Our Lung Chi Determines Our Resiliency

While talking to a friend who was crippled with anxiety and grief, I realized how blocked up their lung chi (energy) was. They couldn't process their emotions; they were stuck and spiraling. Their skin was breaking out in hives, which added to their anxiety.

This is classic weak lung chi, which often appears on our skin. According to Chinese medicine, the skin is known as our third lung.

So, after hearing them express their experience, which has been keeping them from sleeping and socializing, we did a few pranayama techniques (breath work) to regulate their nervous system.

It took some time to take a deep breath, but eventually, they got there, and I could see their spine start to lift and their energy brighten.

Because we hold our "issues in our tissues," I also included some gentle chi gong and yoga movements to soothe their nervous system.

Our minds and memories aren't only in our heads but stored all over our bodies. You may cry in a yoga position for no apparent reason as you release stored emotions.

Our emotions are energy and indicators of whether our chi flow is harmonious or imbalanced. Chi is the most subtle layer of our being that affects our emotions and physical well-being. Regulating the chi flow often relieves our physical and emotional issues.

The lungs store grief and sadness. And when we're only breathing short breaths, just using the top, smallest lobes of our lungs, this creates anxiety.

Heavy sadness, grief, weak integrity, poor discipline, and heavy, stuck emotions come with weak lung chi.

Healthy, balanced lung chi provides emotional resiliency, courage, integrity, and discipline.

As we work with the energy of the season, based on how the earth is positioned to the sun and the energy frequency it receives, it's important to understand how each season's energy supports the next season.

With winter approaching, we need to build strong lung chi to keep the kidneys running at their strongest. The lungs are the energetic mother of the kidneys. The lungs receive the chi, and the kidneys store it.

When the lung chi is well balanced, the kidneys benefit, providing us with endurance and willpower to get through the dark, cold winter.

But when the lung chi is weak, then the kidneys aren't fortified, and we suffer from excessive fear, insecurity, low back ache, knee troubles, poor memory, hearing loss, and a whole host of issues.

Our kidneys are our bio-batteries corresponding to the water element that rules the endocrine system. Thus, the brain and reproductive glands are directly related to kidney chi. The ears are the sense door to the kidneys, so poor hearing, tinnitus, and vertigo are often due to a lack of kidney chi.

We age much quicker when our kidney chi is weak!

So now is the time to strengthen the lungs and build kidney chi reserves! Breathwork, or pranayama, builds resiliency by helping us go from 'upset to reset' emotionally. It also calms the mind so we can peacefully enter meditation and tap into our intuition.

Another way we balance energy is by pressurizing and stretching the meridians (energy pathways) through yoga and chi gong, an acupressure treatment that regulates and builds chi.

From my heart to yours~

Namaste,

Maggie