This is fascinating - I encourage you to read on // A beautiful part of Chinese medicine is that there is an aspect of our spirit connected to each organ system in our bodies - it fully integrates mind, body & spirit on a founding level. 🧡. The Yi is the part of our spirit-mind that is intellect/ thought / analysis / mental processing and mental “digestion”, if you will. The Yi is actually tied to our digestive organs- the spleen and stomach of the Earth element which is about rooting ourselves and feeding ourselves. Which makes sense when you think about digestion - we can digest food but we also digest information and content. Do you ever feel like your appetite gets affected by stress? Nervous stomach? IBS that is worse with stress or over-working? This is incredibly common. Sometimes we over-eat or over-think (the latter actually seems more common these days). Most people don’t realize that these two things can damage the same system in our bodies! Our bodies do not like to work on mental & physical digestion at the same time. Gut and digestive issues are widely popular and we are consuming more information than ever before. This is a huge health challenge of our time. 🧡. 2018 is an Earth year and one of my missions this year is to create something beautiful for you all to help swing this pendulum of thought —— worry —— (in)digestion back to health.🧡.
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