Bladder 2: Dark Visions

This is a very small excerpt from my CEU offering, Intro to BL 1-2. See previous blogs Bladder Intelligence and Bladder 1, excerpts from the same CEU. This is the perfect time of the year to heal the Bladder meridian, starting right at the beginning…

Sometimes when we needle BL 1, it kicks off a significant response in BL 2. It’s a good idea to be prepared for this! I usually gently press or stroke BL 2 towards BL 3 with my fingers after needling BL 1, to keep the meridian qi freely flowing through, just in case.

BL 2 frequently is a point that is a repository for horrible dark visions and nightmares, really scary stuff. Oh the movies that we show ourselves, that will flash like subliminal advertising! The image will flash for a moment in front of the mind’s eye, and then it is gone again. Even though the image is just there for a moment, the nervous system reacts.

This happens for many people to variously debilitating degrees, depending on the imagery and its frequency. Some people’s lives are crippled by bad movie images in BL 2. Sometimes the bad movies only come up in certain situations like relationships, or kitchens, or in cars.

These scary movies in BL 2 come from a number of different places. They can come from something you actually saw that got stuck in your nervous system as it was moving from sensory awareness into cognition. Or it could be dredged up from internal fears; you didn’t actually see it but you thought of it, and it gets stuck in your nervous system, in the 3rd eye aspect of BL 2.

BL 2 has many names. Many of these point names that have to do with bamboo. My theory is not that this is because the eyebrows look like bamboo leaves. My intuitive sense, footnoted absolutely nowhere, of why BL 2 is called Collect Bamboo is that it is the collection point for the entire nervous system. When you have your fingers on BL 2 you have someone’s entire nervous system in your hands. You can either tone it up or disperse and clear it. It is the collection point of extra nervous system charge energy. All the heebie jeebies that go on in your body collect up here.

You know the times when you can’t sleep because too much light seems to be around in front of your eyes? That is from BL 2. Some alternate names are Shi Guang Begin Illumination; Ye Guang Night Illumination; Ming Guang Shining Bright. All of these alternate names of BL 2 have to do with brightness and light. It’s the unwanted lights in the dark. It’s the things that you see when you turn off the light, or when you are lying in bed at night. It’s the visions in the darkness. It’s all the swimmy stuff that is like flashbulb after-image floating dots from your own inner camera. We might call it Uncollect Bamboo or Disperse Bamboo Collection. It can be profound, just massaging the eyebrows out, and helping them to rest farther away from each other, rather than being pinched up together in the middle of the brow.

Especially when we are feeling unsafe because our nervous system is hyper vigilant, the light of intelligence from BL 2 can be very searching, like a miner’s helmet with a search light strapped to the forehead, cutting through the dark, searching, looking, a shaft of light in the darkness. It’s the hot needle of inquiry, when what may actually be needed is to take off the miner’s helmet, turn down the light, stop searching, and listen. Then the mystery unfolds to our listening in the dark.

Over the years, I’ve had a couple of my colleagues complain about my probing style. They say the more you probe to know, the more you change what you want to know by making it react to your probe. My very enthusiasm in trying to understand someone may be shining light in places that were not meant to have light in them. How can you probe the mystery? As you shine the flashlight, the mystery keeps retreating.

“Hey, how come you are like that?” Thea Elijah wants to know, with her searchlight on her forehead; “Oh it’s because you are… da da da. I see that now! Mystery solved.”

Mystery raped, honestly.

There are people who simply are not going to let us know them if we are probing from the searching, penetrating kind of intelligence that seeks to shine a flashlight into the night’s mystery. Instead it’s time to turn down the search light and sitting beside them in the dark until our eyes dark adapt. When we do, without having to probe anything, what is hidden slowly becomes apparent.

Try turning the flashlight of the mind off. For a while you will see bright spots because you will be dazzled by the left over light in your nervous system. Take time for rubbing it out and dispelling it at BL 2, and getting quiet enough to hear someone’s river flowing next to you. It is a whole other way of knowing.

Would you like to learn more about the Bladder meridian and BL 1-2? Check out my CEU Intro to Bladder 1-2.