What the heck were you thinking?
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has an amazing system of co-relating the five elements Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, to body parts, seasons, emotions, tastes, organs, endocrines, colors etc. Taoists believed that people were a microcosm of nature, thus the Five elements could be represented in people. Along with Chinese Meridians, it helps us understand what the heck we were thinking, because our thoughts reflect in our body. If you're conscious of your thought
process you'll heal faster or avoid problems all together.
Meridians run through out our bodies, in various places, some you'd never suspect. If you're having trouble seeing the problem might be in your stomach as the stomach meridian runs under eye. When we can't stomach watching something we close our eyes. Joints always have a lot of meridians running through them, so it's important to pay attention to them as these are the first sites where auto immune diseases such as arthritis like to attack.
The elbow has six major meridians through it. Outside of the elbow is the small intestine,
colon and triple warmer yang meridians which relate to not being able to
differentiate right from wrong, not letting go and lack of forgiveness. Inside of the elbow are the yin meridian lungs,
heart and pericardium (golfers elbow) relates to depression, sadness inability to protect the heart and
lack of self awareness. People with tennis or golfer's elbow may have bowel problems as well, because they can't let go. If you keep having issues examine your life to see where you could change your thinking.
Damaged ankles are common. From Chinese medicine, the ankles contain the liver and gall
bladder meridians on the outside, which are involved in planning and
decision making respectively. On the inside are the stomach and spleen
meridians which involve thinking and worry. As you move around on your
ankles planning and deciding are energetically processed. So if you have
a tough decision to make that requires a "step in life" buying a house,
marriage, divorce, career change, school, etc be decisive or be careful
walking. Strong, flexible ankles makes thinking/deciding processes much
easier. If you take too long you'll lose flexibility and run the risk
of sprains or breaks. If you maintain worry or indecisive habits over
long periods of time your ankle will become rigid with arthritis.
