Day 220 of 365 - Liver Love, Another Angle
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, spring is the season of the liver. According to Donna Eden's book, Energy Medicine, spring is assertive and embodies the power of new life, which comes from the energy accumulating below ground in the winter, bursting forth.
You may have heard before, that the liver is associated with the emotion of anger, but not that anger is it's stress response, and assertiveness is it's non-stressed response. When the rhythm is out of balance, the stress emotion is more likely to be expressed. It can become so pervasive that you do not recognize the distortion. It just is what it is.
From another energy perspective, the liver is located in the area of the third chakra, the solar plexus. It is our center of personal power. Emotionally, it seems to correlate that, when we feel a strong sense of personal power we are assertive, and when we do not we feel irritated or angry.
There are actually energetic strategies for addressing the distortion of balance between assertiveness and anger. For the spring rhythm, the stress points are on the temples, beside the eyes. The main balancing points are on the forehead above the eyes. These are accupressure points. Stretching out your thumbs and fingers, so you can simultaneously be touching the balance point on the forehead and the stress point on the temple on each side, and breathing deeply for a couple of minutes can bring relief. Likewise, other energy healing practices, focusing on the solar plexus chakra balance could also be helpful.
After I recognized that the tenderness around my right ribs (mentioned in yesterday's post) might indicate liver congestion, I also realized that for a time, when I was on the strict ketogenic diet regimen, I was quite irritable. In retrospect, now, I see that the physical stress on the liver organ, had resulted in an emotional stress response of irritability and quickness to anger, from the liver energy meridian. It had become pervasive, and as mentioned above, not recognized as a distortion of the energy. I knew I felt irritable, but it was not until much later that I put two and two together.
I apologize now to anyone who suffered from the expression of irritability fostered by my lack of awareness and inadequate organ support. Fortunately, providing physical support to my liver, in the form of the strategies mentioned in yesterday's post, also alleviated the energetic and emotional distress.
Giving your liver extra love in the spring, can help shake off the heaviness of winter and support you in feeling more light and buoyant in the season of returning sun. Once we feel the release of the pent up excess energy, we might be more inspired to clear or clean our living spaces, get more physically active, or eat healthier. We may also feel more inclined to seek social contact, rather than remaining focused inwardly, as may have been the case in the winter.
I have indeed had a burst of spring energy recently, and have to wonder if the extra support provided to my liver in recent months is a contributing factor. We are not just physical bodies. Becoming aware of our energetic and emotional status, and finding ways to balance them, is equally as important as physical support, as they are interconnected.
You may have heard before, that the liver is associated with the emotion of anger, but not that anger is it's stress response, and assertiveness is it's non-stressed response. When the rhythm is out of balance, the stress emotion is more likely to be expressed. It can become so pervasive that you do not recognize the distortion. It just is what it is.
From another energy perspective, the liver is located in the area of the third chakra, the solar plexus. It is our center of personal power. Emotionally, it seems to correlate that, when we feel a strong sense of personal power we are assertive, and when we do not we feel irritated or angry.
There are actually energetic strategies for addressing the distortion of balance between assertiveness and anger. For the spring rhythm, the stress points are on the temples, beside the eyes. The main balancing points are on the forehead above the eyes. These are accupressure points. Stretching out your thumbs and fingers, so you can simultaneously be touching the balance point on the forehead and the stress point on the temple on each side, and breathing deeply for a couple of minutes can bring relief. Likewise, other energy healing practices, focusing on the solar plexus chakra balance could also be helpful.
After I recognized that the tenderness around my right ribs (mentioned in yesterday's post) might indicate liver congestion, I also realized that for a time, when I was on the strict ketogenic diet regimen, I was quite irritable. In retrospect, now, I see that the physical stress on the liver organ, had resulted in an emotional stress response of irritability and quickness to anger, from the liver energy meridian. It had become pervasive, and as mentioned above, not recognized as a distortion of the energy. I knew I felt irritable, but it was not until much later that I put two and two together.
I apologize now to anyone who suffered from the expression of irritability fostered by my lack of awareness and inadequate organ support. Fortunately, providing physical support to my liver, in the form of the strategies mentioned in yesterday's post, also alleviated the energetic and emotional distress.
Giving your liver extra love in the spring, can help shake off the heaviness of winter and support you in feeling more light and buoyant in the season of returning sun. Once we feel the release of the pent up excess energy, we might be more inspired to clear or clean our living spaces, get more physically active, or eat healthier. We may also feel more inclined to seek social contact, rather than remaining focused inwardly, as may have been the case in the winter.
I have indeed had a burst of spring energy recently, and have to wonder if the extra support provided to my liver in recent months is a contributing factor. We are not just physical bodies. Becoming aware of our energetic and emotional status, and finding ways to balance them, is equally as important as physical support, as they are interconnected.
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