On Being Churned by Stomach Energy

Personal Development, Theory, Zen shiatsu (Masunaga)

We take in food and chew it before swallowing and digesting it. We do this with information. If we cannot accept that information then it is turned over and over in our heads and is never accepted into our minds. In Shiatsu theory this digestion of food and information is controlled by the Stomach and Spleen meridians.

Part of my work problems over this year has been a constant round of meetings with my managers who could never accept that my work was good enough. Every week we met and every week I presented new information of the same information with a different twist and every week I was told it was not what was expected.

At the time I was studying Five Element theory and my visual diagnosis of my manager was Earth; Stomach and Spleen. My understanding some time later is that now what I was presenting could not be digested. I was in this churn mode and what I had to offer was not palatable.

Nothing I could have presented would have helped the only solution was the one finally taken: I was spat out into another team!

Tony Brown @ November 28, 2006