"Qi", pronounced "Chee"
I am glad to share a great video by Danny Gerean, L.Ac. about emotions and their direct link to illness. Each emotion has an effect on different major organs of our body. I believe in this 100% and so have the practitioners of Ancient Chinese Medicine after 2,500 years of evolution. I am also happy to share the concept of “Qi” with you as well. The below article was written by the University of Minnesota. Keeping the JOY and BALANCE in your everyday life experience begins by eating well, getting a minimum of 7 hours of sleep, avoiding extremes and focusing on REAL LIFE priorities such as: Health, family, self love and belief and taking responsibility for your own state of “Happiness” or “Unhappiness”. It’s like that song by Bobby McFerrin, “Don’t Worry Be Happy” when he says, “Take your frown off of your face, don’t bring everybody down, keep a smile on your face” Have you ever heard that no one can make you happy? I have. I believe that we are all responsible for our state of resistance in allowing the good in our lives and beings. What can make you happy right at this very moment? Think of something simple like having a glass of water, taking a deep breath, eating an apple, a piece of dark chocolate or just making yourself a hot cup of tea or taking a power nap to better continue your day’s work. Try this great affirmation by Abraham Hicks: “I am open and receptive to receiving all that is good”. If you are having trouble letting go, just think as if today was the last day of your life. How would you like people to remember you and what would you be leaving behind?
Cultivating
our own state of inner happiness starts with planting a seed in fertile soil.
Is your soil fertile? Are you willing to take the time and patience to love
yourself fully and to become the best “YOU” you can be by clearing all self
imposed judgments, fears and doubts retained by your present self and the past
experiences that influence your present actions and impact your future? Are you
willing to water and grow the seed of happiness in your life garden? I once
heard a beautiful analogy to life.
A wise man said, “If you plant one type
of flower in your garden you will have a field, but if you plant different
types of plant seeds in your garden, you will have a beautiful garden filled
with different types of fragrant flowers and wonderful tasty garden vegetables.”
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INTERNAL CAUSES OF DISEASE AND THE SEVEN EMOTIONS IN CHINESE MEDICINE
THE CAUSE OF DISEASE
All emotions affect the liver and heart plus their organ
Anger: causes the Qi to rise, Liver
Joy: Slows the Qi, Heart
Worry: Knots the Qi, Pancreas and Lung
Shock: Scatters the Qi, Kidney and Heart
Pensiveness: Knots the Qi, Pancreas
Sadness / Grief: Depletes the Qi, Lung
Fear: Descends the Qi, Kidney
YOUTUBE VIDEO
Internal Causes of Disease and the Seven Emotions in Chinese Medicine by Danny Gerean, L.Ac.
What is Qi? and (Other Concepts)
Qi is energy in the very broadest sense possible.
Qi is universal.
Qi embraces all manifestations of energy, from the most material aspects of energy (such as the earth beneath your feet, your computer, and flesh and blood) to the most immaterial aspects (light, movement, heat, nerve impulses, thought, and emotion).
Life,
it is said in the Chinese medical classics, is a gathering of Qi. A healthy
(and happy) human being is a dynamic but harmonious mixture of all the aspects
of Qi that make up who we are.
Qi is in a state of continuous flux, transforming endlessly from one aspect of
Qi into another. It is neither created nor is it ever destroyed; it simply
changes in its manifestation.
In order to talk about the relationships between the various aspects and manifestations of Qi within a given context, Chinese philosophy employs the concept of yin and yang.
What are yin and yang?
In the Chinese perspective, given the importance of "taking
everything as a whole," all things are relative. A thing can be understood
only in relation to something else. This is the essential idea behind the use
of the terms yin and yang.
Yin and yang are terms used to describe relative opposite qualities or
manifestations of Qi. If yin is form, then yang is function. If yin is
material, then yang is immaterial.
Yin refers to aspects or manifestations of Qi that are relatively material, substantial, condensing, solid, heavy, descending, cold, moist, cooling, dark, passive and quiescent.
Yang refers to aspects or manifestations of Qi that are relatively immaterial, amorphous, expanding, hollow, light, ascending, hot, dry, warming, bright, aggressive, and active.
What is their relationship?
Everything that is yin contains some element of yang, and everything
that is yang contains some element of yin. There is nothing so solid or
material (yin) that does not contain some energetic vibration (yang), and
nothing so kinetic or immaterial (yang) that does not also contain some
material substance (yin). Even light, so Einstein tells us, has mass.
Yin and yang are continuously changing; they constantly adjust to one another,
and are endlessly transforming one into the other in an eternal dance of
becoming. This wonderful concept of change is beautifully illustrated in the
simple image of the "yin-yang symbol."
When all of the yin and yang aspects of Qi are in harmony with one another,
there is health, wellbeing and contentment. When yin and yang are in
disharmony, when there is too much or too little of one aspect of Qi relative
to another, then there is illness, pain and suffering.
After 2,500 years of evolution, TCM has become a very rich and sophisticated system of rational medicine with a great diversity of theories and applications. But, in its essence, it seeks to understand and facilitate harmony in human life.
It is based on a very simple principle: any system that is in harmony tends towards health, wellbeing, and sustainability. A system that is in disharmony tends towards illness, disease, suffering, and collapse.
What is a system in TCM?
A system is comprised of everything that creates and sustains it. Everything is interconnected and interdependent. If all of the parts of a system are in harmony with one another, then the whole system is in harmony. Disturb one thing and you create a disturbance that ripples through the whole system.
This principle applies to any and all systems. For example, it applies
as equally to a human being as it does to a family, community, or the
environment. So we must take care to consider our actions and to take things as
a whole.
Source: University of Minnesota
Feel free to visit this link to read the complete article
http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/traditional-chinese-medicine/what-qi-and-other-concepts
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