The wound is the place where the light enters you – Jelalludin Rumi

Today I would like to invite you to join my Mount Fuji Energy Resonance, a distant healing event I am presenting free from Yamanashi, Japan.

Many of my blog readers and newsletter subscribers feel drawn to personally contributing to healing vibrations in Japan in the wake of last year’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident.

By collectively sharing Mount Fuji Energy Resonance, my vision is that we can join together distantly not only for vibrational energy within Japan, but also for unfolding and amplifying our inner healing energies.

In more than 20 years of energy work in Japan, I have experienced firsthand the special vibrations supporting me in the healing services I offer in my private sessions and teaching courses here at the foot of Mount Fuji.

Through distant resonance with these powerful earth energies I hope you, too, can more deeply access your own creative and spiritual energies in 2012.

Let the beauty we love be what we do – Jelalludin Rumi

MOUNT FUJI ENERGY RESONANCE

What is it?
A collective distant healing event presented free by Catrien Ross in Japan

When is it?
February 8, 2012
Mount Fuji Resonance will be presented at three different times to accommodate world time zones. The actual event will last about 15 minutes, each time.

Who can join?
Modern mystics, healers, energy workers, and anyone, anywhere, who feels drawn to being part of Mount Fuji vibrational energies at this time.

How can I join?
To register your long distance participation and to receive Mount Fuji Energy Resonance preparation exercises, please email the following information to info@energydoorways.com

Your Full Name
Your Email
Your Country
Your Preferred Time (Please choose your time from ①②③ below):

① February 8, at noon, Tokyo Time
② February 8, at 2 pm, Tokyo Time
③ February 8, at 8 pm, Tokyo Time

Why join?
May this shared moment of Mount Fuji Energy Resonance ground and expand our vibrational energies in 2012 for healing not only Japan, but also ourselves.

As we move into the new year with grateful awareness, please accept this Mount Fuji Energy Resonance event as a little healing gift from me at Energy Doorways in Yamanashi, Japan.

With love from the foot of Mount Fuji.

Catrien Ross
Energy Doorways
January 28, 2012

Have you ever listened to a tree drink water?

Putting your ear to the trunk of this old Japanese oak, you can hear water being drawn up from the roots.

In the aftermath of last year’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake, my leaning into this tree, feeling its life force, helped my body recover from its physical disorientation.

Even before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, followed by the nuclear accident, several life-changing situations had arisen for me in Japan.

Then what was a triple tragedy for so many Japanese people served only to highlight those personal changes even more vividly.

In the most profound sense, something has forever shifted.

So much of what seemed to matter no longer matters so much.

How do you ground yourself when the ground beneath your feet is shifting?

If you can, you seek a more supportive direction, a more solid orientation.

One key is simply to celebrate being alive.

To know that your own life energies are available to empower you.

To sense that, akin to the old Japanese oak, water and blood course through you, supporting and sustaining you.

Since March 11, more than ever I appreciate being in Yamanashi, also known as the home of Mount Fuji, in what for me is the heart center of Japan.

How often do you acknowledge the influence of your environment on the personality you express?

For more than 15 years my outer and inner worlds have been shaped by living in the foreign culture I encounter here at the foot of Mount Fuji.

What I am become today is deeply connected to the cycles and rhythms of my daily life in the countryside of Yamanashi.

The Japanese oak in the photo is a quercus crispula in the midst of an ancient beech forest hidden in Aokigahara, or “sea of trees.”

For some, Aokigahara is a pathway into death – it is now a notorious suicide location.

For others, its hidden attractions are perceived as a continued source of inspiration and recovery.

In your response to life’s situations and events you reveal who you are.

This Energy Doorways blog is bilingual, published in both English and Japanese.

The Japanese blog features the activities of Energy Doorways in Japan, such as healing, teaching, and publishing.

The English blog is my means of sharing insights and inspirations from living in Yamanashi, and the personal growth lessons learned.

Since March 11 last year Japan has survived more than 6,700 aftershocks.

Things are shaking still.

What one person learns about evolving through challenges can be shared across cultures and borders.

Yamanashi, with its stunning natural beauty, has been the physical location underpinning my life lessons so far.

My hope is that what inspires me from the foot of Mount Fuji will inspire you, too.

Meantime, what are your own hopes for recovery and personal growth in 2012?

Where intention goes, energy flows.

In a future post I will expand this idea within the context of Oriental Medicine’s 5,000 years of applied knowledge about the body’s energy cycles.

But today I offer a simple exercise that demonstrates the link connecting your mind, your real power of intention, and your energy flow.

Have fun with what I call Stretching Your Potential:

Stretching Your Potential

• Stand or sit comfortably.
• Look at the palms of your hands.
• At the bottom of your palm, where your hand joins the wrist, is a horizontal line that resembles a baseline, as it were, of your palm.
• Place your hands together in prayer position, exactly mirroring the position of this baseline, one palm against the other.
• Look at your fingers.
• You will see that either your left or right hand is slightly shorter than the other.
• Separate your hands.
• Focus your attention totally on your shorter hand.
• Say, either within your mind or aloud, “My fingers are longer, my fingers are longer.”
• Mentally direct your power of intention into your shorter hand.
• Take a deep breath in through your nose and breathe out through your mouth.
• Repeat the words, “My fingers are longer, my fingers are longer.”
• Now place your palms together again as you did before, exactly mirroring the baseline.
• Look at your fingers.

What do you find?

Are you surprised?

Focusing your attention stimulates the real power of your intention to direct your own energy.

What holds true for this simple exercise is equally true for the more difficult tasks you set yourself.

You already have within you all the power you need to manifest your intentions.

It is that straightforward.

It is that authentic.

You can direct your energy flow exactly as you want, at any moment in your life.

Whether your goal is immediate or long-term, stretching your potential is powerfully and relevantly possible.

How do you feel about this simple exercise?

Do you notice anything different about yourself afterwards?

And knowing your intention is a real power already within you, how else will you stretch your potential from now?

I welcome your reactions, so please join the discussion with your comments.

Have a wonderful day stretching your potential!

How about you?

Are you alert to the vibrations reviving your passion and purpose?

Spring flowers broadcast frequencies that sing to your indifference, stirring you with renewed motivation.

Their vibrations spur your spirit’s shift from winter rhythms to the freshness of enlightened inspiration.

Spring also awakens you to the rippling of a myriad sentient beings.

Your sensory experience, encountered in every breath, defines you, reflects you, confirms you and supports you.

In the same way, the vibrations you broadcast reach outwards to affect each person you meet and each circumstance around you.

You live in a sea of vibration that resonates in your cells, informing your DNA and transforming your choices.

You do not know when vibrations arrive from afar to influence you.

You do not know how widely your own vibrations reach.


Manifestation taps the power of this vibrational continuum.

Your first impulse for creation takes shape within its energetic vortex.

Where intention goes, energy flows.

Your intentions unleash creative changes in the energy field that surrounds you.

Positive intentions combined with positive actions excite energy to move in desired directions.

Why should this be so?

Is it because the underlying principle of the universe is the joy of co-creation?

Is it because you share accountability for expressing the abundance of this creative intelligence?

Spring flowers flaunt their splendor, unabashed in their magnificence.

How about you?

Do you celebrate the forms and colors of your personality and character?

Do your dreams astonish with their boldness?

Do you unfurl your talents to a delighted world?

As spring vibrations quicken within you, how are you reviving your passion and purpose?

In Japan, I welcome the ripples of your response.

Well, you can.

For several years I have been physically blowing out any feelings of negativity in a simple shift of energy I now call A Positive Puff.

I naturally learned this while fuming one day about a personal situation in Japan.

Living in the mountains, the first thing I do whenever I feel low is go outside.

Stepping out into the vista of hills and sky instantly expands my senses and perception.

I do so whatever the weather, as the wide eaves of this Japanese minka shelter me from rain, snow, hail, and even typhoon winds.

That day, fuming and spluttering, I was so upset I let out a hiss of noisy breath.

I also threw my fists downward in a gesture of anger and disgust.

At once I felt a dramatic and positive shift.

My body released its hostile tension.

My dark mood ebbed out of me.

I had physically released my negativity.

Refined since through practice, here is A Positive Puff for you to try:

• If possible, go outdoors to an attractive, safe area.
• Stand lightly without locking your knees.
• Relax by breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth.
• Mentally bring up what bothers or upsets you.
• Scoop your negative feelings up into your cupped hands.
• Raise your hands, full of these feelings, slowly in front of your face.
• Take a deep breath in through your nose and release it in one strong puff over your cupped hands, as if blowing away your feelings.
• Immediately drop your empty hands to the ground as if releasing your negative feelings into the earth.
• Shake off your hands.
• Breathe deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth.
• Repeat the same movements two or three times if you feel you need to.

You will most likely sense an immediate lightness, both physically and mentally, as if your tension had both blown and dropped away.

Which it has.

You are actually blowing out your negativity in a puff of positive intention to shift your energy.

Do you think this can work for you?

Why don’t you try for yourself and share your experience?

In my last blog post I wrote about how judging your day creates your experience.

But what about self-judgment?

What emotional damage do you sustain from how you judge yourself?

Judgments you impose upon yourself can generate guilt that blights years of your life.

The negative verdicts of your inner judge destroy your self-confidence, diminish your self-esteem, cripple your choices, and quash your creative expression.

Yet the beginnings of negative self-judgment can often be traced back to an outside opinion that became your own limiting belief.

For example, who first judged that you were not beautiful, or talented, or capable?

Someone in your childhood who criticized or compared you to others?

Who judged that you had no ability for drawing, or writing, or dancing, or singing?

A teacher, or another insensitive adult?

Who judged that your dreams could never be realized, or that your deepest desires were futile, or that your passion was ridiculous?

A parent? A spouse? A partner?


At some point you not only acknowledged such valuations as truth, you accepted them as your inner reality.

Thus you began the lifetime of negative self-judgment that now defines you.

Years of piling up one false belief after another builds a mountain of guilt that can crush you.

Shifting this deadly weight means shifting your inner guilt.

This, in turn, requires confronting your inner judge.

As impossible as this may seem, one way to start is by understanding how
negative self-judgment is created.

How do you determine what is good and what is bad?

Why do you perceive one person or thing as beautiful and another as ugly?

How do you develop the likes and dislikes by which you respond to people and situations?

Your inner judge is formed out of the mental framework, the world view you constructed from external factors such as:

• where you were born
• what your parents and other caregivers taught you
• your culture and your religion
• your friends and your peer groups
• the books you read and the subjects you studied
• the games you played and the passions you discovered
• the work you trained for and the job you do

Your personal framework teaches you to separate, discriminate, and judge.

It defines how you perceive your life and how you react to everything that happens.

Your world view is the basis for the guilt that confines and perhaps even paralyzes you in the present.

It will most likely be painful and may require years of personal effort, but tracing back through honest self-reflection can lead to breakthrough concerning your negative self-judgment.

You begin to see why you make the choices you do.

You start to understand your motives and perceptions.

A first step can be as simple as looking in a mirror and asking yourself what you see.

Or spending time at the close of each day in reviewing all the self-judgments you made in so many hours.

Or lingering in bed a few moments after awaking and requesting fresh insights from your own inner wisdom.

By engaging the courage of your deepest self you open the doorway to dissolving the negative self-judgment that creates a lifetime of guilt and limitation.

How has negative self-judgment affected your life?

Do you have a personal story you would like to share?

Get up grousing and you are likely to grouse for hours after.

Arise in anticipation and the day opens into a treasure house of possibilities.

So how about a 2010 goal to get out of bed in a way that supports rather than hinders your daily activities?

This morning I awoke to the brilliance of the first snow this winter.

Even behind closed curtains the sunlit whiteness of the mountains brightened the room.

A welcoming dazzle that urged me to greet the day’s untapped potential.

For several years now my before-I-get-out-of-bed routine has included stretching my limbs, breathing deeply, and clearing my energy flows.

Recently I have added smiling.

I peek from out the Japanese upper futon and I smile into the room.

Somehow this simple action connects me powerfully with my surrounding space.

It calms yet prepares me for stepping out into a new morning.

The profound effect of smiling from the inside out has been plainly confirmed by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk:

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

You can support the flow of your natural rhythm before getting out of bed by taking a moment to:

• Stretch
  First one side of your body, then the other. Take your cue from cats, who have perfected the art of stretching and understand how to harness its benefits.
• Smile
  Forming your face muscles into a smile radiates the smiling effect throughout your whole body. You switch on your joy energy.
• Clear Your Energy Flow
  For more than 5,000 years Oriental medicine has known how to work with the flow of life energy in the body. You can use a number of easy techniques to improve your energy flow for greater health and wellbeing.
• Breathe
  Your heart pumps because you breathe. You need that breath of life, which comes free as one of nature’s many gifts. Deep breathing is food for your cells and gets you out of bed in peak form.
• Think Thank You
  Better yet, say thank you aloud. A sense of gratitude can transform your perceptions. Problems might overwhelm, but find something in yourself or in your life that you can give thanks for. If you can’t think of anything at all, say thank you anyway.

So, how did you get out of bed today?

And what would you do to get out of bed on the positive side each day?

Energy medicine concepts are not new, of course.

In-depth knowledge of energy flows and energy balancing has existed in Oriental Medicine for some 5,000 years.

But the idea that your own energy can be medicine – that you can joyfully work with this medicine to change and improve your life, and that you can do so easily by yourself – this is a new shift in Japan.

Over the centuries working with energy flow, or ki, as the Japanese call it, became the province of specialists – the acupuncture and Kampo doctors, the martial arts masters, the spiritual gurus, the Buddhist priests.

Even now so-called masters who can demonstrate their ki abilities attract thousands of followers.

Religious sects have sprung up because the founders boast some psychic aspect of ki.

So when I tell Japanese people that anybody can learn to handle energy naturally I am often met with disbelief.

Energy medicine makes working with energy flow so straightforward it raises doubts.

After all, understanding ki is supposed to be difficult. That’s what Japanese learn. You need decades of rigorous training. All sorts of technique.

A Japanese acupuncture doctor spends years studying to instantly name and pinpoint hundreds of tsubo on the body. Martial artists endure grueling regimens. Spiritual gurus meditate into other dimensions.

All for the sake of this rarified thing called energy.

When I show someone how easy it is to identify personal energy strengths and weaknesses a first reaction is often: Ehhh???

This must be hocus pocus. Some magic clearly afoot.

Energy medicine can seem magical.

Once you understand how to balance energy flows you may indeed experience miraculous results.

Long-standing problems can suddenly clear up.

You change.

Really?

Mental and physical complaints that vanish just because you tweak your energy flows?

Yes, really.

This is exactly what makes energy medicine so effective yet so accessible.

Energy medicine provides simple tools that anyone can use.

No spiritual initiation is required, no years of punishing training.

You don’t even need to believe in energy medicine for it to work.

Energy medicine just is.

Because energy just is.

The simple truth is that everything is energy and nothing is but energy.

Each one of us is living, breathing energy.

And the wisdom to understand this energy is already within each of us.

I love it when skepticism becomes delight.

When Japanese people in my workshops start sensing and playing with energy.

When they rediscover that energy is truly what we are.

Energy medicine is also about empowerment.

In a society where one person every fifteen minutes commits suicide, where individual initiative is constantly undermined, the challenge in Japan is believing that personal empowerment is even possible.

Energy medicine opens a natural doorway to that hope.