Center for Urban Healing

09/04/2020

Earth element supports us at this time.
Fear is associated with water in the Chinese 5 elements system.
A lesson from the forest comes to each of us who shows up to class. Here is the teaching from yesterday:
A tree (wood element) holds up the land over a serpentine creek of moving water.
Application: Wood element (activity, thinking, building, creating) holds earth (grounding) in place against water (fear).
Staying active will ground us against fear.
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25/07/2018

Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum spp.) is what we call a nervous trophorestorative. That's a way of saying it restores health and functionality to the nerves. The major way it accomplishes this is, once again, by improving blood flow, particularly in the tiny capillaries that deliver fresh blood to other all the tissues of the body.

Improved micro-circulation of blood improves the health of the nerve tissues themselves, allowing better transduction of electrical signals. This in turn restores feeling where it's been lost - as in neuropathy - but it can also relieve pain, as the nerves stop sending distress calls up to the spine and brain.

Prickly ash thus helps resolve nerve pain, numbness or tingling, loss of sensation in the hands and feet, and similar issues that have nerve damage or loss of function at their root. For these purposes, it's useful to combine prickly ash with damiana, st. john's wort, or evening primrose, and to work over the long term. And of course, keep your body moving too!

Did you know you can stretch not just your muscles, but your nerves too? Here's a simple one to try: stand with your arms out to each side, like a kid playing Airplane. Then lift your hands so the fingers point to the sky. Now, push outward through the base of the palms while simultaneously extending your fingers as far as you can, as if you're trying to point them back toward your head. Spread your fingers wide while you do this. You should feel a sensation (some might say "pain") along the bottom edge of your arm, from armpit to wrist. That's your nerve stretching!

From that stretched position, you can make little circles with your palms, rotate the arms in different directions, try figure-8s or infinity-symbols - try a bunch of different patterns to see what feels best. There are a number of different "neural glides" or nerve stretches like this you can test out - do some exploring and see what you can find!

23/07/2018

28/05/2018

Great visual representation of the lymphatic system

25/05/2018

A sincere thank you to ALL OF THE HEALERS who walk our city streets spreading a loving vibration and presence

05/05/2018

Padme is the LOTUS in the sanskrit language

04/05/2018

A wonderful presentation by many teachers of the Tao on QI

29/04/2018

Welcome spring!
Warm greetings to all

18/04/2018

Rose quartz can improve your mood and increase your loving vibration

13/04/2018

Thank you, Healing ZONE friends!

12/04/2018

Excellent article on the mysterious Spleen

This the fourth edition in my general introduction to the meridian/organ systems in Chinese Medicine will focus on the Stomach and Spleen meridians. As we have discussed in previous articles on the Liver, Kidney, and Heart systems, Chinese Medicine uses meridians named after and related to our physi...

04/04/2018

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02/04/2018

May this spring blessing find you well!
The earth Qi awakens in flowing water

27/03/2018

This statement resonates very much with the ancestral work that many of us find ourselves thrown into this spring