Imagine your body is a kite.
Your Kidneys represent the person holding the kite and your Heart is the kite flying in the breeze.
Your Kidneys are the source of energy, reproduction, birth, growth and development. Your heart is the keeper of all your thoughts and emotions.
The Kidneys are grounded, the Heart is free. As it should be. However, there is a very fine line (literally, in the kite metaphor) that keeps the relationship between these two vital organs in check.
In the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, your Kidneys are under a lot of pressure to provide energy for a growing baby and maintain energy for you to participate as energetically as possible in your daily life. If these have a poor foundation (chronic disease, poor diet, stressful lifestyle) or nourished enough, the strength of the line between the kite and the person holding it becomes weak, the kite (the heart and emotions) starts moving more erratically, the line becomes longer as the person can’t hold on to it and the kite starts diving and rising unpredictably.
The kite needs the person holding it (the Kidneys) to maintain just the right amount of strength and slack to control the kite (Heart) for it to stay in the air but not so much that it can’t move (keeping emotions in check).
To help the Kidneys hold onto to erratic emotions, especially during pregnancy, you need to nourish your Kidneys. This means enjoying life more, eating warm, nutritious meals, reducing work, family and lifestyle stresses and of course get some acupuncture. I use points to strengthen the Kidneys, settle the heart and manage the emotional dips and rises to encourage you a more positive pregnancy experience. For you and for the people around you.
