When is a tumor not a tumor?
I recently had a client referred to me and one of her complaints was a mass or hard lump in her upper abdomen. Her doctor was concerned about a possible tumor and had referred her for an ultrasound. Because of the location, the doctor also wanted to rule out an aneurysm on a blood vessel.
Both conditions could be serious, so I encouraged her to follow through with the ultrasound because it’s better to know if there’s something wrong rather than to worry about it. Worrying about health issues depletes your energy/Qi and makes your health worse.
But I also saw an interesting pattern with some of the other symptoms that were on her intake form.
She had bloating after meals, sluggish digestion, food sensitivities and allergies, and periodic headaches behind the eyes.
That to me suggested a pattern involving the Liver meridian, and I explained how stagnation in the Liver meridian could induce tension into the stomach.
I showed her a picture of the lesser omentum, which is a ligament that connects the liver and the stomach - see diagram.
When there is stress affecting the Liver meridian, this ligament tightens and literally pulls on the stomach.
This creates tension in the stomach.
This in turn produces a sensation of a lump in the upper abdomen, indigestion, bloating after meals, sluggish digestion and headaches behind the eyes. Headaches behind the eyes indicate stagnation in the stomach and intestines in Chinese Medicine.
The energy imbalance that produces this pattern of symptoms has been recognized for thousands of years.
It’s called Liver invading/dominating the Stomach.
It’s a very descriptive name, because tension and emotional stress in the Liver meridian directly affects the lesser omentum and then this tension literally invades the stomach in a physical way which turns the emotional stress into physical digestive symptoms like indigestion, bloating, nausea, acid reflux, a tight area in the upper abdomen that feels solid like a tumor, dizziness, headaches, and sluggish digestion.
To confirm the pattern, I asked her one more question.
Trying to be diplomatic, I said “Look, I know I just met you, but is there any chance that you have perfectionist tendencies?”
She laughed and asked how I guessed that, because she resonated with that.
And I said it goes along with the energy pattern of Liver Invading Stomach.
The amazing thing about having a continuous record of clinical discussion over a period of several thousand years is that there has been plenty of time for practitioners to observe the bodymind patterns that result from energy imbalances. And this includes recognition of both physical and psychological symptoms.
Just knowing that there was an alternate explanation for her symptoms that didn’t have to involve a tumor or an anuerysm was a visible relief for my client.
I then proceeded to do an Accunect healing session with her, and sure enough one the things we balanced was the imbalance pattern of Liver invading Stomach.
She felt noticeably better after the session, and the lump completely disappeared shortly after our session. She did have the ultrasound, and it was unremarkable – no mass in her abdomen, nothing of concern at all.
It’s natural to be afraid that a lump in your abdomen might be a tumor, or something else.
In this case, the tumor didn’t suddenly go away – there never was a tumor.
It was simply muscular tension resulting from an imbalance in the Liver meridian.
It is an amazing gift to be able to reframe someone’s scary medical problem as an energy imbalance instead of a medical problem.
It’s way more empowering for the client because there is then a natural way to address the symptom without drugs or surgery.
I can do this reframing because I’ve been studying Chinese Medicine for 35 years. To practice acupuncture, you need to go to graduate school for 4 years. And then it takes another 10 years before you get good at diagnosing patterns.
I’ve been teaching applied kinesiology based energy medicine internationally for over two decades.
I wanted to be able to teach my students a way to focus on the underlying imbalances and to draw on thousands of years of accumulated wisdom – without having to go to school for 4 years and to practice for many years after that.
I came up with the Accunect Ancient Wisdom course that combines the ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine along with modern techniques from Applied Kinesiology with an extensive set of reference pages.
Using muscle checking and these well-organized reference pages, practitioners without any knowledge of Chinese Medicine can find just the right aspect of energy to balance. And then they can read out to the client what they found and say something like “this energy imbalance can produce one or more of the following symptoms….”
When the client realizes that what they thought were separate problems are all tied together by a long-recognized energy imbalance they are able to shift their perspective on their problem – which is a treatment in and of itself.
Then the practitioner uses tapping over the head and the heart to stimulate both the nervous system and the meridian system so that they can come more into balance. It’s like doing acupuncture, only without the needles.
With almost no training at all, students are able to find and balance Chinese Medicine energy imbalances without needles. And they are able to communicate this to clients so they can help the client see their issue as an energy imbalance that can they change rather than as a medical problem that they may have to take medication for long-term.
Accunect Ancient Wisdom is available to take online with a mix of self-paced lectures and live support calls for demonstrations, practice time, question and answer time and healing sessions.
For more information, click here.
