How Bones Energetically Nourish Joints:

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Looking for red in all the wrong places...

Orange you glad you have bones?

Of all the joints in all the world, I had to run into energy into this one...

Chakras: they aren't like on TV -

Yeah, chakras aren't really on TV. It's a metaphor for God's sake. Okay, it's a bad metaphor. Anyway... One of the essential insights from our beloved teacher Rosalyn Bruyere is that the chakras aren't just "in" chakra centers along the body centerline, but that their energies are redundant all throughout the body. She humorously referred to healers whose technique focused on the chakra centers only as the "stop-lights to heaven" approach. How's that for humorous metaphor?

One of the redundancies of the chakra energies is a layering of color frequencies in the body from chakras:

• Bone marrow being 1^st chakra red;
• Bone being 2^nd chakra orange;
• Periosteum being 3^rd chakra yellow;
• Muscle being 4^th chakra green; Fascia being 5^th chakra blue;
• Skin and biologically related tissues being 6^th chakra violet;
• And all the pores being like little white 7^th chakras.

Please note, that these are generalities, as the energies in each of the aforementioned tissues are much more complex than that. But close enough, and most of all useful for our work in practical terms.

From this we see that live bone is a prime carrier of two very fundamental energy qualities: red 1^st chakra energy in the marrow and orange 2^nd chakra energy in the other layers of bone tissue. By "fundamental" I mean that these frequencies are foundational to our overall energy as well as the most dense or physically related energy frequencies, i.e. closest in nature to our physical tissue itself. Thus, if our bones are alive with hot, dense red energy in the marrow they are energetically supplied to pump out all those important blood and immune cells for health and survival. And if our bones are alive with the chalky-wet and watery quality of orange the bones will be flexible, fibrous and well mineralized.

From both the physical and energetic standpoint, because of bones obviously substantial physical nature, bones fully charged with their own fundamental red and orange act as natural reservoirs for these fundamental energies. Bones, especially, appear to supply and nourish their most adjacent tissues with energy, most particularly the joints.

Certainly our joints have their own direct energy supply from the nerves that feed them, as we know in Nervous System Energy Work. But the more I am working directly with the energy of bones, the more I am beginning to appreciate that a lot of joint problems are a result of the depletion of energy in the related bones than they are a problem of the direct nerve feeding of energy to the joints. And the depletion of bone energy is often part of an overall ecology of energy depletion in the person's life: how they are using their life-energies.

Think Global-

We all know the cliché phrases for our feeling fatigued and depleted:

"I'm bone-tired..."

"I feel dry as bone..."

"That project sucked the marrow right out of my bones..."

"I'm drained, right down to the bone after that crisis..."

What these clichés are pointing to is that, as we use up our general store of free energy, our body starts pulling it from the organs or wherever else it can be found. In NSEW we refer to the general "wetlands" of the body as the nerve matrix. Nerve matrix holds our excess or reserve energy the way organic matter in rich garden soil holds moisture for longer periods.

If bones are also storehouses of the particular energy qualities of red and orange, then when these energies are used up in the general "soil" of the nerve matrix in the body and there is still a great need for them, they will then be pulled from the bones, even if the bones themselves need these frequencies for their own functions. The rule is our old tongue-in-cheek favorite: the biggest aura wins. In this case, that means that the organ with the biggest suck wins.  

The heart and liver, for example, being the strongest and most vital organs, are able to out-suck almost any other organs when they are in distress and in need of energy. So if these organs particularly need red and orange and it is not available from the 1^st and 2^nd chakras, or in the wetlands of the nerve matrix, they will start to pull it from the bones.

We see this in chronic, energy depletion such as in chronic stress, chronic illness, from the stresses of aging, etc. Subtle energy behaves in accord with basic physical principles like osmosis: it moves from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration. Those of us with old houses and damp basements know that if you run a dehumidifier all the time it will indeed lower the moisture level in the basement air, but actually will pull more moisture through the porous walls if the poor drainage continues to supply excess moisture outside. This is called equilibration scientifically.

Similarly, if our energy reservoir, the dry basement air in the analogy, is depleted below the level of the bones, the bone energy gets drawn out to equilibrate and supply the general energy levels of the body.

Countering this means we have to fill the person from the inside out, from the core of bones outward until their tissues can hold all the necessary frequencies and the wetlands of the nerve matrix can be restored to their fullness as well. Along the way, it might be nice to have just a wee chat about ones way of living: all the interesting and clever ways a person can squeeze an extra drop out of their own precious life force on behalf of fill-in-the-blank: _____________ (others, work, family, projects). And, how little a person's life might be arranged to "get some," goodies for their own needs. Inquiring minds want to know.

Think Local

Another way bones can become depleted and thus contribute to joint problems is more of a local problem. Muscles like the aforementioned organs the heart and liver, are also big energy users. Muscles get their physical energy from molecules like glucose and ATP, but they draw strongly on the subtle energy supply available through the nerves. A lot of repetitively stressful muscular activities, such as a sport or a repetititive work movements, tend to overuse particular muscles. The energy demands of the activity itself is compounded by the repair needed for worn out tissues, and can come to require more energy than either the biological or energetic sources can supply.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

As we said before, "the biggest aura wins." In this case, that means the biggest need will have the strongest suck. Muscles in need can suck hard enough to draw energy out of their adjacent bones, thus leaving the bones supplying less of their natural radiance to the joints.

Here we see things like joint pain from overuse. To the energy healer, the ends of the bones will feel energetically dry and light, usually empty of the hotter red bone marrow energy as well as absent of the chalky-wet orange energy of the fibrous bone, leaving only the dry, airy yellow of the periosteum. This may be sensed by the energy worker as apparent only in the section of the bone where the muscles attach, or may have cumulatively sucked the whole bone dry.

This person often feels energetically vital and healthy generally for they are exercising, after all, that's in fact what has seemed to trigger this pain, but despite their generally strong energy there's none of that where the joint problems or pain are. You may be able to sense plenty of red and orange available in the rest of their bones, but the bones local to the painful joints feel dry and empty, not matching the overall vitality elsewhere.

It's hard for the body to heal muscle and joint tissues when the adjacent bones are so depleted. I've been amazed by how much relief and healing to the muscles, as well as with the tendons and ligaments that often also have been strained, can occur when the deep core red and chalky-wet orange are restored to the bones. Along the way, a little perusal of how the person is orienting to their body as if it's like a machine might be in order. The belief that "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing" is often common to the gung-ho athletic and the young.

Awareness requires energy, not argument!

But, no one, especially not a wise-ass know-it-all healer, can argue anyone out of overuse, or anything else for that matter. Remember the layering thing? Our mental (3^rd chakra) beliefs are like the periosteum, that and thin tough layer that covers the bone. They are tough and protective in nature, but without much substance. You have to engage other frequencies, other colors and energies that connect a greater awareness to a more holistic sense of themselves to over-rule the mental, "It's good even if it hurts me" belief.

In other words, more breadth of energy frequency available means more qualities of consciousness available. If you only talk about their beliefs cognitively (i.e. in mental body, 3^rd chakra yellow) you are working in too limited range to motivate change. And the client also doesn't have the energy available and frequency range needed to look at the problem from other levels of consciousness than the one generating the problem, i.e. the mental body, you might as well save your breath.

And, by the way, that thing about having enough frequencies available for full consciousness goes double for the healer. Healers can be unbearably smug about trying to correct a client's "unhealthy thinking," which by it's nature means that the healer is also stuck in yellow and the third chakra. Ah the 3^rd chakra, the most smug chakra of them all!

What's a nice red like you doing in a joint like this?

That wonderful wet, slippery orange, in its fullness, really soaks the cartilage, bursa, synovial fluids and ligaments of the joints with moist, slippery energy. From the perspective of bone, it almost seems as if it's rich bone energy that radiantly grows the joint tissues, although they also have their own sources of direct energy supply. Inflammation can be felt as a prickly and irritating red quality of energy. Rosalyn Bruyere often referred to joint inflammation as "Too much red in the wrong places."

Inflamed joints will pull the wet orange energy out of the nearby bones in order to try and douse that inflammatory fire. Over time with long-term inflammatory problems, the bones become energetically dry and depleted. When you fill the bones on either side of the inflamed joint with red into their core (whether there is marrow or not) and then get the bone tissue resonant and full with that chalky-wet orange, the client will curiously feel their joints "cool down."

This is this curious because, from the healers perspective, this orange energy feels warm as you run it, and there is an expectation that running warm into already inflamed areas will make for more discomfort. But it is the wet quality of orange energy that quenches the fire of inflammation, and so is felt as cooling. The wet, heavy quality of well-soaked bone, think about how fresh soup bones feel wet and heavy, feels very soothing, cooling and solidifying by contrast to the dry and airy but inflamed sensation they had. The principle here is "go soak your bones!" Keep generating that chalky-wet orange in adjacent bones until that frequency holds, and follow with specific work on the joints.

I hope you enjoyed this addition to our way of looking at bones and joints. Feel free to click on the "Comment" box and give some feedback on this blog, or on what results you get from experimenting with this thoughts and principles.