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Our bodies’ spring season begins around the first of April, when Mother Earth’s energy begins to spring upward from within. Flowers begin to rise up through the crust, leaves push their way out from branches; animals come out of their dens. The surface goes green, the color that stimulates our livers to release congestion and toxic accumulation. It is a time of house cleaning and liver cleansing; time to clear away the stagnation and build up from winter’s long rest, and time to get active again!
The organs that benefit from special attention during the spring season include the liver, the gall bladder, and the pancreas.
Focus on Liver and Gall Bladder Cleansing
The liver is the main organ that purifies the blood. When we are at rest, much of our blood is stored in the liver, where it undergoes a purification process. Chemical toxins and metabolic by-products are separated from the blood and either stored in liver cells, where they can not damage other tissues, or discharged into the bowel for elimination. Chronic consumption of toxic substances, as well as lifestyle choices that create excess stress and metabolic by-products, will build up in the liver and cause great damage over time. So a major part of healing the liver involves cleansing and detoxifying the liver and gall bladder, eliminating the toxins that are being held there.
Because it is responsible for the purity of our blood, liver health influences the health of the whole body. If the liver is toxic, congested, overworked and stagnant, the blood becomes toxic, and passes this condition and frequency on to every cell it contacts.
Some signs connected with liver and gall bladder stagnation and toxicity:
A Self Test for Identifying Liver Stagnation
One simple check with your body that can identify the need for liver cleansing is the Press Test: Press your finger into the skin on your chest, with enough pressure to sink in a bit. Hold it for a couple of seconds, then release it quickly. If you see a white coloration on the skin where your finger was, even for just a moment, it indicates that liver toxicity and stagnation is affecting your circulation. Your body could greatly benefit from liver and gall bladder cleansing.
The Liver’s Energy
Energetically, the liver is the seat of our creativity in life. It manifests as creativity, ambition, drive, desire and will to become. When the liver is clear, open and balanced, the creative energy flows smoothly, and we are naturally able to express our ideas, create and manifest our desires into physical form. The liver’s energy is expansive; a person with balanced liver energy will also have a balanced urge to grow and develop; and will feel happily motivated to live, to grow, and to evolve. When the liver is congested or toxic, we become depressed, and lethargic; we may lose the will to live or the will to actively participate in life.
The Liver and Anger
The liver is in charge of purifying the blood, and transmuting toxins and poisons. On an emotional level, this translates to our ability to transmute toxic emotion, psychic energy, resentment, and pain.
When the liver is stagnant or blocked, it results in a blockage of the flow of creative energy, or the ability to express ourselves. This blockage causes frustration; and can energetically set up a frequency that feels like resentment, frustration, or anger. Our society forces most people to suppress much of their natural creative energy, resulting in the creation of a build-up of suppressed liver tension, anger, and toxicity.
Anger is a powerful and explosive emotion, and is very difficult to suppress. Eventually it will build to rage, and may be vented like a volcano at others who have nothing to do with the cause. Suppressing anger, or allowing it to rage out of control, are both potentially harmful to the liver. It is important to regulate the flow of creativity, dissolve old resentments and anger, and to rise above things that generate anger. Carrying around this toxic emotional energy can distort every aspect of our lives.
To keep the liver in balance, we must limit our desire and ambition to a healthy level. Excess desire or ambition, because of the nature of our world, will result in the inability to carry out all of our plans and manifest our desires, creating frustration and depression. It is better for our liver health to let go of some of the excess desires and ambitions, and live in a more balanced way. And it is important to cleanse our livers physically, using herbs to help release these built up toxins and stagnation, in order to change the frequency of energy and emotion that is held there.
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