Life Pulse Massage

Taoist Techniques for Enhanced Circulation and Detoxification

Mantak Chia, Aisha Sieburth

• Publisher: Destiny Books
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781620553091
• eBook ISBN: 9781620553107
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine

A fully illustrated guide to abdominal massage for improved cardiovascular health, organ detoxification, and enhanced vital energy • Includes fully illustrated massage instructions to open restricted blood vessels, direct blood flow for healing, balancing blood pressure, and detoxifying organs • Details specific massage treatments for many common ailments such as lower back pain, sciatica, asthma, headaches, and reproductive issues • Explains the ancient art of reading pulses to diagnose organ health • Reveals how blood acts as the vehicle for our vital energy Blood and chi often flow side by side throughout the body, the blood acting as the vehicle for our vital energy. Areas of slow or congested circulation lead to blockages in the flow of vital energy and toxin accumulation in the body. The practice of Life Pulse Massage allows these blockages to be cleared, revitalizing cardiovascular function, detoxifying the organs, and restoring the flow of blood and chi throughout the body. In this fully illustrated guide to Life Pulse Massage, Master Mantak Chia details abdominal massage practices to open restricted blood vessels, direct blood flow to specific areas for healing, release arterial tension to rebalance high or low blood pressure, and detoxify individual organs and body systems such as the liver, lungs, lymph nodes, and colon. He shows how to clear and activate the master pulses of the navel and aorta and synchronize these master pulses with the 52 pulses of the whole body for optimum circulation and energy balance. He explains the ancient art of reading pulses to diagnose organ health as well as how to recognize internal health states through the unique positions and shapes of the navel. Detailing specific Life Pulse Massage treatments for many common ailments such as lower back pain, sciatica, asthma, headaches, and reproductive issues, Master Chia shows how liberating the flow of blood and chi can prevent illness before it takes hold, revitalize the organs, and set the stage for optimum health.

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The Cosmic Pulse of the Universe

Origin of the Pulse Stars

Original information is stored in the universe, present everywhere, waiting to be accessed. This universal source is where everything originates. Interacting with this original information is the pulsation of violet light, which permeates space and reaches all the stars and planets in the universe (fig. 1.1). When original information combines with particles of light and matter, these forces generate a highly charged field of intelligent, informed energy. This polarized field is the pulse of life: it has the power to transform pure information into the potential of something happening.

Fig. 1.1. Violet light has intelligence and the most powerful healing force.

ORIGINAL PULSE

Take a moment to feel where your energy is coming from. Feel the pulsations that come from the original pulse in the universe—from the violet light that affects the pulse of the North Star, the earth, and our own bodies (fig. 1.2). Ancient Taoists were aware of this connection in their meditations and healing work. Observing the stars and planets of the solar system and beyond, watching the night sky, they felt the tilt of the earth’s axis pulled toward the North Star pulse, far beyond the Big Dipper constellation.

Throughout history, the world’s events have been affected by three major stars called the Pole Stars: Polaris, Vega, and Thuban—each pulsing with different frequencies, influencing the polarized electromagnetic field of the earth and everything living on the planet. Long ago, these frequencies caused the very first particle of a simple protein to start pulsing. This primal pulsing triggered the first cell division, which generated more protein cells—the first signs of life billions of years ago. Evolving over many more billions of years, this pulsing cell division increased the exchange of information—the first cellular form of sexual interplay—which multiplied, engendering even more genetic information. This pulsation eventually developed into the main organ cells and gave rise to more complex forms of life.

Fig. 1.2. Pulse of the Pole Stars (Polaris, Vega, Thuban) and the South Pole

WU CHI

—OUR ORIGINAL SOURCE

The Taoists noticed the effects of naturally occurring universal processes upon human nature. By observing nature and investigating the effects of its energy upon and within the human body, the Taoists traced nature’s energy back to its source. They used meditation to make this “expedition,” which led them to the discovery of a primordial void, a condition of nothingness. This void, recognized to have been the state of things at the beginning of all creation, was given the name Wu Chi (

). It is depicted in Taoist art as an empty circle.

Wu Chi, the Great Emptiness, is the beginning, nothingness—the Tao. You can compare this void to your own state before your creation. Who knows or can say how you came to be? Trace yourself back as far as you can and you will come upon the same mystery that beguiled all the ancients. Once you had the condition of “nothingness,” and then you were born with all your splendor and force.

Wu Chi Great Emptiness (purest Original Force)
Hun Yuan, the realm of possibilities (primordial)
Tai Chi (yin and yang force)
Three Pure Ones
Early Heavenly Force (cosmic dust)
Later Heavenly Force (spinning cloud)
Formation of the five forces
Great force of the five phases of energy (five elements)
The planets and the sun

Fig. 1.3. Energy born from the Wu Chi created the multiple energies of existence.

ORIGINAL ENERGY

While the Tao was difficult to name and grasp, the ancients did describe primal forces emanating from it. The Tao Te Ching states:

The Tao produced the One;
The One produced the Two;
The Two produced the Three;
The Three produced all the myriad beings.

The One is the highest unity, the primordial energy in the cosmos. The well-known Tai Chi symbol portrays this force in which yin and yang are perfectly balanced and still united. You can imagine it just about ready to burst out and create all the world. Yin and yang separated and became the Two. The Two produced three elemental forces called the Three Pure Ones. The Three Pure Ones created the five elemental energy phases of the universe. These five forces (often called the five elements) were powerful enough to generate “all the myriad beings,” that is, all the familiar forms of nature and the universe, including us.

Fig. 1.4. Energy born from the pure potential of Wu Chi generates all the phases of existence and transformative evolution.

Yin and Yang

Yin and yang are the two great polarities that emerged from the Original Chi to form all matter, including the human body. To discuss and evaluate chi energy in the human body, it is necessary to determine whether it is yin or yang.

Yin is expressed as emotional, passive, receptive, empty, cerebral, night, earth, interior, inertia, cold, water, dark, rest, and the moon. Yin usually contracts and flows downward and inward. Yin is hidden deep within the interior body. Intelligence is yin in composition. Yang is expressed as creative, full, active, day, motion, hot, exterior fire, heaven, and the sun. Yang expands and flows upward and outward. Yang is superficial; it is what you see. It is the expression of intelligence.

Although opposite in characteristics, yin and yang are not separate forces. They exist in relation to each other, having a constant and continuing influence on each other. Each holds a seed of the other, developing and eventually changing into the other. They are the two sides of the same coin, two energy poles of a bar magnet, functioning in a single energy field. Taoists describe and define all phenomena by the degree or proportion of yin and yang they contain.

Humans are created by a harmonious balance of yin and yang and can stay healthy by maintaining that balance. Taoist practice aims toward achieving perfect harmony, which is synonymous with perfect health.

PRENATAL CHI

Original Energy at Conception

The Taoists found that the laws of nature existed equally in the body’s internal system and in the outer universe (fig. 1.5). This reflection between the macrocosm of the universe and the microcosm of the human being gave an understanding of the beginning of the universe and of existence itself, mirroring the process of conception and birth in the navel center.

Fig. 1.5. Microcosm and macrocosm: the universe within and without

Taoists believe that when a man and woman join to make a child, all the essences of their bodies are condensed in the yang sperm and yin egg (fig. 1.6). The orgasmic forces generated during the sexual union of the sperm and egg have the power to draw in and unite the universal, human plane (cosmic particle), and earth energies. Taoists refer to this process as the Reunion of Heaven and Earth. When these forces unite, they can draw in higher forces. These forces create the prenatal force that has no form and is like the Tao. Every new life starts with this prenatal energy from the Tao, a whirling spiral of cosmic forces uniting called the Primordial Force.

Fig. 1.6. Formation of a child

Original Pulse Begins at Conception

At conception, the slow, yin pulse of the egg absorbs the fast, yang pulse of the sperm, fusing together with the cosmic pulse and then splitting into organized pulsing (fig. 1.7). In this moment, the polarized electromagnetic field of the universe descends into the pulse of the first cells, fusing, dividing, and expanding, becoming our stem cells.

The more our stem cells are affected by the cosmic pulse, the more they split, divide, and transmit this pulse in turn to the developing cells, which generates even more pulses. This pulse is the original pulse. It actively sustains fetal functions before the heart starts pumping (twenty-one days later) and develops into over fifty pulses around the body. Where does the original pulse come from? Taoists believe the North Star gathers the violet light of the universe, influencing the earth pulse directly from the cosmos (see fig. 1.8). At the instant of conception, the North Star pulse sends the violet light of the universe into the momentary union of our parent’s sexual cells, which fuse and then divide into a unique and complete cell. This fusion of the cosmic pulse with the pulsing of our origina...

Table of contents

• Cover Image
• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Putting Life Pulse Massage into Practice
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Cosmic Pulse of the Universe
• Chapter 2: The Circulatory System
• Chapter 3: Life Pulse Massage Training
• Chapter 4: Pumping the Pulse
• Chapter 5: Getting Started With Life Pulse Massage
• Chapter 6: Activating the Master Pulses
• Chapter 7: Harmonizing the Organ Pulses
• Chapter 8: Harmonizing the Peripheral Pulses
• Chapter 9: Activating and Balancing the Pulses on the Back
• Appendix 1: Observing the Pulse in the Chinese Tradition
• Appendix 2: Treating Health Imbalances with Life Pulse Massage
• Appendix 3: Glossary of Major Arteries
• Footnotes
• Bibliography
• The Universal Healing Tao System and Training Center
• About the Authors
• About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
• Books of Related Interest
• Copyright & Permissions
• Index