Marijuana
damages your Liver System by congesting your Liver with Hot Poison, heating
the Liver up and damaging your Liver Blood.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, one of the main functions of the Liver
System is to store the Blood. Storing is a process of resting and rejuvenating
the Blood. When your Blood is Hot and Toxic from marijuana's Poisons,
it irritates your Liver System and compromises its other functions. As
a result, your Liver System gets perplexed and congested, and your Blood
burns out over time.
One of the first ways you can tell that marijuana is affecting your Liver
System is if you start feeling dizzy and having trouble walking when you're
high. When you go beyond the point of bloodshot eyes and your eyes feel
like they're buzzing or full of insects then you're in the realm of the
Liver System.
Your Liver System is also in charge of the coordination of your thinking
processes. Because of this, when marijuana begins to intrude on your Liver
System you'll find that it begins to alter your motivations for doing
things. The way you think and the ways that you can learn will change
as you use marijuana. At first, this can lead you into some very innovative
new ways of perceiving your world. But over time the information you have
retained will become disordered and useless. Learning new things will
become increasingly difficult.
As your Liver Qi becomes more frustrated and befuddled, your Liver Yin
and Blood begin to burn up, and you may experience anxiety, panic attacks,
headaches and nausea. When your Liver Blood loses its ability to nourish
your nervous system, you may begin losing your coordination. If you're
a woman, it's easy to monitor marijuana's effects on your Liver Blood
by observing your menstrual blood and how you feel around the time of
your menstruation. Typical PMS symptoms will appear as your Liver Qi begins
to congest. As your Liver Qi gets more congested you may have a rougher
pre-menstrual experience. When your Blood heats up, it will affect the
quality of your menstrual blood. As marijuana dries out your Blood, it
will dry up your menstruation at the same time.
If you're a man, the main things you'll experience as marijuana first
encroaches on your Liver Qi are a lack of motivation, coordination and
a loss of power in your muscular strength. As your Liver Yin and Blood
begin to heat up you'll get irritable.
Your Liver System is the seat of your Hun, or Spiritual Soul. When marijuana
damages your Hun, it leads to a great variety of non-physical symptoms.
A very important mechanism of how marijuana injures your Hun is seen in
MIST.
MIST
Have you noticed an increasing sense of restlessness when you get high?
Even if you’re using marijuana to relieve pain, sometimes it might
give you a weird feeling of uneasiness. Listen to your body. It’s
telling you that something’s wrong. Don’t let the illusion
of marijuana keep you from doing anything about it.
The uneasiness you’re feeling means that your Liver Qi is getting
baffled and poisoned. The feeling comes from your Liver Qi wanting to
get you out of the situation you've put yourself in. Yet marijuana’s
grip on your Kidney Qi doesn’t allow you to motivate yourself and
move beyond the danger you’re in. The strength of your uneasiness
shows you how deeply marijuana is damaging your Liver Yin. The strength
of your feeling of helplessness shows you how much the marijuana is claiming
your Kidney Qi.
The paradox between the panic and anxiety you’re feeling and it
seeming like you can’t do anything about it creates trauma in your
nervous system. Trauma reprograms your nervous system in an effort to
cope with what’s happening to you. Over time this trauma and the
changes it produces in your nervous system creates a syndrome I call MIST,
which stands for Marijuana Induced Stress Trauma.
MIST sets up a negative pattern of passivity and helplessness in your
nervous system. Neurological research concludes and confirms that our
nervous systems modify themselves according to our experiences in life.
We adapt on a physical level to have more experiences like the ones we’re
already having. This adaptation can either happen in a single, very intense
experience, or over time through many small experiences.
Marijuana doesn’t have to do physical damage to your nervous system
to leave negative traces on the way it functions. Your nervous system
can be physically perfect and malfunction at the same time if a repeated
pattern of experience becomes the way you do things. Because of MIST,
marijuana conditions you to become passive and helpless in your life experience.
The issue of MIST is a very important one. MIST is one of the main ways
that marijuana claims your Hun and your life. Once you understand how
damaging MIST is and how it works, you can begin to take back your energy,
heal and move on.
I also believe that MIST is a critical issue because it is grossly mismanaged
in the medical community. It has become politically correct in some medical
circles to pretend that they are experts on the subject of marijuana.
They’ll tell you that the feeling of uneasiness you’re having
when you get high is “normal.” They’ll say you shouldn’t
do anything about it. But your body is telling you otherwise.
Isn't it also “normal” to have an increasing sense of uneasiness
if you’re drowning? Just because it’s “normal”
doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do something about it.
These medical people will speak with you in a very matter of fact tone
as if they really know what they're talking about. They'll tell you not
to take any medicine at that time, not to take any action on behalf of
your sanity and to just try to relax, listen to soothing music and make
yourself comfortable. Their idea is to divert your attention away from
that uncomfortable feeling. But what is your body telling you? Probably
to do something like increase your activity levels, go outside, hyperventilate
and jump around until you break free from the spell you're under. Something
like that is probably what you'll need to do to break out of the long
and short-term effects of MIST.
The more you deny your feelings and what your body is telling you to do,
the deeper the traumatic split goes into your nervous system. If you do
what the medical people tell you to do, you’re training yourself
how to split apart, to deny what you know is true and instead obey an
external authority that contradicts your own experience. That’s
not a healthy direction to go.
Your body and its sensitive feedback mechanisms exist for very good reasons.
They are what will heal you and move you forward in life. Please listen
to the signals your body is giving you. Listen deeply. If you want to
break free from the grip of MIST and get back your Hun and your life,
you're going to need to learn what your body wants, how to pay attention
to it and train yourself to take immediate positive action in that direction
whenever it’s communicating with you.
