Setting Boundaries with the Small Intestine

The function of the Small Intestine is to receive and transform food by separating the pure from the impure, it also does so on a metaphysical level with our thoughts and beliefs.

In Chinese medicine the S.I is Yang to the Heart's Yin

↪Matters of the Heart ♡ influences the S.I, it is the Heart's ♡ protector and it's energy enables us to understand experiences and determine healthy boundaries. 

The Element of the Small Intestine is Fire 🜂

Fire 🜂 = Heat. Gives Life, Warmth, Empathetic, Joyful and Happy 😊🔥

(🏃 Fire People are confident, adventurous, passionate)

But Fire in Stress can turn Joy and Happiness into Panic and Hysteria.

 The S.I meridian starts at the small finger, moves up the arm, across the shoulder, over the scapula and rises over the side of the neck - an area mostly massaged on, as most people experience discomfort in this area due to stress.

Emotionally a stiff neck represents uneasiness within oneself. Refusing to see other sides of a question, stubbornness and inflexibility. 

Point specific to the Small Intestine, tension in this area could result from Communication Blocks with Influential People and Feeling Misunderstood, unable to understand one's personally boundaries (when is it safe to say No or Yes)

Emotions of tension, stress, worry, fear and uncertainty causes the S.I to become imbalanced, and a stress S.I causes one to experience more stress, tension and worry.

Emotional influence of the S.I

• feelings of being pulled in many directions

• unable to make clear decisions

• feeling restless, anxious and moody

• abdominal pain

• bloating

• gas

• weakness / fatigue

• sluggish gut

To bring The S.I back into Balance and Harmony

☺️ Diet:

Introduce:                                   Reduce:

Apples                                        Spicy foods

Bananas                                      Sugar

Dates                                          Salt

Figs                                            Vinegar

Celery                                         Dairy

Onions                                        Eggs

Potatoes

Ginger

Turmeric

Aloe Vera

Coconut

Green Tea

(Medical Medium Life-Changing Foods has amazing insights about fruits and vegetables, he expresses their Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Properties and how they can help heal our bodies.) 

☺ Massage 🙌

☺Meditation and Deep Breathing: 

Meditation helps to calm the mind, 5 - 10 min of being in a state of not thinking can actually help you concentrate and think more clearly about matters, Calm Deep Breathing helps for the obvious reason of bringing more oxygen to the body aiding all cells to nourish and heal themselves. The natural movement of breathing moves the Diaphragm, influencing the movement of the Digestive system. 

☺️ Affirmations: 💬

Affirmations are small prayers that we repeat to influence our Subconscious Mind - everything we see and perceive impresses the Subconscious, when we consciously react to a stress factor, the idea of that fear becomes impressed in our Subconscious, so when we are faced with a stressed factor again and again, the subconscious triggers the memory from the past experience and we 'relive' that fear emotion, regardless of the severity of the stress factor.

 Adverse Appearances Work For My Good, For God Utilizes Every Person And Every Situation To Bring To Me My Heart's Desire  -  Florence Scovel Shinn

I Easily Assimilate And Absorb All That I Need To Know And Release The Past With Joy  -  Louise Hay