01/18/2025
Mind is the maker
Our mind has a direct connection to our ki, causing it to change as the nature of our mind changes. When the mind is positive, it generates genki, but when it is negative, byoki is formed. In addition, the nature of the ki within and around us parallels the nature of the mind, being as attractive as our thoughts and feelings.
Specific kinds of thoughts and feelings form ki that has affinity with specific organs or parts if the body. As an example, angercan create byoki around the liver, fear creates byoki around the kidneys, and grief creates byoki around the lungs. When byoki forms in the energy field around a part of the body, it adversely affects healthy functioning and also blocks the flow of genki to that area, thus creating dysfunction and eventually illness.
However, if negative feelings are processed in a healthy way, by feeling them and letting them go, very little byoki is formed and what is created tends to move out of one's energy system and is easily replaced by genki; thus throwing the person's system out of balance.
This has the effect of weakening the person's energy field and diminishing their health. If negative feelings persist, and they are not processed in a healthy way, they often get stored in the subconscious mind, causing a persistent source of byoki. If nothing is done, over time the byoki created can cause the person to get sick.
In addition to affecting our health, the quality of our ki affects our self-image, self-confidence, mind, emotions, and virtually every area of our experience, including what we are capable of achieving in life. Therefore, it's very important to maintain a positive mental attitude and to deal with feelings in healthy ways.
Our environment is an important health factor because of the way it can influence the mind and thus effect our ki. Unfortunately, most of us live in a culture that is dominated by negative thoughts and feelings. Thus is true to such an extent that many people have become conditioned to these unhealthy experiences and are unaware that anything unusual is taking place.
To summarize: while our diet, exercise, and relationships have an important effect on our ki and therefore on our health, the most important factor is the nature of one's mind. This includes the conscious thoughts and feelings we have as well as those that have become stored in the subconscious mind. In addition there are deeper levels of causation affecting our ki that relate to our inner nature and exist on a level of the soul.
