Wouldn't it be nice to understand how we really become ill? Or why some ailments seem to crop up time and again? Do you ever experience a cold that comes out of "no where" and lasts for weeks, and nobody else catches it from you, and it happened about the time you lost your best friend or were really sad? And how can we take the dread out of "that" time of the month for women? Do we have to suffer from migraine headaches, PMS, cramps, depression, or the embarrassment of unexpected panic and anxiety attacks? Could hot flashes really be stopped dead in their tracks? How do we become addicted? What about our internal Time Clock, what could you accomplish if you knew the best time to eat a good breakfast, or lunch, or go for a jog to boost your energy level? What if men could help themselves with prostate or impotency related problems? Why can a neck massage be so helpful to a man with impotency problems? What if the answers to those and many other health problems lay just below your fingertips ..... and through the use of your own two hands and simple massage, you could live a life that was healthier, with less emotional up and downs and drama?
Well, Traditional Oriental Medicine (TOM), although incredibly complicated, is also very simple when you understand the basics, and the basics are often enough for the average person wishing to live a healthy enlightened life, free of disease and capable of being their own body's detective when things go haywire, or illness sets in. What the Chinese knew about 10,000 years ago--taught by women originally--documented 5,000 years ago, which was finally proven by German and Korean scientists*, back in the 1980's, holds the clues, answers and methods to address all those topics.
What the Chinese understood was basically this; that just as we have blood vessels supplying our whole body with vital oxygen and nutrients, so too do we have a similar system carrying flowing energy--365 channels in all--to every part of the body, including our major organs, and just like blood vessels can become blocked, so can energy flows. When that happens, physical illness and imbalance eventually occur. It may take 24 hours, may take 20 years; with each person it is completely different.
There are 12 major flows of energy (*similar to blood vessels, yet filled with what looks like a clear liquid with little sparkles) and each of these flows gives vital health to each of our major organs: Stomach, Spleen, Large Intestine, Lungs, Bladder, Kidneys, Gall Bladder, Liver, Small Intestine, Heart. There is also a flow for the Pericardium (the sack in which the heart sits) and a flow that regulates all other flows called the Triple Warmer. The Chinese also understood that each of these organs worked as an energetic pair with another organ, sharing energy and boosting each other should energy become too low, or regulating if energy should become too much. Many physical ailments have symptoms that only make sense in terms of TOM, and can really befuddle Western doctors who then use terms like hypochondriac or psychosomatic to explain what they do not understand!
To learn more about Jeanne's experience and techniques click here to see an excerpt of her speech at the London's first Woman health expo.
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