The Emotionality Of Un-wellness....

Do you ever wonder why you have a “theme” to your emotions? Do you wonder why the same emotional patterns seem to reappear in your life over and over and don't seem to be within your control? Do people blame you for not being able to control yourself emotionally?

Emotions are often the outward expression of the internal imbalance. Outward signs are often an indication of internal “wrong-goings”. These can be visual as in skin or hair or muscles and joints for example, but very often it is emotion and, no, you are not crazy!

This 5 Element (one of many systems of thought in Chinese medicine) chart below is a very very rudimentary chart correlating each organ with its corresponding emotion (s). Varying types of an emotion can be relevant to an organ depending on the way in which that organ is imbalanced. This helps identify patterns for the Chinese medicine practitioner in helping the individual.

Basic five elements characteristics and classifications 

I thought this might be an interesting chart for those wondering about their feelings and if there is something else going on besides the fact they can't seem to "get a hold of themselves". This is obviously just a chart-but perhaps it is helpful to see that even thousands of years ago when this incredible system of medicine was being developed, connections were being made between physiological imbalances and emotion. I think sometimes even though we know so much more today technologically there was more wisdom all of those years ago.

The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted Kaptchuck was my very first book discussing Chinese medicine and all of it's basic concepts. It was life changing for me. I highly recommend it for people wanting to learn more about the subject or even people already deep into the use of Chinese medicine as a method of healthcare wanting to delve deeper.

Dr. M