Expression of affection stiffled ?? Full Heart Luo ??

[Frederic Leclair]

I have a patient that tends to tease excessively as mark of his affection.
I have read Lonny Jarret calling this Heart Qi stagnation in his Aggressive Energies chapter.

Also, the same patient will tend to feel himself hardening his tongue by pushing forward and then biting it
(at around pericardium area) when he physically expresses his emotions, like: petting a cat or even when having sex.

I was wondering if my deductions make sense for others: I was thinking of this as a full Heart luo which would account for the Heart Qi stagnating expression of loving emotions and distorting them as teases. Also, the hardening of tongue would be expression of Heart Luo not free flowing emotions as it ramifies to root of tongue…

Could maybe Pericardium tightening (or Luo ??) be implicated as well ?
He doesn’t have Pericardium full or empty physical signs, but he does have an emptied Heart luo sign
(lipoma on luo trajectory on Ht-2).

[Mònica Martín]

Hi Frederic,

The Heart is about the expression of the emotions and the Pericardium is about intellectual control of the emotions. Teasing is “to intentionally annoy a person or animal by saying something that is not true or pretending to do something, often in a playful way”; also “to laugh at someone or say unkind things about them, either because you are joking or because you want to upset that person”. A tease uses intellect to protect him/herself from intimacy and true communication Heart to Heart.

Whereas the Heart is about inability to express either because of past deception, trauma or a perceived belief that whatever one says will not make a difference, within the Pericardium scenario there is an element of expressing something different to what it is actually felt. In other words, the person does express but the result of it is incoherent with what is actually felt. The Pericardium role of protecting, guarding the Heart is brought to its extreme to the point that the Shaoyin connection Heart-Kidney is broken. The way this is done is through, humour, sarcasm, making fun…which are Fire element strategies that can be used to distort real communication and intimacy.

And the Pericardium scenario includes self-harm so this would include biting one’s tongue, as a literal way to prevent real communication in circumstances where intimacy is at stake such as when having sex or relating to pets.

I hope this helps,

Monica

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