Healing the Spleen (Worry)

Sounds, feelings, and colors

OrganNegative
Feeling
ColorPositive FeelingSoundAs in
SpleenWorry YellowOpennessOSo

The final organ in this system is the spleen, which is again underneath your ribcage, on the left side, pretty far to the left. The standing position has your arms extended to the side at about 60 degrees, so that you head and your fingertips make an equilateral triangle. The sound for the spleen is Oooooohhh..., and the negative emotion that we're going to wash out of the spleen with that sound is worry or anxiety, the big modern-day emotion! Breathing in ...

Ooooooooohhhhh...

On the next repetition, filling the spleen with bright yellow light. Breathing in ...

Ooooooooohhhhh...

And on the last repetition, filling the spleen with the positive emotion of openness. This is a feeling that you can just walk around the world, look everybody in the eye: you have nothing to be ashamed of and you don't care if the whole world knows all your secrets, all the details of your life, so you can be totally carefree and relaxed. Bringing that energy, that emotion, into the spleen. Breathing in ...

Ooooooooohhhhh...

This concludes Exercise 3, the Qigong Healing Sounds.