![]() Step 4: Repeating Habit – neural pathways form and the cycle continues as the power of the unconscious brain keeps you going back for more (constant reward) Step 3: Reward – the feeling satiety / pleasure (in the example above perhaps it’s the ability to switch off from the stresses of work – a funny video about cats helps us forget the challenges of the day but what we have created is the unconscious habit of multi-tasking as we eat) Step 2: Behaviour – is formed either consciously or unconsciously Step 1: Trigger – turns off the control mechanism and opens up to auto response Habits are created when we find ourselves triggered, we develop the behaviour and then there is a feeling of association with that behaviour that may satisfy what triggered the behaviour and of course we start to repeat the process. Kidney deficiency can be one of the Yin aspect or the Yang aspects and will present in different ways. The kidney energy is never in excess and is only recognised as ever being deficient. Weak, brittle bones are also considered symptoms of imbalance of the kidney meridian. The Kidneys are represented in our lower back, with pain and weakness in the lumbar area often a sign of kidney energy imbalance. For now we recognise the Urinary Bladder channel as being the protector of the Kidney Meridian – a place of fear and our will power. The Urinary Bladder channel runs more along the back of our body and in another article we will explain this Yang meridian in more detail. Looking at the kidney meridian we see that it moves from the middle of our body (in the legs) to the front of our body and so it becomes the more yin aspect of the Water Element. Hence we describe the Water elements as being at our back. When we are fearful of something we will often ‘turn our back’ on that stimuli. If we are prone to ‘run’ from what we perceive as danger, if we move away from stimuli we are being governed by the Kidney and Urinary Bladder Meridians. The Water Element defines how we respond to external stimuli and seen as the way we interact with the environment. We are an expression of our energy and if any area of our being is imbalance we see that expressed through emotion, our mind, and our physical being. ![]() Therefore Meridians are the expression of ourselves and can explain our innate characteristics. How the life form moves, nourishes itself, protects itself and how it identifies and defines itself represents the characteristics that describes the physical function of the life. Zen Shiatsu uses the theory that meridians exist in all life forms and that the quality of the meridians are expressed in how that life form functions. The table below gives you a brief snapshot at the qualities of the Kidney Meridian: The Kidney meridian begins at the base of the foot, runs up inside of the leg to the knee, then runs internally and comes out just below the navel and runs up to the collar bone.
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