Have you been feeling low on energy, struggling to focus, or stuck in a cycle of overthinking? Then this week’s video is for you!
Here are 3 ways this video might help you:
✅ Gain insights into the vital role these meridians play in digesting food and life experiences, influencing our physical, emotional, and energetic well-being.
✅ Discover 5 common signs of imbalance, such as bloating, low energy, emotional overwhelm, and swollen limbs,
✅ Boost Your Energy Naturally, with some simple steps to strengthen your stomach and spleen meridians and restore balance in your body.
To help ease digestive discomfort, improve your mental clarity, and regain your vitality!
Rather read the transcript?
here it is…
Do you ever feel bloated, exhausted, or emotionally drained, but you’re not even sure why? What if I told you that your digestion, energy, and emotions are all deeply connected?
In traditional Chinese medicine, TCM, the stomach and spleen meridians play a huge role in how we feel physically, mentally, and energetically.
As I’m recording this, in the southern hemisphere, it’s late summer. This is the best time to check in with our stomach and spleen meridian channels, as they are at their most influential, but also at their most vulnerable.
Today, I’ll share five common signs that these meridians, may be out of balance, and a few simple things you can do to restore your vitality. Stay with me.
Hello and welcome. I’m Sarah Gowans, Remedial Massage Craniosacral Therapist and Emotional Integration Facilitator at Blossoming Me and the Healthy Learning Lounge.
Here, we’ve created a sanctuary for you to tap into and nurture your journey to health, well being and a positive mindset. Our focus is on helping you clear stress, tension and energy blocks so that you can live your most fulfilling life.
Now let’s explore our stomach and spleen meridian channels, which might be affecting our body, emotions and our energy.
Digestions Disturbances:
Our digestion is deeply connected to our emotions. If you experience bloating, gas or acid reflux, your stomach meridian might be struggling. A weak spleen meridian can cause loose stools or constipation.
And guess what? These imbalances often show up emotionally as worry and overthinking too, because our stomach and spleen meridians also help us digest our life experience.
Low Energy and Lack of Motivation:
Low energy might not just be normal. Our spleen meridian helps transform our food into energy. If it’s not working properly, we might feel drained, weak, or unsteady, like our body just isn’t keeping up with life.
In TCM, the stomach meridian is like the engine that powers our forward motion. it supports our muscles that move us forward physically, as well as emotionally and energetically. When they’re blocked, you might feel muscle heaviness or fatigued limbs or puffiness. And energetically, this imbalance can make us feel stuck, sluggish or unmotivated. Like we’re pushing through mud every single day.
Insights From Our Skin and Mouth
Our skin and mouth reflect our inner imbalances too. Mouth ulcers, bad breath or acne around our chin and cheeks especially are common signs of a disrupted stomach meridian. And may also be linked to how well we process our emotions.
Emotionally, these meridians control how we digest our life experiences too. So these imbalances can also show up as emotional overwhelm or a feeling of being mentally scattered.
Weighed Down By The Weight of the World?
If your legs or arms are feeling puffy, it may not just be fluid retention. Our spleen meridian is responsible for moving fluids throughout our body, things like blood and lymph. if it’s out of balance, you might notice swollen ankles or legs.
Energetically, if it’s out of balance, you might notice feelings more like emotional heaviness, like you’re carrying the world on your shoulders, or extra weight physically.
Feeling more sensitive or more fragile?
And finally, emotional sensitivity and brain fog aren’t all in our heads. Have you been feeling more reactive or more fragile lately? A weak spleen meridian can make us feel scattered, easily hurt or stuck in a cycle of worry.
And the stomach meridian also controls how we process life experiences. as I mentioned before. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed or tightness in your hips, knees, or ankles. This may symbolize a lack of flow or flexibility in your physical or emotional state.
Ways We Can Ease Digestive Discomfort, Improve Mental Clarity, and Boost Energy:
Many people experience these symptoms but don’t realize how deeply connected they are. For thousands of years, traditional Chinese medicine has taught us that our digestion, muscles, emotions, and energy are all part of one system, our body. To help ease these symptoms and support our stomach and spleen meridians.
Here are some things that you might like to try:
Mindfulness practices like deep belly breathing or Tai Chi or Qi Gong to calm the mind and your digestion. Grounding activities that bring stability and fulfillment can help us stay centered and balanced. try walking barefoot on the earth, in your backyard or even your front yard, or even on a lovely sunny day by the beach on the sand, for example.
Being mentally healthy by being mindful about what we mentally ingest as well. You might consider creating boundaries around screen time, news, and social media, to support our mind and intellect in TCM.
Supporting emotional release through things like journaling, counseling, embodied processing, and other therapies can help process our stored emotions.
Meridian brushing, using a light sweeping motion along the stomach or spleen meridian channels. can encourage better circulation and energy flow.
Nourishing foods, particularly in yellows and oranges, things like squash, sweet potato, pumpkin, papaya, carrots, these can strengthen our spleen meridian.
And finally, singing. The sound that belongs to spleen and stomach meridians is singing. So, warming up your vocal cords and expressing yourself through a song, can be a great way, to strengthen your stomach and spleen meridian energy too.
I hope today’s video helped you understand more about your body and its hidden signs and signals. If it did, please like and share it with somebody else who needs it. Follow us here on YouTube for more tips on restoring your body’s natural flow. And join us next time for more simple ways to nurture your health, well being, and positive mindset.
And to support your healing journey even further, I’ve just recorded a FREE video “Unlocking the Power of your Stomach Meridian: easy Meridian Brushing.” To help you begin to ease your digestive discomfort, improve your mental clarity, and regain your vitality, today!
From my heart to your heart, Namaste.
Sarah xx
If these signs resonate with you, we’d love to help you regain your energy, clarity, and balance. So that you can live your most fulfilling life.
From my heart to yours, Namaste.
Sarah xx
At Blossoming Me, we’ve worked with so many people who feel stuck in cycles of pain and frustration. But the key to lasting relief often starts with understanding your body, not just where you hurt, but why.
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About Blossoming Me
BlossomingMe offers a fully integrated approach to your wellbeing. Located on Sydney’s Upper North Shore. Sarah is our Cranio-sacral and Remedial Massage Therapist and health and lifestyle coach. She can help relieve those problematic knots, tightness and other specific ailments to promote a healthy recovery. These complementary massage therapies can be combined to suit your needs, and include: craniosacral therapy, shiatsu, acupressure, reiki, remedial, swedish, and body-mind-massage.
Our qualified Osteopath, Alexis, offers a drug free, minimally invasive, “hands on” treatment focusing on the musculoskeletal system with its associated muscles, tendons, ligaments, membranes, bones and joints. Alexis takes a functional approach. This means that she focuses on the way a component (body part, tissue or group of tissues) performs its role, as well as the way the body works, performs and integrates as a whole. Our team can support you to improve your posture and therefore your overall health.
ional advice or care. Please seek the advice of a qualified health professional before you make any changes to your health regime, before dealing with new symptoms, and, if something you have read here has raised any questions or concerns regarding your situation.