Balance Your Meridians To Gain Health

How many times do we stretch when we wake up, we warm ourselves with the hand where it hurts or we caress our wrists when faced with an uncomfortable situation?

Knowing the route and the special points of the meridians helps to discover the reason for many of these spontaneous actions and to understand that most of the time they are carried out in order to reestablish body balance.

What are the meridians according to Chinese medicine?

In addition to designating the semicircles that cross the earth’s sphere from pole to pole and indicate the hours as it rotates on itself, the meridians are also the channels through which energy circulates in the body according to traditional Chinese medicine.

The channels or meridians are pathways or passages through which energy circulates through our body, both internally and externally, in constant exchange with the environment.

The meridians distribute the energy we capture from the environment, but above all they allow us to measure what happens inside the body, in which energy is constantly exchanged with the outside: from oxygen and food to visual, auditory and temperature stimuli .

These channels or meridians usually have an internal path through the organs and viscera and a superficial external path, which is what you have surely seen represented at some time in acupuncture schemes (the treatment is based on pricking these channels with needles) .

The external relationship of the meridians with the internal organs and their cycles of maximum and minimum activity, the physical and psychological implications of these relationships and the simplicity and beauty with which they are explained is admirable .

The meridian system represents the schedule and the path followed by the energies that the body captures and distributes. These energies are called by different names and represent qualities that are known today from physiology and that help to understand what the Chinese doctors described.

Traditionally, this meridian system is considered to be the vital link between the body’s surface and internal organs.

How to balance the vital energy?

A balanced flow in the meridians is a sign of harmony and health ; otherwise it can lead to pathology.

There is an “essential” energy, which has a prenatal and a postnatal component. Essential energy is activated with the first postnatal breath and dictates the rhythm of circulation, respiration, and heartbeat.

The essential energy throughout life will be the combination of the original energy inherited from the parents with which they provide food and water.

Both energies, the prenatal and the one that comes from nutrition, come together in the center of the thorax, when the oxygen from the breath burns the calories from the food.

At the same time, each two-hour slot favors a specific meridian, in which the energy flow reaches its maximum.

All these energy channels are balanced when rest, exercise and meals are arranged in time and a harmonious flow is created.

Without order, there is a conflict that the body tries to fix with yawning, stretching, coughing, fever, diarrhea, vomiting, pain … The acupuncturist can try to correct it by stimulating the energy or not with needles, but the important thing is to know and respect the schedules and lead a healthy lifestyle.

An easy way to massage the meridians is to move your hands slowly over them to mobilize the energy.

It can begin by going down the outside of the legs and going up the inside, which affects various digestive organs.