Connect the Dots

Sometimes we find ourselves stuck in a loop. The same thought keeps repeating in our mind, over and over and over. It can start after an interaction with a person, but long after that person is gone, the irritation lingers. This can have a physical effect on our body. In Chinese Medicine we call that reaction - Heat. 

Not an easy topic. 

Most people choose to avoid pain, numb pain, and really just want to stop the pain. But why is it there? What is pain?

When you feel sick or knows something is going on, you seek a diagnosis. Every disease and disorder has a name. Every year it seems there are more and more conditions we never heard about. Chinese medicine, doesn't really name conditions. We use general classification of External or Internal. Why is that? There's a reason. 

Many people are searching for healing. You don't have to have a physical illness to search for healing. 

For physical illness some look for a cure. What is the difference between curing and healing? 

True growth requires friction. When we interact with people from other backgrounds or walks of lives, we can expect to disagree. How do you deal with disagreements? How do you consolidate differences? Maybe you just ignore them, maybe you shut them out of your life. The challenge of harmonizing yourself and the world is the key to evolution.

We're at the end of the Primary channel sequence and we are talking about the Liver today. The liver has the power of vision and dreaming. Your goals and your aspirations come from the energy of this energy. It is at the end of the sequence of the 12 primary channels because life is all about your ability to create!  

We use the expression "they got gall" to describe someone that has courage. In CM the Gallbladder channel is indeed about having courage. But what is courage? What takes courage? Doing something unfamiliar, going somewhere no one has gone before, and stepping into the unknown is what this energy is all about. 

In life there are many situations and many roles you might face or take along the way.  There is an energy, a specific "organ" that knows how to allocate the right type and amount of energy needed to face and fulfill whatever comes your way. Today we will talk about the Triple Heater.

Tolerance, openness and exchange are the foundations of a free society.  

This is a short statement. 

Society can be mean.  It never feels good to be rejected, but we are equipped with a protector. The Pericardium is the wrapping of the Heart organ. But it also protects it from heartbreak.