The western medicine theory of disease

In western medicine, you get sick when germs and viruses invade your body and start growing. The germs and viruses are attacked by anti-bodies in your immune system and those anti-bodies are helped along by modern drugs. Diseases may also arise from genetic causes… and again, prescription medications are the approach taken to find a cure. You may also have something wrong with you structurally, and, of course the solution is surgery or radiation. Generally speaking people are content to use western medicine for things like common colds. They only turn to other approaches when the western treatments either don’t work or scare the heck out of them.

The Chinese Medicine theory of disease

We learned that in the human energy field, subtle energy rules over dense matter and that means that in energetic medicine disease begins IN the human energy field. The Chinese Medicine point of view is that the body is naturally protected by a special type of energy called the Wei Qi. You can think of the Wei Qi as an energetic shield for the body like the energy shields of the starship Enterprise. The energetic information from diseases cannot reach the physical body when the Wei Qi is strong, but when it’s weak, the energetic information from diseases can reach your physical body and the bacteria and viruses physically manifest and flourish in your body. That’s the Chinese Medicine explanation of why we sometimes get sick and sometimes don’t even though bacteria and viruses are constantly present.

The Wei Qi becomes weak because of energy imbalances in the main or extraordinary meridians that are caused by energy flow that is too weak, too strong, blocked or reversed. When those energy imbalances are restored to normal, the Wei Qi is also restored and the physical manifestations of disease go away. Energy imbalance in the meridians results from a combination of External Factors penetrating the Wei Qi and Internal factors like Improper Diet, Physical Toxins, Improper Exercise, Overwork, and Stress. There is a lot more to Chinese Medicine theories of disease, but right now I want to extend this Chinese Model of disease based on energy.

The Energetic Medicine theory of disease

What about the shushumna channel and seven chakras? Typical Chinese Medicine texts make notice of a connection between the physical organs and their meridian and emotional and mental states, but they really don’t discuss the underlying mechanism because Traditional Chinese Medicine ignores the energy bodies, the chakras and the shushuma channel. Like the meridians, the flow of energetic information in the chakras can be too weak, excessive, blocked or even reversed. Energetic medicine practitioners can restore the natural balance of energy here too.

Recall that the key component of an energy signal is the information it contains. In fact, the human energy system is in a state of constant energetic information exchange within itself and with the world, and part of the information that is received is the energetic blueprint for the body. When the shushumna and chakra system is out of balance, the information passing through the chakras is distorted. That may lead to actual physical diseases like structural or genetic damage. Distortions might also manifest as what amounts to a disease anywhere in the human energy field… and they cause further distortions. The distorted information propagates through the entire human energy field and might manifest as dis-ease anywhere. Energy healing consists of balancing energy in the main and extraordinary meridians, balancing energy flow in the chakras, ensuring the proper flow of energy in the main Shushumna channel, and removing distortions from anywhere in the entire human energy field.

One final thought on the energetic model… but it’s really important because, frankly, it addresses something that western medical theories cannot even touch…

In a sense, the energetic model might say we are normally in a state of dis-ease. That’s because our higher spiritual energies are not generally in balance with the universe… but energetic approaches to healing also provide for the possibility of spiritual unfolding. We are in a natural state of energetic balance with the universe if only we rid ourselves of the energetic garbage.

Please share with your friends

Hide Sites