TCM, Science and Healing Series – Crying Heals
We as humans are not taught that we have an innate ability to deal with pain or trauma, that our bodies know how to do it the right way.
Crying is one of the ways in which we clear our bodies of toxins. Crying allows us to move energy around our body and sometimes to rechannel it or understand it in a different way. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), tears is one of the channels for detox other than phlegm, sweat, saliva, mucus, flatulence.
Crying allows us to move energy around our body and sometimes to rechannel it or understand it in a different way.
When we don’t allow ourselves to feel our emotions and instead use addictive activities or substances such as eating, running or tranquilizers to get a high, we create hormones called enkephalins that repress tears and full emotional expression.
Tears contain toxins that the body needs to get rid of. When we allow ourselves a full emotional release, our body, mind and spirit feel cleansed and free. Usually insight about what to do in a given situation often comes after we feel our emotions about it and shedding tears if there are such release involved. As a matter of fact, tears of joy and tears of sorrow are physiologically and chemically different from each other.
In TCM, the tears of joy has a plain flavor while the tears of anger, sadness and sorrow has the flavor of saltiness.
Crying is part of the body’s emotional digestive system which our body processes and “digests” feelings, helping us move through painful emotions quickly and efficiently. And it is a way to come face to face and let go of many illnesses which most are quite simply the end result of needs that have been buried, unacknowledged, and unexperienced for years.
