Good morning readers!

Today let’s talk a bit about how everyday feelings affect the natural functioning of our body.

We live in a world every day more rushed, and this constant worry and stressed state society pushes upon us, just worsens our stress and our anger over our body’s limit.

This accelerated lifestyle is costy on your body, that wears out, lacking energy, in many manners will generate chronic pain that occurs in diseases such as Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Arthrosis, and many other diseases for which the Western medicine fails to find the specific cause.

For Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Liver is the organ responsible for maintaining the harmonic flow of Energy (Qi) and Blood (Xue). All those bad emotions, in particular Anger and Stress, cause a pathological pattern known as Qi and Blood Liver Stagnation.

Thus, the larger share of energy and blood which should be circulating through the body and realizing regular function maintenance, is stuck, leaving muscles de-nourished and thus tense.

This way, the Chinese Medicine explains psychosomatic diseases, where an emotional problem quickly creates incapacitating pain in the body, such as fibromyalgia.

To clarify it, we have: Stress –> creates Stagnation of Liver  Qi and Blood –> Blood fails to nourish muscles –> tense muscles –> chronic pain and/or tense muscles.

The therapist’s goal then, is to move Qi and Blood so that the patient muscles can once again receive energy, blood, and oxygen getting over the tension and the chronic pain.

When  Qi and Blood Liver Stagnation is kept for a long period of time, following the Mother and Child 5 Element Law, the sick Liver will consume Kidney energy. The Kidney, responsible for bone strength and for articulation harmony. We may say, based on this information, when a patient has chronic stress it will, after affecting Liver, creating chronic muscular pain, also affect Kidney, causing pain, and in long time articulation deformation, such as Arthritis and Arthrosis.

Summing it up again: Stress –> Qi and Blood Liver Stagnation –> Blood fails to nourish muscles –> tense muscles –> chronic pain and/or tense muscles –> (long-time) consumes Kidney energy –> pain and articulation deformation.

After some time, there is a vicious cycle between stress –> pain –> stress that will stagnate permanently Liver’s blood and energy.

Thus, we may conclude that emotional stress and anger consolidate chronic pain in the patients, thus, we recommend that patients who suffer from this meditate, practice breathing exercises and acupuncture, mainly to diminish hyperreactivity to stress causing factors, lowering then Qi and Blood Liver Stagnation and correcting the problems in circulation of those vital substances.

I hope to have helped you guys comprehend each one of the leading factors of chronic pain.

My warmest regards!

Profa. Fernanda Mara

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