Some medications are 400X more powerful when taken during lung meridian time (3AM – 5AM). This is the time when lungs are at their strength, so they are moving oxygen all throughout the body.

Lungs are at their nadir between 3PM and 5PM. This is when many cultures have their siestas. It is also the worst time of the day to absorb new information.

Exercise: To open the lungs, interlace your fingers behind your back, turn your palms outward and stretch. This exercise strengthens the heart chakra as well.

Exercise: Flushing lung meridian (pp. 117, 107) moves a lot of toxins out.

Exercise: To strengthen and open up the lungs, begin as if doing the zip up (pg. 82). When you get above the breasts, rake your fingers across your chest towards your arms. Repeat.

Exercise: Take a deep breath and hold it. Keep track of how long you can hold it. Now massage up and down the sternum. Hold your breath again and see how much longer you’re able to hold it. Massaging the sternum gives you breath. If the sternum is sore, you’re not using your full breath and the results of this exercise will be more dramatic. The Olympic Team does this exercise to improve their breathing.

Exercise: Kidneys and lungs work well together to help move energy out. This simple exercise opens up the lungs and hooks up your heart and kidneys.

Exercise: Sedate large intestine (pg. 123) for low back pain. This relaxes that area.

Exercise: Large intestine and lung sit on the same element (metal) (pg. 210) and things will often show up on large intestine if you’re getting a cold. Push on the outside of your thighs from hip to knee and see if it hurts. If so, massage the large intestine neurolymphatics (pg. 85).

The emotion of gall bladder is anger. It can also be seething energy inside when there isn’t enough assertion.

Exercise: The Wood element (gall bladder, liver) has to do with standing firm, taking your place in life. The following exercise is a takeoff on Expel the Venom (pg. 219). It deals specifically with these emotions, which are imbalances in Wood element:

1. Stand tall. Turn your palms face up and make fists with both hands.
2. While inhaling deeply, s-l-o-w-l-y move your fists out in front of you and up to the level of your face as you s-l-o-w-l-y bend your knees and then stand up.
3. While exhaling deeply, follow the same path with your arms to slowly bring your fists to your waist, with the elbows bent and straight back, while you bend your knees and then stand up.
4. Repeat twice.
5. Flatten your hands on your sides and move them down your legs. When your arms are straight, massage deeply the gall bladder neurolymphatics points which are roughly under the middle finger of each hand.

This really helps the energy learn how to be more assertive and balances anger. Repeat this exercise regularly and these emotions will shift in you.

TMJ issues are usually gall bladder. One-sided headaches are gall bladder.

Liver meridian directs the blood and energy in the body. You can "direct" liver with your mind, with intention.

Work with liver when there are issues around being hard on yourself and stuffing your anger.

Lemon is fabulous for wood element (liver and gall bladder), especially if the liver is off. It will literally squeeze the liver and help it detoxify. Raspberry is good for the liver too.

Exercise: Liver meridian is constantly dealing with toxins. One of the ways to help clear them is to clear the liver line on the foot (pg. 107). Push in on the area of the foot between the first and second toes. Is it sensitive? Massage up and down that line as well as on the inside edge of the big toe.

Exercise to strengthen liver:

1. Sit on the floor or on a healing table with your legs on the table. Bend your knees and put your feet flat on the floor or table.
2. Imagine a rush of energy coming up your body from your big toes to below your breasts, circling down. Repeat the cycle again. This is the pathway of liver meridian. Imagine this occurring in the general area; you don’t have to stay within the liver meridian line as liver jumps the walls of the meridian. Repeat a couple of times.
3. Now lie back, straighten your legs, and imagine the cycle a couple more times.

You can get the benefit of this exercise by just imagining the rush of pulling the energy up, like a river moving up through your body and then down again.

Triple Warmer meridian is probably the first energy that kept us alive as a species as it’s the fight-or-flight response. It networks every energy in the body, except heart energy. If it senses you’re in danger, it sucks energy from everywhere except the heart. It’s as if an army gets conscripted and the energies can’t keep their old job. They have to come and fight. We live in a world where that’s generally not what it’s about anymore, but triple warmer thinks it is because it was programmed millions of years ago.

The triple warmer response is a very expensive response in terms of your body’s resources. It not only takes a lot of resources, it also puts a lot of chemicals into your body that have to be burned off. If you don’t complete the impulse to fight or flee, they don’t get burned off and they are like poison to your body.

Exercise: Other meridians that tested weak will often test strong just by sedating triple warmer (pg. 236), as sedating takes that excess energy out of triple warmer and the energy can then balance out.

Exercise: If you have chronic stress or otherwise know that your fight or flight response is often engaged, smooth behind the ears (pg. 235), hold the triple warmer sedating points (pg. 236) and/or trace the triple warmer meridian backwards frequently (pg. 105). You can never hurt yourself by doing this. If you don’t need it, nothing happens. If you do need it, the results can be amazing. Each of these removes excess energy from triple warmer, helping to calm its vigilance so it will work better for you.

Exercise: Rub the mastoid bone all along the triple warmer meridian line behind the ear in either direction. You might notice tenderness there.

It’s rare for triple warmer to test weak. When it does, you want to get it turned back on. Triple warmer is on the fire element and the weakness indicates the fire is going out. The following exercise balances either a weak or an overactive triple warmer. It helps all 4 fire meridians (triple warmer, circulation sex, small intestine, and heart) work together. It is a good exercise to do for heartache and confusion.

Exercise: Fire Element Balancer

1. Put one hand over either the thymus gland (pg. 51) or your heart, whichever feels better.
2. Put your other hand straight out to the side, elbow relaxed, palm facing forward.
3. Take a deep breath in through the nose and out through the mouth.
4. Now use your mind to follow the heart meridian line (pg. 102) from its starting point on your torso, down your arm and off the baby finger. Let any sadness, torment, confusion or worry go down the arm and off the little finger.

Circulation Sex meridian is the pericardium of the heart. Heart is the only organ in the body that doesn’t have to protect itself. The main job of circulation sex is to protect the heart. It is also governs the hormones and circulation.

Exercise: Holding the circulation sex sedating points (pg. 122) is generally good for the body. It relaxes tension in the circulation. It’s good for hormones. It relaxes the root chakra and makes space in it, allowing energy to rise.

Exercise: Put your hands on your waist with your thumbs in front and fingers in back. Drop your fingers to the upper butt and massage. These are circulation sex neurolymphatics points. If they are sore, sedate circulation sex (pg. 122) and rub the outer edges of the pubic bone, which are also circulation sex neurolymphatic points. This relaxes the pericardium which is good for the heart. After doing this, rub the sore neurolymphatics points again. The soreness should be gone.

Small Intestine meridian’s job is to absorb. It decides whether it is going to keep what’s being digested or get rid of it. At its best, it discerns quickly. If you’re having problems with small intestine, you may not be able to discern quickly.

Exercise: If your digestive tract is sluggish, work on small intestine neurolymphatics (pg. 84) on the inside of the thighs and all along the bottom of the rib cage. This helps bowels move.

Exercise: Work on both small intestine and stomach meridians to get the whole digestive system moving.

Hip problems can be caused by weak lower abdominals. Back problems can be caused by weak upper abdominals.

Exercise: Work on small intestine for abdominals. Also, the Crown Pull (pg. 77) helps abdominals.

See the April, 2005 issue of the Energy Community Report at www.energymed.org for heart and heart meridian exercises.

Exercise to strengthen spleen, liver and especially heart:

1. Bend one elbow in front of your body.
2. Cross your other arm under it and place the bent elbow in the bend of the other elbow so both hands are pointing up.
3. Use the outer elbow to pull the inner one towards your body, so it moves toward the opposite shoulder.
4. Hold.
5. Reverse.

Exercise to strengthen lung, heart, and spleen meridians:

1. Cross your arms and put your fingers under the opposite armpit with thumbs on the chest above the armpit.
2. Take a few deep breaths while holding that posture.