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EMOTIONS

Referred to as the 'seven internal demons', the 'seven passions' and so on, our emotional charges are seen as 'internally acting agents' which can lead to disease processes, if endured in excess or if habitually disavowed.

Defined generally as: fear, anger, joy, sadness, grief, excessive thinking (i.e., preoccupation) and fright.

These devils all have concordant body organs, energetically speaking ( this is not a reference to the known gross structure and function of organs as per modern physiology), with which they resonate and which they can disturb.

For example: suppressed anger is said to disturb the liver, joy affects the heart, excessive thought affects digestive processes, fear affects the kidneys, sadness/grief affect the lungs and fright (shock, sudden fear, etc), affects the heart. 


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My version:

Qi appears as a 'chameleonic substrate' as it were, an undifferentiated phenomenon, embedded into the very fabric of living processes.

Qi is 'signals' being expressed through an unlimited array of 'channels,' information in constant flux. It is the groundswell to the 'flow of events' and the very 'nature of things'.

The western counterpart - 'energy' - lacks the multi-dimensional qualities of Qi and becomes very easily a tool used to quantify aspects of function, dysfunction and healing, thus missing the implicit importance of gauging, rather, the relationships between things.