Helping another person to feel the Organs

The basic technique for bringing awareness to the organs is to hold both sides of the body, and focus your attention on the
movement that both hands feel simultaneously.
This brings your mind and the mind of the receiver into tune with the structures in the centre of the body, not at the
surface, and in general these are the organs.
The following pictures show the basic holding positions for various organs and the types of movement you commonly
feel.
Holding the Liver.
The Liver extends quite far up under the ribs. Your underneath hand will also feel the
expansion of the lower lobes of the lung.
The upper and lower hands together may feel a sideways expansion that also spreads
down the side the of body and pushes into the heels of your palms. This is the sensation
of the liver movement.

Holding the Liver 2

On the out breath, compress the heels of your hands together slightly and on the inbreath, keep the sense of compression going until you feel the liver expanding into the
compression.
This gives the receiver a focused sensation of the liver movement.

Holding the Liver 3

As the expansion continues, follow the movement of the liver down the side of the
abdomen.
This following is done without sliding your hands on her body, but just keep the sense
of contact with the movement of the liver and your hands will naturally move
downwards slightly.

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Holding the duodenum and small intestine

Bring the hands more central and feel the difference in the movement.
Whereas the liver expands down the side of the body. The duodenum rotates leftwards
slightly and the rest of the small intestine expands down into the centre of the abdomen.
Feeling the Duodenum
In this picture you can see if the top hand follows the duodenum, it shifts over towards
the left side of the body.

The Rectum
Holding the sacrum and feeling the movement of the sacrum and pelvis with the breath.
Encourage the receiver to breath with their diaphragm by suggesting that they breath out
long and slow, gently pulling in the abdominal muscles at the end of the out breath.
Then ask them to wait until they feel the desire to breath in and then release the
abdominal muscles to expand the abdomen on the in breath.
As the diaphragm pulls down to breath in, it squashes the abdominal cavity and the
abdomen expands BUT ALSO the lower organs push down on the pubic bone making
the pelvis rock downwards at the front and rock upwards at the back, slightly curving
the lumbar spine inwards.
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As this movement takes place the rectum will gently expand the sacrum upwards giving
a subtle sense of lift to the sacrum.
The Bladder & Uterus
With the same breathing as above, and the hands in this position feel how the expansion
of the lower organs opens the iliac crest - very small movement. Help the ilium to open
and feel the movement in the sacro-iliac joint. This gives an inner sensation to the
receiver how the uterus and bladder expand both downwards and outwards.

The Ascending Colon

With one hand on the ilium and the other on the lower ribs, with the same breathing as
above you can feel how the side of the abdomen lengthens on the in breath.
Focus your attention on the ascending colon and imagine it expanding like a sausage
balloon, pushing the pelvis and ribs apart from the inside.
Gently amplify the movement but not with force, just following the inner expansion and
making it slightly bigger so that the receiver can feel the movement.
Verbally encourage them to feel the inner expansion by giving them the image of the
sausage balloon.

Ascending Colon 2
If they find it hard to experience the movement then squeeze the ascending colon like
this and, giving compression during the in-breath they should be able to feel the
expansion of the colon.

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The Stomach
As the diaphragm pulls down on the in-breath the stomach is pushed up and sideways
and it moves in a curve which follows its curved shape.

Stomach Closeup
Notice how the under-hand is feeling the sideways expansion and the top hand is
compressing slightly to give sensation to the expansion.

The Spleen
With the under-hand further underneath and the top hand going through the layers
sensing underneath the stomach you should be able to feel the movement of the Spleen.
It tends to push up into the diaphragm on the in-breath and expand into the lower ribs
giving a more powerful expansion on the left side than the lower lobes of the lung.
The lower lobes just exapand outwards while the spleen gives a definite upward
sensation.
Amplify this movement sensitively by gently pushing the lower ribs upwards and then
stop giving force and suggest to the receiver that she feels how this movement could
continue from the inside of the back.

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Kidney
The kidney movement is hard to feel if you have a tense back. They tend to rotate
slightly and push the upper curve of the kidney into the spine on the in-breath.
I find that if I work with the spinal muscles to release them and then hold the kidney
which is lowest (the left in this picture), that the receiver can sense an inner lift to the
spine, holding it from curving under gravity.
Even imagining the support that the kidneys give to the lumbar spine can give a
surprising sense of lift, excitement and lightness.
Kidney 2
Another position for feeling the kidney is in prone position with the fingers of the under
hand curled up into the solar plexus (or just below it).
The receiver lets you in and settles onto your hand and you can feel the dense quality of
the kidney.
The upper hand is just giving support and feeling the inner expansion of the back as the
kidney moves.

The next lesson will include a video of most of these techniques in action.

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