Roberto Poli
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Neck Pain and Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Stimulating the right point on the wrong person doesn’t cure anyone.
And the result? You’ll hear people say, “I also tried that technique, but it didn’t work.”
It’s like saying, “I went to the mechanic, he changed a tire, but when I started the car, it wouldn’t start, so the mechanic didn’t do his job properly.”
When someone tells me, “I have neck pain,” the first thing I do isn’t look for the point to stimulate.
The first thing I do is observe the person because, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, neck pain isn’t a diagnosis, but a symptom.
And a symptom can have completely different origins depending on the person experiencing it.
Is it someone who is tense, rigid, has difficulty understanding their own decisions, and tends toward control and excessive responsibility?
This is likely due to an excess or stagnation of the Wood element (Liver and Gallbladder meridians), which governs the cervical spine, tendons, and flexibility.
Who suffers from a cold neck, morning stiffness, chronic fatigue, or associated lower back pain? This points to a scenario related to the Water element (Kidney meridian), which isn’t adequately nourishing the spinal cord and spine, and to Cold blocking circulation in the Taiyang meridians.
Who experiences stress-related tension, irritable bowel syndrome, digestive problems, or recurring thoughts?
The Fire Element also comes into play, specifically the Triple Burner Meridian, where the autonomic nervous system is involved and the cervical spine becomes an indicator of its function, not just a muscular problem.
Then there’s the structural dimension: applied kinesiology teaches us that a muscle that gives way under stress, isn’t necessarily the one that needs strengthening. Instead, we must look for the underlying chain, the origin, the reason why the neuromuscular system has become disorganized at a structural, metabolic, or psychological level.
A little-known fact is the visual dimension: fatigue in the left eye causes hypertonia in the right sternocleidomastoid muscle, and vice versa.
This means that staring at a phone screen for a long time is not only a postural problem, but also, and often, a vision problem. The oculocervical chain is real, measurable, and assessable through kinesiology.
Before talking about “bad posture,” we should ask ourselves: how much strain do you put on your eyes? Is there a shift in visual dominance or an asymmetry in gaze management?
The phone is just the pretext, but the real question is: what happens to the nervous system, when the eyes work in an unbalanced way for hours?
And then there’s a dimension that biomedicine is still struggling to define: the space-time rupture.
We live in a time that doesn’t belong to us: accelerated, fragmented, full of notifications and expectations. We live in spaces that don’t feel inhabited: anonymous offices, cities that aren’t ours, relationships in which we play a role.
The body doesn’t lie: in fact, the cervical spine is that border zone between thought and action, between head and heart, and it becomes the place where this dissonance settles.
It’s not a metaphor, it’s physiology: the autonomic nervous system, through the vagus nerve and its branches, continuously registers whether we are safe, in the right place, at the right time.
When the answer is no, survival strategies are activated: chronic muscle tension, hypervigilance, reduced mobility. Neck stiffness can be the body’s way of saying: “I can’t turn toward this world.”
Traditional Chinese Medicine, had already intuited all of this in the points of the “Windows to the Sky”: this area of the neck is not just anatomy, but the transition between who we are and what we show, between our deepest nature and the social mask we wear daily.
When we don’t feel comfortable in the right life, the right job, the right relationship, the body tries to adapt, but adaptation comes at a cost, and that cost is often called neck pain.
The points of the “Windows to the Sky”—Tianchuang, Tianrong, Tianyou, Fengfu, and others, are not simply “cervical points,” but points that regulate the flow of information between the body and the head, between the lower and upper parts of the body, between what we experience and what we perceive.
Using them without a differential diagnosis, is like opening a valve without knowing what’s inside.
Traditional Chinese Medicine doesn’t have a protocol for “cervical pain”: it has a method for understanding that person, at that moment, with their medical history. The Eight Diagnostic Principles: Internal/External, Hot/Cold, Deficiency/Fullness, Yin/Yang, are the guide and without them, one works blindly, regardless of the technique used.
Hitting the right point on the wrong person doesn’t cure anyone.
Juan Pablo Moltó
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The Source of the Green Soul:
C 2 — Qing Ling (青靈).
On the Heart meridian, where the arm holds memories we can’t always name, appears point number 2, called Qing Ling, the Source of the Green Soul. It is the point where the Heart meets spring, where repressed emotions try to bloom, like a bud that has remained silent for too long.
When blood stagnates and Qi (vital energy) ceases to flow, not only does physical pain appear, but also that internal knot that constricts the chest and restricts the flow of life. Qing Ling acts as a delicate yet profound opening, releasing what has remained trapped: unexpressed sadness, unreleased tension, repressed life force.
From a Kabbalistic perspective, this point represents a bridge between Tiferet (the heart) and the expansive energy reminiscent of Netzach, the life force that moves forward and blossoms. The color green is not just a symbol: it is the vibration of renewal, of the soul moving again after having been blocked.
Here, the Shefa finds a channel to flow once more, dissolving the emotional rigidities that prevent us, from loving and feeling freely. Working with Qing Ling allows the heart to breathe again, the soul to regain its vitality, and life, like spring, to burst forth from within. #Kabbalah #Acupuncture #Kabbalistic
The Body’s Spine:
GV 12 — Shen Zhu
On the Du Mai (GV) Meridian, at the deep axis where the body stands upright and the soul strives to remain upright, lies Shen Zhu, the invisible column that supports not only the physical structure, but also the dignity of the spirit. This point is not merely an anatomical location, beneath the spinous process of the third thoracic vertebra (T3). It is a reminder, that our existence involves maintaining a tension between heaven and earth, between what we are and what we have not yet integrated. When heat rises to the chest and disturbs the lungs and heart, it is not only the Qi (vital energy) that is agitated: it is the Shen (spirit) that loses its center, it is consciousness that begins to burn aimlessly. Then, agitation, restlessness, and ultimately, aggression appear as a desperate cry from a structure unable to sustain itself.
From a Kabbalistic perspective, Shen Zhu resonates deeply with Gevurah, the sphere of judgment, of boundaries, of the fire that separates and defines.
But when Gevurah overflows, when the boundary ceases to be containment and becomes rigid, anger, fury, and aggression appear as expressions of unintegrated energy.
At the same time, this point interacts with Netzach, the emotion in motion, the impulse to express oneself, the desire to assert oneself in life. When Netzach becomes unbalanced, the emotional impulse loses its harmony and becomes reaction, discharge, violence. Therefore, aggression is not a mistake: it is the result of a merciless Gevurah and a Netzach without awareness. Working with Shen Zhu is, in reality, a profoundly spiritual act: it means helping the human being, rediscover their strength without breaking, containing the fire without extinguishing it, transforming aggression into direction, into a conscious boundary, into a force that protects rather than destroys. It means restoring the spine, both physical and energetic, to its original function: to be the axis where the sky descends, without burning and where earth ascends without overflowing. Because only when the internal structure is restored, does Shen cease to struggle… and finally begin to inhabit its own body. #acupuncture #kabbalah #kabbalisticacupuncture