The kidneys hold the qualities of clarity and receptivity. When open and soft, they bring us down out of our minds, into the flow of our bodies. The kidneys support our gentleness, softness,  flow. Working with our kidney energy helps us transform fear and anger, embracing our feminine side and rebalancing the often top heavy mental approach that most people adopt to survive and be successful on earth. If we are nervy, stressed, tired, reactive, mental, emotionally disconnected or scattered, it may well be the kidneys that need cleansing, balancing, rejuvenating, nurturing and restoring.

Kidney chi is an important part of sexual energy, and allied with the liver, the potency and strength of the kidneys helps to regulate our sexual activity and our sexual drive. Soulfully, the kidneys open us more to our feeling body where we can meet unresolved hurt from the past and liberate these blockages into vitality for being more present in our lives.