Priya Vassan offers calming, rebalancing and energizing tools to navigate your state whilst taking Immortality.

In a perfect state of health our internal systems are held in a state of intelligent, dynamic balance by natural fulcrums. By definition, fulcrums themselves are stable and are a point around which things are able to organize themselves in a state of coherence, functionality, ease and awareness.

Fulcrums in our system range from the most physical and dense such as bones, tissues and fluids to the most rarified and ethereal such as beliefs, thoughts and memories.

When an event such as trauma, injury or disease occurs that challenges the ability of the system to accommodate natural fulcrums, false or inertial fulcrums are created. These are at some level a necessary and adaptive response. In theory, given space and time, the system will integrate the information, learn from the event and calibrate back its natural point of balance.  However, when we are not well-resourced or supported, feel unsafe, or when we feel the adaptation is somehow seen as necessary for survival or correct in some sense, inertial fulcrums are included into our matrix and cause distortion.  These inertial fulcrums compromise mobility and motility and, even though we may not be aware of it, require energy to maintain. Indeed, holding these inert fulcrums may very well be the cause of old age, decrepitude and death.

The miracle of the Immortal Jellyfish is that the experience of trauma, survival issues or stress in the environment triggers a response in its system to revert to an earlier version of itself. The Jelly is able to perpetually regenerate itself. This message is alchemically captured by Adamas in the remedy Immortality.  When we imbibe it, it triggers the response in our system to seek out and unwind false fulcrums, returning us to a more youthful, healthful version of ourselves. The results have been wide-ranging and utterly phenomenal. People are looking younger, energy levels are up, old niggles, trauma and injuries are dissipating, to name but a few. People experience more inherent health, natural ability, they are more present and just naturally more joyful and alive.

As we move through and back to the state of youth – unwinding trauma, binding patterns and non-optimal states – the system re-orientates itself.

Residual and trapped energy is unleashed and resources are re-allocated. Symptoms range from euphoria to dullness, perturbation to disassociation, feelings of overwhelm and over-excitement to lethargy and tiredness. What follows in the rest of this article is how to recognize which state you are in and to offer a few simple tools to help regulate your state when seeking a return to balance.

From the outset though I would suggest your primary guide be to begin to tune into your body and psyche and when it asks for something, give it that something – be it rest, sleep, exercise, water in all its forms, food, bodywork, quiet, nature, conversation, fun, whatever really. And, if you already have a practice you love, do it!

There is wisdom in all states, embrace the lesson and accept all it brings so it can alchemize. During this deep process of healing, be kind to yourself, love yourself and be light with it all. It definitely will shift. We heal and learn more through play and pleasure than rigidity and censure. One wo/man’s medicine is another’s poison after all.

Allow yourself to explore and understand your own design – and let all the external noise and imposed reference points that have lodged themselves in your system to be swept clean out. This is your time.

In terms of states that need to be managed, we can either be in an overly heightened/activated state with symptoms of overwhelm, anxiety, sleeplessness, restlessness, agitation – basically where the nervous system needs soothing and calming. Or we can be in a more sedate state. In the latter you will need to discern whether your system needs resourcing or is stagnant and needs to be activated. Where we would ideally like to be on this continuum is a state of alert and calm and the medicine when we get stuck in either or, is to first recognize what state we are in and then titrate to that effect.

For all of the above I recommend working with the lymphatic system. We often hear about the benefits of cardio and pumping the blood. It is indeed necessary but if we are to compare the cardiovascular system to the lymphatic system, the cardiovascular system is what pumps blood and nourishes the system whereas the lymphatic is what clears away the waste products – kind of like doing the dishes. I recommend a daily practice involving lymphatic work to start the day or when symptoms appear. Symptoms can be a feeling of stagnation, heaviness, overwhelm, repetitive thinking, indigestion, dullness, lethargy, tiredness, uncentredness and ungroundedness to name a few.

With these practices you are literally working with the waters of your body.

Being well-hydrated is a good idea. Stop if you feel nauseous. Keep your heart rate relaxed. Focus on lengthening exhales. Once you get going it should feel self-propelled, generating and as though you could carry on the practice indefinitely – as opposed to a short hard sprint.

Lymph Practices

• Walking – especially in nature

• Rebounding – if you have a rebounder or trampoline, that’s amazing but if not, just bouncing on the floor is great. Focus on lengthening your exhalations. And it’s definitely not jumping up and down. It’s bouncing, the emphasis is definitely on the downward motion which causing a rebounding upward effect. You can feel this best with a rebounder.

• Body Tapping – Keep the body relaxed, suspend yourself from the crown and feel the connection to the earth by micro-bending the knees. Find your breath. Form a very light fist or with a relaxed palm tap the body.
  • Arms: Tap up the outside from the fingertips to the shoulder joint and then down the inside of the arms. Then pay attention to the armpit area where there are many lymph nodes and tap down the side of the rib cage
  • Legs: Tap down the outer leg from hip to little toe and up the inside from big toe to inner groin. Spend extra time at the inner groin and behind the knees. Tap around the outer hips and buttocks
  • Kidneys/Lower Back: lean forward slightly and very gently tap around the lower back area from underneath the base of the rib cage to the top of the hips
  • Belly: Coming back into your relaxed standing position. Very gently tap the belly up the right-handside, under the ribcage right to left, down the left and along the bottom left to right. Be very specific with the direction as we are tracing the direction of elimination through large intestine and we don’t want to reverse that
  • Neck: tap with fingertips or stroke very gently down the neck toward the heart. Pay particular attention to the area under the jawline
  • Face: Tap the face very gently, you can even drum the fingers. Pay particular attention to the area under the eyes, the sinus cavities in the cheekbone area and along the jawline
  • Skull: Tap from the top and front to the back of the neck to the occipital area and down the back of the neck

Come back into your relaxed standing position and observe. The body should feel warm and tingly. Bring your attention back to your breath, feel the connection to the earth through your feet and suspend yourself from the top of your head. Relax your belly and allow yourself to breath naturally from here

Overly Heightened States in need of soothing

• Child’s pose: come down to knees, tops of feet to the floor. If comfortable bring the knees together. Fold the torso over the tops of the thighs. If the head does not comfortably reach the floor, don’t let your head dangle. You can either make fists with the hands, place them one on top of the other and rest your forehead on them or prop with blocks, books, pillows. The full pose brings the arms alongside the body but if this is not comfortable for any reason, extend them forward. You should feel an almost immediate quietening. In this position you can also visualize breathing into your kidneys and adrenals. If you experience any pain, especially in the knees or ankles, rather come out. Move mindfully in and out.
• Foetal Position: this is basically Child’s Pose of the side body. Here you can wrap the arms around the bent legs and bring the forehead towards the knees.
• Constructive Rest: Lie on the floor hard surface. Bend your knees and bring your feet flat to the floor slightly wider than your hips. Pigeon toe the feet (heels out, toes in) and allow the knees to rest together. Cross the arms at the elbows and rest across the chest or face. Change the cross in the arms. You should feel the effects after a few minutes but I would recommend twenty if you have the time.
• Cradle Occiput and Forehead with either hand. Best done seated. Take a few moments to feel your body, your breath and your feet on the floor. Then take up the hold. Pressure wise, I’d say to start with the about the weight of a coin.
• Vagus stroke: cup the face, let the base of the palms connect at the chin and the fingers spread and gently holding the face. Hold for a moment. Run the hands down the neck and onto the chest, then press into the centre of the sternum/heartspace with one hand on top of the other. Pause here for a moment. Keep your hands in this position and press down through the centre line of the ribcage till you reach the soft area about a hands distance from the ziphoid process. You are literally stroking and soothing the vagus nerve.
• Lengthen exhalations, open your mouth if it provides a better release
• Pressure points: Use very gentle pressure, again I’d say to stick to the weight of a coin – especially if feeling very activated. On bigger areas using a flat palm instead of a fingertip will be more soothing. All points are measured in Cunwhich is a measurement relative to the patient’s body used to find acupuncture points

• Extra Point 2 Yintang (Hall of Impressions): midway between the two inside ends of the eyebrows
  • Ren 17 (Sea of Tranquility): on the sternum, midway between the nipples
  • Pericardium 6 (Inner Gate): 2cun from the inner wrist crease, between the two long tendons
  • Spleen 6 (Three Yin Intersection): 3cun above the bottom tip of the ankle bone, along the inner aspect of the leg, directly behind the shin bone
  • Heart 7 (Spirit Gate): At the crease of the wrist, on the inner aspect, on the little finger side.
  • Large Intestine 4 (Great Eliminator): between the pointer finger and thumb, on the top side of the hand, 1.5cun from the edge of the hand
  • Kidney 1 (Bubbling Well): On the sole of the foot, behind the mound of the big toe
  • Urinary Bladder 23 (Kidney Shu): 1.5cun away from spine, at the height of the midpoint between hip and lower rib cage and Urinary Bladder 52 (Willpower Chamber): 3cun away from spine, at the height of the midpoint between hip and lower ribcage

hold the lower back in the area between the rib cage and hips and focus your breath here. Let the breath be natural, relaxed, slow and steady.

• Ren 6 (Sea of Qi): 1.5cun below belly button and Ren 4 (Gate of Origin); 3cun below belly button

If you find you are too agitated to go straight into any of the practices above – do brisk movements, the lymphatic practices, shake your body out, exhale out the mouth, make a few noises, follow your body. Doing simple things like dimming the lights, getting off your devices and spending time in nature will help.

Sedentary States in Need of Activation: to relieve stagnation, heaviness, dullness

• Lymphatic Practices: See above

Sedentry States in Need of Nourishment, Resourcing, Replenishment

• Rest and sleep
• Nourishing food
• Child’s Pose (see above)
• Constructive Rest (see above)
• Cradle Occiput and Forehead (see above)
• Vagus Stroke (see above)
• Pressure points:
  • Ren 6 (Sea of Qi): 1.5cun below belly button and Ren 4 (Gate of Origin); 3cun below belly button
  • Large Intestine 4 (Great Eliminator): between the pointer finger and thumb, on the top side of the hand, 1.5cun from the edge of the hand
  • Kidney 1 (Bubbling Well): On the sole of the foot, behind the mound of the big toe
  • Spleen 6 (Three Yin Intersection): 3cun above the bottom tip of the ankle bone, along the inner aspect of the leg, directly behind the shin bone
  • Stomach 36 (Leg Three Mile): approximately 3cun below the bottom of the knee, on the outer aspect of the leg, 1-1.5cun away from the shin
  • Urinary Bladder 23 (Kidney Shu): 1.5cun away from spine, at the height of the midpoint between hip and lower rib cage and Urinary Bladder 52 (Willpower Chamber): 3cun away from spine, at the height of the midpoint between hip and lower ribcage hold the lower back in the area between the rib cage and hips and focus your breath here. Let the breath be natural, relaxed, slow and steady.

Of course, the methods and states outlined above are definitely not exhaustive but represent a framework upon which you can begin to identify what state you are in and how to manage it best. I hope they are helpful. Once again, if you have a practice, you know and love, do it. Sometimes it is hardest to do the things we already know – especially when our patterning and memories are flying at us hard and fast. Do them. And if it really is too much (or too little) – ask for help. It’s always available. We’ve all been there and probably will again.

And, above all else – enjoy The Jelly, it’s the ride of a lifetime!

Written by Priya Vassan