Abdominal massage: Chi Nei Tsang
Usually little addressed in depth, the abdomen is at the centre of energy exchange, bodily fluids and the maintenance of health balance. The quality of touch is of fundamental importance. The abdomen is designated in Chinese medicine as the second brain of our body. Taoists consider it the seat of our emotions.
Chi Nei Tsang, derived from Qi Gong, is an abdominal massage technique that aims to release negative energies and harmonise emotions.
Emotions and the abdomen
"I have a knot in my stomach"; "It took my breath away"; "I'm making myself sick", "I have a lump in my stomach" but also "I have butterflies in my stomach"... These expressions are not trivial. Emotions, both positive and negative, have their source in the abdomen and have an obvious influence on our physical state.
The method
Chi Nei Tsang (literally energy of the internal organs) is a massage that relies on the five major systems of the body: vascular, lymphatic, nervous, muscular and energetic. Invented by the Taoist spiritual master Mantak Chia, Chi Nei Tsang consists of releasing and freeing "energies trapped in the body". These energies or negative "winds" weaken the nervous system and internal organs and disturb emotional energy. In Taoist philosophy, we learn to "recycle our waste" by isolating them from each other and getting rid of them before they "pollute" the brain.
Organs and emotions
These negative emotions are distributed in the different organs of the abdomen: worry and fear lodge in the spleen, pancreas and stomach. Sadness and depression nest in the lungs. Fears, phobias and trauma hide in the kidneys, and finally jealousy, frustration and anger in the liver.
During a session
During a Chi Nei Tsang session, I will work to release these negative energies, but also and above all practise a "rebalancing" of these emotions which are inseparable from their "positive" counterparts: worry / receptivity, sadness / courage, fear / calm, etc. Energy work is very often present in this treatment.
Massages are not therapeutic or medical and have no erotic character, respecting the modesty of the person being massaged.