I agree that it is important to keep all of the body strong and keep energy circulating in a balanced way, for optimum health, rational thought, and intuitive capabilities. However, I have had a lot of chronic digestive problems since recovering from chronic fatigue, making it very hard for me to center and ground myself in the body's energy center, the dantien, located a few inches under the navel.
My feeling is that, in my effort to keep grounded and balance, I have been trying to focus in my dantien, but chronic stagnation has kept that area blocked from recieving/making energy. Therefore, I have centered, instead, on the nearest open and available energy center - and found myself with a near overabundance of heart energy, making me live a wild, deeply emotional, intuitive, rollercoaster life - while I have also been having to constantly transmute a steady diet of yin "poisons" (yin to stimulate digestion) into fire to maintain emotional strength, balance, and yang activity.
It has been a kind of baptism by fire (well, that phrase is macrobiotically incorrect, I actually mean "poison"), but it has worked for me, however unorthodox my diet may have appeared to others!
Therefore, you can
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Mara