UB-44 Shentang - Spirit Hall

Spirit Hall is the hall of the spirit, the residence of the Emperor. It is where the very essence lies, the center and throne room, a vast meeting place or grand palace where one goes to meet God. Soul Door opened a door; this point opens the king's hall, and the spirit's, so the spirit can flow out. It also settles, nourishing the Heart and giving the spirit a quiet, contained place to live, a home where the spirit can live in peace, security and warmth; once our spirit is at home, anywhere can feel like home. The hall holds everything the inner Emperor needs to be sustained and enlightened, and it offers both a homecoming and room to move. Across from the Associated Effect Point (AEP) of the Heart, it goes back to a beginning: the time when the Emperor came out of the palace to guide the people with love. It encourages the Emperor to come out and be with the people. It opens onto the pathway of the spirit and moves it along, from one room to the next and freely from place to place: once the spirit has been resurrected it needs somewhere to go.

Location: On the back, 4 ACI from the midline, level with the dip between the T5 and T6 spinous processes.
Needle depth: 3 fen
Moxa: 5 cones

• When the Heart is under strain from shock, emotional crisis, heartbreak or bereavement
• When self-pity fills the Supreme Controller so that it cannot take charge, has lost its way or has grown weak, and people feel resigned and don't know what to do
• When will is lacking or there is no wish to live
• When there is agitation and nobody is in charge, the patient feels out of control and all the Officials are screaming
• When the spirit is restless and cannot find its way home: "Which way do I turn? What should I do?"
• When the spirit is confined within a person and they are not able to communicate with people
• For insomnia that resists easing
• For depression and agitation the patient cannot remember ever being free of
• For restoring a person after a long time away from home, prolonged stress or a demanding stretch of exertion
• When someone has been confined or housebound too long and needs room to stretch, expand and move, inwardly and outwardly
• When the spirit is present inside but cannot show itself properly in how the person lives
• For issues that have to do with the Heart: you are taking the person down the hall to be with their spirit, which is the time and the art of really being with the patient and truly hearing them
• When the spirit has got into the building but can't find the right room
• When the spirit has been revived but now needs to travel and find its path

• UB-42 Soul Door with UB-44: when the Heart and Lung pulses remain low and feel empty

• Outer Bladder line point with a special relationship to a Fire Causative Factor (CF)
• Use this point only on a Fire CF, except when the Heart has taken a hit or there is a major crisis
• Even when a person is not depleted, a visit to the Spirit Hall can give a sense of richness much like REN-8
• A spiritual resurrection point
• Numbered Bladder 39 in the older outer-line numbering used by some texts (site/WHO UB-44)
• The article puts all outer Bladder line points among those usable on any CF, which is broader than the existing note limiting this point to a Fire CF