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Language of the hand

Before a code is named, the hand meets a quality. These words organise that listening. They do not label a disease.

  • 7words
  • kyoless tone
  • jitsumore tone

Study material. It does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace your school or a health professional.

The vocabulary

Zen shiatsu

Kyo

Relatively less tone. The hand sinks easily; the tissue asks for contact and does not push back. Study it paired with jitsu, never alone.

Zen shiatsu

Jitsu

Relatively more tone. The hand meets resistance, a local fullness. It does not mean better or worse: it is the other side of kyo.

Table

Kori

Stiffness, a knot the hand finds less elastic than the tissue beside it. A Japanese palpation word, not a diagnosis.

TCM

Empty

Xu. In texts, a quality of less. In the hand, little rebound and little presence. Compare it with fullness in the same place, not with an abstract norm.

TCM

Fullness

Shi. More response to contact. It may feel tight, warm, or simply occupied. It remains study language.

Skin

Temperature

Cooler or warmer than the neighbouring zone. Note it as a difference, not as fever or a conclusion.

Pressure

Resistance

How the tissue answers when the hand enters: it yields, holds, or pushes. Elasticity is whether it returns when you release.

How to practise it

  1. 1
    One zone

    Choose hara, shoulder or calf. Do not tour the whole body.

  2. 2
    Two words

    Only kyo and jitsu, or only temperature. Note the difference from the zone beside it.

  3. 3
    Then the code

    When the quality is clear, open the sheet of the tsubo that falls in that place.

    Then the code