Chi Nei Tsang New Zealand
Health Benefits
How can Chi Nei Tsang help me?
Today CNT is mainly used for four different reasons:
1 - CNT detoxifies: CNT manipulations help relieve the body of excess stagnation, improving elimination and stimulating the lymphatic and the circulatory systems. CNT also strengthens the immune system and resistance to diseases. In doing so, CNT augments other health care modalities with optimal results. (Clients using CNT before and after surgery recover better and faster.)
2 - CNT helps restructure and strengthen the body: Because it addresses the visceral structures and positioning of internal organs, CNT stimulates them to work better and also helps correct the postural problems resulting from visceral imbalances. It releases deep-seated tensions and restores vitality. CNT has been helpful with chronic pains such as back, neck and shoulder pains and problems related to misalignment of the feet, legs and pelvis.
3 - CNT helps practitioners become more aware of the quality of their emotional life: All of our unprocessed emotional life is stored in our digestive system waiting to be addressed. Poor emotional digestion is also one of the main reasons for ill health. CNT facilitates the unfolding of emotions and the clarification of our emotional life. This makes it possible for us to evolve and grow in the direction of our better self. CNT has also been successfully used in combination with psychotherapy.
4 - CNT teaches clients to know themselves better: The philosophy behind Chi Nei Tsang is that we are all responsible for our own health and that healing comes from within. Chi Nei Tsang teaches you techniques to improve your breathing as well as fundamental self-help techniques. Learning Chi Nei Tsang also involves specific and relevant visualization and meditation practices to further enhance the effect of manual treatments.
Healing from within
Chi Nei Tsang is about Healing from Within, which is ultimately far more powerful than expecting and needing to be fixed by something (medication, supplements, surgery) or someone else. Chi Nei Tsang will help you to understand the difference between listening to your body so that it can use its innate ability to heal, as opposed to being fixed from the outside.
Chi Nei Tsang will help you to:
To make a better connection with your own body so that you are more in tune with your current state of health.
Teach you that you can take more responsibility for your health and in fact that ‘all healing comes from within’
Can be performed on oneself. Part of the role of a Chi Nei Tsang practitioner is to educate people to do abdominal massage for themselves, therebye taking responsibility for their good health back into their own hands.
Physical Benefits
Chi Nei Tsang addresses all the vital functions of the body: the digestive, respiratory, lymphatic, nervous, endocrine, urinary, reproductive and muscular-skeletal systems as well as the energy meridians.If one organ is overloaded this will cause stress on the other organs and the whole body system will become out of balance. In addition, when one is out of balance, the internal organs may also be out of alignment. Chi Nei Tsang works to restructure and strengthen the body by working on the visceral structures and positioning of internal organs.
Flush toxins from the liver, lymph, kidneys and colon
Improve digestion and assimilation
Aid elimination and constipation
Stimulate the lymphatic and circulatory systems
Strengthen the immune system
Release the blocked energy that can manifest as tiredness or chronic fatigue
Relieve back, shoulder and muscle tension
Improve breathing restrictions
Increase vitality and energy
Safely clear unprocessed emotions
Chi Nei Tsang and Emotional Digestion
The gastro-intestinal tract is full of nerve cells and neuro transmitters – infact much of the neurotransmitter ‘serotonin’ is located in the gastro-intestinal tract. Stress, nervousness, fear and other emotions play out their drama in the gut causing this area to hold knots of tension that can build up to become pain and illness.
One of the reasons people feel so vulnerable and awkward about their abdomen being seen or touched is often because of the all emotions that are stored there.According to Taoist teachings, each major organ in the body holds energy which manifests differently according to whether it is in balance or not.
Thus, for example, the liver will manifest the energy of generosity and kindness when it is in balance, or anger and frustration when not.Most people do not realize that all their non-processed emotional life is stored in the digestive system waiting to be addressed - emotions need to pass through the small and large intestine to be eliminated.
Poor emotional digestion is a large reason for ill health because emotional blockages prevent good physical energy flow.Massaging the abdomen gently and deeply allows the emotions to be connected with and released for good.
Improve your Intuition
Many cultures see the stomach area as the ‘second’ (or in some instances ‘first’) brain. Our gut has a direct connection to our heart and intuitive faculties – or you could say our gut is our intuitive faculty. However, in our modern world we are taught to listen to our head rather than our ‘gut feeling’, even though the latter is always right. By making a better connection with this part of our body - our gut - we are able to make better contact and use of our inherent intuitive abilities.
Spiritual Evolution
It is useful to remember that Chi Nei Tsang was originally used by Taoist monks as part of their spiritual practice. The major organs of the body, in particular the small intestine, are said to contain the spirit and essence of a human being. The body-mind-emotions-spirit are interconnected and indivisible, and what we do to one area affects all others. By cleansing and purifying the abdominal area, and thus indirectly the whole body, we prepare ourselves to receive higher frequencies of spiritual energy.
Why do we get ill and how can we heal?
Everything in the universe is comprised of energy (chi) which will either be in a state of motion if it flowing freely or stagnation if it is blocked. Blocked energy will prevent optimal working of the internal organs and their corresponding functions, and therefore the body-mind as a whole.
On a physical level, knots and tangles in the abdomen are energy blockages that are the end result of life events / situations such as:
Accidents
Surgery
Toxins
Drugs
Poor nutrition
Bad posture
Shallow breathing
Chi Nei Tsang works to release the energy blocks to improve the flow of chi and blood around the body and encourage waste to move out. Once the blocks are released, the organs are then able to work at their optimum level and one can experience good health.
On a mental/emotional level energy blocks are the result of things such as:
Negative or repressed emotions
Traumatic Life Events
Poor self-care habits
Overwork
Stress
The situation is then compounded as the energy blocks act to prevent the much needed release of negative emotions (anger, fear etc). The blocked energy remains ‘frozen’ inside the body’s cells, waiting to be released. Through breathwork and massage Chi Nei Tsang brings the client coming into contact with this energy so that it can be safely released.
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