On Friday we shared The Body’s Warning Signs: Part 1. This post highlighted the importance of discovering and addressing the cause of a condition rather than focusing on the symptoms, and discussed the warning signs the body can send to warn you. warn of a deeper cause. energetic imbalance. In their search for health, many people focus on what ails them: the symptoms. They may even go so far as to have a body part surgically removed. But this only masks the problem. When an organ or body part is removed, the meridian is left behind. The problem must be addressed energetically before true healing can occur.
We can see this with gallstones, kidney stones, uterine fibroids and cancer, especially breast cancer. When patients are tested for genetic conditions and the gene for breast cancer is discovered, a woman may choose to have her entire breast removed for fear that this cancer will manifest and spread. But no matter how effective this drastic step seems, it does not address the cause on an energetic level. Cancer may still be hiding somewhere in the body’s energy field, waiting for the right conditions to activate its processing capabilities.
Unless you understand how and why health problems start at the energetic level and migrate to the physical level, you won’t see what’s really going on.
The proof lies in the equation E=mc².
Energy and mass are interchangeable. If we just deal with mass, we haven’t really addressed the root cause. Mass is the result of an energy exchange that has produced these growths. Energetic changes are the cause; the mass is the effect.
Just as nature has the ability to continually rebalance itself, the body is born with the wisdom to rebalance and heal.
As the Nei Jing says, when the body is out of balance, it provides a welcoming place for the energies of illness and disease to find a home. When your body is in balance – when Qi flows and your organs work in harmony – there is no room for illness or disease. To cure illness and disease, you need to readjust your body and rebalance the organs, not just fight against ailments. You need to understand which organ or frequency is out of balance.
Once a TCM practitioner has identified the source of the imbalance, he or she can promote healing through acupuncture, herbs, specific qigong movements, and food. The food we use to heal has already completed its own processing for complete balance. There have been no interruptions in natural processing or unbalanced conditions in growth. These are powerful messages that can be used to restore balance in the body.
Originating from Digesting the Universe: A Revolutionary Framework for Healthy Metabolic Function by Nan Lu, OMD with Ellen Schaplowsky.
Come back to our blog on Wednesday for more information about using foods to heal.
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