Hello everyone and welcome to my introductory post on Change Matters Healing. I will begin by explaining the name of the site and provide my experience knowledge and observation of how our current medical model has not provided proper education and guidance for maintaining your health and happiness.
Change Matters Healing seemed appropriate due to my training and privilege of studying with Dr Jeffrey Yuen. I once heard Dr Yuen say that "People don't change unless the pain is greater than the change". and that " there are no incurable diseases, only incurable people". I have come to understand that we have to be willing to change in order for healing to occur. And if our health matters to us; then why not embrace the change and start the healing process?
There could be many possibilities of why we are reluctant to change. It may not be financially possible, there may be children involved, we may not know what to change or how to change, or we may have the old stories about how we're not capable or educated enough or young enough or old enough. The list and thoughts continue till we throw up our hands and trudge through life fulfilling our chosen obligations even though inside we long for the catalyst to provoke our change. And illness usually is our invitation to change.
Change in the context of Classical Chinese Medicine is synonymous to wind. And the resistance to wind or change produces stress and stagnation in our bodies, minds and spiritual growth. It is also said that wind is the spearhead of 1000 diseases. Which refers to wind being the driving vector or universal force capable of driving cold or heat into the body penetrating our defense mechanism or in Chinese medicine wei qi. This defensive qi or wei qi circulates throughout the outer layer of the skin and facia or the Sinew channels. The sinew channels provide protection from external pathogens entering deeper into the body. Part of the body's reaction to an external pathogen for example wind and cold would be a sneeze and a micro sweat. If the defensive qi is strong enough to push the pathogen out, we are safe from attack and disease. If the body's defense is not strong enough due to other life stressors, the pathogen will proceed further along in the sinew channel progression. The body may attempt another attack through a sustained fever, or it may progress to half internal and half external in which we experience intermittent fever and chills. It is in the body's best interest at this point to muster as much wei qi as possible to push the pathogen out of the body.
Wei qi is an offshoot or product of our Kidney Yang Qi. And this wei qi is responsible for not only protecting the body's outer layer through opening and closing the pores but also controlling the smooth muscles of the body. The smooth muscles are found in the walls of the hollow organs: stomach, intestines, bladder, uterus, and in the walls of the blood vessels, lymph vessels and in the respiratory, urinary and reproductive system. If the Kidney Yang Qi is insufficient, the wei qi in turn will be weak. And pathogens can enter to the level of the blood. At this point the pathogen as well as the body's natural response to either cold, heat or dampness will respond in order to protect the vital organs.
Innate to the body's wisdom, the pathogen may be diverted through the Divergent Channels or if it has an emotional component, it may be stored or anchored in the Luo Channels. The divergent channels are designed to divert pathogens away from the internal organs and hold it in latency in the joints or major articulations of the body. If this should occur, the symptoms we are experiencing will subside and life will go on as we know it. Further down the road we may be introduced to another pathogen and the cycle will repeat. As we age or if the right life's stressors surmount, the body's ability to maintain latency and hold all the accumulated pathogens will diminish and we will begin to experience symptoms. The symptoms could be symptoms we experienced at the initial onset of the external pathogen, or it could be a new symptom as a result of internal wind, cold, heat and/or dampness as the body responds to the pathogen. Either way, we are again faced with an opportunity to change.
Emotional issues some say are at the root of all disease. And successful treatment of disease must treat the spirit. The Luo channels are created throughout our lives to store all unresolved emotional upset. These channels will continue to hold emotional pain until they lose their capacity. Then the channels start to empty. When the Luo's are full, there are visible signs along or near the Luo channel trajectories. Which is also another invitation to change.
All of these opportunities and developments in our lives are all born, breed, financed, and recorded within the Eight Extraordinary Channels. And the best part about all these opportunities is that change is just waiting for us to walk through our fears. Everyone's fear is different because we are all different. And our disease manifestations are going to be unique. This is all observable and classically diagnosed through pulse reading, tongue diagnosis, body palpation, questioning, and focused listening. A superior clinician will be able to diagnose the root cause of the deficiency or disease and support the body's natural healing mechanism while building, strengthening, conserving the mediumship required to heal the body and establish latency until the body replenishes depleted resources and rid the body of disease.
To bring this to a conclusion, Change Matters-Healing is another invite to embrace change and walk through your fear. The only difference between fear and courage is the breath.
And our biggest fear is the fear of our truth.
Our defensive wei qi is regulated through the lungs so as we strengthen our lungs and kidneys (the source of wei qi), we not only enhance our immune system we strengthen our willpower to face and walk through our fears.
So, if you want to heal and be disease free, change is inevitable and can be exciting. And that is why I decided to call my practice Change Matters-Healing. I offer my knowledge, experience, guidance for your healing. Sometimes all that is needed is a safe healing space and very powerful intention to vibrate and open the channels of healing. The more we struggle and fight change, the deeper and more severe our diseases become.
 “If the spirit is at peace, the heart is in harmony; when the heart is in harmony, the body is whole; if the spirit becomes aggravated the heart wavers, and when the heart wavers the body becomes injured; if one seeks to heal the physical body, therefore, one needs to regulate the spirit first."
Thank you. Out of the Void of Nothing comes the 10,000 possibilities. So, the more space we have the more possibilities we have in life.
I help create space so you can see all the possibilities.
Respectfully yours,
Will Scott
Channel Practitioner Classical Chinese Medicine.
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