CLEAR QING

Qing in Chinese means emotion.  Traditional Chinese Medicine understands this 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, progress, and fear is downward Qi for hiding, reversing, or running with our feet (fight or flight); love is upward and outward 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 the 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, even passed on generationally via epigenetics?

It is important to understand what emotions really are and how we can master our internal environment instead of living in a perpetual soup of emotion chemicals.

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.

Somatic techniques like acupuncture, Qi Gong, Nei Gong, frequency healing devices and somatic emotional release can be deeply corrective.

Since there was no historical development of psychology and talk therapy in China, people managed their inner environment with somatic techniques like Qi Gong and Nei Gong,  meditation and philosophical training (Taoism and Buddhism) and cultural behavioral standards (Confucianism).

In a Clear QiNG session, we complete and clear the Qing after it has served its purpose so our bodies are not wearing themselves out creating that energy out of its own substance, constantly idling in fight/flight/freeze/fawn.

I capitalize the NG in QiNG to highlight that this work is a form of Nei Gong, 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.

Together, we use techniques I have developed combining somatic awareness, Nei Gong healing practices, trauma releasing techniques, muscle testing, Healy frequency balancing, and Taoist philosophical perspective to reframe and elevate.  Acupuncture can be helpful as well.

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.