At some point in our life, the pull towards the need to stop repeating the same pattern again and again is so strong, you do not care, you really have to do something differently. That’s a sign that you’re ready. You’re ready to turn your perspective from the outer world inside. To give as much, if not more attention and commitment to the inner journey as you did with the outer world. 

I was judging myself for having feelings and not being able to just sweep it all under the rug. Later, what I became aware of was that my self judgement limited my awakening and healing.

Real healing happens in the body. When you’re feeling something has been triggered or something has to be expressed, to be worked through, you don’t feel relaxed in your body and that’s because there’s a feeling that needs to be processed. 

When the Heart is well-nourished with blood, joy arises naturally. You feel present, mentally clear, emotionally steady, and spiritually at ease. But the Heart cannot create this nourishment on its own. It depends on the Spleen, the earth energy of the body, to produce the blood that sustains it.

Because the lungs continuously draw energy from the air around us, they are responsible for helping sustain vitality and openness in both body and spirit. When grief is held for long periods without being processed, it can gradually weaken the lung energy.

Anger plays a powerful role in shaping the health of the body—especially the relationship between the liver and the spleen. The liver is the organ most affected by anger. 

In our last post, we explored how central the spleen is to your vitality. When left unaddressed, this emotional cry weakens the spleen’s ability to transform nourishment into energy. To compensate, the body begins to draw on the kidneys—the deepest reservoir of vitality we possess.

When emotional patterns remain unresolved your healing will have limits. TCM can only help you regulate your physiology, but they cannot fully stabilize the system if the root emotional signal continues to disrupt organ function. TCM has always held a very clear position on this: persistent emotional states are not just contributors to disharmony—they are the primary causes.