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 "Conception Vessel (REN) 4".- Warren Bellows Artist and Co-author, Floral Acupuncture. Rock Rose is the flower essence used for overcoming terror and fear, a fear that has kept your energy locked in. The Rock Rose is meant to open up that doorway to the old fear and give you the courage enter into a whole new level of experience and energy. It is a flower essence that opens up the acupuncture point Ren 4 (First Gate) (see page 92 of Floralacupuncture.) The Chinese characters are artistically rendered and suggested. "This point actually has 24 names. One is 'First Gate' or also 'Mingmen' (Gate of Life) and the other is 'DanTian' (which means the 'Field of Cinnabar') i.e. where the alchemical transformation of Yin and Yang takes place. Cinnabar was a substance to produce the alchemical Mercury and is also the code name for the essence of woman and related to the Green Dragon, Water, the Ova and Yin."* I rendered these two names in Chinese characters on the left side of the painting and are meant to be only a suggestion of the characters. The acu-points that lie on the body above where one applies the Rock Rose flower essence are simply suggested artistically as "maybe Chinese characters?", "maybe animals or plants?", "maybe a river leading to the sea?" and I was more interested in their movement upwards which is the direction that the energy follows when one energetically opens up this gate. I also played with the name (Sea of Chi) which is near the top and leads ultimately to Ren 8 (Spirit Deficiency). I wanted this image to be of a free and released spirit. - Warren Bellows 2006 * "Energetic Physiology in the Acupuncture Point Names", Dennis Willmont, 2001
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