{"id":595,"date":"2016-10-24T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/?p=595"},"modified":"2016-10-24T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:34:17","slug":"rising-above-lifes-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Rising Above Life’s Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toulinqi<\/em> – Head Above Tears – Gall Bladder 15<\/h3>\n

\"above-tears\"<\/a>Soon this long, cold, wet spring will transition to summer. Time for one last Wood point before we move on to the Fire Element.<\/p>\n

Toulinqi<\/em> is a point that is regarded quite differently in the Five Element tradition when compared to the TCM tradition. TCM practitioners regard this as a minor point and little used. When it is utilised, it is for headache, nasal congestion, eye pain, tearing or lack of tearing. It helps to dispel wind that has invaded the body.<\/p>\n

In the Five Element tradition it is more often used to address mental and emotional conditions. Recently I used this point on a client who was feeling confused and lacked mental clarity. As I held the two points, which lie just inside the hairline above the eyes, I had the sense that the client\u2019s eyes were rising up her forehead to meet my fingers. This strange notion was validated when I read that Toulinqi<\/em>\u00a0 helps a person to get a better sense of perspective, to see further and more widely in the context of her life. If your eyes were to rise up into your hairline, you\u2019d certainly be able to see further!<\/p>\n

Head Above Tears is one translation of Toulinqi<\/em>. Others include Head Overlooking Tears, Head Governor of Tears, Head Before Crying, and Treating Tears. While eyes watering from the wind is certainly one use of the point, it can also be used where a person has difficulty crying, or where frustration has become so extreme as to burst into tears. Readers may remember that last spring we looked at a point in the foot named Foot Above Tears<\/a>. This can be used to drain excess Qi from the Gall Bladder meridian and to relieve frustration and headache. Head Above Tears is its natural partner and the two can be\u00a0treated at the same time.<\/p>\n

The Gall Bladder Official\u2019s job is to make decisions and to take action in the world. Where there is strong moving back and forth between highs and lows, action and inaction, elation and despair, this point is called for. It helps a person who is tense and uptight, inflexible and only able to see a single course of action.<\/p>\n

Dizziness and visual disturbance can sometimes be the result of a difference between our inner and outer reality. When there is a disconnect between inner vision and outer vision. Toulinqi<\/em> helps to reconcile these differences.<\/p>\n

Gall Bladder 15 can give us a wider\u00a0perspective on life, allowing us to make better sense of its patterns, to rise above the tangled thickets of our inner confusion and to see the bigger picture of our place in the cosmos.<\/p>\n

Location of Gall Bladder 15<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"gb-15\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Directly above the pupil when the eye is looking forward, and 0.5 cun inside the hairline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toulinqi – Head Above Tears – Gall Bladder 15 Soon this long, cold, wet spring will transition to summer. Time for one last Wood point before we move on to the Fire Element. Toulinqi is a point that is regarded quite differently in the Five Element tradition when compared to the TCM tradition. TCM practitioners … Continue reading Rising Above Life’s Tears<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,105,171,213,70,80,169,175,172],"tags":[84,238,174,237,27,87,62],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anger","category-confusion","category-decision-making","category-eye-problems","category-flexibilty","category-headache-2","category-vision","category-wind-invasion","category-wood-element","tag-anger-2","tag-confusion","tag-decision-making","tag-gb-15","tag-headache","tag-vision","tag-wood-element"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acupressure.com.au\/wprss\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}