Emotion is a type of energy that can affect a person’s health. From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine, negative emotions are harmful to our health, relationships and quality of life. From the integration of ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory’ with ‘Modern Energy Medicine’, it helps us to understand emotions through a more complete perspective.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory denotes the seven types of emotions as joy, anger, sadness, happiness, grief, fear and fright. Emotional energy (Qi) with different properties will be produced from every single type of emotional activity, and all emotional energy will be channelled into the corresponding parts of the body accordingly.
When emotional energy is accumulated, it leads to energy imbalances in the body (cell tissue), or causes energy flow to be blocked, destructed by toxins caused by negative energy and in the end angry, all these factors will result in functional disorder and pathological changes of cellular tissue.
Anger affects liver function
For example, when a person gets angry, a type of negative energy which, is ‘heaty’ will be created from the psychological and emotional activities of anger. This causes a sensation of heat to rise up to the upper part of the body, especially towards the nervous system and liver. This causes the “Yang” energy from the liver to raise your blood pressure. Thus, you will notice flushed faces and pulsing neck veins when someone is angry. This is known as emotional hypertension. In the long run, anger and the accumulation of energy may lead to liver disease, high blood pressure, shoulder pain, mental fatigue, nervous tension and other symptoms.
Grief affects lung function
Once grief has taken up residence in the body and mind, a negative energy field with feelings like being desolated and lonely will be created. This energy will flow and become stagnant in the lungs. When the lungs are out of balance and you are dealing with excessive negative energy, this may end up in lung-related diseases. Actually, lung cells will signal to us to heal but if we can’t sense the signal, our lungs will continue deteriorating, and symptoms such as cough, expectoration, chest tightness, and dyspnea (difficulty breathing) may gradually worsen, this is called emotional cough.
Emotional Illnesses and Psychotherapy
Emotional illness is a type of mental illness, so psychotherapy could help. Psychotherapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine has been practised for several thousand years. My common practices for this kind emotional illness are very simple, they are:
- Hypnotherapy is used to help the patient access their subconscious, where the patient will be guided to provide inner information of the body. This is so that hidden complexes of the past can be discovered and emotions can be divulged one by one, and all inner emotional energy can be released, which could help the patient to transcend their memory, regain the freedom of soul and recover from mind and soul problems.
- Emotional Energy Release Therapy is a kind of modern energy medicine. It can immediately release negative emotional energy that is stored in the body, meridians, cell tissues or nervous system by specific acupoint massages and guidance via language and aromatherapy with therapeutic pure essential oil. During the release process, the energy will be converted into something physical such as phlegm, tears, yawn and gas (wind) that is emitted from the body. The patient will feel relaxed and calm in their body and mind after the emotional energy is released.
- Chinese Medicine Recuperating. Chinese medicine prescription will be given according to the patient’s physical needs and symptoms mainly to balance and reconcile the energy imbalance of internal organs and tissues in the body. Prescriptions to cool heat, resolving sputum, expel cold, wind, dispersing stagnated liver (Qi) for relieving (Qi) stagnation. Traditional Chinese medicine is mild and also a natural remedy. Patients can take it with a peace of mind, and emotions can be effectively relieved and adjusted.
Dr. Ken Loo is a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor, Acupuncturist, Hypnotherapist, Energy Healer and Aromatherapist.
