Too many thoughts! So much that through this fog to consider neither plans, or priorities, or even more so a potential future. A familiar story? In Chinese medicine, it is believed that the body has an active point that is associated with the clarity of thinking. Where is she and how to turn it on?
As we know, Chinese medicine is built on the idea that our body works on a certain life -giving energy – qi. It circulates through the body with blood, and if all organs and systems are supplied evenly, then the person is healthy and happy. If the energy is distributed incorrectly-somewhere overkill, somewhere shortage-then various complications may occur.
For example, if qi energy rises up and fills his head, then, as Chinese doctors believe, a person suffers from constant internal monologues or dialogs. Anxious obsessive thoughts absorb attention, the head constantly “cooks” something that cannot “digest”. The reverse situation: energy hardly gets to the head, and then a person thinks sluggishly, cannot concentrate, catch a thought, begins to reflect on something and loses the thread.
Both for the influx of energy, and for its outflow from the head in Chinese traditional medicine, the point of Yu Jen is responsible. It is located on the joint of the first cervical vertebra with a skull. Find this joint is very simple: nod your head several times.
If we draw analogies with Western European medicine, then there are amazing coincidences: anatomically this area is associated with the outflow of blood from the head – the main veins pass through it. If the outflow is disturbed, then the tributary also suffers (the space for blood is reduced).
So, at first cognitive functions are reduced – attention, concentration, quality of memory – and then chronic headaches begin to develop. Western physiologists do not mention obsessive thoughts, leaving this zone of responsibility to psychologists.
But Chinese doctors believe that psychology and body condition are indivisible – what happens inside a person at the level of tissues/organs, and what is happening with emotions is due.
Disclosure of Yu Jen
In the Taoist Chinese traditional medicine, there is the term “discovery” of an active point – this means that this zone should be free, relaxed, and fired by energy. Based on this, to get rid of obsessive thoughts and clarity of perception, it is necessary to “open” the point of the yen. How to do it?
For this, Chinese doctors use various acupuncture techniques and acupressors: they act on the point with needles, hot stones, various massage techniques. And necessarily assign exercises for independent consolidation of the results. Moreover, in ancient Taoist medicine, the impact does not occur on the physical point itself (although it seems that the doctor acts on it).
Active points are considered
as an entrance to a shapeless measurement. It sounds mysteriously, yes? What does it mean? In the Taoist tradition, it is believed that changes at first occur at the level of a formless – consciousness, attention. A person changes his condition (shapeless component), and over time, this changes the state of his body (form).
That is, a specialist in acupuncture through active points acts on a person’s consciousness, eliminating weights in this area: in this case, he treats obsessive thoughts with acupuncture. And thanks to this, the neck area is released, the blood supply to the brain improves, the posture becomes proud, plastic and free.
Beautiful idea? You can believe in it, you can not believe, but the fact remains: the quality and clarity of thinking depends on how free the area of the first cervical is dependent – and the ability to get rid of anxious thoughts.
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