TCM Psychiatry and Spiritual Recapitulation (Qíng Zhì Bìng) – Module One

Module One

The context of mental and emotional well being hits and intuitive nerve. If another person, or ourselves, are experiencing some form of inner or outward behavioral disturbance, what should we do?

We can all appreciate the erosive nature of trauma, long term distress, chronic illness, a person in shock or emotional overwhelm, and do our best to understand any cognitive disorientation. This is human empathy. Like belonging, it is a social instinct.

“The Mind and Body Meet in Sensation”

The Heart/Mind and the Body move forward and backard like your left foot and right foot. Every serious mental, emotional, or physical wound, is a step backwards (metaphorically) and every treatment, therapy session, and personal realization is a step forward.

Being wounded and finding a way to heal is very personal, and for many it is a Spiritual journey. If there is a format to many of the ancient traditions it is reintegration, realignment, and recapitulation.

Reintegration is the experience of not being alone or separate, on many levels.

Realignment is the opportunity to participate and transform through connect with the Universe and with others.

Recapitulation is the ancient process of healing past traumas through coregulation practices like cermony, dance, group circles and counselling when with others, and when alone Somatic Trauma Release practices, Inner Cultivation, and through immersive Spiritual practices like Prayer and Meditation.

Module Four

“Fitting in produces anxiety, belonging is an instinct!”

Developmental Psychology

Your psychology develops in an environment of needs, connection, and meaning.

Cared for cared out sharing

Family grudges, extreme religions or diets, addition or ritual abuse ancestral trauma and ancestral gifts

Unstable cultures, potentially dire future, fluctuations in gender and identity, a culture that fears missing out instead of adding individual creativity and expression. Nearly 20% children facingdiagnosible psychiatric condition(dep anxiety suicide neurodivergence) those 20% and all other children are being raised by parents with am inumal 30% and more 50% likely hood of a diagnosable Psychiatri condition..

From a  TCM perspective, a Qing Zhi Bing (sometimes refed to as Adverse Childhood Experiences), can linger and grow, building into a perfect storm of behavioral chaos and consequences

Most Trauma that is predicably and easily ‘triggered’ is really about pain. The Healing journey is to accept that each kind of pain comes from an unmet need.

Module Five

Life is hard!

Life is meant to come with bad days and rough people. Life is also meant to come with opportunities to connect with the right people and work out how those bad days and rough people make you feel. Anything more than rough is wrong.

Modern life is faster, more impatient, and overstimulating than any time in history. As obvious as that is, it is meant to bring up the context of adaptability. Every living being is limited by its ability to adapt to its environment.

All animals, humans included, are born with a nervous system full of physical and social instincts. All animals are meant to grow up with parents to show them the finer details of behavior. Specifically, physical behaviors like fight, flight, and freeze, as well as social instinctual behaviors like tend, befriend, and cower.

If you have ever been through a physically overwhelming experience like a rock-climbing accident or survived a war zone, or if you have lived through ritualized physical and/or sexual violence, then that part of your nervous system is in trauma. That does not mean you are broken; it means it is now time to find opportunities to connect with the right people and relearn how to release the embodied memories and work out the ways those days and people are still inhabiting your nervous system.

If you grew up in an environment that that physically or emotionally dangerous, unavailable, or manipulative, your instinctual Polyvagal, or ‘social nervous system’ is in Trauma. That does not mean you are broken; it means it is time to create opportunities to connect with the right people and relearn how to read body language and open to how it feels to belong.

The Four Wounds of Thrauma

• The First Wound is Hypervigilance
• The Second Wound is Comfort Seeking
• The Third Wound of Trauma is Social Disorientation and Loss of Trust
• The Fourth Wound is Loss of Self Trust and Existential Pain

The course also delves into the Three Whys of Addiction – a process of Radical Self Acceptance.

Module Six

What is Emotional Intelligence?

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a long history of helping people explore, understand, and transform their inner lives. Thousands of years of wisdom tell us that each feeling we have comes from an innate and valuable instinct. As we become more connected with our healthy instincts, our thoughts and feelings come back into harmony with our lives.

“What we give to ourselves, we can then give to others, like love and respect

What we listen to in others, we can finally hear in ourselves”

In a rapidly changing, profoundly overstimulating, and socially disconnected world, many people are unsure of their place in it all.

A primary human need is connection, mutual support, and meaningful collaboration.

Module Seven

Becoming a whole person is a gradual process of individuation, while balancing the journey of finding your authentic with the need for Belonging and Trust.

When we are small, we wrap our arms around our parent legs and won’t let go. As adolescents, we push our parents as far away as we can. The rate and intensity of separation in young children can define the rest of their lives.

This creates either Acceptable Distance or destructive distance.

As children, and as adults, our needs for connection and distance are very unique and different. Depending on our childhood, the dance of connection in our adult life can unfold in many ways.

Rethinking Attachment Theory.

Through the lens of TCM and Qing Zhi Bing theory, a person’s attachment style is based on their Pin Ge or their Character, and the specific Qi Wounds they have experienced. A Qi Wound is a lot like a ‘startle reflex’ that happens to your entire nervous system, all of your connective tissue, and especially your fascia. Instead of a physical startle, the deeper state, circulation, and communication functions Qi

Supporting Neurodivergent Journeys

It is likely that 1 in 4 people is diagnostically Neurodivergent in some way. Although we are all unique in many ways, Neurodivergence describes a different set of needs that are much more than just preferences. A divergent path is not about better or right, it is about the freedom to learn and grow in as yet undiscovered ways.

This can become Acceptable Difference or a social impasse of difference.

Acceptable Difference and Distance is an important conversation to have. If you were to recapitulate each of the primary relationships, the ones you will never forget, what do they show you about connection in your life.

Module Eight

Conditioned Identity Structures

How Habitual Behavior and Life’s Limitations Define Identity

Aging, Mortality, and Death

Fate, Destiny, and Innate Nature

If Trauma has added up to distrust – about Veisceral, emotional, egoic, and existential pain. A Sacred container for pain

Chronic Illness and Self-Image

We have all come to accept how often trauma and distress can cause an illness. We sometimes forget how the constant and erosive burden of chronic pain, fatigue, nausea, or a hundred other haunting symptoms of chronic illness can be traumatic, life-changing, and self-defining. One of the core wounds of Trauma is a loss of trust in others. Loss of trust in your body is an even greater wound.

Module Nine

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Module Ten

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Module Eleven

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Module Twelve

“If you have the good fortune to have a full life,

you are going to go through some shit along the way!”

That has been true for a very long time…

If things get too challenging, you may experience a lack of sleep, too many thoughts, difficulty making decisions, or compulsively making decisions, times of overwhelming emotion, agitation, fatigue, impatience, anxiety, and/or depression. Life can become intense instinctually, viscerally, intuitively, emotionally, egoically, and/or existentially.

At some point, we all go into a low-grade state of shock, or Adaptive Overwhelm, or the Qi and Heart and Kidneys begin to separate.

The list of potential symptoms that can arise during profoundly stressful times, after one’s mental and emotional adaptability are overwhelmed is a very long list, and some symptoms are unique to each person. For some most of the symptoms are ‘affective’, or of the Heart and Mind. For other most of the Symptoms are of the Body, causing almost every chronic illness that exists today.

Module Thirteen

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Meditation

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Movement

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Connection

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Bonus Module

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