The Wind Points

Do you recall your grandparents telling you to always wear a scarf and hat on a windy day? Well, they were right.

‘Wind’ in the Chinese understanding doesn't just mean the wind we experience on a windy day though. It means a force of external environment or climate, including various types of external energies such as damp, dry, wind, and heat, that can be carried into the body through a series of access points. When these points are open and unprotected, they act as a portal through which your vital life energy can leave you and the mischievous effects of the external climates can continue to flood into your whole body system. It is very common to have challenges with these access points when you are ill or when the seasons are changing.

These energetic access points are called various names in the ancient Chinese texts, including the wind points, climate points, and (this one makes me laugh every time) the five pernicious devils! These names originate from the understanding that once the balance of pressure was lost, the energies of the external environment (climate/wind) could enter the system at certain points on the body and cause chaos!

I call them pressure valves, because they play a vital part in managing your health and maintaining the balance and equilibrium of your whole energy system when you are feeling pressure in your life. These pressure valves can either be intact, adaptable and resilient OR they can be deeply vulnerable places in your energy system, letting your energy leak out of you, and being open to too much external energy coming into your body.

Every second of every minute, your beautiful energy system is involved in an intricate and continual balancing of internal and external pressure. So what becomes of vital importance to your health and your life, is the interface and meeting point of your energy and the energy around you, and whether this meeting point is one of balance. We can think about this in terms of resiliency, and what resiliency means energetically is that your energy field holds its balance when pressure is applied. It meets the pressure (internal or external) and responds in a way that maintains balance and harmony. 

These pressure valves are amazingly simple to understand and balance, and yet the concept behind them is beautifully profound. Your energy fields reflect this. When you are in a good place and your energy field is strong and coherent then you are able to interact with all that is around you in a different way. Your aura (or biofield) remains beautifully intact, resilient and doing its job to both protect you and connect you. 

When your pressure valves have blown, your energy field looks very different. External energy rushes through a tunnel, through your defences and straight into your body, while at the same time, your own energy is rushing out through this tunnel. At this point, your energy fields simply cannot hold cohesion and coherence, and you are compromised and vulnerable.

Now you know this, I'm sure you will agree that knowing how to balance your pressure valves is mind-blowingly, vitally important to how you can function! And I mean this not only in your day to day life, but in your deep life - in how you bring your soul purpose forward into your every day so that you are able to live your joyful, thriving life. 

When you know where your pressure valves are and how to activate them, you can: 

• Hold your resiliency even when under pressure

• Experience your joy despite the situation

• Support your immune system to stay healthy

• Feel like you have more space in your life

• Greatly reduce the effect of stress in your daily life so you can bring your fullest you to your every day

You can find out more about the pressure valves, how you can access them and work with them in my 90 minute online class 'Feeling the Pressure? Stay Strong, Steady and Empowered. Every Day'.

In this class you will enjoy a thorough introduction to the pressure valves, with information on where they are, and how you can access them and work with them to keep them in balance.

For the month of December, we're focusing on this course as a group this month in my online community, The Gathering Ground – when we work through a class together we co-create an energy field of healing and transformation that is always more powerful and supportive than simply doing the class on your own. I hope you'll join the conversation!

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I also created an advanced class on the pressure valves, called 'The Pressure Valves of the Body', and it is designed for all healthcare practitioners, carers and educators with an existing knowledge of the wind points, who work with their clients to empower health, balance and vitality. You can also benefit from this class if, once completing Class 1, you want to extend your understanding about pressure valves to a deeper level. Find out more and sign up here.

Wishing you joy, health and empowered vitality. With love,

Prune