TCM HEALTH TIP Keep your emotions in balance. According to TCM there are 7 emotions: joy, anger, pensiveness, worry, sadness, fear and fright. TCM states that joy is related to the heart, anger is related to the liver, pensiveness comes from the spleen, worry impairs the spleen and the lungs, sadness harms the lungs and fear and fright both affect the kidneys. If we allow our emotions to constantly run away with us, illness and disease may follow; we all know what it is like to get over excited during the day and find ourselves unable to sleep at night. Insomnia is a dysfunction of the heart in TCM. So do not allow yourself to let your emotions go into over-drive. Suggestion: When your emotions overwhelm you, remember to breathe deeply to exert a calming influence over your body and emotions.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:00:00 +0000