Japanese Acupuncture (480) 246-0624

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“Came in for a post surgery pain of the cervical spine.  An option was to redo the surgery.  Since I started coming here, results were whole lot better than the surgery, and I don't need a surgery.  Pains are almost gone.”

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“Frank is a very caring healer.  He takes time to listen to your words and your body before he begins any treatment.  A visit to Japanese Acupuncture will not only heal your body, it will heal your soul.  His office provides a very healing environment of music, art and peace.”

                                                                        Sheila H.            Private City Planner

“As a fellow acupuncture practitioner, I can say there are only two people in the state I would let work on me.  I choose to see Frank at least once a month.”

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Japanese Acupuncture Newsletter, Phoenix, Arizona

Volume 3, No. 9, June, 2012

Oriental Medicine & On Human Conditions

Chapter Three

Spleen:  Worry, Harmony, and Illumination  #9

Thinking does not end suffering (newsletter #40:  Feb. 2011, Chapter Three #2).  Sometimes, we are in an endless loop of thinking pattern and we agonize over it.  For example, we incessantly think how to resolve matters with loved ones or with anyone who give us a grief.  When we have fallout with a friend, we think why a relationship has gone wrong.  We feel disappointment, injustice, and confusion.  If we are wise and spiritual, we realize, what we really seek is the end of thinking itself; a way out of the loop.  When we become an observer, we realize none of the thinking we have just placed in our head matters.  Let us connect with our true heart desires.  When we truly love someone, having fallout does not matter.  All we need to say to a person is:  “I truly love you (like you) and wherever you are I think of our friendship, and whenever we can, I still love to meet with you.”  When our friends do not call as often as they used to, what does it matter?  When we think we don’t have enough money, what does it matter?  As long as we are connected with and act on heart desires, we are “just”*1 ok.  Nothing really matters.  Let thinking go.

Obsessive worrying which belongs to the Spleen Element of this chapter is a thinking loop.  Depression and/or anxiety would follow if we were incapable of breaking the loop.  Since the Spleen controls the digestive system, a symptom such as bulimia may result.  A chromic digestive problem is common.  Since worrying results in a weak digestion, the nutrient absorption rate decreases, and the immune system weakens.  When we are in the state, we cannot loose weight no matter what diet we are on*2.  Intelligence belongs to the Spleen Element (along with the Kidney Element, they create the Will.), and the weakened Element creates a foggy head/memory or a weak mental state:  depriving us a strong mind, and we are easily swayed by something or someone.  Weak Spleen function also gives craving for sweet.  Excessive sugar intake further worsens the symptoms just mentioned. 

When we are in the loop, we need to increase functions of the liver.  Strong liver helps the digestive system, decomposes toxins effectively, and stabilizes our emotional state*3.  De-stress, learn how to breathe, eat more green leafy vegetables, increase intake of vitamin B complex, and change the blood to alkaline.  Take digestive enzymes and probiotics.  Drink lots of water and watch for dehydration.  There are many good Chinese herb formulas for digestion with all natural herbs and they are far better than any chemical drug this country makes.

When the Spleen and the Liver (horizontal connection of the body) are in harmony, the Kidney and the Heart (vertical connection) will start the chakra energy flows spirally from the perineum toward the top of the head.  It is regrettable that western medicine has not incorporated the energy system into their studies.

Be more spiritual.  Seek advise from spiritual counselors.  Learn how to perform self-hypnosis or seek sessions from professional hypnotherapists.  Seek healing therapies such as yoga (attainment of moksa), massage*4, craneotherapy, acupuncture, reiki, etc.  Remember, if we know our true heart desires, nothing else really matters.

Back to thinking.  Words and meanings are illusions, for they are concepts*5.  One of the last lectures Buddha gave was to simply raise a flower.  No words spoken.  The point of the lecture is to illuminate people that “it has come thus.”  The flower is a flower, nothing more.  It has no meaning.  The flower is the one we are looking at now.  The essence is in “This” moment of (seeing) “Being.”  It is like a zen moment.  If we are ready, we click, and we are There.  If we seek meanings, we do not attain.  All forms will perish.  Awareness does not.  When we experience that the Awareness is always shining upon us no matter where we are, what we are looking, at any given moment, then we are There.

Namaste.

*1:                  Just:  a zen word.

*2:                  My own observation

*3:                  Liver relates to anger, depression, anxiety, irritability, courage, leadership.

*4:                  Have you ever had an out-of-the-body experience?  If not, you have not had a good massage yet.

*5:                  So are time and space.

(all my newsletters are found at my website:  www.japanacupuncture.com)

© 2012 Dr. Y. Frank Aoi (NM State)/Japanese Acupuncture, LLC