The video above is a recording of a recent Accunect Mind Body Healing Webinar. It addresses the themes of this blog post and is worth a watch.
The video also includes the Accunect healing session that followed the lecture. The people on the call found the session really powerful, so watch all the way to the end.
This week for my weekly Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar I invited people to ask for what they wanted to change in their lives out of the Accunect Healing Session.
First, I talked about the health implications of not asking for what you want.
On a purely practical level of life, if you don’t ask for what you want, you’re really unlikely to get it – Don’t Ask, Don’t Get.
That’s not rocket science. If you don’t tell people what you want, you are expecting them to be mind readers. Whether the people in question are family members, friends, or work colleagues, they can’t know what you want unless you tell them.
So why don’t more people act authentically and ask people for what they want?
For many people, they have doubts about their self-worth and whether or not they deserve to have a more fulfilling life with more fulfilling relationships. Of course they don’t think this out loud. Instead, they say things like:
“I don’t need much.”
“I’m just a shy person – that’s okay.”
“I’m not lucky.”
“You can’t always get what you want.”
The way to address deeply held beliefs is to balance our energy state – which is the same thing as your subconscious mind. That’s one reason why Accunect is so useful – by addressing all the energy states of the body we can shift our instinctive, subconscious reactions to situations and open up more possibilities for expressing our selves fully and having deeper connections with those around us by being more authentic.
But you have to want to change, and you have to understand how it's possible to change to really be able to shift at a deeper level.
Make Me Want It
You can lead a horse to water…
How do you convince people that they are worth asking for what you need?
This is why I chose to talk about the health implications of not asking for what you need.
In fact, the health implications of beliefs and negative expectations are the only reason that I talk about them. I’m an acupuncture physician and energy medicine practitioner, not a psychotherapist.
Chinese medicine, the theory behind acupuncture, has been around for thousands of years – long enough to notice that emotional states affect the acupuncture meridians and their ability to regulate the health of the body.
Emotions are one of the primary causes of disease in this view, and our beliefs or expectations about the world determine our emotional reactions.
Connecting the dots between physical ailments that we don’t know how to fix and emotional states and reactions that we could change leads to empowerment. If we can see how changing our behavior and our reactions can positively affect our health we can claim control over our destiny and heal ourselves.
How It's Connected
The Liver meridian rules the throat and our ability to express our emotions. When we want something, but don’t have it and can’t see how to get it, the underlying emotion is anger or frustration: “Why can’t I have it?”
Strong Liver Qi/Energy helps us to see ourselves moving forward and growing in life, and helps us to practice asking for what we want. With practice, we can become more graceful and diplomatic with how we ask, but we first have to think we are worth it before we can ask for it. And then we have to muster up the courage to speak up. Courage is generated by a combination of strong Liver Qi/Energy and strong Gall Bladder Qi/Energy. Both the Liver and Gall Bladder meridians are part of Wood element and share common aspects of thinking.
So, inability or unwillingness to speak up indicates a weakness in the Liver Qi.
And this means that the Liver is going to start being less efficient at its other jobs. In western medicine, the liver has more than 500 vital functions so this could affect every system of the body.
Rather than talk about the details of the specific physiological functions, which are pretty abstract to anyone but a medical doctor, I focused on the high level functions of the Liver in Chinese medicine, including common physical and psychological symptoms of imbalance.
I just read from the reference handouts for the Liver that I created for the Distance Acupuncture course. I created an extensive set of handouts so that practitioners without my 35 years of study in Chinese medicine could have resources to connect physical ailments to energy imbalance to life choices about how we react to situations. This way, anyone can help empower others to take control of their health on all levels: body, mind, and spirit.
Here's a short list of what I read off for functions:
- Supervising immune function
- Controlling both flexibility and strength of the muscles
- Eye health and vision
- Keeping digestion moving properly
- Regulating menstrual cycle
- Regulating blood volume
- Promoting sleep
- Expressing emotions
- Recognizing the universal Oneness that connect all of creation
- Generating faith and hope
- Seeing your path in life and seeing opportunities
- Planning and organizational ability
- Governing boundaries
- Asking for what you need
- Learning from your mistakes and gaining wisdom
- Encouraging spiritual growth
Then I correlated failure of these functions to common symptoms:
- Headache
- Chest tightness
- Nausea, belching, indigestion, or bloating
- Hiccups
- Neck and shoulder tension
- Lump in throat or difficulty swallowing
- Blurred vision or “floaters”
- Red eyes
- Painful periods
- Breast tenderness
- Numbness of limbs
- Tremors
- Allergies
- Depression
- Moodiness
- Melancholy
- Insomnia
- Disturbing dreams
- Irritability
- Angry shouting
- Perfectionism
- Resentment
- Frustration
- Inability to manage schedule
- Poor boundaries
- Frequent sighing
You’re an exception if you can’t relate to at least one of those issues.
If you have any trouble with any of those issues and if you have any trouble asking for what you need, then balancing your Liver Qi can help with both.
Again, I just read off from the handouts that I give to students of the Distance Acupuncture course so that anyone can help people understand how they can heal and then help them to heal by balancing their energy by using Accunect energy balancing taught in the course.
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