Acupuncture and bodywork can contribute to the resolution or reduction of psycho-emotional complaints. In his book ‘Heart of Acupuncture’ Bruno Braeckman says the following about this:
Important ancient Chinese medical texts confirm: “Emotions are the most important cause of illness.”
The original acupuncture paid much more attention to the emotional and spiritual backgrounds of health and illness. The scientific ambition of modern Chinese medicine has led to the “purification” of these aspects from current acupuncture.
However, experience shows that acupuncture is a precise and effective means to vent stagnant emotions and thus restore the free circulation of Qi, of joy in life and health.
The usual term for “illness” in Chinese is Bing. However, precisely translated Bing means “disorders of the Heart”, which undeniably means that the body becomes ill mainly due to mental, emotional or spiritual causes.
Deficiencies of our natural consciousness aspects, for example due to incorrect deep beliefs, inevitably lead to weak organ functions. With acupuncture, these deficiencies can be detected and restored, so that one can (once again) enjoy his or her full potential.
This is the highest form of medicine, ‘Feeding the destination’ also known as ‘Bu Ming’ in Chinese.
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Excessive or long-lasting emotions (Qing) can be pathogenic, especially if we label them as “negative” and fight them. At first, this will hinder the free circulation of Qi in certain meridians, but quite quickly these subtle disrupted energies penetrate inwards to disrupt organ functions there as well. In this way, persistent recurring or intense emotions can lead to health problems. Fear, sadness, guilt, hatred, resentment etc. cause a feeling of tearing off, loneliness, tensing up, stiffening up, shrinking… contrary to the natural, life-giving, warm, radiating and connecting effect of the feeling of love that is the basis of life and health.
“Ghosts” or Gui (pronounced: gkwei) are compulsive behaviour patterns that arise from unprocessed emotions or traumatic experiences. Almost everyone walks around with small or large ghosts: everyone has experienced something that left a deep impression that can be the cause of a physical or psychological function going off the rails.
In threatening situations, a reflexive reaction can be a necessary self-protection: fighting for one’s life, jumping away from an oncoming car, but also erasing, ‘forgetting’ unbearable events (such as child abuse or incest).
The painful experience (physical and/or emotional pain) is often not ‘processed’ in the original situation and remains imprinted as a snapshot in the subconscious.
A new stress experience can – sometimes years later – reactivate this experience and provoke the same reflexive reaction. This reaction pattern, which may originally have been necessary and appropriate, is no longer so. If it is permanently activated, this emotional charge shows itself as a Gui (ghost), a compulsive behavior or a physical complaint.
This can be compared to Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), in which the unprocessed emotions in the limbic system of the brain cause stress in the central nervous system or in the hormonal system.
According to Chinese medicine, certain intense emotions can penetrate into the Jing, the hereditary energy: so-called inherited ghosts. Modern epigenetics also proves that traumatic stress can leave traces in the genetic pattern. These are then passed on over several generations and are the cause of various complaints.
Fortunately, even this emotional charge can be detected and eliminated with acupuncture.
