In the month of June 2021, MCO (Movement Control Order) had been implemented by government. People stay at home to work and live. Our lifestyle changed, as we had missed our 9am to 5pm working lifestyle.
People started to get themselves in a fret, due to … Early morning we stuck in the traffic jam on the way to office, frightening by the tooted whistle of the car. Some people not abiding rules on the road, jumping in line, double parking, or run the red light etc.
People started to get themselves in a fret, due to … People have used to work from home during MCO. When long hours working in front of laptop and facing the screen, people start to feel boring unconsciously, they changed posture while working.
People started to get themselves in a fret, due to … Besides working, most of the time, parent also supervises their children to do their homework.
People started to get themselves in a fret, due to… . . Some parents, in addition to work, have to take care of the appetite of the family. The time for a meal includes: cooking rice, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, cooking, setting up and washing dishes. If the child is young, it may take some time to feed. I
People started to get themselves in a fret, due to …our heart. The emotional feeling of the fret brings us to distress. Hence, how are we going to resolve the distress?
In order to resolve distress, there are variety ways to heal our heart, for instance literature art, music, drawing, philosophy, and moral education. We could face ourselves and family with a peaceful attitude.
How to resolve distress from the perspective of TCM?
From the perspective of TCM, it is not solely heart, but other organs have also playing an important role to treat distress issue. TCM sees the “5 organs” as a whole complete set, meaning our heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, all work together and related with each other closely. TCM Classic Book 《黄帝内经》had compared human body as a country, all the 5 organs had been designated a “governor” position, depicted the functionality of each of the organ and the relevant relationship among each other.
TCM Classic Book 《黄帝内经》had compared human body as a country, all the 5 organs had been designated a “governor” position, depicted the functionality of each of the organ and the relevant relationship among each other.
Heart：Monarch Position
According to TCM, our heart has the power to influence the blood circulation in the body. Hence, we depicted the heart as “Monarchy Position”. Firstly, it has directly related to heart. Secondly, heart may refer to our emotional level (i.e. consciousness, thoughts and emotion).
As temperature rise, heatiness resulting in the impairment of heart, as a result, causing distress and discomfort. We have to take precaution to protect the heart then. First of all, we must ensure a good and enough daily sleep. From the diet, we suggest to eat red color food and bitter food, for example: red bean, hawthorn, tomato, bitter gourd, lotus seed etc. All these food will help to lessen the heatiness in the heart.
From the diet, we suggest to eat red color food and bitter food, for example: red bean, hawthorn, tomato, bitter gourd, lotus seed etc. All these food will help to lessen the heatiness in the heart.In the seven emotions of “joy, anger, worry, sorrow, and terror”, only joy is positive, which can make popular and aspirational.
Modern people are under great pressure in work and life, often anxious and depressed. It is recommended to adjust their emotions as much as possible and avoid other “six emotions”; actively seek out the joy of life and do things that make people “happy”, such as appropriate exercise, calligraphy, painting, and joy Interest etc. But be careful not to overjoy, so as not to bring unnecessary pressure to the heart.
Liver：Army General Position
Liver depicted as an “Army General Position”. When “Qi”circulation and blood circulation are both sufficient to dredge the liver, we do things firm and steadily, if liver blood abnormal, it cause distress, and one is easily irritated emotional wise, hence tending to work things out with an unreasonable attitude.
Liver have a close relation to our emotional feeling.
We let the liver in a soothing state via a fluent flowing of “Qi” and blood circulation. Then one become optimistic and once he/she get annoyed, they will calm down easily by using the variety way. For instance, when we are in angry emotion, we pronounce a “shhh” sound gently and slowly, until our feeling calm down.
Spleen：Guard of Granary
Granary is a storehouse for grain. In other words, spleen or stomach is depicted as the “Guard of Granary”.
《素问·灵兰秘典论》say: Spleen is the “Guard of granary”. With the manufacturing of our stomach or spleen, the food has been digested here, and providing the nutrition to the other organs in the body.
Spleen plays an important role for contemplating, if we are in distress mode, it diminish the functionality of the spleen. When one is over thinking, it depleted blood in the spleen causing exhausted of the spleen. We are encouraging people to see things with a calmful manner when we face trauma situation. Lessen our time indulged in contemplating helped us to reduce distress.
Lung：Prime Minister Position
Lung, depicted as “Prime Minister Position”. A Prime Minister role is designated to help Monarchy(we say heart). In the other words, our lung strengthening the heart blood circulation, and distribute the air and water evenly in the whole body including other organs.
《黄帝内经》says: The season of autumn works naturally. We sleep early and wake up early. We stabilize our emotion and do things with calmful manner. We preserve the energy of summer, hence enhancing the functionality of the lung during autumn.
Kidney：Armed Police Officer Position
Kidney, depicted as “Armed Police Officer”. According to TCM, our kidney is “congenital essential substance” organ. Kidney has close relation to the growth and reproduction of human beings.
The kidneys are compatible with winter. If the kidneys are nurtured in winter, the body will be stronger in the coming year. In winter, the key to nourishing kidney qi lies in “hidden”,just like “Winter March, this is called closed storage, water and ice, no disturbance of the sun, morning and evening wake up, must wait for the sun, the cold is warm, no leakage of the skin, so that The qi is desperate, the answer to this winter qi is the way to nourish the reservoir.”This sentence reminds everyone that in winter, we should reduce activities appropriately and do things “slowly” so as not to disturb the yang qi. Keep your yang qi, keep your mind quiet, not be irritable, and you won’t be irritable.
Conclusion
In order to resolve distress issue, we ought to learn the traits of the 5 organs (heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney) . Hence, we understand that when one organ has impairment, it will affect the neighborhood organ. In long runs, when distress emotion worsening, the effect is hard to heal the distress emotion. On the other hand, when one organ has impairment, we rectify it, and ensure it would not affect the neighborhood organ, so body is reconciled, and the distress emotion was prevented to go worsening.
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