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Ampuku
Zen Shiatsu: Ampuku translates like
'make tummy happy' 'he he ho ho hm hm'. Try laughing in the mirror!
Kanpo - Japanese name for traditional Chinese style medicine adapted by the Japanese where 'less is more' i.e. China has larger selection of herbs.

Ampuku is a way (Do) to safely relax the abdomen and release toxic winds which can be either the cause or effect of sickness. The macro cosmic wind (called 'Lom' by the Chinese) is the vital energetic source of life which can be pure or toxic, circulating through the vital organs. If the wind is blocked by physical shock, bad eating habits and or emotional trauma the body organs react to protect the 'heart centre' from being stopped by these emotions. In the Universal Tao System, Ampuku is similar to 'Chi Nei Tsang' Translated as Body Organ Massage, Ian is an insured student having received instruction by Mantak Chia and his teachers in the U.K.
There are many essays and books from the orient on abdominal treatments.
It would take more than a lifetime to read the 5,500 year old Taoist Canon.
So don't think too long before trying a treatment.
The human body has five protecting sets of body organs one of them may become blocked, knotted, tangled or lumped up from lifestyle habits, emotions, bad diet or physical and emotional shock.
After body shock the mind rationalises and becomes clear, even forgetting the physical or emotional trauma. Body organs remember shock, they need reassuring and balancing. kidney shock for example resulting in back pain a person may think it's just a backache. If the kidney condition manifests negatively as 'fear' (the moral virtue energy being gentleness) and the fear is into the organ, the wind energy becomes trapped and toxic 'constantly swirling around'. Surrounding circulation and nerves are affected and suppressed. This toxic effect passes along the fascia, (Triple heater or San Jao meridian) which like a web connects all parts, even the cells, and other body organs causing the same reaction to happen like a reflection. Like ripples after a stone penetrates the water’s surface spreading across the lake. Circulation of nutrients are blocked the resulting in stagnation, or locking and eventually vulnerability causing other seemingly unrelated shocks join in developing into a condition and if not addressed can progress to disease or tumors. This kind of 'body organ stress' overflows and gathers into the abdomen pushing the related
body organs which in turn put pressure on the circulatory system and finally the heart.

Being open 'unblocked' is being able to receive. Ampuku works on the abdomen to release blocked wind from the abdomen, the individual body organs, restoring balanced energy i.e. restoring circulation of Ki. Too much information to read? Blocked wind is guided to escape through the 'marshes' or 'Valleys' represented by all 'the bodies holes' i.e. the nose, ears, eyes, mouth, urethra, vagina, anus, also back of the knees, front of the elbows, palm and soles. New energy is received through the 'Mountains', the pointed bones i.e. tips of the fingers, toes and nose. Elbows, knees and coccyx.
New energy 'Ki' or 'Chi' is free! Nature energy, cosmic energy made by the galaxy as the planet spins through our solar system which is cooling down.
A treatment should disperse or direct wind out through the marshes and in via the mountains, with the appropriate meridian and Tsubo (acupuncture point) applications. A treatment includes thumb, palm, elbow and finger pressure, also gentle massage methods, breathing and vocalised sounds.
Exercises and food recommendations are included for after care.
The body organs blood supply and lymphatic system are flushed and de-toxed. (Not recommended for people with Pace makers).

Mother the Earth connection: The navel being the last connection to our mother, in the Tao tradition all conditions manifest around the navel. Attention is placed on the eight directions like a compass around the navel. Followed by attention to the arterial aorta which feeds even the tiniest of cells and distal circulatory points. This is probably the root of 'Ampuku' as 'Chi Nei Tsang' - Body organ massage -
During treatments the receiver will be introduced to the internal smile, the six healing body organ sounds - which help cool and detoxify. Microcosmic orbit breathing (circular breathing). Body organs are the essence of the stellar and planetary energies. They are the connection points between
microcosm and macrocosm.
Not forgetting gravity - A good exercise please try is some laughter lighten the load try now! Well! Easy or difficult?
'Chi Nei Tsang' is a primary building block to Chinese Traditional Medicine.

People sometimes want quick results in todays rushing society. It is counter productive to overdo detoxification in one session. The body may not be able to cope and a healing crisis could arise. A receiver or student can practise exercise or pass them on between sessions.

Some Chinese Traditional Medicine CTM terms: San Bao: three essences, 'Chi' found in everything, 'Shen' the soul or spirit and 'jing' basic energy which we inherit. Jing cools and feeds us and should be recycled for a healthy life. As with the Qui gong and martial arts practises.

Advice if you are interested in studying Ampuku and or Chi Nei Tsang begin trying an exercise one can meditate within. Just to make things simple there are different approaches to Ampuku/Chi Nei Tsang. Before China existed as a unified country, there were the Shaman (nomadic nature worshipers of the five seasons) who met with the Taoists (Cave dwellers understanding of light and dark) this fusion is the beginning of understanding this form. This with early Japanese medicine - belief in Kami, (spirits of nature) bathing in the many mineral springs a minimal herbal selection and later Zen Buddhist philosophy. This makes a natural difference between the Japanese and Chinese approach to this universal healing energy.
We are fortunate to receive a simple way of understanding and Shiatsu.

I hope this is enough explanation to help interested people to the important simple messages that effect our health and societies well being. The 'Natural balance' and 'life quality' of us humans who could be seen as David Attenborough so aptly put it as 'the short sighted, greedy and selfish human race'. I hope we can be the people who saved and preserve the planet and it's diversity to nourish for future generations minds, inspirational creative energy that gives us all a quality balanced life.
'common to all' No rules - just common sense.
Think clean pure water free for everyone!
Respect.