Mantak Chia - Chi Nei Tsang and Microcurrent Therapy: Energy Massage for Pain Relief, Self-Healing, and Rejuvenation

Acknowledgments

The authors and Universal Healing Tao publications staff involved in the preparation and production of Chi Nei Tsang and Microcurrent Therapy extend our gratitude to the many generations of Taoist masters who have passed on their special lineage, in the form of an unbroken oral transmission, over thousands of years. We thank Taoist master Yi Eng (White Cloud) for his openness in transmitting the formulas of Taoist Inner Alchemy.

We offer our eternal gratitude and love to our parents and teachers for their many gifts to us. Remembering them brings joy and satisfaction to our continued efforts in presenting the Universal Healing Tao system. As always, their contribution has been crucial in presenting the concepts and techniques of the Universal Healing Tao.

We wish to thank the thousands of unknown men and women of the Chinese healing arts who developed many of the methods and ideas presented in this book. We offer our gratitude to Bob Zuraw for sharing his kindness, healing techniques, and Taoist understandings.

Thanks to Juan Li for the use of his beautiful and visionary paintings illustrating Taoist esoteric practices.

We thank the many contributors who have been essential to bringing this book into final form: the editorial and production staff at Inner Traditions/Destiny Books for their efforts to clarify the text and produce a handsome new edition of the book, and Margaret Jones for her line edit of the new edition.

We wish to thank the following people for their work on earlier editions of this book: Colin Drown, for his editorial work and writing contributions; Otto Thamboon, for his artistic contributions; and our senior instructors Felix Senn and Dr. Andrew Jan, for their insightful contributions. Special thanks to Charles Morris for inspiring and reorganizing the book; without him this book would not have come to be.

A special thanks goes to our Thai production team: Hirunyathorn Punsan, Sopitnapa Promnon, Udon Jandee, and Suthisa Chaisarn.

Putting Chi Nei Tsang and Microcurrent Therapy into Practice

The information presented in this book is based on the authors personal experience and knowledge of Chi Nei Tsang used in conjunction with microcurrent therapy. Many of the practices described in this book have been used successfully for thousands of years by Taoists trained by means of personalized instruction. Readers should not undertake these practices without receiving personal transmission and training, including training in the use of the Chi Nei Tsang microcurrent generator, from a certified instructor of the Universal Healing Tao, since certain of these practices, if done improperly, may cause injury or result in health problems. This book is intended to supplement individual training by the Universal Healing Tao and to serve as a reference guide for these practices. Anyone who undertakes these practices on the basis of this book alone does so entirely at his or her own risk.

The meditations, practices, and techniques described herein are not intended to be used as an alternative or substitute for professional medical treatment and care. If any readers are suffering from illnesses based on physical, mental, or emotional disorders, an appropriate professional health care practitioner or therapist should be consulted. Such problems should be corrected before you start Universal Healing Tao training.

Neither the Universal Healing Tao nor its staff and instructors can be responsible for the consequences of any practice or misuse of the information contained in this book. If the reader undertakes any exercise without strictly following the instructions, notes, and warnings, the responsibility must lie solely with the reader.

This book does not attempt to give any medical diagnosis, treatment, prescription, or remedial recommendation in relation to any human disease, ailment, suffering, or physical condition whatsoever.

Introduction

Chi Nei Tsang and Microcurrent Healing Technique

The Taoist sages of ancient China observed that energy blockages in the internal organs often result in knots and tangles in the abdomen. These obstructions occur at the center of the bodys vital functions, and they constrict the flow of chi (energy), our life force. The negative emotions of fear, anger, anxiety, depression, and worry cause the most damage. The Taoists realized that these negative emotions cause serious damage to your health, impairing both physical and spiritual functions. They understood that each human emotion is an expression of energy and that certain emotions could indicate the negative energy behind many physical ailments. They also identified a specific cycle of relationships between the emotions and the organs. For example, the sensation of a knot in your stomach indicates the presence of worry, the negative emotion that accumulates in the stomach and spleen.

When obstructed, the internal organs store unhealthy energies that can overflow into other bodily systems and surface as sickness. Always in search of an outlet, the negative emotions and toxic energies create a perpetual cycle of negativity and stress. If the negative emotions cant find an outlet, they fester in the organs or move into the abdomen, the bodys garbage dump. The abdomen can process some emotional garbage, but more often than not it cant keep up with the flow. As a result, the energetic center of the body located at the navel becomes congested and cut off from the rest of the body.

The Taoists discovered that most maladies could be healed once the underlying toxins and negative forces were released from the body. They developed the practice Chi Nei Tsangchi abdominal massage of the vital organsto recycle and transform negative energies that obstruct the internal organs and cause knots in the abdomen. Chi Nei Tsang clears out the toxins, bad emotions, and excessive heat or heat deficiencies that cause the organs to malfunction. A typical full Chi Nei Tsang massage begins with the spine and the back of the body, proceeds to the organs in the front of the body, and concludes with attention to the head, neck, shoulders, and arms.

As an art and a science, Chi Nei Tsang complements reflexology, psychology, Reiki, Shiatsu, Swedish massage, and similar therapies. However, unlike most practices that use indirect methods to contact the internal organs, Chi Nei Tsang directly massages the internal organs. Chi Nei Tsang is also the most comprehensive approach to energizing, strengthening, and detoxifying the internal system. It clears out negative influences and is particularly useful in relieving intestinal blockages, cramps, knots, lumps, scar tissue, headaches, menstrual cramps, poor blood circulation, back pain, infertility, impotence, and many other problems. In fact, when combined with other disciplines, Chi Nei Tsang may even help eliminate the need for surgery.

Other Universal Tao practices are useful for maintaining personal energy as well, and complement Chi Nei Tsang beautifully. Meditations such as the Inner Smile, the Microcosmic Orbit, and the Fusion of the Five Elements open channels and enable the flow of chi to energize and cleanse the organs. Exercises such as the Six Healing Sounds prevent overheating and help balance the internal system. For a review of these meditations, refer to other books by Mantak Chia, including Healing Light of the Tao, The Inner Smile, The Six Healing Sounds, and Fusion of the Five Elements.

WHAT IS CHI NEI TSANG MICROCURRENT THERAPY?