet.
Collecting energy in your heart
and in your lower abdomen area.
Hold this position for about five minutes.
You can also try to do 10 minutes if you're up for it.
Finally, the last exercise is Savasana, total relaxation.
So just lay and relax your arms, your legs,
your face, everything.
Close your eyes and breathe naturally.
Feel your body rest and recover.
This relaxation states is where your body's natural healing is activated.
So relax for however long you want.
Alright, hope you enjoyed those exercises.
Let me know if you try any of them down below
and let me know how you feel after doing them.
They're supposed to make you feel more relaxed
and move energy in your body to its ideal states.
Alright
sending you guys so much love
and I'll see you in the next one.
Bye.