Part 3 : PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICAL CARE CENTER
A High-Quality Mind-Body Care System
You have discovered the great BOAO YILING LIFE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Chinese medicine center, directly attached to its upscale Hotel-Resort. Now, let’s explore the multiple possibilities of the PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICAL ARE CENTER, where our psychosomatic medicine is interpreted by the concepts of Chinese medicine. In China, there is no separation between body and mind! But in this extremely beautiful center, it is Chinese culture that will replace traditional treatments. For example, depression is treated there with calligraphy classes and tea ceremonies!
From the outset, let us understand the great originality of the initiative of the Yi Ling company, behind this whole medical and hotel complex.
Yong Zhou Wang, Chinese researcher living in France, explains: “The notion of psychosomatics does not exist in TCM. Indeed, with these Chinese doctors, we treat the whole of a person made up of the whole body and mind. This medicine often links a “psychosomatic” disease to depression, stress (generated by triggering situations and / or trauma), organ ailments and dermatosis and skin problems (…) Western medicine is focuses on functional and / or organic dysfunctions and pays little attention to the relationship between body and mind. Psychosomatics is an approach that takes into account the interrelationships between the psyche and the soma. Distinct from traditional or organic medicine and psychoanalysis, the scope of which it broadens, psychosomatics is gradually becoming a discipline in itself “(Yong Zhou Wang, Psychology and Behaviors, 2014)
So in Europe, there is a big gap between “physiological” medicine and approaches of the mind like psychoanalysis. We are looking for trauma, symbolic wounds, etc.
MUS… Medical Unexplained Symptom
At the PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICAL ARE CENTER, so called in the context of medical tourism, they don’t « dig » into childhood wounds or psychology.
We are directly trying to re-harmonize the energetic relationships between body and mind.
For which “psychosomatic” problems?
Depression, stress, burn-out, obsessive and compulsive disorders; menopause-related problems; chronic fatigue, but therefore also, indirectly, all the “physiological” diseases that result from it: cancer, back pain, obesity, stomach ulcers, functional colopathy, psoriasis, eczema, asthma, erectile dysfunction, etc.
This center also treats the famous MUS or… Medical Unexplained Symptom, which has less secrets for TCM than for our medicine, whose analytical approach is not sufficient for our many “diseases of civilization”.
To tackle the emotions and psychic patterns at the root of these diseases, the Chinese work in the present, pragmatically, by “putting the body” into practice in millennial practices borrowed from Meaning.
CALLIGRAPHY
It is first of all, this ancestral art that we approached, my team and I: Chinese calligraphy. True “Tracing of the spirit”, whose beauty of the characters blooms like “flowers of the spirit”, when they are successful (!), This art of the writing cannot be imagined without a deep calm. body and mind. At the same time, it allows that calm in you. Peace and harmony are the conditions for a good practice and, at the same time, its direct results!
It is therefore necessary to put oneself in condition. Make a little effort on yourself, to get started. But all the beauty of the setting of this huge wooden room decorated in a traditional Chinese hovel will help you achieve that minimum of calm and slip under the writing table.
A master, recognized throughout southern China, explains how to use the brush; how to soak it cleanly in ink; then, apply this again, varying the intensity on the beautiful rice paper. But a dotted frame helps me to draw following an example character. A higher joy overwhelms me at what success!
The idea is to get to such a point of concentration that body and mind become one. Your wrist plays with the void and in an increasingly controlled manner, your mind guides the brush in a determined and precise way.
My body relaxes, purifies itself of its negative emotions. It’s not abstract. Clear and harmonious emotions create this feeling of fusion of body and mind!
A doctor from the TCM Center comments on my experience. “You have too much stress and organizational problems in Europe. You have to learn to focus on each task with perseverance. This stress has not yet affected your organs, but be careful … “
TEA CEREMONY
If you have not yet experienced relaxation through a massage, I recommend that you start with a tea ceremony before practicing calligraphy. It will be a “decompression airlock”.
But hopefully, this is not the endless and ultra-coded Japanese tea ceremony. Certainly, Mr. Li, the director of Yi Ling, is a Buddhist. His time prayed but also public, adjoins the tea room. But the Chinese ceremony is simpler, even if each gesture is weighted, calculated, to provide you with the ultimate infusion of a tea of your choice. Mr. Li has his own selection of teas thanks to his own brand!
A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH
The purification of the emotions, the harmony of our psychomotor system, are also acquired through meditation, music performed with real traditional Chinese instruments, dietetic cooking lessons, aromatherapy, dance, the study of classics. Chinese literature, etc.
In short, “a series of psychosomatic medical healing methods, which perfectly integrate traditional psychosomatic medicine with modern psychology”, as Mr. Li says.
And it all takes place in an atmosphere of calm joy in the delights of appreciation and aesthetic execution.
An ART of disciplining the negative energies and the disordered emotions which assail us too often in our modern world and cause the most complex diseases to treat in general.
