Awaken Healing Energy

The Governor Channel controls the Yang organs of the body.

These are the lungs, spleen, heart, kidneys, circulation-sex, and

liver. The Functional Channel controls the Yin organs, which are

the colon, stomach, small intestine, bladder, triple warmer, and

gall bladder. The tissues are Yang in tendency and the blood is Yin.

Seven Formulas of the

Seven Books of the Tao

First Formula: Fusion of the Five Elements

This formula literally combines the separate energies of the five

principal elements into one harmonious whole. The meditation has

a particularly powerful filtering and purifying effect upon the human

nervous system.

The Earth is the Mother of all the elements. All life springs from

her generative womb. This reunites the other four elements of

Chinese cosmogeny with the mothering Earth. Thus, metal, wood,

water and fire are drawn back into the earth and are simmered

gently at this point. Each element is purified but is not so hotly

fused that it loses its integrity and dissolves into ashes.

This formula is regarded as a highly secret method of Taoist

meditation. In Chinese Philosophy each element corresponds to a

particular organ. The Earth corresponds to the spleen, metal to the

lungs, water to the kidneys, wood to the liver, and fire to the heart.

The five elements interact with each other in three distinct ways:

producing, overcoming, and threatening. The producing or creating

cycle runs thusly: wood burns to make fire, the ashes decompose

and seep into the earth, where are born and mined metals, which

when melted become water (liquid), which nourishes trees and

plants. The overcoming or destruction cycle runs thusly: wood is

cut down by metal, fire is extinguished by water, earth is penetrated

by wood, metal is melted by fire, and water is interrupted and cut

off by earth.

The life cycle also has its relative elements thus: birth

corresponds to wood, growth to fire, maturity to earth, harvest to

metal and storage to water. In climatic types, wind corresponds to

wood, heat to fire, dampness to earth, dryness to metal, and cold

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