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The Ethereal Soul Spring Greens Being a Highly Effective JING SHEN Issue 2 : Feb 2008 from the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine The Ethereal Soul Giovanni Maciocia on the source of our intuition and inspiration Spring greens Danny Blyth opens his new series about Chinese food energetics Being a highly effective acupuncturist Angie Hicks shares her insights Changes afoot New Chinese herbal medicine MSc Oxford Medical Supplies Ltd The UK’s foremost supplier of acupuncture products. FREEPHONE 0800 975 8000 www.oxfordmedical.co.uk Quality Acupuncture Our philosophy is quite simple Treat all customers both existing Products and potential with respect and understanding. 10 % Bring to all our customers products discount of quality at reasonable prices. for students Place an absolute premium on and 1st year practitioners courteous and efficient service. Keep our customers informed and on the rare occasion that we make a mistake or a product proves defective rectify the situation immediately with honesty and courtesy. This philosophy may seem unusual in this day and age but it works. With all best wishes Ewan Urquhart Director Oxford Medical Supplies Ltd Units 11 & 12, Horcott Industrial Estate, Fairford, Gloucestershire GL7 4BX Freephone: 0800 975 8000 Freefax: 0800 975 8111 Email: [email protected] Website: www.oxfordmedical.co.uk Why Jing Shen? Hello and welcome to the second Just as jing and shen edition of Jing Shen! I’d like to start by celebrating the stand alone but success of our fi rst edition. It appears unite as a combined our new publication is being thoroughly enjoyed and the response has been power, so do TCM amazing! Thank you very much for your and Five Element theory feedback. Your opinions are extremely valuable and will come together to create contribute to the evolution of the magazine in the future. The encouragement received has provided useful the integrated style sustinence to motivate us through the winter months, of acupuncture taught 精 and this time for your enjoyment we are very proud here at the College and honoured to present contributions from Giovanni Maciocia, Angela Hicks, John Hicks, Peter Mole, Peter of Integrated Chinese Firebrace plus much, much, more. We hope that these Medicine. Our magazine articles provide food for thought and contribute to your is intended to spark ideas,神 practice of Chinese medicine in a positive way. Much love fuel discussion, and help nourish our professional community. Charlotte Brydon-Smith Lic Ac, BSc (Hons) Editor [email protected] Back issues available 4 Hun, the Ethereal Soul 32 Clinical study trip via our newly-relaunched Giovanni Maciocia explores to China website cicm.org.uk this level of consciousness Book your place now... 11 Round the ole 33 Fifteen treasures Jing Shen would like to camp fi re Find out how Peter Firebrace extend a big thank you Marcus James looks at Five likes to relax to Ewan at Oxford Medical Supplies Element diagnosis from 34 Feeding our qi: an unusual perspective for sponsoring our spring greens magazine 13 Emotion testing The fi rst in John Hicks on the benefi ts Danny Blyth’s Jing Shen is published by the College of this diagnostic technique new series on of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Chinese food 19 Castle Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 7SB 20 Breathing life into cicm.org.uk 0118 950 8880 the winter months energetics The views of the writers in Jing Shen are not Another in Gio Maschio’s series 36 CPD necessarily shared by the College. The contents on developing your qi events for of this magazine are fully protected by copyright practitioners and may not be reproduced without permission 22 Seven secrets of being a highly effective Our seminar and workshops We welcome correspondence about this plus a preview of upcoming magazine. Please email the editor acupuncturist seminars by Jason D Robertson [email protected] Angie Hicks shares her list or write to her at the address above. Letters and Jeffrey Yuen 27 Crossword and and emails may be considered for publication. 38 New MSc programme Please let us know if you do not want your pin yin wordsearch Tony Booker on exciting correspondence to be published Sharpen your wits changes to our Chinese herbal with our brain teasers Editor Charlotte Brydon-Smith medicine training package Design The Design Works, Reading 28 Why so weary? 39 About this Our grateful thanks to all contributors. Special Peter Mole looks thanks also go to Yu Hong Zhang and Sandra Hill College at the bigger for help with the Chinese characters, Bea Hallas The facts, in picture on for the illustrations on pp 29, 34 and 35 and a nutshell the front cover photo of a horsetail, and Anna causes of Bennett for the cartoon on p 19 tiredness Printed on recycled paper Hun, the Ethereal Soul Giovanni Maciocia explores the level of consciousness responsible for intuition, inspiration, purpose and direction The Ethereal Soul broadly What is the Ethereal Soul and what does corresponds to our Western it do? An analysis of the Chinese character concept of soul. According to depicting the Ethereal Soul is essential to gain ancient Chinese beliefs it enters an understanding and a feeling for what it the body shortly after birth. is. The presence of the radical for gui within Ethereal in nature, after its character immediately tells us that the death it survives the body and fl ows back Ethereal Soul has a somewhat dark nature, to Heaven (tian). in ancient Greek philosophy we would say it has a Dionysian nature. It pertains to a This is the Chinese subterranean world that is different from the character for Ethereal Soul: world of the Mind (shen of the Heart). It is composed The Ethereal Soul is the gui, i.e. the dark, of two parts: 魂 intuitive, non-rational side of human nature: yang in character, it enters and exits through = clouds = spirit, ghost 云鬼 the nose and communicates with Heaven. The The ancient character for spirit or ghost was gui in the character hun for the Ethereal Soul itself composed of two parts, a head without has also another important meaning. The fact a body and a swirling movement. that the Ethereal Soul has the nature of gui This ancient radical therefore depicts the means that it has an independent existence bodiless head of a dead person fl owing to from the Mind (shen). The Ethereal Soul has Heaven or swimming in the realm of spirits its own life and agenda over which the Mind and ghosts in a swirling movement. It is like has no say: the interaction and integration of a ghost or the spirit of a dead person but it is the Mind with the Ethereal Soul is the basis for essentially harmless, i.e. it is not one of the our rich psychic life. evil spirits (hence the presence of the Unlike the Ethereal Soul, the other two cloud radical). mental-spiritual aspects of Intellect (yi of the The concept of Ethereal Soul is closely Spleen) and Will-Power (zhi of the Kidneys) linked to ancient Chinese beliefs in spirits, do not have an independent existence but ghosts and demons. According to these beliefs, could be said to be part of the Mind (shen of spirits, ghosts and demons are spirit-like the Heart). creatures who preserve a physical appearance According to ancient Chinese beliefs, the after death and wander in the world of spirit. Ethereal Soul was imparted by the father three Some are good and some are evil. days after birth during a naming ceremony, 4 Jing Shen February 2008 i.e. the baby was given a name and the father Sleep and dreaming imparted the Ethereal Soul to him or her. This is signifi cant as it is symbolic of the social, The Ethereal Soul infl uences sleep and relational nature of the Ethereal Soul (as dreaming. If it is well rooted, sleep is normal opposed to the Corporeal Soul). The Ethereal and sound and without too many dreams. Soul is responsible for relationships and our If Liver-yin or Liver-Blood is defi cient, the relating to other people in the family and Ethereal Soul is deprived of its residence and society. The Ethereal Soul corresponds to our wanders off at night, causing a restless sleep individuality, but within the context of the with many tiring dreams. Sleep disturbances family and society. related to excessive dreaming are particularly When describing the Ethereal Soul, the related to the Ethereal Soul. Tang Zong Hai theme of ‘movement’, ‘swirling’, ‘wandering’ says: ‘At night during sleep the Ethereal Soul is ever present. The Ethereal Soul provides returns to the Liver; if the Ethereal Soul is not 1 movement to the psyche in many ways: peaceful there are a lot of dreams’. Chinese movement of the soul out of the body as in books do not defi ne ‘excessive dreaming’ but dreaming, movement out of one’s everyday life in my experience, dreaming can be defi ned as as in life dreams and ideas, movement towards excessive either when there are nightmares or others in human relationships, movement in when one has unpleasant or anxiety-causing terms of plans and projects. The Ethereal Soul dreams the whole night, waking up exhausted. is rooted in the Liver and in particular Liver- If Liver-yin is very depleted, at times yin (which includes Liver-Blood). If Liver-yin is the Ethereal Soul may even leave the body depleted, the Ethereal Soul is deprived of its temporarily at night during or just before residence and becomes rootless. The Ethereal sleep. Those who suffer from severe defi ciency Soul, deprived of its residence, wanders of yin may experience a fl oating sensation in without aim.
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