#19: Cleanse Your Rivers & Oceans

San Jiao is like a river. 

Wai Jiao is like the ocean. 

The water from the river will flow to the ocean. 
-Master Zhi Gang Sha

Ever feel like your energy or blood are just stagnant?  This happens to me every now again and I just feel stuck inside,like my blood is sick. As many of our rivers are stagnant due to dams, our bodies can be too. How do we become unstuck and flow again?

Remove blockages in the San Jiao to the Wai Jiao.  the SAN JIAO (RIVER) and WAI JIAO (OCEAN) channels. This is said to be the key for healing!

SAN JIAO (pronounced sahn Jee-yow) is the pathway of energy (qi or chi) and body fluid in the body and is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine. It is also a space in the body to hold all of the organs and is divided into 3 areas: Upper, Middle and Lower Jiao.
               Upper Jiao  is the area above the diaphragm (heart and lungs; major function is blood
                                    circulation, energy flow and respiration)
               Middle Jiao is between the diaphragm and the level of the navel (pancreas, stomach,                                                  spleen: main functions are to digest and absorb food)
               Lower Jiao is from the level of the navel down to the genital area (liver, bladder, kidneys,
                                    reproductive organs; main function is water balance and regulation)

WAI JIAO is the biggest space in the body, located in front of the spinal column in the thoracic and abdominal cavities.

Here's a practice you can do to open your San Jiao to flow more freely to the Wai Jiao. If after 10 minutes you don't feel more free in your body, continue longer! Sometimes I've needed to do this for at least 1 hr, many days in a row.

PRACTICE:

1. BODY POWER: Sit up straight in a chair with your back free and clear. Put one hand on your abdomen (front) and one hand on the abdomen (back).

2. SOUL POWER/INVOCATION:
Dear the soul of my San Jiao, I love you, honor you and appreciate you. 
You have the power to open fully, remove blockages from my chi and body fluid, open my rivers to my ocean. Please heal and transform my whole body. Thank you! 

3. MIND POWER: Visualize golden light shining and radiating within you, throughout your whole body, head to toe, skin to bone.

4. SOUND POWER:  Say silently or aloud for 10 minutes or more:
                                    San Jiao heal my whole body, thank you
                                    San Jiao heal my whole body, thank you
                                    San Jiao heal my whole body, thank you
                                    San Jiao heal my whole body, thank you
                                    San Jiao heal my whole body, thank you
                                    San Jiao heal my whole body, thank you
                                    San Jiao heal my whole body, thank you

CLOSE the PRACTICE

Always express gratitude: Hao! Hao! Hao! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. “Hao” (pronounced how in Mandarin) means get well. “Hao” means perfect. “Hao” means restore health.

Please leave comments below on how this practice was for you!

One Earth Heart,
Tara