July Newsletter
Hello Beautiful Souls,
Can you believe we have reached the midpoint of the year? Eclipse season is over, the Summer solstice has come and gone and Mercury is direct again (Yihaaa! This one was particularly challenging for me).
There are many big planets (Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn & Pluto) in retrograde through most of the summer. You can expect to revisit many of the themes that started playing out between January and April.
On being homolateral
This month I am being asked to talk about homolaterality and how it impacts our energy systems.
Our energy systems need to ‘crossover’ in order to act and interact harmoniously and create optimal health. It’s a natural pattern that occurs everywhere in the body right down to our DNA. We literally have criss-crosses everywhere. When we are healthy, our energy crosses side to side, top to bottom and front to back.
The crisscross pattern everywhere in our body resembles the celtic weave.
Homolateral means ‘same side’. When you are homolateral, your energies are no longer crossing over but running in straight lines, up and down. This limits adequate access to energies in your systems. When you are homolateral, your systems are operating at less than 50% of their efficiency.
This pattern usually happens when you are sick or tired as the signal to the body to slow down, rest, heal and regroup. If you take the necessary time to heal, then your energies will automatically start crossing over again.
This phenomenon has been observed in small children: when they are active and busy, their energies cross over. When they start getting tired, their energies become homolateral so they can sleep. When they wake up again, the energies are back to criss-crossing.
Of course, in our modern society, we don’t take the time to slow down, so the homolateral pattern can become a set habit.
When you are consistently homolateral, you are
Less coordinated
Chronically tired
Mentally sluggish
Unable to recover from illness: in fact, some experts seem to believe that your body can’t heal if you are homolateral.
Sometimes depressed - you can’t seem to get out of a dark place.
Doing simple things like walking are difficult because we are going against the flow of the body: it’s like swimming upstream.
The way out of homolaterality is to get your energies to criss-cross. Walking, swimming, running, skating, cross country skiing and doing certain yoga poses are some ways to achieve crossovers. I also share 2 simple crossover exercises underneath.
Some benefits of the crossover exercises:
They fire up neural pathways in the left and right brain at the same time. They enhance whole brain thinking.
They reorganize the mind-body connections so you behave and perform better.
They stabilize walking gait coordination, build core strength as well as general coordination.
They energize the body and calm the mind.
They Improve eye teaming skills which are essential for focus, reading and writing
They help develop proprioception: spatial and kinesthetic awareness
They reboot the nervous system and help to re-integrate the mind and body.
They discharge and recharge your attention and your energy.
They Increase self-awareness
2 simple Crossover exercises
A. Cross-over- this is an EEM© exercise
Drag your right hand from your left shoulder to your right hip.
Drag your left hand from your right shoulder to your left hip
Repeat each side 3x
B.Cross Crawl- this is a Brain Gym© exercise
Start with the homolateral movement
Tap your left hand on your left knee.
Tap your right hand on your right knee.
Repeat 12x each side.
Follow it by the Cross Crawl
Tap your left hand on your right knee
Tap your right hand on your left knee.
Repeat 12x each side.
The combination of both constitutes one set.
Repeat 3 sets.
You can cross in the front or in the back.
Front Cross Crawl
Back Cross Crawl
Side note: I am currently studying again, learning lots of fascinating stuff and feel rather homolateral these days. I have come to understand this as the way my body absorbs and makes sense of new energy. Getting my energies to crossover at the end of class will really help my body integrate what’s new.
Wishing you all an abundant and fiery July!
Sun-filled blessings
Celia