Detox the Liver with Qi Gong Massage, Meditation and Herbs

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During the spring time, the organ of the liver can manifest imbalances more profoundly. The liver is associated with the wood element and spring time on an energy level. Imbalances of the liver include:

Challenges with the eyes including foggy vision, high pressure, tumors or other eye irregularities.

Headaches in a band pattern or at the top of the head.

Dizziness.

Migraines.

High blood pressure.

Joint, tendon and ligament pain.

Insomnia.

Increased anger or frustration.

Challenges with finding compassion.

Challenges with stretching into creativity and expansion.

Financial challenges (liver energy has a connection with abundance and expansion).

Often times, people engage in purging liver detox regimens that deplete the body's energy. Depletion occurs when the organs that prefer warming properties are cooled by the cold properties found in most herbal formulations for detoxifying the liver. Thus, people who have digestive issues that have root in spleen or stomach imbalances may find those conditions exacerbated after a cold natured liver detox regimen.
Utilizing qi gong (Chinese yoga) and a combination of herbs that support warmer organs while cooling the liver, is often a more effective approach. Also, qi gong breath work and meditation, combined with self massage, can help you to process stressful events more effectively, which can prevent the liver from developing higher levels of toxicity.

The beauty of Chinese yoga is that you can perform it anywhere without any special equipment. Thus, the detoxifying aspects of this gentle form of energy work, is accessible to all people at any time during their days. No complicated regimens to undertake. No expensive supplements to buy.

Liver Detox Meditation and Self Massage

Enjoy this simple medical qi gong meditation and self massage.

Gently place your palms over the liver under the right rib cage and massage in a counterclockwise circle for 3 minutes while you breathe deeply, exhaling slowly for a long count of 9 and inhaling slowly for a count of 9.

As you perform this meditation, imagine anger, frustration and irritability as stuck energy slowly releasing from the liver.

Imagine your palms bringing to the liver cool, calming and moist energy, like water nourishing a dry and withered tree.

Visualize your tree, becoming vibrant, strong and flexible, bending gently like a willow tree, able to flex with the demands of life without becoming rigid and stressed.

Finish the massage by shaking out hands thoroughly and placing palms on the lower abdomen about 3 inches below your belly button.

Consciously store energy in the lower abdomen and feel peaceful and ready for the next activity before you.

Author's Bio:

Kay Hutchinson is an advanced medical qi gong practitioner and acupressurist.
Join her on Sunday March 27th from 1:30 to 4 pm for a liver detox workshop.
More info here:
http://aikihealing.com/wordpress/49-qi-gong-liver-detox-workshop-on-321/

Prof. George Grant (Nutrition)

Nice Article. Thanks.

Randolph Directo (Meditation)

I have not thought of Qigong as Chinese Yoga since stimulation is different esp. if the process is Nei Gong or internal. Here are a few tips to further help practitioners: In TCM, the attached meridian with related periphery are also known as the organ in question. Therefore, we can stimulate one or more points along the meridian for numerous effects. Liv 1 is at the lateral border of the big toes, slightly posterior to corner of the nails. The other end is at liv 14 at the 6th intercostal space, 2 ribs below the mammillary line. You can also stimulate these points with circular, oscillating motions of the finger tips and thumb. A tip from Yang, Jwing Ming is to smile at each organ as you imagine white light pouring into it from above. Remember to wash your hands as you envision the elimination of toxins through them, drink filtered, untainted water, and envision the elimination of dark feelings, dark energy and other toxins during disposal.

Kay Hutchinson (Qigong)

Thank you for sharing about the point work with the liver meridian, which I also teach in other meditations. For beginners, often is easier if they access the organ directly as I have found that students reading articles often fret about whether they are on the correct point or not (at least when meditations in print describe points). WhenI work with people in person, it is easier to guide them about point location so that they remain relaxed and do not get so much into their left brains trying to "map" the points cognitively. Chinese yoga is another western name for qi gong--and all qi gong should include internal training whether it is labeled nei gong or not. On the other hand, traditional Aryuvedic yoga does not necessarily emphasize the internal training (although it can certainly create internal transformation) in the way that qi gong emphasizes.

Dale Miller (Dieting and Weight Loss)

very informative

Wow! That is wonderful Bob. I am so glad you shared. So many of my clients have had similar experience with integrating qi gong as a vital daily health tool! Blessings to you and continued good health. --Kay Hutchinson

Bob Ellal

Qigong helped me beat four bouts of "terminal" bone lymphoma in the early nineties. It's also helped me manage the pain--physical and emotional--wrought by the cancer in the years since. Qigong also is an excellent stress reducer; after consistent practice life's "slings and arrows" bounce off one like pebbles plinking off a breastplate. Clear 15 years and still practicing every day!