Spinal flushes are de rigueur in our business. I give one to someone every day (well, maybe not on weekends). But even though I can dish it out, I rarely take it. I regularly work my neurolymphatic points on the front of my body during my daily energy routine, and I try to address my back in as many creative ways as possible, but I just don’t get that good, deep, full spinal flush that I crave so much.
Joseph and I are on different schedules. I go to bed hours before him, and am awake hours before he stirs. We do manage to meet over breakfast fairly often, but by that time the concerns of the day are prevalent and taking the time for a flush is just not our habit. Add a mutual stressor, like business management or a discussion about financing a college education, and our time together can take on a heaviness, and from thereon the day gets sluggish. Our lymphatic systems get flooded with hormones, and on we slog.
We have both had the experience of feeling foggy or confused, unfocused or lethargic, and have received a spinal flush which transformed our experience into one of clarity, inspiration and vigor. Oh – what a bit of time, attention and pressure can do for a soul’s embodied experience, but we are not habituated to stopping what we are doing and taking the time to give each other the simple gift of a spinal flush. As the seasons start to turn (at least according to the Celtic calendar if not the upper-midwest calendar) and we enter the very early stages of spring, I can feel the toxins of winter, residue from the meat, fats, wine, chocolate, and carbs more frequent in my winter diet, hanging about, weighing me down. I’m ready to flush, and thankfully, I know a really good way to do that.
So, starting on Monday the 1st of February, I am committed to receiving a spinal flush every day. It just so happens that I do have a willing partner, who knows how to really dish it out, but if he’s not available, I have a daughter, or a mother, or a neighbor or a friend who I can teach, and entice into sharing the gift with me.