Taking Care of the Inside

200The qigong workshop last weekend dealt with nourishing our inner organs to prepare for the winter.  This Chinese healing method looks at the body differently than we do in the west.  If we have a stomach problem, we take digestive enzymes.  If we have trouble breathing, we use an inhaler.  If we have a headache, it is Tylenol time.

But, doing a practice that brings our own warmth and vitality to these organs to replenish and energize by using what’s inside is a different approach than we have been taught.  It is restoring our bodies to their natural state and allowing them to function as they were designed.  In the workshop we brought energy down from our heads into our guts, and activated gall bladder and stomach channels on our legs…simple and important exercises.  We live so much of our lives in our heads restricting essential flow into our bodies.

If you are like me, you more often take care to update and address your outward appearance.  Do my shoes match my outfit?  Is my hair color covering what it is supposed to cover?  Did I pay my bills, return correspondence, clean the kitchen?  I don’t think about overloading my liver with worry or my kidneys with fear or adrenals with overactiveness, so much so that they are too sluggish to cleanse my body.

But, that was before.  Today is a new day.  I think that I am going to take my liver on a meditation, my lungs to sing a song, and my kidneys on a short walk.

 

 

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