How to Regulate Your Nervous System After 50

A pilot course, born from Strawberry 4, Energy Management

It was somewhere in my late fifties. After my second husband and before my fourth partner. The life I had known had come apart quietly, and my body was still paying the bill. I was functional. I was capable. I was also running on empty in a way that rest and supplements never touched, and no one around me could see.

I thought I was tired. I was energetically bankrupt, in a specific and describable sense, and no amount of sleep was going to fix it.

Energy is a system, and it responds to daily care.

This system has a name in energy medicine: Triple Warmer, the body's survival meridian. In a modern body, it almost never quiets. It fires on traffic, on emails, on a small argument two days ago, because it cannot tell the difference between a sabre-tooth tiger and a deadline. And while it fires, it hijacks energy from every other system in the body to keep the emergency running.

The course teaches the full sequence, but here is what you'll start to recognize:

• The Four Thumps

  Realign the meridians after sleep or stress
• The Cross Crawl

  Reconnect both hemispheres, clear the fog
• The Crossover Shoulder Pull

  Release what the shoulders have been holding since morning
• Zip-Up and Hook-Up

  Close the energy field, return to yourself in three breaths

Five minutes a day. That's what the sequence asks for. The course walks you through it, day by day, for thirty days, exactly as I learned it.

What would change in your life if your energy was no longer the first thing you had to manage every morning?

Babette