Body Physio-Energetics: Pillar Three

Body Physio-Energetics

Pillar Three

Sensei Yula & Becca Mukti

Published by Centre for the Ways at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 Sensei Yula and Becca Mukti

There are eight pillars in all and each is available in ebook format:

Reality and the Truth: Pillar One

The Path of Transformation: Pillar Two

Body Physio-Energetics: Pillar Three

Environmental Righteousness: Pillar Four

Tao Eating, Zen Digesting: Pillar Five

Yoga Energetics as an Alternative Medicine: Pillar Six

The Tao of Intimacy and the Ultimate Gynaecological Reality: Pillar Seven

Enlightenment: Pillar Eight

The first four pillars are available in print at Centre for the Ways.

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This series is dedicated to humanity and Mother Earth.

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Table of Contents

Who am I in my Physical Body?

The Internal Organ Systems

The Theory of Yin and Yang in relation to the Internal Organ Systems

Figure 3.1: The Flow of Energy through the Internal Organ Systems

Table 3A: The Peak and Weak Energy Times of the Internal Organ Systems

The Theory of Five Elements in relation to the Internal Organ Systems

Table 3B: The Internal Organ Systems and Their Corresponding Elements

The Cycles of Promotion and Control

Figure 3.2: The Five Elements and the Cycles of Promotion and Control

States of Ho To and Lo Shu

Figure 3.3: The States of Ho To and Lo Shu in relations to the Five Elements

The Relationship between the Internal Organs and the Sense Organs

Table 3C: The Connection between the Internal Organs and the Sense Organs

The Six Yin Organ Systems

Lung System

Spleen System

Heart System

Kidney System

Pericardium System

Liver System

The Meridian System

Physio-Energetics Meridian System

Table 3D: The Coupling Relationship of the Master Meridians

Table 3E: The Dominant Location of the Master Meridians in the Muscle System

Psycho-Energetics Meridian System

Description of the Eight Psycho-Energetics Meridians

Figure 3.6: The Four Psychic Meridians of the Microcosmic Orbit

Figure 3.7: The Yin Psycho-Energetics Meridians of the Lower and Upper Limbs

Figure 3.8: The Yang Psycho-Energetics Meridians of the Lower and Upper Limbs

The Energy Centres in the Body

Figure 3.9: Energy Centres and Significant Points for Chi-Kung Yoga Energetics

The Muscle System

Figure 3.10: The Three Yin Muscle Regions of the Lower Limbs

Figure 3.11: The Three Yin Muscle Regions of the Upper Limbs

Figure 3.12: The Three Yang Muscle Regions of the Lower Limbs

Figure 3.13: The Three Yang Muscle Regions of the Upper Limbs

The Three Essential Substances

I. Chi

II. Blood

III. Body Fluids

Conclusion

Appendix

Reasons for Writing this Series

About the Eight Pillars

Caveats

About the Authors

List of Publications by the Authors

About Centre for the Ways

Connect with Us

Support Us

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Who am I in my Physical Body? (return to Contents)

Up until now, little to no mention has been made of the gross body as the first and second pillars, Reality and the Truth and The Path of Transformation respectively, focused on the study of the most subtle aspect of our being, the mind, which includes the lower mind, intellect, ego and Mahat Mind. So, in this pillar, we explain the physical body from an Oriental medicine perspective. (Please note, although Pillar One and Two are mentioned above, they are not required reading for this pillar. However, familiarity with Pillar One in particular would be beneficial as it is referred few times throughout the text that follows).

Although modern anatomy and physiology have contributed a great deal to modern medical science, they are not sufficient enough to deal with the health problems of the day. The health issues of a living human are too complicated to be solved with the materialistic theories of modern science, which are mostly based on the Darwinian theory of evolution and Descartes’ theory of classical physics that eventually led to the reductionist-mechanistic view of the universe. As a result, modern anatomy and physiology do not explain human life as one interrelated system whose welfare is tied to the interrelationship among all parts of the body as a whole. Instead, its study of the human body is fundamentally of a material nature, and it looks at the human body as a machine which can be taken apart and fixed independently of the rest.

This is because, although science means knowledge, modern science has been preoccupied mostly on intellectual information, which is a property of the lower mind (manas) and influenced by the ego. It is, consequently, based on the desire of the five senses in relation to the five gross elements with the purpose of attaining pleasure, power, money and fame. True knowledge, though, is the information that has been filtered by the Mahat Mind and is validated by the true self to become a part of our unbiased wisdom. Unlike most of the intellectual so-called scientific information, true knowledge hardly fails nor does it ever produce any harmful fruits of action. We refer, for example, to the valid understanding of the aspects of our subtle body as true knowledge.

In this pillar, we introduce a system as vital, if not more, to a person’s life as the nervous system, and yet, little is known about it by modern science, including the Western medical system. This is because this system works as a principle and does not have particular cells or tissues, so it is hard for intellectual scientists to identify let alone understand. This system, however, does possess pathways (meridians and collaterals) in which the three essential substances of energy, blood and body fluids are transported. We refer to this system as the energetics system of the body. It connects all and every part of the body together and harmonizes the functional activities of all the other systems (including the internal organs and the nervous system) so that they work together as an integrated