Subtle Bodies

Almost everyone recognises that human beings are not just physical bodies, but many traditions and therapies have a complex theory of subtle bodies to explain this additional ‘something’. There is some disagreement about how many subtle bodies there are and what they...

Energy

Many kinesiologists talk about ‘energy’. Sometimes they mean the usual definition of this – action, force, vigour, but more commonly it is short for subtle energy. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines subtle as: ‘tenuous or rarefied…. evasive, mysterious, hard...

Commensal

A long term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species are neither benefited nor harmed.  This is in contrast with mutualism, in which both organisms benefit from each other, amensalism, where...

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Cun – Distances in TCM

“Cun” is the relative unit of measure of distances in the human body used in Chinese Medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM). Like the “inch”, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb (2,54 cm), 1 Cun is the width...