Triple Warmer: the Protective Commander in Chief Triple Warmer is associated with the


fire element and his job is to keep you alive at all costs. He doesn’t care about your happiness or your spiritual development or other people. He is suspicious by nature, and anyone or anything he does not know or recognize immediately, he assumes to be an enemy. He has one modus operandi and that is war. He hasn’t changed in sev- eral million years, and so there are many aspects of modern life that he does not recognize. In fact, almost all of them! He controls both the fight/flight/freeze mech- anism of the body as well as the immune system. He has the power to conscript an army by drafting energy from all the other meridians, organs, and systems except the heart, even to the point of temporarily incapacitation—“for the common good” from his perspective. Because he is always overworked and over stimulated, his over- zealous defensive efforts can actually hurt the very person he is trying so faithfully to protect. For example, allergies can result from Triple Warmer judging a substance which is not innately harmful to be a dan- ger, thus initiating a full blown histamine response. Autoimmune diseases ensue if he sees the body’s own tissues as enemies and attacks them. Triple Warmer takes his orders from the most primitive, survival- oriented part of the brain.


Spleen Meridian: the Nurturing Peacemaker


On the other hand, Spleen is a yin meridian associated with the earth ele- ment, and she is endowed with all the qualities of the great mother. She nurtures everyone, rejects no one, and has no en- emies, because she sees everyone and all life as a part of herself. By nature she is a peacemaker who lovingly accepts all into her embrace, gently harmonizes differ- ences, and serves as a nonjudgmental matrix that connects and holds both the human and planetary family together. She communicates a sense of calm, safety, and security to all who cross her path. Where ever she goes, bonds between people are created and natural communities form. Trust in life is her watch word. As the mother who gives birth, she has no fear of the unfamiliar and joyfully welcomes whatever is new. She fosters an environ- ment of creativity, fecundity, and abun- dance. In the body, Spleen governs diges- tion and absorption, blood supply, me- tabolism, lymph, the production of anti-


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bodies, and the distribution of nourishment throughout the body. She believes that the best way to protect you is to maintain a vital organism in which all the parts are well connected to the whole. Spleen, more than any other meridian, is highly attuned to your thoughts, beliefs, and mental im- ages, and responds to them instantaneous- ly. Her job is to ensure that your body chemistry supports and carries out what- ever your thoughts, beliefs, and visions are and carries them into the future.


It is clear that Spleen and Triple


Warmer represent opposite ends on the continuum of how to relate to stress. When they are working together and in balance, they are a potent and unstoppable team, bringing together the essential goals of staying alive and moving with security and confidence into an unknown future. How- ever, in addition to their innate difference, there is a second major problem to over- come in getting them to work together under stressful conditions. The problem is this: when Triple Warmer perceives dan- ger, he takes complete charge, and be- comes dominant over every meridian ex- cept the heart. When he is activated by a stressful situation and springs into action, he essentially shuts down Spleen. No chance for partnership here! Not only does Spleen have no say in directing what is happening in the body, she becomes weaker and weaker the longer the battle goes on, as Triple Warmer drains energy from Spleen as his own energy supplies get low. Clearly in order to have a balanced and creative response to stress, Triple Warmer must be soothed, and Spleen meridian must be strengthened and brought back on board.


Energy Medicine Exercises for Transforming Stress Donna Eden, author of Energy Medi-


cine and Energy Medicine for Women, has developed some wonderful, easy, and simple practices for accomplishing these goals. For more information about Donna and her educational programs and materi- als, go to her website www.innersource. com. These practices are basically a simpli- fied from of Tai Chi and Qigong. My own versions of some of these exercises are described below. It is important to practice these exercises in the order given. Unless Triple Warmer becomes sedated and re- laxed first, it is pointless to try to strength- en the Spleen (or any other meridian).


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