The yin emotions of stomach/parathyroid are shame and humiliation. These are tempered by the yang of self-confidence and self-worth. The label of the acupuncture chart is disgust. This English word, translated from Chinese, does not fully and adequately demonstrate the depth of the personal aspect of this month’s emotions. And it does not recognize the temperance of yin/yang which, in good health, balances this month.
The Old Testament and most of the New Testament scribes had anything linked with the Yin (in their minds, this meant feminine, even though there is Yin in all things) deleted from the record or changed, wherever possible to eliminate any association with women. In the minds of the Judaizers, who were not the first altering scribes of the original religion, and who rewrote the holy books in 600 A.D. as Leaders of the Jews at Jerusalem, women should be banned from participation in all parts of religion.
These scribes were eventually largely influential in rewriting the books of the Old and New Testament which we now have and eliminating scores of other books. No book we have as Pseudepigraphal or Apocryphal literature was safe, nor are they clean because of the agendas which were written into the later editions which archaeologists have found.
I point this out, because shame and humiliation are seen in these books of scripture, as indications of sin, rather than tools of introspection. Christianity also labels much of what is involved in self-worth and self-confidence (ego) as sinful. On top of this perspective, contemporary psychology and motivational speakers, as well as many others, see the main goal of life as being the creation of self-worth and self-confidence in every individual, with little regard for self-introspection and personal morality (guilt and shame).
If instead, when each of these aspects, Self-Worth/(Guilt & Shame)and Self-Confidence/Self-Introspection is seen as balanced dimensions of our own self-definition, we can come to the here and now of our reality and love ourselves in that reality. True self-love is to have hope. Hope is to know through the testifying of the spirit of promise that we have salvation within our grasp, if we will accept it, because our actions are acceptable. Through Self-Introspection we know instinctively what is correct action. We all have the gift of guilt and shame which manifest to us what course of action will lead to hope. (See reference below)
When we have hope, we will neither accept humiliation nor give it. If our Stomach/Parathyroid is not healthy, then we will accept humiliation and give it unintentionally. No matter how much hope we may have learned to hold on to, we will not feel it. By using EFT, we can address this issue and allow ourselves the freedom of a healthy stomach/parathyroid which will then allow us to feel and express Hope to others.
(Reference: Psychologist Anthony Scioli (2006) has developed an integrative theory of hope that consists of four elements: attachment, mastery, survival, and spirituality. This approach incorporates contributions from psychology, anthropology, philosophy and theology as well as classical and contemporary literature and the arts.)
