Mike Mandl
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THE SIX LAYERS IN SHIATSU
I am still grateful and fulfilled from the weekend a few months ago, when I was able to teach a course at the Heilpraktikerschule Luzern about the six layers in Shiatsu. Great participants, great institute. Wonderful! The six layers are a very old concept of seeing two meridians as one unit. For example: Instead of separating into large intestine and stomach meridian, we can also call these two meridians the Yang Ming meridian. The large intestine and stomach meridian run along similar areas of the body, a bit in the front and to the outside. They are in contact with a similar frequency level in the body. The only difference: one runs along the leg, the other along the arm…
Apart from their position on the body, they have many other connections. Both bring down the energy in the body considerably. Both have to do with what we let into and out of our system from the outside world. Ultimately, Yang-Ming is a functional unit and by separating the stomach and large intestine meridians, we lose much of what they have in common and also in terms of effectiveness in treatment.
Furthermore, we have been studying the Shanghan Lun, one of the four great classics of Chinese medical literature, a good 1,800 years old. Even then, Zhang Zhongjing described the stages of an illness that penetrates our system from the outside. Beginning with stiffness and sensitivity to wind in the neck, to high fever with heavy sweating. Invading cold factors go through a yang phase, where the symptoms are visible. When the symptoms subside, we assume that we are cured. However, according to Zhang Zhongjing, the three yang layers are followed by three yin layers, and the disease must be treated at these levels as well in order to heal completely. We never do that. The consequences of this can be far-reaching, from a weak immune system to deep states of exhaustion.
This may not seem to have much to do with Shiatsu. However, it does have an indirect effect, because many clients come to us because of these, often chronic conditions, especially now, in the cold season.. So a little knowledge in this area never hurts.
Many thanks to the team in Switzerland, especially the wonderful Chrissochou Tingo for inviting me.
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Roberto Poli
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Ten “banalities” written in one go, but still necessary.
1) Different medicines are not alternatives but complementary;
2) People are not symptoms;
3) Symptoms are the manifestation of previous narrative states, in which it is necessary to investigate and understand each other;
4) Pain must be honored, as well as resolved: it means transforming the causes that produce it;
5) There is no better or worse medicine, if anything a mediocre doctor and a prepared, curious and passionate doctor;
6) The dialectic of body, mind and spirit describes an exquisitely Western concept, which uses three words to try to describe a reality that is not separate, one, always and everywhere, from the nail, to the hair, to the liver, to the blood vessel etc.. and in continuous transformation;
7)What happens inside, almost always seeks an expressive direction towards the outside, in parallel what impacts from the outside, encounters a more or less efficient defense system, given by the quality of the reactive and cognitive response, which is never the same, always in transformation and in continuous communication;
8) We are what we eat, see, touch, hear, smell, think. Choices (in a free world) are given by one’s own responsibility. What we perceive, is also given by what we have learned, what has been taught to us, sometimes instilled.
9) Intentions move much more than imaginable, time and space are the major causes of harmony and disharmony;
10) The perfect nutritionist is your heart, but to tune into it requires a lifetime of understanding in a multitude of choices, towards a multitude of stimuli. Change remains one of the most functional processes, but most difficult to implement.
It remains permeable.