KI-26 Yuzhong - Amidst Elegance

This point is about the person's internal strength and power, the Heart Yin and the oil and flame at the center of a territory that has no boundaries. It is to find our Heart as that candle flame at the center of the universe, and to hear the still, small voice of the Divine. We can feel their divinity, their flame, their love. It lifts the spirit, living life fully, close to the Heart, with an emphasis on beauty and light. It moves a person from the drabness of everyday life into liveliness, like tidying up one's life in a long, luxurious bath, and helps them reach the simple beauty of nature within themselves.

Draws us inward to our sanctuary of extraordinary opulence. Whatever trials, challenges or circumstantial disappointments we meet, this inner realm is always ours, a place where Heaven and Earth mingle and we are invited to enjoy the very best.

Location: On the chest in the 1st intercostal space, 2 ACI from the midline, level with REN-20.
Needle depth: 3 fen
Moxa: 5 cones

• For quality: someone who does not have much sense of their own beauty, of self-respect or of respect for others
• When life has gone blank and they are just going through the motions
• When people get dirty, miserable and fed up when very sick, losing perspective and sunk in doom and gloom; it gives back their self-respect and gives a lift and basic comfort
• For self-esteem: finding the beauty within
• When a person has more capability to recognize themselves, already sitting with a good foundation and able to appreciate the wonder of something
• For depression, sadness and grief
• When the spirit is weary and discouraged, halfway through and wondering how to get through
• For quick, bad tempers, biting sarcasm and unrestrained criticism; it helps the patient become kinder and gentler
• When the person can't see the richness; it reminds them of the glory and richness all around and within them
• As the spirit is slowly being resurrected and the patient starts to improve; this point gives them a purpose

• Timing matters: used too early, it leaves the person unable to see elegance
• Think about elegance: see it in them when you want to use it
• A generally underused point
• Concerns grace, beauty and quality; it usually follows the other Kidney chest points
• It lies where the Heart Fire flourishes, at the center of the chest, the seat of the emotions; it is called Lively because it helps the Qi of the chest flow smoothly and so lifts the spirits