Video of Andrew talking about CNT and its effects on Spanish TV.

Chi Nei Tsang (CNT)  is one of the most profound therapeutic massage forms found in classical Chinese and Taoist Medicine. It’s truly a holistic approach to healing. The final goal is to allow people to set themselves free physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

Chi refers to energy, Nei Tsang refers to the internal organs. So Chi Nei Tsang is applying energy to the internal organs so that they can function and work more efficiently. CNT practitioners are trained in Qi Gong and work with a deep, soft and gentle touch.

CNT uses all the wisdom and skills cultivated in Taoist disciplines such as Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Taoist meditations. As such it is a complete system of physical, mental, and spiritual development that emphasizes teaching students to work on themselves and for the practitioner to raise his or her Spirit and Chi to recycle negative energies from treatments and increase their capacity to carry healing power.

CNT is an integral part of the Universal Tao System created by Taoist Chi Kung master and author Mantak Chia. Andrew is a senior instructor in the system and has been with Master Chia for over 25 years now.

Andrew & Master Mantak Chia in upsate New York

Most of the massage in CNT is done on the abdominal area. The navel is a particularly important place. At conception the first cell of the body is formed at the umbilicus, and every part of the body evolves in a spiral around this first cell. The navel is connected directly to every other part of the body, and by working on the navel we can affect the whole body.

I have lost count of the number of people who have come for treatment carrying chronic pain somewhere in their body that has become so ingrained as part of their life experience they even forget to mention it before treatment. These people often get relief with CNT.

Take this recent letter from a student of mine. it’s very typical of this principle that working on the abdomen and navel will affect the rest of the body.

"Before you treated me for the 1st time the other day, my neck and back were hurting a lot. After the treatment, I was so relaxed that the tension was completely gone and stayed gone for about 24 hours until sadly the various stresses that I face started to get to me again.  But I must say, although there are still bad days where the back and neck are concerned, at least I haven't been in that extreme spasm as before the treatment. So I am definitely intrigued by how tummy massage can help back/neck problems"

To do this very often the internal organs have to detoxify on the physical level and release on the emotional level.

It's very common that in the same way that some food can sometimes be difficult to digest, many things we feel are also difficult to digest so much so that we just ignore it and hope it will go away, but things we ignore will be relegated to the unconscious waiting for an opportunity to be brought into awareness. Chi Nei Tsang practitioners assist the students they work on to get more in touch with themselves not just the parts we like but parts of ourselves that are difficult to digest and integrate.

CNT helps students and practitioners to deal better with their emotional lives:
All of our non processed emotional life is stored in our digestive system waiting to be addressed.

So many of us carry around undigested emotions. The reason most emotions are undigested is that we never received or gave ourselves validation for what we felt. CNT helps students to.......

1. Get in touch with their emotions and feel them in a non judgmental way.
2. Have the emotions validated. In most cases just allowing the feeling and then having someone listen, understand and then validate the experience for us s enough to allow the emotional charge to be dissipated, here is an example

I recently treated a man who had fallen in love with a woman and wanted to marry but because he came from an ethnic culture that was very strict about who was allowed to marry into that particular ethnic group. Both parents strongly objected him to marrying. This caused him considerable emotional pain. In the end he did not marry. It came up in the treatment that he was carrying a lot of undigested emotions in regard to his feeling towards his parents.

Although he had dealt with the loss of the woman he never really dealt with the sense of betrayal he felt towards his parents. Here was a man who so loved this woman and wanted so much for his parents to approve his choice. As a child we expect on a very deep level unconditional love from our parents.

During the treatment these feelings started to surface and when I pointed out that he must have been very hurt by this and I understood how bad he felt and how difficult it must have been to somehow communicate this to his parents. Once someone validated his experience it was much easier to release the sadness and feelings of betrayal he had towards his parents. Click >> Part 2

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