Meditation 1: Thumb Energy

The fire element, the lung meridian, and Mars (the planet and/or ancient
god of war) are associated with the thumb. The fire of the thumb nourishes
the energy of the other fingers and absorbs excess energy. It thereby
restores equilibrium. When we think about the incineration of garbage,
we sense that destruction through fire can also have a power that creates
order. Even in nature, when during the course of the decades a monoculture
of the strongest has been created, the forest fire once again creates the
preconditions for a larger variety of new plants. The overheating within
our bodies, the fever, kills entire cultures of bacteria. Fire is dependent
upon air since it dies without oxygen; the same also applies to our cell respiration.
The metabolism in the individual cells can only properly function
with adequate oxygen. We can actually strengthen every part of the
body or every organ by visualizing and/or breathing light and warmth
into it.


Exercise
Either sit or lie down. Now encircle your right thumb with the four fingers
of your left hand and place your left thumb along the inner edge of
your right hand. Close your eyes.
Focus on a part of the body that is weak or ill. Now imagine that a
light is burning in the lower center of your body (at the height of the
navel). Every time you exhale, direct the rays of light toward the
respective part of the body. First let large, dark clouds of smoke
(things that make you ill, pain, etc.) escape from the illuminated
body part. Then concentrate solely on the light that slowly fills, illuminates,
and heals this part of the body.
Calmly keep holding onto your thumb for a while and feel the flowing
warmth. Then encircle your left thumb and also hold this for a while.