How Does Qigong Relate to Emotional Health?
Chinese medicine has established a complex system of relations between emotions and our vital organs. English expressions like “being livid with anger”, “having a broken heart” or “a heart filled with joy” make perfect sense in this context, because the liver is associated with anger and the heart is associated with emotional suffering, and when energetically balanced, with joy and love. Refined over thousands of years, this knowledge is of course far more complex than, but you do not need to understand all the complexity in order to practice those simple techniques. In Qigong, each emotional imbalance is seen as a sign of an energetic imbalance. This is not necessarily good or bad but it’s a state of weakness, just as any disease. Harboring negative emotions for too long actually lead to physiological diseases in most cases. Learning how to use abdominal, deep breathing is one of the most valuable tools at your disposal for calming your mind and remaining in control. Straightening you
