The 5 states of Chi

2nd March 2005

A Quick Note to Granny:

Dear Granny,

Hear is another letter to you, one of many I have saved on my computer. Hope everything is going well over the ditch, and life is treating you kindly.

I’ve been doing some walking, as I told you about earlier, and have been having some meditations on the metaphysical again.

This Asian influence has been coming through, and before it fades away I’m going to have to write down this interesting thinking. It all begins with the Life Energy, which he called Chi.

He spoke of five states of Chi, now to explain this I’ll follow the same thought process I was going through that day. I was thinking about energy, and how every other part of my life has slowly straightened out, and seems to be getting along fine, but I’m still struggling with the physical (being overweight), right? With me so far?

Well this little man comes along, and pacing me as I’m walking, starts to talk about balance and imbalance, and this is where the five states of Chi come into things. He spoke of the five spheres of influence in our earthly lives. That there was the Spiritual sphere, Emotional Sphere, Mental Sphere, Physical Sphere, and in the centre of those four over-lapping spheres in the central sphere which is our Karmic Sphere – which is the Self.

He then spoke and said that all the spheres were so intertwined that one imbalanced sphere would affect all other spheres. In my case, I’ve overcome a huge emotional imbalance (i.e. depression, grief, etc), and this has caused mental, and physical imbalance. It was through the spiritual sphere that the imbalance begins to be altered back to it’s normal state.