Meridian Cycle Flashcards
Stomach
Large Intestine - STOMACH - Spleen
- Using both hands, place your fingertips on your cheekbones, below your eyes. Circle around the outside of your eyes, over your eyebrows, and straight down your nose and chin.
- Trace out across your clavicles, down over your nipples, then down the centre of your stomach.
- Flare out again at the hips, then continue tracing down the front of your leg, to your second toe.
Spleen
Stomach - SPLEEN - Heart
- Start at the outside tip of your big toe.
- Trace straight up the inside of your leg, straight up over the stomach and ribcage, to your armpits.
- Trace back down to the bottom of your ribcage. Repeat on the other side.
Heart
Spleen - HEART - Small Intestine
- Start at the tip of your little finger. Trace up the outside of your arm.
- Trace across the back of your shoulder, and drop down around your shoulder blade.
- Trace up the back of your neck, then come around your neck to the front of your face.
Trace to your cheekbone, then take it back to just by your ear. Repeat on the other side.
Small Intestine
Heart - SMALL INTESTINE - Bladder
- Start at the tip of your little finger. Trace up the outside of your arm.
- Trace across the back of your shoulder, and drop down around your shoulder blade.
- Trace up the back of your neck, then come around your neck to the front of your face.
- Trace to your cheekbone, then take it back to just by your ear. Repeat on the other side.
Bladder
Small Intestine - BLADDER - Kidney
- Begin at the top upper lip, and bring both hands over the crown of your head, and down your spine, to the top of your buttocks.
- Pause, then indent your hands and trace around the bottom of your buttocks
- Take both hands up to the top of your back (thumbs by armpits), and trace straight down the backs of the legs, and off the little toe.
Kidney
Bladder - KIDNEY - Circulation/Sex/Pericardium
- To begin, use both hands, and press in on the ball of each foot, (do both feet together).
- Trace up to the ankle, and circle around the ankle bone.
- Trace straight up the inside of the leg, over the ribcage, to just below the clavicle bones (the K-27 points). Vigorously massage these points for a few seconds.
Circulation-Sex/Pericardium
Kidney - CIRCULATION/SEX- Triple Warmer
- Place your hand over your nipple.
- Trace along your inner arm, until the tip of your third (middle) finger.
- Repeat on the other side.
Triple Wamer
Circulation/Sex - TRIPLE WARMER - Gall Bladder
- Using both hands, place your fingertips at your temples; then trace around the back of your ears, and down the back of your neck to your shoulders.
- Continue tracing down the outside of your arm, ending at the fourth (ring) finger.
- Repeat on the other side.
Gall Bladder
Triple Warmer - GALL BLADDER - Liver
- Using both hands, begin at the corner of your eyebrows; make a circle on your temples, then trace back to behind the ears
- Bring both hands together to your forehead, then back across the crown of your head, and down the back of your neck.
- Trace down the sides of your body, going back on the ribcage, then forward again on the hips, down the sides of your legs, then off your fourth toe.
Liver
Gall Bladder - LIVER - Lung
- Start at the inside of your big toe.
- Trace straight up the inside of your legs, flaring out at the hips.
- Trace up over your stomach, then horizontally under your pecs, stopping in line with your nipples. Repeat on the other side
Lung
Liver - LUNG - Large Intestine
- Place your hand on your chest, over your lung.
- Trace straight down the inside of your arm, to your thumb. Make sure to pull the energy off your thumb.
- Repeat on the other side.
Large Intestine
Lung - LARGE INTESTINE - Stomach
- Start at the tip of your pointer finger. Trace up the outside of your arm, and around your shoulder.
- Continue tracing across your clavicle bones to your throat.
- Trace up over the bottom of your face (to the side of your chin) to the tip of your nose, then trace back to the ‘flare’ of your nostril. Repeat on the other side.
Central
CENTRAL
- Begin at your pubic bone.
- Using both hands, trace straight up the middle of your body, to your lower lip.
Governing
GOVERNING
- Using both hands, begin at your sacrum (the bony knob at the very bottom of your spine) and bring both hands up the centre of your back, as far as they’ll go.
- When you get to your shoulder blades, leave the first hand on your back, then take the second hand over your head and shoulders, and try to get your hands to touch (if they can’t, imagine them touching).
Take the second hand up over the back of your head, over your forehead, to the top lip.