Get Ready For Spring, Ⅰ
Have you noticed some odd sensations happening within your body recently? From about March 7 to March 21 there is a seasonal transitional phase, moving from winter to spring.
Many of our customers, perhaps even you, may not know that your body goes through very specific changes from season to season.
Spring is no different.
Perhaps you’ve noticed some odd things, like absentmindedness, lethargy, ringing in the ears, strange sharp pains in your chest or abdomen and more. With this two-week transition phase it is very common to experience odd and unique sensations in your body.
Chinese Medicine very commonly refers to the internal effects and processes of Chi within your body. Despite the foreignness of the concept of Chi, it is still an important one to try to understand.
Today we’ll explore what is going on in your body as we transition into any new season, and equally important, as we transition into this spring season.
There is a basic flow of Chi coursing within your body throughout your lifetime. This coursing of Chi will change through a years time as each season comes about.
This flow of Chi can be explained very simply like a sine wave. If you recall from your algebra class, a graph will have a straight line as with the X Axis. When drawing a sine wave it flows around this straight line, traveling up until it hits a peak and then back down, crossing the straight-line. It then descends into a small plateau with its’ lowest peak, and once again returns back to center.
This is how Chi flows in your body as well.
The high point of the positive curve in the sine wave can be likened unto the climax of the summer season whereas the low point of the negative curve can be likened unto the climax of the winter season.
The reason why a sine wave is such a good pictorial representation is because the sine wave depicts where and how the Chi is circulating in your body over the course of the year.
Whereas during winter your Chi retreats to the core of our body much like the way sap gets pulled back into a tree trunk. Therefore, with the climaxes of both the sine wave extremes, you can imagine the ebb and flow of Chi within your body. In between these extremes, spring time is the literal transition from the climax of winter to the highest point of the climax of summer.
This is an extremely moving time where your energy is literally ascending and expanding. Just like the bulbs in your flower bed which are waking up and rapidly growing, your Chi is doing the same thing from the start of springtime.