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HOW to Hug Yourself

Sherri A. Nicholas Author

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

High Voltage Meridian Hug T-Shirt ( Click here )

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. As a child, I found this a curious statement, but it has stuck with me. I even learned how to peel "real potatoes" because I compared my grandmother's real mashed potatoes to the dehydrated potato flakes I used to beat.

The other day, while eating "Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat," I said out loud, "I wonder why San Francisco is in the jingle?"Within five seconds, I found an article explaining the origins of Rice-A-Roni in more detail than I could have imagined. I could spend many paragraphs retelling the whole story, but here's a 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 is 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 that after WWII, the influx of soldiers made the housing market in San Francisco crowded. A newly married couple, Tom and Lois DeDomenico, rented a room from an Armenian lady. As Tom worked in his father's pasta factory (a big hint), his 18-year-old Canadian wife learned to cook 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 just starting to come in.

The convenience factor was everything."The melding of American and Armenian culture resulted in Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat—a recipe from this Armenian lady transformed into a convenient side dish now found in a box, 67 years later.

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

As I type, the connection is coming together in my mind.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?

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 through her clairvoyant abilities and has developed a system for teaching others, who do not have this ability, to work productively with their own body’s energies.

Donna’s book, Energy Medicine, has been 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 her journey to ENERGY MEDICINE, click the link here.

The Woman Behind Eden Energy Medicine: An Interview With Donna Eden 👈(Click link)

Now you know about Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat, and Donna Eden, a pioneer in Energy Medicine.

Is it Rice or Is it Pasta?

What is Rice-A-Roni?
What is a meridian? It can be a complicated concept that governs our bodies, or it can be seen as a 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. Just as 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 5,000 years. It teaches that each meridian has many functions and affects our physical bodies. Our bodies possess 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, borrow, and steal to maintain flow but sometimes sacrifice balance when stress strikes.

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

When stress occurs, the balance between meridians becomes compromised. Acupuncture employs meridians and needles to rebalance energy in the acupuncture points. Research has documented how working with meridians and points can affect anxiety, depression, pain, colds, disease, and chronic illness. More information about evidence-based acupuncture can be found in the link provided.

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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 the triple warmer and spleen. The triple warmer meridian tends to draw energy from the spleen meridian. This causes the triple warmer meridian to be chronically over-energized while the spleen meridian becomes chronically under-energized. So, while the triple warmer is sometimes all revved up with no place to go, the spleen meridian is depleted.

The triple warmer has a critical role in keeping us alive. It governs our body's fight-flight-or-freeze response and is involved with our adrenal glands in the production of adrenaline. The triple warmer can draw energy from other meridians, except the heart meridian when survival is threatened. But the first place it seeks extra energy is from the spleen meridian due to their polar relationship.

Spleen Metabolizes Everything

Meanwhile, the spleen meridian is responsible for metabolizing everything! If the spleen meridian becomes weak, we struggle to metabolize and integrate the food we eat, the environment we live in, and handle the emotional and psychological stressors we encounter every day.

The immune system is governed by both the triple warmer and spleen meridians, each playing a complementary role. If the triple warmer draws too much energy from the spleen, the result can be a weakened immune system. This dominance of the triple warmer can contribute to allergies and autoimmune diseases. Conversely, if the spleen is chronically weakened, metabolic, chemical, and hormonal issues often follow. People often report sensitivities to foods and environmental factors. Regularly working with these meridians can profoundly impact your life.

A Hug in a Box

Donna Eden sees the energy that balances these two meridians and can impact the body's immune system, ultimately affecting other body systems. She honed her knowledge to understand the implications of balancing energy. In her life, she uses this knowledge to maintain balance and heal from many health challenges. She simplified techniques that existed and combined things that had never been put together, making them accessible.

Convenience, Ease and Simplification

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

Donna Eden's ability to see energy allows her to create techniques that simplify the use of meridians. Just like Rice-A-Roni, she experimented and tested her methods in practice and found that gentle holds, regular tapping, and thumping helped bring energies into balance. The triple warmer-spleen hug is one of many techniques she identified as having a gentle and profound effect on an overwhelmed body.

The Triple Warmer-Spleen Hug

How do we improve the balance between the triple warmer and spleen?There are two places you can hold with your hands to 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 your right arm around the left side of your body just underneath your breast (Spleen Neurolymphatics Reflex Points).
Hold this position for at least three or four breaths or as long as you wish.

(Reverse the hold by 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 or as long as you wish.

Visual Doodle of The Hug: 👇

Video Instructions:

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Triple Warmer/Spleen Hug to Feel Centered and Calm with Donna Eden!

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 regularly. You can try it for just a few breaths to help you feel more centered and calm, or you can remain in that position for as long as you like. Balancing the triple warmer and spleen meridians regularly can help you regain control when you feel overwhelmed.

This is just one of many techniques available.National Hugging Day is January 21, providing us with an excuse to hug someone. However, you can hug yourself to health every day by practicing the triple warmer-spleen hug. Self-soothing gestures can reduce cortisol responses to stress, and a self-hug can be particularly beneficial during times of limited social interaction.

A Doodle and A Teez
Traditional Chinese Medicine has mapped out meridians and acupuncture points, discovering their ability to heal various illnesses. Donna Eden, with her clairvoyant ability to see energy, has developed techniques that can be self-administered, assisting the body in balancing its energies and leading it toward a pathway of healing.

The designs of TW ⚡️ SP below are a parody of the AC ⚡️ DC logo from the 1970s. This wearable message of TW ⚡️ SP can spark conversations and be shared anytime, anywhere, with anyone.

Art and music can heal, but we must be exposed to them and sometimes taught how and why. The power is within 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 a San Francisco trolley ride on Sherringenergyteez.

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