Guanyuan

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Men finds himself between Heaven and Earth. This two forces mold it’s inner universe and although they are antagonistic they are also complementary to each other. The process to maintain this alignment is endless and the balance that we achieve now it’s of no value in the following moment. To be adapted to a situation it’s a continuous process, and it’s necessary to develop a conscience that enables us to adrift in a mindful way.

In the Traditional therapy approach no matter were their roots can be traced there is a common language. That language talks in the search for the origin, for the essence, to the source, in a natural way. Here there is no miraculous pills or obscure magical processes. Here there is a clear way to follow, like a tree that grows gradually with the roots sinking deep in the earth, while the branches strive to touch the sky in an endless inner listening. Connected upper and bellow to the most vital forces that can be found.

This attitude can be observed in any human being, animal, plant, or even in small microscopic forms. It as to do with a essential vital force that you can easy identify in any animal as he walks, jumps, chases, or runs away. In the human being in most of the cases these attitudes are hidden, repressed or dried out. And we sadly can only observe them in the beginning stages of the child’s development, until slowly, for several reasons they become almost invisible and faintly seen on the programmed every day gestures of a full grown up adult.

Guanyuan means in Chinese gate of the origin, it’s an acupuncture point located just below the navel – place were we all were nourished in our essential state. When punctured or when the intention in putted there it draws us to the origin, to the essence, where earthly and heavenly forces become unite ready to be used again. This point is also one of the main points used to access the vital source that every human being has as its birthright and at the same time making the bridge between Heaven and Earth.