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OK, fine, we fart when we’ve eaten things that make us fart. But sometimes we fart without having eaten anything of the sort. So why do we fart then?
Or, to put it more elegantly: “why do we have flatulence?”
As you may not know, the Lungs and the Large Intestine are a couple! This means that they share the same element, metal; they have the same quality of energy, one in Yang and the other in Yin; the same emotion is associated with them, sadness, as well as the same season, autumn; and they share their energetic function in the body.
The lungs, master of Ki, allow oxygen to be transformed into energy, Ki. Breathing, being linked to brain function, has a direct influence on our state of mind and on our emotions.
Through oxygen, the brain receives information about our emotional state and identifies it as emotions.
The Lungs are a shield, blocking access to pathogens that try to enter the body through the air. When Ki is not obstructed, things generally go well: thanks to the lungs, oxygen is transformed into energy and redistributed to the other organs and to the body as a whole, and the lungs expel CO2 as we breathe out.
The large intestine, for its part, does the same work with organic matter: it carries out a final sorting of the food it receives (already well broken down in the small intestine) and draws from it the essences that can still be used to nourish the other organs; then everything the body doesn’t need is expelled through the anus, the end of the large intestine.
Notice that both of them form a link between the outside and the inside: one at the top, through the mouth, and the other at the bottom, through the anus. The skin is associated with these two organs, and the skin is precisely what links the outside of our body with the inside: the skin has one side facing out and one facing in, doesn’t it?
It’s the same with emotions: we may think they are inside us, but in fact they express themselves on the outside. First through our behaviour and the sparkle in our eyes, but also through our skin and its colour (we blush, we turn pale), and through skin eruptions too: red patches, eczema or spots are most of the time emotional in origin, a way of physically expressing what we can’t manage to express otherwise.
An unexpressed emotion obstructs Ki and blocks our energy in certain parts of the body.
If you have flatulence (that your diet doesn’t explain), that’s a good thing: you are managing to release your emotions! Yes, because gas is linked to the release of emotions. You could say it’s a rather archaic way of expressing them!
To keep your energy from becoming obstructed, my advice is to express your emotions simply by saying what you feel, or sometimes just what you think, even if you believe it’s silly or out of place. It may be difficult at first, but once it’s said, what a relief! (Especially for the people next to you!!!)
