Learning HOW to Hug Yourself

Sherri A. Nicholas Author

Learning HOW to hug yourself is as important as the hug itself!!

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January 21 is National Hugging Day and I'm going to connect the convenient concept of Rice-A-Roni to a high voltage meridian hug! 

How many people remember the jingle, "Rice-A-Roni the San Francisco Treat"? It was a catchy tune that has stayed in my head all these years. I hardly eat any prepared foods in a box. But I grew up in the time where convenience meal prep was "a thing" for the working mothers of the 70's. I used to ask my mother why my grandmother's food tasted better. She said because it was real. Curious sentence for me as a child to wrap my mind around, but it has stuck with me. I learned how to peel "real potatoes" because I compared my grandmother's real mashed potatoes to the dehydrated potato flakes that I used to stand over with the beater. 

So, the other day I was eating "Rice-A-Roni the San Francisco Treat" and I said out loud, "I wonder why San Francisco is in the jingle?

Within 5 seconds I found an article fully explaining in more detail than I could have possibly imagined the origins of Rice-A-Roni the San Francisco Treat. I could spend many paragraphs retelling the whole story but here's the link to the long version.

How Rice-A-Roni Became The San Francisco Treat 👈(Click Link)

Was Rice-A-Roni actually created here in the Bay Area?

The short answer: yes. It was a clandestine convergence of cultures that ultimately led to the creation of "The San Francisco Treat."

Convenient Side Dish in a Box

The short version of the story is after WWII the influx of soldiers made the housing market in San Francisco crowded so this newly married couple, Tom and Lois DeDomenico, rented a room from a Armenian lady. As the husband worked in his father's pasta factory ( big hint) his 18 year old, Canadian, pregnant wife learned how to cook some baklava, soups and her specialty, Armenian pilaf.

"There were not many packaged side dishes in the market in 1955," said Dennis DeDomenico, Tom and Lois' son. "Everything was being geared toward less time in the kitchen. Major appliances like dishwashers and garbage disposals were starting to come in. The convenience factor was everything."

The melding together of American and Armenian culture in a box. Rice-a-Roni the San Francisco Treat is the recipe from this Armenian lady that was transformed into convenience side dish now found in a box 67 years later.

So what’s Rice-A-Roni the San Francisco Treat have to do with National Hug Day? Good question!!!

And as I am typing it's coming together inside me.

Convenience and ease drove the creation of Rice-A-Roni the San Francisco Treat. Someone created something really good and someone else figured out how to make it available to the world. That’s a vision with legs that can walk. 

What’s the Donna Eden/Rice-A-Roni Connection?   

Well, first, who is Donna Eden?

Donna Eden has been teaching people to direct their body's energies for health and happiness for decades, using methods akin to acupressure meridians and points, Therapeutic Touch, and Qi Gong.  Donna sees the flow of the body’s energies from this clairvoyant abilities, and she has developed a system for teaching others, who do not have this ability, to productively work with their own body’s energies. 

Donna’s book, Energy Medicine, is translated into 18 languages  and is a classic in the field of healing. 

"Energy Medicine is both a complete system for self-care and self-help and a complement to other approaches to medical care. 

For more details about Donna's life and journey to ENERGY MEDICINE click onto link here

 The Woman Behind Eden Energy Medicine: An Interview With Donna Eden 👈(Click link)
So now you know about Rice-a-Roni the San Francisco Treat and Donna Eden, pioneer in Energy Medicine. 

Is it Rice or Is it Pasta?

What is Rice-A-Roni ? 

What is a meridian? A complicated concept that rules our bodies or convenient doorway to balance our body's energies.

A meridian is an energy pathway that supplies energy to every organ and all the systems of the body. In the same way an artery carries blood, meridians carry energy. The flow of energy is as critical as the flow of blood in your body. 

Traditional Chinese Medicine has mapped meridians through the system of acupuncture for over 5000 years. It teaches that each meridian has many jobs and affects our physical bodies. Our bodies have a profound intelligence that exists beyond our conscious control and the body uses whatever means it has to try to maintain balance.

Our body's energies are allowed to exchange, steal and borrow in order to maintain flow but sometimes sacrifices balance when stress strikes.

Meridians flow into each other like a continuous river going in a specific direction. But they also control each other to maintain a homeostasis within the organs and all the systems in the body.

When stress happens the balance between meridians become unbalanced. Acupuncture uses meridians and needles to balance the energy in the acupuncture points. Acupuncture Journals have documented how working with meridians and points can affect anxiety, depression, pain, colds, disease and chronic illness. More about evidence based acupuncture in link provided. The link below has more evidence based acupuncture.

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Pilaf or Rice-a-Roni 

Each meridian has a polar opposite. Metaphorically it's like a seesaw that goes back-and-forth trying to balance. Two of the 14 meridians that sit across from each other are called triple warmer and spleen. Triple warmer meridian has a habit of taking energy from spleen meridian. This causes the triple warmer meridian to be chronically over-energized and the spleen meridian to be chronically under-energized. So while triple warmer is sometimes all revved up with no place to go, the spleen meridian is depleted.

Now triple warmer has a big job and is responsible for basically keeping us alive. It governs our bodies fight-flight-or-freeze response and is involved with our adrenal glands in the production of adrenaline. Triple warmer meridian can take energy from other meridians except heart meridian when survival is being threatened. But the first place triple warmer seeks to get extra energy is from the spleen meridian because of this polar relationship they have. 

Spleen Metabolizes Everything

Meanwhile spleen meridian is responsible for metabolizing everything! If the spleen meridian becomes weak we are unable to metabolize, integrate the food we eat, the environment we live in and handle the emotional/psychological stressors that we meet with every day. 

The immune system is governed by both triple warmer and spleen meridians each having a complementary role. If triple warmer takes too much energy from spleen the results can be a weakened immune system. This dominance of triple warmer can contribute to allergies and autoimmune disease. If spleen is chronically weakened metabolic, chemical and hormonal problems often follow. People often talk about their sensitivities to foods and environmental things. Working with these meridians simply everyday can make a profound impact in your life.

A Hug in a Box 

So Donna Eden sees the energy that balances these two meridians and can impact the body's immune system. Ultimately, this impacts the rest of the other systems of the body. She honed her knowledge to understand what the implications of balancing energy does. In her life she uses it to balance herself and healed from many health challenges. She simplified techniques that had existed and combined things that were not ever put together and made them easy. 

Convenience, Ease and Simplification 

The Armenian woman shared her traditional dishes and recipes with the young newlywed. The young newlywed continued to make the traditional dish for her family who happened to be in the convenience food business. Armenian pilaf became a side dish, Rice-A-Roni the San Francisco Treat, that has lasted over 50 years. It's not a gourmet meal, but it serves a purpose. It's quick to make, it's satisfies as a side dish, and it has a stamp of a time in history when convenience and women going into the workforce changed our ways of life. It's the blending of old and new, wisdom and youth, traditional and convenience. 

Donna Eden's ability to see energy allows her to create techniques that may have simplified the use of meridians. But just like Rice-A-Roni the San Francisco Treat she experimented and tested it in her practice and found that doing ease holds, regular tapping and thumping helped bring the energies into balance.  The triple warmer-spleen hug is one of many techniques that she saw as having a gentle and profound affect on an overwhelmed body. 

The Triple Warmer-Spleen Hug

How do we improve the balance between triple warmer and spleen?

There are two places that we could hold with our hands that will help restore balance to these two meridians.

Written Instructions: 👇
*Wrap your left hand around your right arm just above the elbow (Triple Warmer 10)
*Wrap you're right arm around the left side of your body just underneath your breast. (Spleen Neurolymphatics Reflex Points)
*Hold this for at least three or four breaths or as long as you want

(Reverse to hold switching hands)

*Wrap your right hand around your left arm just above the elbow
*Wrap your left arm around the right side of your body just underneath your breast
*Hold this for another three or four breaths as long as you want

Visual Doodle of The Hug: 👇

Video Instructions: 👇
Triple Warmer/Spleen Hug to Feel Centered and Calm with Donna Eden! 👈(Click Link)

How to explain triple warmer-spleen hug to someone:

Moving stress out of the body can be as simple as hugging yourself very deliberately and very regularly. You can just try it for a few breaths to help you feel more centered and calm or you can sit in that position for as many minutes as you would like. Balancing the triple warmer and spleen meridians regularly can give you back control when you are feeling like you’re out of control. This is one a many techniques. National Hugging Day is January 21 this is a day to have an excuse to hug someone. But everyday you can hug yourself to health by practicing the triple warmer-spleen hug. Self-Soothing gestures can reduce cortisol responses to stress and we can benefit from a self-hug in times of limited social interactions.

A Doodle and A Teez 
So Traditional Chinese Medicine mapped out meridians and acupuncture points and found it to heal illnesses. Donna Eden with her ability to clairvoyantly see energy mapped out techniques that  can be self administered assisting the body to balance its energies and leading it to a pathway of healing. 
TW ⚡️  SP designs below are parody of the AC ⚡️ DC logo from the 70's. This wearable message of TW ⚡️ SP can be brought into conversation and shared anytime, everywhere with anyone. Art and music heals but you have to be exposed and sometimes taught how and why. The power is in us and the healing is in our hands. 

Donna took pilaf and turned it into Rice-a-Roni. 

Easy, convenient and accessible. 

I'm taking Donna's Rice-A-Roni hug and giving it the San Francisco trolly ride on Sherringenergyteez.

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