CLEAR QING

Qing in Chinese means emotion.  Traditional Chinese Medicine understands Qing to be a physiological event, a directional burst of somatic energy (Qi) that enables us to take action to survive and thrive. For instance, anger is described as a feeling of upward Qi, energy for protection, aggression or progress, and fear is downward Qi for hiding, reversing, or running with our feet (fight or flight); love is upward and outward energy to create connection.

This 2,000 year old description of an emotion is remarkably similar to that of modern neuroscience, essentially a neurochemical, bioelectric event with a specific frequency (Qi) that is well preserved in our nervous system patterns rather than the psychological story of the event, which is (often poorly) remembered.

Research shows that the actual physiological emotion lasts for about 90 seconds in the body; why then does it persist in our bodies and create unconscious patterns of emotional reactivity and discomfort, and can even be passed on generationally via epigenetics?

The nervous system is a dynamic, living web of somatic information that wants to learn from, resolve and complete uncomfortable patterns; it wants to change, and the discomfort is the path forward. It is important to understand what emotions really are and how we can master our internal environment instead of living in a perpetually bubbling soup of emotion chemicals.

In a Clear QiNG session, we complete and clear the Qing after it has served its purpose so our body is not exhausted by creating that energy out of its own substance, constantly idling in fight/flight/freeze/fawn, and move towards resilience. (I capitalize the NG in QiNG to highlight that this work is a form of Neigong, or internal Qigong, where we allow internal Qi patterns to realign, somatically, internally, without movement.)

My 35 year practice of acupuncture and Qigong has trained me to interpret experience in terms of spatial, somatic and energy dynamics (the sensory language of the nervous system) rather than psychological concepts, to heal and mature the inner experience rather than to ruminate on the story. Since there was no historical development of psychology and talk therapy in China, people managed their inner environment with Qigong and Neigong, acupuncture, meditation and philosophical training (Daoism and Buddhism) and cultural behavioral norms (Confucianism). Clear QiNG is built on those traditions, with the addition of a more modern understanding of trauma, the Healy frequency balancing device, and muscle testing.

Our goal is the healthy, neutral state of contentment; this frees our natural Qing to arise appropriately as needed to propel beneficial action in our lives.