Too Much Chi for a Knee

[Back dated to May 10, 2013]

The family has been having sleep issues. Sleep is critical in a family of young kids (especially for parents!!!) I've been looking closely at each room to determine how to best handle remedying our sleep challenges (as well as looking at other factors).

Sleep is that natural nourishment of our life force that our bodies need each night. There is chi (life force) in our bodies just as chi moves through our homes. Chi enters our houses through doors and windows, and it moves based on the paths free to movement, and slows in cramped spaces or areas with stagnant things (clutter). It is possible to create spaces where chi moves too quickly, too... you might think of them like a rushing river. We've got several places that blast by and through, mismatched to areas where we actually need peace and calm. See what I mean...

Chi Firehose

Example 1. Our master bedroom opens onto the bathroom with no door. The bed was placed to be in a power position from the main door to the room, but it meant that the foot of the bed faced the archway to the bathroom. The wall above the sinks is covered in a large mirror (so the foot of the bed is facing this huge mirror). Thus, lots of energy aimed at the sleepers (especially then pregnant me) all night long. We didn't add a crystal until after my son was born (looking into acting on further cures too).

Example 2. Due to our house layout, Bean was in the nursery until it was time for Truck to move it, so she had a period of having a mattress on the floor (hey, simplified child safety concerns) and the crib in the room. However, since it's a small room, that meant her bed was under window between window and door, foot aimed at door. So the energy was pushing her out. During the time she was sleeping there, she gave up her naps completely and was a very early riser.

Chi Tunnel Effect

Bean's new room has a real bed in the power position for her (head to the southwest), but our options were limited because there is a futon couch there which doesn't really have any other home right now. So the bed and couch are parallel, but perpendicular to the window... chi passes from the window right between the bed and couch and right out the door, like a wind tunnel. So poor Bean is restless and doesn't want to stay in her room at night... she is often coming to find us because something is bothering her.

Chi Experienced Prenatally- could it impact temperament?

On Karen Rauch Carter's Traditional Cures page, she mentions a scenario where poison arrow chi is pointed at a knee all night. In her words (I love this): "It’s as if that knee is lying across the chi freeway all night, and that’s way too much chi for a knee."

So I ask, can you have too much chi for a baby? When I was pregnant with Truck, I had big mood and energy fluctuations (yes, I was pregnant, but this was way more than the first time around), and even still he and I have been struggling with the same issue. His temperament reflects both a familiarity and comfort with motion as well as sensitivity and difficulty calming once upset (he can go "zero to sixty" in getting upset, and then he's stuck at sixty and has a hard time calming down. I wonder now if he is trying to deal with the situation he experienced in the womb.

Taking Action

I've tried a number of simple things for Bean's room - from straightening up the clutter in the garage below to hanging up photos of family members, but it seems to be slow progress there. On the upside, however, last night was Day 2 after hanging a crystal in the archway in the master bedroom, and I've slept much deeper these past two nights.