Welcome back to this Modern Order of Essenes course!
Today, we’re diving into the sixth unit of the Healer grade, and in particular into emotional complexes and your emotional body…
Coursework
- To Practice – Blessing Walk, Healing Hands, Foot Reflexology, Muscle Testing
Continue with the practices you’ve learned in the Candidate and Apprentice grades, ideally daily.
- To Study – Emotional Complexes
Study “Emotional Complexes” in the way explained in the Intro to the Healer grade, and/or use it as basis for your discursive meditation. As always, you are not supposed to blindly believe this text as gospel, but instead to study it thoroughly, contemplate it, and to come up with your own ideas and thoughts about it.
Online Version (only the section “Emotional Complexes”)
PDF Version (section “Emotional Complexes” on pages 10 and 11) - To Study and Practice – Hand Reflexology: “THE HANDS REFLECT THE ILLNESSES OF THE EMOTIONAL BODY”
Practice Hand Reflexology, ideally daily. Study the section on the illnesses of the emotional body, and include them into your practice as you see fit. Draw both on your previous studies and on your own experiences and perceptions.
Online Version (section “THE HANDS REFLECT THE ILLNESSES OF THE EMOTIONAL BODY”)
PDF Version (section “THE HANDS REFLECT THE ILLNESSES OF THE EMOTIONAL BODY” on page 23) - To Practice – Essene Healing Breath: Continue as in last unit
Continue to practice the Healing Breath meditation up to and including Step 9, as introduced in Unit 17 – unless you practice another form of meditation, e.g. discursive meditation which you could use to meditate on the theoretical study texts of the Healer grade.
Online Version (Section “Stage Three: Step Nine – Move your consciousness into your window of opportunity”)
PDF Version (Section “Stage Three: Step Nine – Move your consciousness into your window of opportunity” on page 22; note that Phase 3 of the Healing Breath is covered in the Apprentice pdf and not in the Healer pdf!)
Reflection Question
While you do the work of Unit 18, take some time to reflect on the following question:
What is your emotional body?
Meditation Topics
Note that for the Healer grade, there is a lot of meditation fodder in the study texts. I’m not going to pull these topics out of the study texts for you, though – that’s up to you to chew on for yourself!
But if you should need fodder for your discursive meditations beyond what you have found in this unit’s texts, the following topics should give you something to work with:
- How do your emotions interact with each other?
- How can emotions form a body?
- What is an illness of your emotional body?
- What is an emotional complex?
- Which role do the emotional complexes play in your life?
- Which other roles could the emotional complexes play in your life?
- How do your hands relate to and influence your emotions?
- And how do your emotions relate to and influence your hands?
- Why are emotions stored in your body?
- How are emotions stored in your body?
And if you have enough ideas on your own and don’t need any from this list, that’s even better!
Commentary
Hand Reflexology
At this point at the latest, the MOE Hand Reflexology is taking a turn which is decidedly different from the earlier MOE Foot Reflexology.
While the Foot Reflexology focused on healing your physical and energetic/etheric body, and clearing any blockages there, the Hand Reflexology focuses on your emotions and your emotional body.
Does this mean that Foot Reflexology doesn’t work on the emotional level, whereas Hand Reflexology doesn’t work on the physical and etheric levels?
Well, why don’t you experiment with them and find out for yourself? 😉
(There is also a link to a video featuring John Gilbert’s voice and explanations in the Resources section, in case you’re interested.)
Emotional Complexes
This is listed as “study” material, but really it should be a mixture of study and practice.
As usual, you’re not supposed to blindly believe what the material says, but instead to study it, contemplate it, apply it, and come up with your own conlusions and perceptions.
In any case, your studies of the theoretical material and the Hand Reflexology practice intertwine at this point, and one should feed into the other…
Two quick notes about things for those of you who work with the pdf file. There are some techniques mentioned in this section of the pdf file which require an explanation:
- The Breath of Acceptance and Breath of Forgiveness are part of a later unit. You can file the info about their applications away for now, and we’ll get back to them later.
- The Healing Eyes of Love and the Loving technique must be leftovers of some earlier version of the material. There is no explanation for these techniques, and thus I suggest you ignore them. The online version of the material has been cleaned up by John Michael Greer accordingly and only refers to the Healing Breath.
Apparently, John Gilbert enjoyed tinkering with things, and either he renamed something here, or he removed certain techniques, or added them for trial and then removed them again. He also seems to have shifted things around, see the first point above.
Either way, the material as it was handed down to John Michael Greer and then to us doesn’t tell what some these techniques are, and thus your guess is as good as mine. 😉
(Although I think there might be some ways to re-engineer some of these techniques, if somebody dedicates themselves to the task – always knowing that we can’t be sure what the original techniques are, of course. If I have now made you curious and you feel drawn to this quest, I suggest you start with this comment of mine here, and then finish both the Healer and the Master grade first in order to be well equipped for this challenge…)
Further Resources
There are by far not as many resources (in the form of video or audio files) available for the Healer material as there were for the Candidate and Apprentice material, thus this section will be noticeably shorter for the units of the Healer grade.
For this unit, there is a video featuring John Gilbert (or rather, his voice) teaching Hand Reflexology to another person. I’ve only included the video now because it draws heavily on the idea of emotions stored in the hands and is thus worth studying at this point in your practice.
Always worth a read are the comment sections to JMG’s posts, accessible via the “Online Version” links in the Coursework section.
Our own prior comment sections are also worth a read, especially as comments continue to trickle in over time. Here’s the link to the comment section of Unit 17.
(And in case you shouldn’t have noticed yet, all my posts have at least one “category” assigned to them, and most also have “topics” assigned. Categories and topics are listed below the actual post text, i.e. you’ll see them if you scroll just a wee bit further down from here. Clicking on the topic “MOE Course” will get you straight to a list of all course posts.)
Outlook
In two weeks (on Sunday November 9th, 2025) we will continue this Modern Order of Essenes course with Unit 19 in the Healer grade.
Until then, I’m looking forward to your comments and your feedback, and I hope you enjoy the work of this unit. 🙂
Paedrig says
So, I’ve inadvertently gotten ahead and behind at once. For the last lesson I kind of went ahead and read the entire second lesson on from stress to emotional complexes to breaking the cycle of disease. However, I think I meditated fairly intently upon the question of stress in the last lesson and didn’t let it shift my focus away too far. I’ve had a chance to review emotional complexes in more detail, and I find the complexes are divided to be a helpful way to look at my own emotional state. I’ve started trying to track about how long I spend in each part of each complex each day – not in hours, but seeing which state I spend the majority of my day in. I’m starting to do this in my journal and it’s helped a good deal with understanding where I need to focus my consciousness. It’s also allowed me to realize that for some of these, I will sometimes have the more negative end of these complexes just kind of… bubble up from somewhere in my subconscious. For instance, I’ll be going along, feeling fine, and suddenly, perhaps because I think of something embarrassing I did the other day, I hear the voice of my mother just relentlessly berating me, and a sudden spiral of shame starts, or it shifts into anger as I argue with her in my mind. This doesn’t happen all the time but it ‘s enough to be noteworthy. Even more noteworthy given that she has been incredibly kind over the holidays and seems to be genuinely trying to move us out of the cycle of judgement and conflict we have always fallen into. So why does my subconscious try and create this condition? I suppose these kinds of negative feelings always bubbled up and I just worked through it and thought nothing of it. But now I’m trying to actively pay attention to how often these things bubble up and how long they last. I’m thinking this is how the subconscious starts dealing with these hidden poisons, the same way that you start to feel your physical stress when you start massaging it out, or your lungs only really make you feel the damage you did to them when you quit smoking.
Now, as for the use of the hand reflexology techniques to help with the emotional body – I have to say, I really have been quite focused on the pain relief and the sense of flowing unblocked energy the reflexology offers me. I had definitely noticed that the feet seemed to do a better job than the hands, but the hands are available to do any time, so I kind of imagined that as the trade off. I have definitely felt stress relief and pain relief from the massages, but as for emotional relief… I’ve been focused on trying to use the hand reflexology technique when these bubbles of toxic emotion come to the surface, but I can’t quite tell if it’s having the needed effect. If I use the hand reflexology techniques I start to feel something, but… I have a funny feeling like my wires might be crossed. The pressure points on the feet don’t seem to quite correspond to the right places in the body, though they are close. The emotional wires might be crossed. So which points correspond to what locations, and do those correspond to the listed emotions? I guess I’ll just have to experiment and find out!
I will say that I’ve lately taken to visualizing the chakras, which seems to me to be the best system of visualizing the emotional body and one that has always resonated with me. I’ve been using the healing hands to focus on healing particular emotional energy centers as I feel I need them. I’ve been using the healing breath meditation, and the window of opportunity in particular, to ask myself where I need healing each day, trying to see where the incoming light energy seems to move the most, which parts of me seem to create the most toxic darkness for the exhale, just kind of paying careful attention to the process and where my emotional body seems to have pain and needs healing. The hard part is just recognizing it – some pains have been there a long time, and I’ve gotten very good at ignoring them. It’s always so much easier to ignore a problem you’ve grown used to than to start massaging at the the problem, forcing yourself to actually feel the damage and fix the issue. As true of emotional damage as it is of etheric or physical, if not more so!
I’ll continue to practice and study the material, and I’m absolutely going to get caught up by the 11th. Thanks again, Regine, for all your work.
Regine says
Hi Paedrig,
Thanks for your comment! 🙂
No worries at all about reading ahead. These contents intertwine. As long as you don’t let something slide just because it’s uncomfortable or “less interesting” or so, you’ll be good. ;-
Identifying the ruling complexes of the day, so to speak, would be a very helpful and worthwhile technique, thanks for sharing!
Usually in set patterns of behavior between two (or more) people, once one person starts to change their own reactions, or even just to become more conscious about them, the dynamic starts to shift. This isn’t always comfortable – in quite a few cases, the other people involved will defend their established patterns with teeth and claws. It’s awesome that your mother is working alongside you on this and is also willing to try out more productive ways for your relationship! This is a big gift, from both of you to both of you. 🙂
These same structures within us who will make people cling to well-established patterns, no matter how unproductive or harmful they might be, exist in all of us – you and me very much included… What you experience are these parts of you which are defending things as they used to be. These parts of you aren’t bad, or out to hurt you – just scared and confused. If you treat them with the compassion and understanding you’d give to a scared and confused child in an alien and frightening situation, e.g. by telling them that it’s ok, and you know they are scared, and have every right to be so, and you’ll take care of them no matter what even if they act up, they’ll usually calm down somewhat. Hope this makes sense! 🙂
About the hand reflexology: As you said, they are always available, and of course massaging your hands doesn’t just relieve emotional things, but also physical tightness etc. So there is no reason not to use it for this purpose!
Don’t worry if you can’t figure out the emotional correspondences in your hands yet. Not everything is equally easy and accessible for all of us. You’ll work them out over time (and if not, you’ll still reap the benefits. Great, huh? 😉 ). As for the locations, yes, sometimes they vary a bit even in the feet (we’re not automatons, after all). The emotional locations with regards to the hands are, as far as I can tell, not quite as well mapped out as the feet zones, as there seem to be somewhat differing correspondences within the available material. So experiment away!
If the chakras work for you, by all means use them. 🙂
Thanks for sharing your practices,
Regine