Life and death is a piece of nature, but we can manage and prevent getting old and sick and live our healthy lives until we die. Getting sick is a hard and painful process. There have been a number of people who lived their entire lives with painful diseases. Therefore, human beings have developed a lot of self-nourishing methods to live their healthy lives since the ancient times. It is natural for people to want to take care of their healthy lives by themselves until they die without the help of others. As all human beings have this desire to manage and cure themselves regardless of religions and philosophies, the development of self-nourishing methods is, after all, the development of life.

This research investigates what nourishing life means in the 21th century and what are the best practices for it as well as the 2,600-year history of Taoism nourishing life based on the historical backgrounds. Ancient Eastern philosophies including Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism emphasized the importance of nourishing life. The side effects caused during nourishing-life training are not just the problems with Chi(氣) but the functional disorder of Cranium. We should know the reasons for it. This is important because anyone can never find spiritual enlightenment with an unhealthy body although he pursues the unity of spirit and body. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the fundamental reasons for the side effects and the relevant problems caused during nourishing-life training. We hope people to concentrate more safely on their nourishing-life.

This research examines the effects of the Craniosacral Therapy

(- CST) on nourishing life and deals with the characteristics and the functions of the therapy as well as the future issues for it. The CST is applied not only to Taoism nourishing life but also to all existing religions and all spiritual health training methods because it gives people new physiological understandings about human body.

This means many people don't have enough understandings about cranium and brain which have remained as the unknown world. these new understandings give us neurophysiological benefits for our nourishing lives. Based on structural functionalism, this research deals with how structural-functional disorders of cranium and sacrum influence nourishing-life training.

Structural-functional disorders may be congenital defects or caused by childbirth, or physical impacts such as car accidents. Based on neurophysiological understandings, this research investigates how the potential factors of these disorders are revealed during nourishing-life training, how the CranioSacral Therapy can solve the side effects of nourishing-life training which were considered the problem related to the circulations of Chi(氣) and what effects the CST have for nourishing life.

 This research excludes the issues related to physiological nutrition and neuropsychiatry. It deals with the positive functions effects of the CST as a new self-nourishing methods. It is considered that the CST suggests an easier and safer way to find enlightenment and serves as a momentum for the popularization of nourishing life training. This research is limited to some degree since there is no domestic research materials for it. The result of this research shows the 6 main reasons to acknowledge the CST as a new nourishing life training.

1. The therapy suggests the most practical and realistic way to improve the effects of Taoism nourishing life training.

2. The structural-functional disorders of cranium are the potential factors to hinder nourishing life-related activities.

3. Possible to use the therapy as a body check system before starting the nourishing life process.

4. The therapy is the only physical method to revitalize cranium.

5. Possible to explain the reasons for the nourishing effects with the physiological mechanism.

6. As a new self-nourishing method, the therapy can be a new medical treatment.

We need to do more researches, value estimation and intensive examinations on the Craniosacral Therapy(-CST) since Korea has never introduced the CST for the development of Taoism nourishing life and there is no domestic research materials for it. We need to take the following 4 measures to introduce and continuously develop the modernized methods for practice of safer and side effect-free nourishing life training.

1. We need to understand and accept the effects of the CST on nourishing life in the aspect of the physiological mechanism.

2. We need to establish scientific and professional research institutions to  modernize the nourishing life training methods.

3. We need to develop the feed-back system so that nourishing-life practitioners can apply the results of academic researches to their training.

4. We need to develop the therapy as a new medical treatment.

It is considered that the combination of the CST and nourishing life training serves as a momentum for modern self-nourishing methods. Through nourishing life training, truth seekers find the way to the unity of the earth and the sky. However, the unity of spirit and body is the first, and then we can advance to higher nourishing life. Although, we should get through a lot of barriers in the way of nourishing life, there have been only few ways to remove the side effects of nourishing life training and get through the barriers. The only solution for a person with problems during his nourishing life training was to stop the training for several years until his body is recovered. Since he could not know the fundamental reason for the side effects, he had to give up or live with pain for the rest of his life. However, the CST helps ordinary people to solve the side effects of such difficult nourishing life training.

If the fundamental principals and concepts, the physiological mechanism and the clinical experiences of the CST is combined with nourishing life training, the therapy will contribute to the popularization of nourishing life as well as to the development of new medical treatments.

The result of this research on the effects of the CST on nourishing life suggests that the value and efficiency of the CST will be improved through the combination with nourishing life training.