MERIDIANS and the Body

Lets talk about Meridans and your body. Meridians affect every organ and every physiological system in the body, including the immune, nervous, endocrine, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, reproductive, skeletal, muscular, lymphatics systems. Each system is fed by at least one meridian.

As the body’s ‘energy bloodstream’ the meridians bring vitality and balance, remove blockages, adjust metabolism, and even determine the speed and form of cellular change. Their flow is critical for the flow of blood, your life, and health depend on both. If a meridian’s energy is obstructed or unregulated, the system it feeds is jeopardized.

Like a river that ebbs and flows, the meridians are ever changing and can be directed with intention, touch and breath, along with needles like in acupuncture.
They are like a complex traffic network, and energy balancing clears out any traffic jams, diverting traffic to other highways or off the ramp, like balancing harmonizing the yin and yang of each meridian or clearing out energy to the Earth.

Your body’s profound intelligence governs the meridians and they serve you well, even though you may not be aware they exist. Once you learn and understand the behaviors and ‘language’, you will work with them to send energy where needed and activate healing for the physical body, and support the metal and emotional realms.

All meridians either start or end in your hands or feet, and it is as if there channels of light flowing throughout your vessel.
The meridians work closely with the physical body as they run just along the surface of the skin and can penetrate deep into the body, where it brings energy to at least one or more organs.

So, what is a meridian anyway? This is one of the first questions students of Chinese medicine want to understand. Simply put, a meridian is an ‘energy highway’ in the human body. Qi (chee) energy flows through this meridian or energy highway, accessing all party of the body. Meridians can be mapped throughout the body; they flow within the body and not on the surface, meridians exist in corresponding pairs and each meridian has many acupuncture points along its path. I like to refer to them as my spiritual channels that exist in our bodies, that we cannot see with our eyes.

There are twelve main meridians, or invisible channels, throughout the body with Qi or energy flows. Congestion of one or more meridians can indicate physical changes or affects on the body. Here are the Twelve Meridians:

Arm Tai Yin channel corresponds to the Lung
Leg Tai Yin channel corresponds to the Spleen
Arm Shao Yin channel corresponds to the Heart
Leg Shao Yin corresponds to the Kidney
Arm Jue Yin corresponds to the Pericardium
Leg Jue Yin corresponds to the Liver
Arm Yang Ming corresponds to the Large Intestine
Leg Yang Ming corresponds to the Stomach
Arm Tai Yang corresponds to the Small Intestine
Leg Tai Yang corresponds to the Bladder
Arm Shao Yang corresponds to the San Jiao
Leg Shao Yang Channel corresponds to the Gall Bladder