Pain and Imbalance
STUCK QI - Channel Pain - Flow No Go
There are at least ten separate flows of energy traversing the back. Much back pain is a sign of obstruction or constraint of qi in the channels. Old or new injuries, emotional constraint, anatomical obstructions, and other events can constrain the qi of the channels.
EXCESS QI - Upper Back Pain - Congested Heat
Upper back pain is commonly caused by interior heat which rises in the channels (heat rises) and lodges in the neck, shoulders, and head causing tension in the muscles.
WEAK QI - Lower Back Pain - Low Batteries
Energy is stored in the low back, keeping the back strong, and holding the spine erect. Depletion of this energy (kidney qi) will weaken the lower back enabling injuries to occur. Stress, injury, illness, overwork, excessive sex, drugs, and over stimulation of the brain, drain the kidney qi and weaken the lower back.
Let’s look at an example. Imagine that you are in a heated argument.
In most cases, we tend to become agitated when the other party begins to argue. This is quite natural. Unfortunately, the heated energy is yang. When you respond with agitation, it is also yang, and the whole situation will get off-balance.
Try doing something to avert the ‘yang-yang’ imbalance, and achieve the yin-yang balance.
Instead of rebuttal, stay silent for a moment.
See what happens! You are now introducing to the energy field a noticeable level of yin energy. In other words, you are now altering the state of the energy field by lowering the yang energy.
Out of Control Yang The Root of Cancer, Chaos and "Dis Ease"
Cancer is a cellular identity problem in which the balancing regulatory gene, part of the cell's identification essence, has gone haywire, and causes it to "forget" its relationship as one cell within one whole body.
This weak imbalanced Yin effect (the out of control creation of cells) is in proportion to uncontrolled weak Yang. Yin reacts and becomes weak in response to Yang's attempt to have unhealthy sole identity dominance. Yin, in its weakened state, over-expresses creation in some of the body's cells by having them make more copies of themselves than is necessary.
In essence, cancer cells have lost their identity, flow and purpose, just as weak Yang has. They no longer have a functioning regulatory gene that regulates their identity. Their identity, which includes their relationship with themselves and to the whole body, has been lost. Cancer (an out of control feminine aspect of creating cells) may be the result of blocking healthy Yin flow just as its male counterpart, weak Yang, blocks life flow
Chinese Medicine, as a science, observes and supports the flow of Yin and Yang within the body. Yin energy, akin to the moon and Mother Earth, reflects the feminine and aspects of nature that are cool dark, quiet and solid.
Yang energy, akin to the Sun, mirrors the masculine facets of nature that are boisterous, bright, and expansive. Yin and Yang's harmonious continuum of balance allows healthy Chi (life energy) to flow in the body and within all life. Chi keeps the body in the fullness of health through its balanced flow in the meridians of the body.
Within Chinese Medicine the removal of barriers in the healthy flow of Chi turns the body from disease back to health.
In the human body as elsewhere, acidity and alkalinity are relative to each other(Yin and Yang), a relationship which is expressed as pH-value. In nature pH values range between 0 and 14, where 0 denotes Hydrochloric Acid and 14 Caustic Soda, both of which are clearly in the unhealthy range for our bodies, whereas pure water has a pH of around 7+, which then is considered pH-Balance.
"Once there was a young wife who tried to send her very wealthy but much older husband to an early grave so that she could marry her lover. This pretty, young woman was a wonderful cook and she was especially good at making fried rice- which her husband, Mr. Yang, loved. Therefore, he frequently ate fried rice. The wife ensured his diet was high in ‘yang’ foods. There were a lot of fried food and meat, nourishing herbal meat soups as well as sweet desserts in his diet. Before retiring each night, she gave her husband either herbal tonic wine or ginseng chicken soup to improve his vitality. [Wine, Korean ginseng and chicken are ‘heaty yang’ foods].
Gradually, her husband started to suffer from frequent sore throat, canker sores, fever and headache. Hot weather made him break out in heat rash. He became impatient, irritable and short tempered. His blood pressure rose, complexion became ruddy and often fell hot. His gums, swollen and tender, bled easily . sometimes, there were nosebleeds. His urine was dark, stools hard and he was often thirsty. Mr. Yang also could not sleep well. His sleep was often restless and troubled by unsettling dreams. he suffered from constipation, made worse by eating ‘obstructive’ or high-fiber food such as olives, guava and lotus root
Mr. Yang exhibited an excessively ‘yang’ constitution and ailments brought about by a lopsided, unbalanced ‘Yang’ diet.
Diet plays an important role in determining our state of health. To maintain good health, there should be a balance of yin and yang as well as neutral food in the diet.
Since Mr. Yang’s constitution was in a very yang state, he should eat more ‘yin’ food to restore balance. Yin foods are often low in calories. Lots of fruits, vegetables and legumes are often in this category. He should eat more raw, steamed and boiled food to dissipate excessive heat in his body.
Boiled spinach for example, is cooling and moistens the body. Raw cucumber, melons, tofu and many types of lightly cooked leafy green vegetables are beneficial in his diet. Wheat dumplings which is damp and cooling is preferable to fried rice. American ginseng tea, which is cooling, is a good substitute for Korean ginseng"
A challenge for us in life is to use the tools available to naturaly balance the yin and yang in our health. The better we are in finding equilibrium, the more healthy we can be.
Pain problems and Imbalance can ruin anybody's day. It is disabling dis-ease highly prevalent in the Western World. The sad thing is people live with Imbalance through their daily life.
Running off to a conventional doctor, you'll be given a prescription for some type of drug like pain killer antacids etc which one has the possibility of developing a dependency. If you're going to go down the conventional road of surgery, it means cutting into your body and causing problems that were often not there to start with eg damaged muscles and tendons.
Some of us have tried less conventional protocols like massages .
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is probably one of the oldest complementary therapies and continuously practiced systems of medicine in the world. This unique medical system is used to treat a wide range of diseases, and is widely known throughout the world to be especially useful in treating various kinds of pain
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Thank you …I encourage health in mind, body and spirit! Proper posture, nutrient dense diet, positive mindset & lots of fun and functional exercise.