Z I P P I N G UP

When you are feeling sad or vulnerable, the central meridian, the energy
pathway that governs your central nervous system, can be like a
radio receiver that channels other people's negative thoughts and energies
into you. It's as if you are open and exposed. The central meridian runs like
a zipper from your pubic bone up to your bottom lip, and you can use the
electromagnetic and more subtle energies of your hands to "zip it up.'j6 Pulling
your hands up the central meridian draws energy along the meridian line.
The Zip Up will help you:
Feel more confident and positive about ourself and your world
Think more clearly
Tap your inner strengths
Protect yourself from negative energies that may be around you
To Zip Up (time-20 seconds):
1. Briskly tap K-27 to assure that your meridians are moving in a forward
direction.
2. Place your hand at the bottom end of the central meridian, which
is at your pubic bone (see Figure 10, page 10 1).
3. Take a deep in-breath as you simultaneously move your hand with
deliberation straight up the center of your body, to your lower lip.
Repeat three times.
This is the natural direction that the central meridian flows. By tracing it
in this manner, you strengthen the meridian, and the meridian strengthens
you. You can zip up the central meridian as often as you wish. Again, remember
to breathe deeply as you do so, and you will begin to feel centered,
in control, and in your own power. The energies of a healer's hands emanate
an electromagnetic force, and tracing your meridian with your hand moves
the energy in the meridian.
K e e p i n g Your Energies Humming
The central meridian is highly sensitive to other people's thoughts and
feelings as well as to your own. It also directly affects each of your chakras.
When you are feeling good, it is as if this "zipper" is zipped all the way up and
you are protected.
0 I like to demonstrate for an audience the tangible way that people's eneriies
affect one another by first establishing, using an energy test, that a volunteer's
central meridian is strong. I then ask the audience to bring negative
thoughts to mind. Almost always, an energy test will show that this has weakened
the volunteer's central meridian. Then I will have the person zip up and
"mentally lock it in" while the audience not only thinks negative thoughts but
ups the ante by sending negative energies toward the volunteer. Nonetheless,
the energy test will almost always show that the person's central meridian remains
strong, even as I tell the audience, "Give it your best shot." Zipping up
can help you be present with another person in a conflictual situation with
less chance of the other's negative attitude dragging down your energies.
Many people have told me how zipping up has enabled them to speak with a
boss, a difficult parent, an angry child, or an ex-lover and stay centered in
their own truth and self-validation.
Since the central meridian is closely attuned to your thoughts and feelings,
it is also quite responsive to hypnosis and self-hypnosis. A powerful way
to psychologically implant affirmations such as "I am clear, centered, and
well-organized" is to state them while you are tracing the central meridian,
imagining you are zipping them into every cell in your body. In fact, after you
have zipped up the central meridian, imagining that you are locking the zipper
in place and hiding the key tends to prolong the technique's effects.
Testing the Zip U p. Thinking a positive thought strengthens the flow of
your energies. Thinking a negative thought weakens their flow.
1. Think a positive thought and have someone energy test you.
2. Retest after thinking a negative thought.
3. Have your partner hold a negative thought and then retest you. Your
partner's thoughts probably weakened your central meridian.
4. Have your partner continue to hold the negative thought, but this
time Zip Up as your partner thinks it. Test again to see if zipping up
protected your energy field from the impact of your partner's negative
thought.