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I've got a somewhat esoteric question for the Hivemind.
Some of you know that I convinced my acupuncturist to train me. He works in the Five Element school of acupuncture, as opposed to the more common TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) school. One aspect of the teaching isn't making any sense to me, and I'm hoping someone else here can explain it to me, or point me towards a good source.
5-Element acupuncturists rely heavily on four "keys" to determine which Element is out of balance in your body. These are Color, Sound, Odor, and Emotion. Most of these are relatively straightforward. Color, on the other hand, is driving me nuts.
As I understand it, there are a number of spots on the face where a person's Color can be read, with the primary one being at the lower outer edges of the eyes (i.e. about 4:00 and 8:00). Each Element has a particular Color associated with it, and an imbalance will cause that Color to show up on the person's face. So far, so good.
Here's where I miss the left turn at Albuquerque.
1) This Color is easiest to see in natural lighting, and can be made harder to accurately "read" by other strong colors close to the person's face, much the way a person wearing a red shirt may look flushed or slightly sunburned even though they're not.
Okay, that make sense. Any painter or photographer has to take both of those things into account, too.
2) This Color is not something that will show up in a photograph or other mechanical reproduction of the person's face. It is energy-based, and takes practice to be able to see it at all.
Okay. I'm good with that, too. In martial arts settings, I've gotten to the point where I can see someone else's energy. I don't see it as a color, just as a sensation of "brighter" or "dimmer" based on the amount of energy flowing. On a number of occasions, someone has asked me about this and I've looked them over and asked things like, "What's wrong with your left shoulder? It looks darker, right in *this* section," and they've consistently told me that yes, there was a problem with the area I indicated. And like the Color aspect on someone's face, it isn't something that shows up on photographs.
But it also doesn't matter what sort of lighting we have, what clothes the person is wearing, etc.
This is what confuses me. It seems to me that if it is something that would be affected by the lighting, other colors nearby, etc., then it sounds like it is something physical, which should be picked up by a camera with sufficient color resolution. If it can't be picked up by something mechanical like a camera, then it sounds like it is purely energy-based, in which case the lighting, etc shouldn't matter.
ARGH!
Does anybody have any information on this, or know of someplace that gives a clear, concise explanation of it?
Thank you!
Some of you know that I convinced my acupuncturist to train me. He works in the Five Element school of acupuncture, as opposed to the more common TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) school. One aspect of the teaching isn't making any sense to me, and I'm hoping someone else here can explain it to me, or point me towards a good source.
5-Element acupuncturists rely heavily on four "keys" to determine which Element is out of balance in your body. These are Color, Sound, Odor, and Emotion. Most of these are relatively straightforward. Color, on the other hand, is driving me nuts.
As I understand it, there are a number of spots on the face where a person's Color can be read, with the primary one being at the lower outer edges of the eyes (i.e. about 4:00 and 8:00). Each Element has a particular Color associated with it, and an imbalance will cause that Color to show up on the person's face. So far, so good.
Here's where I miss the left turn at Albuquerque.
1) This Color is easiest to see in natural lighting, and can be made harder to accurately "read" by other strong colors close to the person's face, much the way a person wearing a red shirt may look flushed or slightly sunburned even though they're not.
Okay, that make sense. Any painter or photographer has to take both of those things into account, too.
2) This Color is not something that will show up in a photograph or other mechanical reproduction of the person's face. It is energy-based, and takes practice to be able to see it at all.
Okay. I'm good with that, too. In martial arts settings, I've gotten to the point where I can see someone else's energy. I don't see it as a color, just as a sensation of "brighter" or "dimmer" based on the amount of energy flowing. On a number of occasions, someone has asked me about this and I've looked them over and asked things like, "What's wrong with your left shoulder? It looks darker, right in *this* section," and they've consistently told me that yes, there was a problem with the area I indicated. And like the Color aspect on someone's face, it isn't something that shows up on photographs.
But it also doesn't matter what sort of lighting we have, what clothes the person is wearing, etc.
This is what confuses me. It seems to me that if it is something that would be affected by the lighting, other colors nearby, etc., then it sounds like it is something physical, which should be picked up by a camera with sufficient color resolution. If it can't be picked up by something mechanical like a camera, then it sounds like it is purely energy-based, in which case the lighting, etc shouldn't matter.
ARGH!
Does anybody have any information on this, or know of someplace that gives a clear, concise explanation of it?
Thank you!
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The way it seems to me, the influence of one strong colour on other colours happens in the brain. So if that energy manifests as Colour than it makes sense that it will be influenced by strong colours around it. But since you can't photograph the energy, the Colour will still not show up in pictures.
Does the brighter/dimmer manifestation that you see energy in in an martial arts context get influenced by the light levels around?
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Thanks for the input!
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If that is the case, then you WOULD experience color bleed from outside sources, while still being unable to mechanically/chemically record it.
The other issue you MAY be having is a matter of conflicting training/perception. Since you have the previous training/experience from the Martial Arts, you are used to a certain perception mode that has in the past been more than sufficient to your needs. But now, you need a different perspective/mode of perception, and your senses are defaulting to the Martial Arts mode, rather than the Acupuncture sense, if that isn't to confusing?