Balance your meridians to gain health

How often we wake up waking up, we warm each other with our hands where it hurts or we caress the dolls in an uncomfortable situation?

Knowing the route and the special points of the meridians helps to discover the reason for many of these spontaneous actions and to understand that most of the time they are carried out in order to restore body balance.

What are the meridians according to Chinese medicine?

In addition to designating the semicircles that cross the terrestrial sphere from pole to pole and indicate the hours as it rotates on itself, the meridians are also the channels through which energy circulates in the body according to traditional Chinese medicine.

Channels or meridians are pathways or passages through which energy circulates through our body, both internally and externally, in a constant exchange with the environment.

the meridians they distribute the energy that we capture from the environment, but above all they allow us to measure what happens inside the bodyin which energy is constantly exchanged with the outside: from oxygen and food to visual, auditory and temperature stimuli.

These channels or meridians usually have a internal path through the organs and viscera and a superficial external pathwhich is the one that you have surely seen represented at some time in the acupuncture schemes (The treatment is based on puncturing these channels with needles).

The external relationship of the meridians with the internal organs and their cycles of maximum and minimum activity, the physical and psychological implications of those relationships and the simplicity and beauty with which they are explained.

The meridian system it represents the schedule and the path followed by the energies that the body captures and distributes. These energies receive different names and represent qualities that are known today from physiology and that help to understand what the Chinese doctors described.

Traditionally, this meridian system is considered to be the vital link between the body surface and internal organs.

How to balance vital energy?

A balanced flow in the meridians is sign of harmony and health; otherwise it can lead to pathology.

there is a “essential” energy, which has a prenatal and a postnatal component. essential energy activated with first postnatal breath and dictates the rhythm of circulation, breathing and heartbeat.

The essential energy throughout life will be the combination of the original energy inherited from the parents with that provided by food and water.

Both energies, the prenatal and the one that comes from nutrition, come together in the center of the thorax.when oxygen from respiration burns calories from food.

At the same time, each two-hour slot favors a specific meridianin which the energy flow reaches its maximum.

All these energy channels are balanced when rest, exercise and meals are ordered in time and a harmonious flow is created.

Without order, a conflict occurs that the body tries to fix with yawning, stretching, coughing, fever, diarrhea, vomiting, pain… The acupuncturist can try to correct it by stimulating energy or not with needles, but the important thing is know and respect schedules and lead a healthy lifestyle.

A simple way to massage the meridians is running them slowly with your hands in order to mobilize energy.

You can start by going down the outside of the legs and go up the inside, which affects various digestive organs.