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Welcome to The Me-First School of Global Healing

A blog dedicated to exploring the experience of healing in all domains

  • Bladder 4: Above the Horizon of Night
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    Bladder 4: Above the Horizon of Night

    ByThea Elijah January 30, 2026January 30, 2026

    Many of us are deeply shaken right now by the ICE shootings in Minneapolis. I am considering these dire realities from the anchoring force of the Water element, and the deep winter cold. In Chinese medical terms, Full Cold is discouragement. We must keep warm! I’m going to continue posting my series of Bladder meridian…

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  • Bladder 3: The World At Night
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    Bladder 3: The World At Night

    ByThea Elijah January 16, 2026January 16, 2026

    This is a very small excerpt from my CEU offering, Intro to BL 3-4-5 (on sale now). See previous blogs Bladder Intelligence, Bladder 1: Enter the Dark and Bladder 2: Dark Visions. This is the perfect time of the year to heal the Bladder meridian, starting right at the beginning… We have discussed BL 1 and…

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  • Bladder 2: Dark Visions
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    Bladder 2: Dark Visions

    ByThea Elijah January 2, 2026January 2, 2026

    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…

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  • Bladder 1: Enter the Dark
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    Bladder 1: Enter the Dark

    ByThea Elijah December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

    BL 1 is a point that serves as a profound entry to the Path of Endarkenment, the path of seeking the silence, darkness and stillness in which wisdom emerges. It re-sets the balance of light and dark in the eyes. This has several applications: 1) How much am I looking within, into the dark—and how…

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  • Bladder Intelligence: Healing the Winter Mind
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    Bladder Intelligence: Healing the Winter Mind

    ByThea Elijah December 12, 2025January 1, 2026

    This is a very small excerpt from my CEU offering, Intro to BL 1-2. This is the perfect time of the year to heal the Bladder meridian, starting right at the beginning… There are many kinds of intelligence. Bladder meridian intelligence encompasses the fathomless ‘I don’t know’ that surrounds data. It dwells in the infinite…

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  • Ramping Down
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    Ramping Down

    ByThea Elijah November 28, 2025December 12, 2025

    These days I am treasuring my Buddhist meditation group . We sit from 7:30 to 8:00 on Friday mornings, followed by 10 minutes of walking meditation, then a reading from Thich Nhat Hanh. Right now we are just finishing Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, and then we will go on to Calming…

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  • Metal ’25: Dignity and Grace
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    Metal ’25: Dignity and Grace

    ByThea Elijah November 21, 2025November 21, 2025

    This is the fifth excerpt from the first free hour of my Metal ’25 retreat. You can find the previous installment here. May your autumn be gracefully honed. Thank you for using that word, yes. That is the result. That is one of the shimmers that one sees from the metal element of a person…

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  • Metal ’25: Evaluating our Value System 
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    Metal ’25: Evaluating our Value System 

    ByThea Elijah November 14, 2025November 18, 2025

    This is the fourth excerpt from the first free hour of my Metal ’25 retreat. You can find the previous installment here, with more installments coming over the next two weeks. May your autumn be gracefully honed. Yes, what we’re looking at here is a balance between our value system and the Will of Heaven….

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  • Metal ’25: From Alignment, We Bow
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    Metal ’25: From Alignment, We Bow

    ByThea Elijah November 7, 2025November 7, 2025

    This is the third excerpt from the first free hour of my Metal ’25 retreat. You can find the previous installment here, with more installments coming over the next two weeks. May your autumn be gracefully honed. There’s a whole lot that really matters in our body as preparation for majesty, by which I mean…

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  • Metal ’25: Beauty and Majesty  
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    Metal ’25: Beauty and Majesty  

    ByThea Elijah October 31, 2025

    This is the second excerpt from the first free hour of my Metal ’25 retreat. You can find the first installment here, with more installments coming over the next three weeks. May your autumn be gracefully honed. Welcome to the Autumn Retreat Day, a day of preparation for Majesty. When I say Majesty, I’m using…

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