DR JOHN SHEN
One of my teachers, the pulse master Dr John Shen, formulated a framework that may assist in the understanding of the importance of our early experiences of life. He maintained that the impact of influences was inversely proportional to our chronological age at the time they happened.
The first third along this line covers the period from conception to birth. As we are developing our blue print at this time, anything that affects us or our mothers impacts upon us tremendously. Awash in our hormonal sea in utero we are at the mercy of her every physiological or emotional response. How she perceives the world is our unconscious template for normal. One which we may find ourselves recreating “to come home to” for the rest of our lives.
The second third covers the time from birth to 10 years, with the midway mark of experiences that impact upon us for our entire life being at the age of 2 years. This shows us the incredible input our early lives, especially our interface with our mothers have upon us. All of baby and young child’s reality is framed through the lens of her perception. If she is of calm demeanour, able to rise to the challenge of distressed babies and difficult life circumstances and if she is able to adapt to her new life as a parent, our early lives may be safe and stable.
The last third of the influence of situations on our lives covers the period onwards from 10 years of age. Hence when a person seeks assistance for a “problem” in adult years, the entirety of the background may need to be uncovered. If coming from a regular, safe happy and orderly background, the individual will probably strive to return to this in their adult life.
Thus the time in utero begins the template, the childhood years will enforce this and supposedly we recreate this in our adult years.
Ideal Situation:
PIVOTAL TIMES
The same Chinese herbalist saw that a woman’s life can be marked by four life changing events.
- Puberty
Onset of sexuality/social and sexual independence
(Originally marriage – move away from family of origin) - Pregnancy
- Menopause
At these times, our Kidney energy/hormonal repercussions create a window of instability. We have, at these stages the capacity to undergo immense healing in resetting our inner calibrations to more harmonious levels, or to undergo massive upheavals and emerge relatively chaotic to ride through the remainder of our lives in turmoil. To honour self attending to our inner work at these times of initiation of life force changes would give lifelong benefits.
Life changes occurring within the internal Kidney energy structures at these times create far more disruption than at times outside these events. For example a parental death or marriage break-up at puberty; a shock, betrayal or accident around the time of establishing self within being a couple, immense external stresses around child bearing and lactation and at menopause will all disproportionately disorder the woman for the rest of her life. Conversely, each life marker is a time where incredible inner healing could occur if attention were paid to the inner mortgage, the inner opportunity for re-working self.
The Instant Of Separation/ Independent Life
The first moment where the person starts breathing is when their ‘pericardium’ function begins. This is seen as the heart‘s (Where the Shen resides) protector. Anything that upsets this process irreparably harms the forming personality as the actual body guard is damaged. The shock of HAVING to be forced to take a breath – when the umbilical cord is clamped as an example – creates undue catastrophic patterns to be set in motion.
This has been noted by those who follow Lotus Birth principles and in work from both Dr Michel Odent and also Dr Sarah J Buckley.
Below are notes from a talk given in 1994 in an intensive pulse workshop extra evenings’ information from the late Dr John Shen’s 60 years of observations.
Dr John Shen’s Heart Problems:
Etiology & manifestations
(From seminars attended early 1980’s in Sydney, Australia)
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– Heart Qi Xu (Deficient)
From constitution or life experience
Signs and symptoms
- Tends to be anxious with stress of both etiologies.
Anxious even without stress and pulse rate changes easily
Lots of change with movement Primarily Heart Blood Xu and this is secondary
2 – ‘Heart tight’
- From excess heat from Liver/Stomach, Pericardium or
- from deficient (static) heat from ‘Heart Overwork’ (i.e. attempting to overcome small stagnation from emotional shock).
Signs and symptoms
- Constant worrying and tension
- Racing mind Inability to get to sleep
- Occasional left hand side chest discomfort
3 – ‘Heart nervous’
- Yin and Heart Deficient causing Qi and heat to be unstable, and a bit small.
- Often constitutional dispositional from worry and heart tight over a long time.
- Physical trauma (more often at birth) sometimes in utero.
- May not have physical signs and symptoms as the body(i.e. the circulatory system) has absorb it.
Signs and symptoms
- Easily fatigued especially in the morning on awakening
- Sleep restless marked by frequent waking
- Occasional palpitations
- Often and frequent disturbing mood swings (roller coaster mildly out of control)
- Relatively mild nature, with increased irritability – look at them
- – they are usually thin and nervous.
Two types of ‘heart nervous’
- Prolonged worry and ‘heart tight’ feel nervous-most of the
- Pulse slightly rapid 80-84 due to shock – more serious rate change at rest with no missed
4 – ‘Heart weak’
- Blood of the ‘Heart weak’ with some subsequent ‘Heart Qi Xu’.
- Prolonged Heart weakness can go on to serious heart disease.
- From Heart Blood Xu, Kidney Jing Xu, Spleen Qi Xu,
- excessive Blood loss over time and
- also from constitutional Heart deficiency.
Signs and symptoms
- General feeling of weakness and numbness Blood Xu and diminished circulation
- Depression
- Poor concentration and forgetfulness
- Sleep pattern is OK for a few hour, then awake and can’t go back to sleep
- Usually tired in the morning
5 – ‘Heart closed’
- Qi can’t get in, trapped in the muscle. Shock has blocked it up.
- From emotional causes usually in childhood
- Sudden loss of a parent or heartfelt connection.
- Heart that is nervous over a long time.
- Physical shock to the chest.
Signs and symptoms
- Vengeful and spiteful
- Chest pain.
- Needle like and fixed is more serious than oppression.
6 – ‘Heart small’
- From the umbilical cord around the neck, head outside and not breathing.
- Shock – arteries constrict and deprive the heart itself of Qi and Blood = Blood stagnation to the arteries.
- Heart is suffocating – due to shock.
- This is true heart disease (coronary heart disease in western medicine).
Signs and symptoms
- Unexplained and unexpressed fear
- Night terrors Easily startled Shortness of breath
- Hard to inhale
- Chest pain usually needle like stabbing also radiating to the left shoulder and arm.
- Palpitations and cold extremities
7 – ‘Heart full’
- Qi unable to get into the heart.
- Prolonged from birth head inside, more serious than very profound repression of emotions when very physically active.
- Will result in an enlarged heart and hypertension.
Signs and symptoms
- Always tired, regardless of rest
- Little energy
- Rather depressed
- Emotionally labile and unstable
- Hot tempered & easily angered (without provocation), more severe than heart weak/nervous.
- Entire body is uncomfortable.
- Difficulty breathing out, less problems breathing in.
- Discomfort lying on the left hand side will eventually go to ‘Heart Large’.
8 – ‘Heart large’
- From high forceps
- Excessive sedation
- All have a profound effect on the nervous system
- Caesarean section
- Premature induction
- Also constitutional Heart Qi Xu Heart full prolonged
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Child labour, pre-adolescence with malnutrition
- All worse with chronic repressed anger
Signs and symptoms
- Extreme shortness of breath especially on exertion
- Difficulty breathing flat or on the left hand side
- Chronic chest discomfort
- Easy and extensive fatigue
- Maybe hypertension
9 – Heart disease
Approximates heart failure
From constitutional predisposition
Work beyond energy in pre-adolescence
Extreme abuse of drugs including alcohol and cigarettes
Severe emotional shock to the heart in early life
Repressed anger
Signs and symptoms
- Same as ‘heart large’ and ‘heart full’, but more pain and fatigues
- Coldness of limbs and body
- Shortness of breath and spontaneous cold sweats
- Pitting oedema Poor concentration, forgetfulness and palpitations
- Numb upper limbs
- Suffocating heaviness in the upper chest
WHAT TO DO WE DO ONCE THIS HAS HAPPENED?
Try to assist the being as much as possible.
An inconsolable screaming baby HAS a problem – it is not into itself THE problem . . . .
If mum is saying that there is a problem, there more than likely is one. Orthodox Western medicine has no tools for this, as there is no disease state YET – the disorder is still in the energy levels. Orthodox Western medicine is making this problem and who is paying attention? ‘Safe’ birthing is that which is undisturbed a d totally respects the being coming through from another dimension – fetal to adult circulation takes as long as it takes – no cord interference, and all as nature intends – and if there are any health issues – fix them – do not monitor them – this means at the very least, find my Pregnancy App an attend to all that is there – as Vit D levels, magnesium and iodine levels are suboptimal and often critically low in most pregnant women I see and research this – as it is all often that is needed to correct – and of course – no vaccinations – as the heavy metals then stop the detox pathways and the mercury that is out gassed from mum’s mum’s mouth full of amalgams is poached from mum to fetus and there is then chronic mercury exposure before any of the Hep B (full of aluminium to halt Hg detox) and if mum has had the Gardasil /Cervirex – massive bolus of Al to stop Hg detox – so baby is born pre polluted and there is more to undo . .
The new being needs un-shocking – vibrational essences designed specifically for this (see www.roseofraphael.com.au ), which even placed on the heart chakra, rather than taken by mouth, may have instant calming results.
Find someone to assist on the more karmic/spiritual level – a spiritual healer – the Arvigo style is excellent.
On the physical level, having gentle osteopathic work done also helps relieve the baby of its trauma. Colic, night terror and unhappiness in general may all be assisted here.
Become active politically in trying to halt the damage (Dr Michel Odent has well covered this through looking at the statistics – see www.WombEcology.com
BEST POLICY?
BECOME CONSCIOUS /LIVE CONSCIOUSLY
Become a birthing activist so the patients we see/children in law we have to deal with – are LESS of a problem as we as a culture have not broken them
Buy the Pregnancy App so you can work out what has happened preferably undo the problems by sidestepping – become part of a back to natural/mammalian birthing and parenting movement yourself – so you can be part of the solution
Check out www.WombEcology .com and see how modern statistics of primal health validate Dr Shen’s life observations.
