The microcosmic spaces for transforming and channelling Chi Energy are in and around the following acupuncture body points.

Each cosmic pool represents physical-emotional-spiritual qualities. When it is closed the qualities are often negative.

However, they can be transformed into positive intention/energies when space is opened through concentrated work using Tao Meditations, Acupuncture-without-needle and Chinese Healing Herbs.

Baihui or Hundred Meetings (governing channel 20)

Baihui at the top of the head is the most important of the cosmic spaces. You can feel its small indentation with your fingertip (in most people the point is tender to pressure).

According to ancient acupuncture, its function is to clear the senses, calm the spirit, balance the ascending Yang, promote resuscitation. The point is used to alleviate mental disorders, headaches, blurring of vision, nasal obstruction.

As a cosmic space for spiritual energies, Baihui connects to the pineal gland and governs the upper brain in building new nerve connections for expanded consciousness. The colour is a combination of all colours and is inwardly seen as the expansion white-golden flower (resembling a lotus or a mum, sometimes with a violet hue).

When Hundred Meetings point is closed the person may experience pride, delusions, headaches, erratic mood swings and feelings of being a victim or a slave.

When open she/he feels guidance by higher forces, radiates happiness, gratitude and trust. In higher practices, the senses are sealed so that the spirit can leave through this cosmic space at will.

Yintang or Seal Hall

An extraordinary point between the eyebrows, Find it with a fingertip.

This point’s traditional function is to eliminate wind/heat and calm the spirit. It is used to alleviate a frontal headache, hypertension, dizziness, infantile convulsions, rhinitis, insomnia, loss of consciousness.

Yintang, sometimes called Third Eye, is associated with the pituitary gland. When the cosmic space is closed the person may experience a sense of indecisiveness, the mind wanders without a direction.

When this point is open she/he has a sense of purpose with a definite direction and intuitive knowing. Through Yintang we can define our spiritual nature.

Throat Front Center – Tiantu or Heavens Prominence (Conception 22)

A large depression below Adam’s apple.

Its traditional function is to facilitate and regulate Lung Chi, clear voice and cool the throat. Co 22 is used in cough, asthma, sore throat, hoarseness of voice, hiccup.

Associated with the thyroid gland, this cosmic space is a communication and dream center. When it is closed the person feels choked up, unwilling to change.

When the center is open his/her expressions flow and there is a greater lucidity of dreams.

Heart Front Center – Shangzhong or Penetrating Odor (Co 17)

It represents Pericardium, the protective sheath around the heart. You can feel a small depression at the level of the fourth intercostal space (between the nipples in males).

The traditional function of Co 17 is to regulate and suppress rebellious Chi, expand the chest for breathing, benefit the diaphragm. The point is used to alleviate asthma, bronchitis, chest pain, mastitis, intercostal neuralgia.

The heart center is associated with the thymus gland, therefore our immune system, also with Co 14 – Juque or Great Palace, which represents the heart itself. Of all the cosmic spaces, this area is important for it houses the spirit or Shen, one of the ‘Three Treasures’. (To learn more please read the Chi Guide page).

When the center is closed the person may feel being under attack, sorry for oneself, unloved and incapable of love.

An open heart is a seat of joy, respect and surrender, you are filled with unconditional love, generosity and compassion toward all living things. Passion for creative participation in helping humanity to re-build our now ravaged earth springs from the spirit of an open heart.

Solar Plexus – Zhongwan or Middle Cavity (Co 12)

About four inches above the navel.

Co 12’s traditional function is to transform and suppress rebellious Chi, regulate the stomach, strengthen the spleen/pancreas. Middle Cavity is used to alleviate epigastric pain, abdominal distention, vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, hypertension, neurasthenia, mental diseases.

Associated with spleen/pancreas (therefore over-thinking), when this cosmic space is closed there is a sense of panic and worry.

The opening of the center creates a feeling of freedom with an ability to take risks. Solar Plexus is a clearinghouse for emotional sensitivities and issues of personal power.

Naval Center – Shenque or Middle o Naval – (Co 8)

The traditional function is to warm and stabilize the Yang, strengthen the transporting function of Spleen and Stomach. The point is used (with only Moxibustion or needle-less Acupuncture!) to alleviate abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea, edema.

When the naval center is closed it can manifest in sloppy, distracting behaviour, when open it contributes to a sense of balance and centring.

Sexual Center – Zhongji or Middle Summit (Co 3)

About an inch above the pubic bone, Co 3 is the meeting point of three Yin channels of the legs (Kidney, Liver and Spleen).

Co 3’s traditional function is to assist the transforming function of Chi, regulate the uterus and alleviate damp/heat. It is used to alleviate menstrual, sexual and urinary dysfunctions, female sterility, nephritis.

When this ‘Ovary or Sperm Palace’ is closed it is hard to enjoy life; the person feels self-destructive, negative and listless.

When the cosmic space is open he/she has a sense of creative and personal power with an ability to get things done.

Perineum Center – Huiyin or Yin Meeting (Co 1)

Between the anus and the scrotum in males, between the anus and the vagina in females.

Huiyin is used in irregular menstruation, pain and swelling of the anus, sexual and urinary dysfunctions, prostatitis, a revival from drowning.

Perineum relates closely to earth energy. When this center is closed the person feels insecurity, fickleness and loneliness, and can fear change.

When Huiyin is open she/he feels grounded, solid and peaceful. peacefull, grounded,

Sacral Pump – Changqiang or Long Strength (Gov 1)

Between the anus and the tip of the coccyx.

Gov 1’s function is to regulate the Conception and Governing channels (the inner channels meet in the lower abdomen), and to improve the work of the intestines. It is used to alleviate intestinal bleeding, prolapsed rectum and hemorrhoids, pain in the lower back, epilepsy, sexual dysfunctions.

When the sacrum center is closed, the past is a prison and unconscious fears arise, there is hopelessness.

When this cosmic space is open the person can, with awareness of the generative force, blend the three treasures, Jing, Chi and Shen for the taming of the Dragon Fire (Kundalini). The past is then a resource and a foundation for expanding consciousness.

Life’s Door or Mingmen (Gov 4)

Below the second lumbar vertebra, parallel to the navel.

Opening this acupuncture center nourishes source Chi, strengthens the kidneys, benefits the lumbar spine. The point is used to alleviate sexual dysfunctions, low back pain, sciatica and nephritis.

When the Life’s Door is closed there is a feeling of imbalance and fear, particularly fear of unfavourable circumstances.

When open Mingmen balances the kidneys, yields a sense of peace, generosity, abundance and gentleness.

T 11 – Jizhong or Middle of Spine (Gov 6) – Adrenal point

Below 11th thoracic vertebra, opposite the solar plexus.

Traditionally, this acupuncture point is used to improve low back pain, hepatitis, epilepsy, paralysis of limbs.

T 11’s cosmic space corresponds to the adrenal glands. When it is closed the person can feel hyperactive – or listless, and old fears may return.

When the Adrenal space is open he/she is filled with vitality and confidence, there is an abundance of energy to serve the good intentions of the heart.

Back Heart Center – Shendao or Spirit’s Path (Gov 11)

Below 5th thoracic vertebra.

The point is used to improve memory, anxiety, palpitations, cardiac pain, pain and stiffness of the back, cough.

When closed the person may feel a sense of burden, hopelessness, melancholy and chaos.

Opening this important cosmic space gives a feeling of freedom, a deep-felt sense of life. Virtues of love, compassion, gratitude and forgiveness emerge through an open heart.

The Back Throat Center – Dazhui or Big Vertebra (Gov 14)

Below 7th cervical vertebra.

Six Yang channels meet at this point. It regulates Yang and clears the spirit. Gov 14 is used in common cold, febrile diseases, cough, asthma, neck rigidity, a stiffness of the back, epilepsy.

The person may feel inappropriateness, stubbornness, not fitting in, when this cosmic space is closed.

When Gov.14 is open he/she feels connected, embracing others in a feeling of one humanity.

Fengfu or Wind’s Dwelling (Gov 16)

A tender point below the external occipital protuberance.

Traditionally the point is used to improve mental disorders, headache, blurring of vision, neck rigidity, sore throat, epistaxis, post-apoplexy aphasia.

Gov 16 area, also called Jade Pillow and Mouth of God controls breathing.

Gov 15 Yamen or Doors of Muteness is located within this cosmic space and has a traditional function to clear the senses and consciousness.

When the center is closed there is a feeling of burden and suffocation.

Opening this cosmic space expands the breath and helps awaken intuition and inspiration – a prelude to expansion of consciousness.

The Governing channel goes from here to the deep brain, the seat of intuition and through it to Baihui.

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