Your Body 'Tis of Chi

By Stephanie Wilger

Your history is held in your body. Within the liquid environment of your mother, you grew like a bud from the umbilicus, literally your ancestral line. Your navel is the remnant scar of your attachment.

Chi Nei Tsang (CNT) is known for tracing the root cause of disharmony within your body, through your ancestral line using fingertips or an elbow to work around the navel, where your first facia formed, the hub of all of your body's facia. The facia gives your flesh and internal organs form, substance and is the pathway for chi or energy. Chi nourishes your cells and tissues, allowing your internal organs and bodily systems to communicate and perform better.

As we grow, experiences seem to attach themselves to us. We repeat the experiences that gave us joy or pleased us. We become afraid to do things that frightened us or caused us physical or emotional pain. Who wasn't afraid of the dark, or some animal, place or person? As children, we are emotional beings. As we age, we become cognitive. We reason, we solve our problems when we are feeling sad or mad or bad, or do we?

Chi Nei Tsang is a complete therapy, as it accesses deep emotions or trauma, held within our tissues, and allows us to digest them—experiences that we may have been too young to comprehend or too scared to process at that moment. Self-awareness is brought through touch, specific touch, gentle and precise following your breathing, never forcing past your physical comfort level. As areas of your body expand, relax and let go, feeling is restored.

I am always amazed at how effective CNT is at bringing one to self-awareness. After being involved in a traumatic event outside of an airport, I worked upon myself as soon as I could and then I "tried" to make the emotions of fear, confusion and disbelief I felt, return. I could not. They were gone. I digested the emotions, simply using my hands upon my abdomen, expanding my breath in the areas that had contracted. Chi Nei Tsang, it is of thee I sing!

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