Do Shiatsu Meridians Actually Exist?

Do meridian actually exist?

Meridians are something that people hear first when they talk about shiatsu massage. Meridian is the most related topic to shiatsu massage. At least meridians are something that all the people talk about but very few actually understand what these are. You may generally know that these are funnels inside a human body through which the energy "chi" is flowing and you might also heard that there are twelve main meridians. And this is all right. But did someone see the proof that energy meridians actually exist?

Understand meridians from the heart

Personally I have seen many pictures of the human body where the meridians were drawn. This is a good way to find out about the meridians location and to practice shiatsu massage on the patient's body while you remember the meridians from the picture. Is this something common to you?

If somebody has graduated a shiatsu school like Japan Shiatsu School whose founder is Tokujiro Namikoshi or Iokai Center in Tokyo whose founder is Shizuto Masunaga, that doesn't necessarily mean that they see the meridians differently from random people. Shiatsu master Ryokyu Endo who is one of Shizuto Masunaga's students says that only after years of practice he started to understand what meridians and tsubo are.

Who can see the meridians?

Theoretically everybody may see the meridians but in practice doesn't really happen like that. The masters of shiatsu say that the practitioner should feel with his heart. And by saying heart they don't mean the physical heart, but they mean the mind and spirit. In order to see the chi stream of meridians in a human body, the practitioner must move toward a deep subconscious shift in understanding for many years. The chi world is directly connected to the subconscious realm.

Meridians really exist

Shiatsu massage is really getting very popular. Many students graduating the Japanese schools of shiatsu returned back to the west and spread the teaching of shiatsu massage very fast. Remember that shiatsu massage is not just a type of massage which involves some kind of physical techniques that affects directly the health of the patient. Zen shiatsu is the way to a better understanding of chi and meridians. Many years of practicing turns a shiatsu therapist into a true master.

That happens when the subconscious shift happens in the heart of a shiatsu therapist. Shiatsu masters can say that meridians really exist because they see them. We can't argue the existence of meridians because it is an all known fact. That is why people talk so much about shiatsu meridians. The other thing is that few people understand what meridians are and how to deal with them. A shiatsu master knows exactly which meridians blocks the energy flow and works out the necessary tsubo to restore the full functionality of the meridian.