Blood / Yin Deficiency - Exist for others
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Qi / Yang Deficiency - Don't rest
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Stagnation - Stuck
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Damp - Needs
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Overview
The mind and the body are one
The logic brain constrains our behaviour to try and get the things we want.
Pattern of disease
Motivation → Belief → Behaviour → Disease
Beliefs = how I (believe) I get what I want (the motivator)
Type of Behaviour might not be driven by the same Type of Motivator - because the beliefs we have may influence this and may be motivated to avoid or to seek
The root of a motivation is a physical feeling - then given words from the logic brain - need to be clear what people mean by the words
How we might see this
Fire motivation: Love
Earth Behaviour: to be loved I look after others
Tips
- Disease usually reflects behaviour
- Client history = behaviour
- Focus on Symptoms that don’t fit...
- Eyes are key to determining if something has meaning to them
Four steps to recovery
- Responsibility to have power to change
- Connection... self to the issue
- Understanding / redefining the problem - what are the fundamental
- Something internal, not external ← this is what body Psych is about
- Diffusion of the stress
Process
- Observe and Group symptoms
- Psych questions
- Determine the story—tapestry of their life
- Find motivator
Body Psychology
Complete list of all TCM body psychology types and categories is contained below.
Body Psychology TCM Types
Body Psychology Summary
Blood deficiency
Exist for others
Milder than YinI am everyone elseI am my children or partnerTotally yieldingSupportivetest new one
dry nailsdry lipsdry hairproblems falling asleepDryness +HeatPulse higher than homeTongue drycrackedpossibly red (heat)Brittle nailsdry skinhair falling outPoor sleep + hot at nightMoody
Why is your life about others?How much do you focus on others rather than yourself?Dryness - what are you nails like?What is your hair like? Is your hair falling out?What are your lips like?How light are your periods?Are you stuck in regards to something to do with expressing your femininity?How do you feel about weakness/vulnerability/ being nurtured and dependent?
Yin (deficiency)
Exist for others
I am everyone elseI am my children or partnerTotally yieldingSupportivetest new one
FrontLeftMedialLowerExcessive PNSBurnt-out dry nailsdry lipsdry hairproblems falling asleep Dryness+Heat Pulse higher than home Tongue dry cracked possibly red (heat) Brittle nails dry skin hair falling out Poor sleep + hot at night Moody
Why is your life about others?How much do you focus on others rather than yourself?Dryness - what are you nails like?What is your hair like? Is your hair falling out?What are your lips like?How light are your periods?
Qi deficiency
Don't rest
Milder than Yang Driven overactive never rest intense self-focussed Emotionally disconnected Aggressive and assertive
exhaustedoverwhelmedcoldtimiddifficult to be motivated Functional Problems + Cold Pulse lower than home Bloated pale tongue Low energy Poor Vitality (low metabolism) Put weight on easily
Is there some area in your life you are feeling stuck
Yang (deficiency)
Don't rest
Driven overactive never rest intense self-focussed Emotionally disconnected Aggressive and assertive
BackRightLateralUpperExcessive SNS Functional Problems + Cold Pulse lower than home Bloated pale tongue Low energy Poor Vitality (low metabolism) Put weight on easily
Note the area. Eg Uterus... “Do you have any issues with femininity?mothernurturing self
Damp
Needs
Excessive thinking and analysisEmotionally disconnected Oversensitive to othersSluggish
Tongue sticky coatBloatingHeavinessPoor Digestiongreasy skinswollen tongue Pulse lower than home Bloated tongue teeth marks HeavinessFoggy headed
Overweight oedema
As a kid what would you have like to feel more of from your parents?Helps to get to the needs that they are trying to meet with the behaviour they are doing now.
Stagnation
Stuck
Stuckangry and frustratedhanging on to past hurts or habitsUnable to let gotest new one
Excessive SNSstagnation Wiry pulse or no pulse Purple tongue Irritable with heat hot during day Qi stag – distended moving pain - stress Blood stag – knife like pain -repressed emotion
Qi Stagnation: Is there some area in your life you are feeling stuck Stuck in relation to... Stagnation symptoms (Feeling Stuck) in relation to (area psychology) Heat - do you get hot at night? Do you sweat at night? Are you restless? What is your sleep like?
Physical Areas
Scapula
ExpressionExpressing the heartBeing understood
How are you with expressing your feelings? Do you feel understood?
Heart conditions sleep emotional disorders area around T4/5 centre of chest and back
SharingLovedomination and submissionhurtproprietyjoy and elation
How important is love? How do you maintain your intimate relationships?
Diaphragm heart
Intimate relationships Opening or Closing off the heartintimacy
How important are close relationships to you?
Intercellular fluid triceps heat conditions affecting eyes and ears
letting people close External intimate connection
How are you with letting people close?
Breasts quadriceps abdominals appetite bad breath
NeedsExcess thinkingtrying to meet my needs or other’s needsprotective
As a kid what would you have wanted more from your parents?
Bloating and damp or lack of body bulk
ReceivingExcess thinkingexcess givingneedyunnourished
How hard is it for your to receive compared with giving?
What did you want from your parents as a child but never got? How relevant is that now?
Lungs throat chest
Lossguiltvalueconnection to spirit Grief
How important is loss? When do you feel guilty? When do you feel valued?
Face teeth nose throat shoulders
BelongingHolding onto griefLossvalueguilt
How important is it that you belong?
Lumbar pain weak knees urinary problems
Fearsafetywithdrawalinternal controldrivenstillness
How important is being close to others? What are you fearful of? What makes to feel safe?
Back erector spinae hamstrings occiput
Control Control external environment to be safe driven withdrawal never rest
How important is control? Being in control? What makes you feel safe?
Pubic region lateral costal area vertex of head
AngerStuckfrustrationperfectionist focussed on doing rather than being
How hard are you on yourself? How important is it to meet other’s expectations?
