My Angry Liver

When my learned strategies to deal with stress only create disharmony, I turn to my liver for guidance.

The liver can be your guide in achieving harmony and balance in life. Our liver cleanses all blood from the stomach and intestines in the body, gathering nutrients and metabolizing drugs into nontoxic form. At any given moment, 13% of our entire body’s blood supply is in the liver. A healthy liver is responsible for 500 vital functions in maintaining a harmonious balance of chemicals, supplying our major organs with nutrient-enriched blood for survival. External stress encountered by living jeopardizes the liver’s ability to regulate balance.

Traditional Chinese medicine associates anger with the liver. Anger is a primal form of energetic change. Allow this feeling to flow from the liver. When expressed with healthy communication to adjust and address areas responsible for causing stress. However, a build-up in anger created by unresolved issues not fully process, such as from an abusive relationship, financial hardship, social status, or feelings of insecurity, will create disharmony in the liver. Tension held in our organ of harmony is a reaction to external stresses kept in an imbalance of life, causes the liver to poorly regulate the bloodstream, reflecting disharmony of our outer world with the inner world. The strategies we learn to handle life’s stressors are as important to our liver as is eating a balanced diet with regular exercise.

Strategies learned to handle stress are observed as children, practiced while we are teenagers, and hopefully questioned when we become adults. In stressful moments, I’ve experienced as a child the comfort dealing with my anger through food. Eating bowls of salty potato chips melted with creamy American cheese subdued my emotions, causing me to instantly feel better. I learned to fix problems with food. A false repair since it was really my…

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