Let's talk about identity. How do we know who we are? Are you your name? Are you your gender? Are you your ethnicity, race, or religion? And if we are not all these things, who are we really?

We spoke of Mind Body connection, but the Spirit is also part of the picture. It is said to reside in the body and through issues in the body we can learn about spiritual issues we might face.  

Sometimes after a treatment we start feeling worse. Acupuncture, as part of a healing journey, is meant to move old stagnations. Getting rid of pain sounds like a good idea, but that pain can reveal something you may have forgotten. Now that it was unblocked - are you willing to look at it? You can't just pretend you haven't seen it....  It's a process, and that process is yours. 

We all have closets. Thats where we put anything we don't want to deal with. The body also has closets. There we store any conflict that wasn't resolved. If we fail to resolve a cold or a virus it can hide in the body and become latent. 

It comes out of latency usually - when we are exhausted, stressed or sleep deprived. You know those issues that show up when you are stressed out? they have been there all along....

When we get a treatment we first communicate about what is wrong and what we need help with. Talking is one way of communicating this information.  But the body also gives the practitioner information via the pulse. 

Yes - the pulse at the wrist tells much more than just if you are alive... 

There are rules in nature. And the most ancient rule says that the only constant in nature is Change. Changes happen all the time. But most people don't like change, or might have resistance to change. That clash between what we want and nature causes pain.

Many do not like the idea of Binary when it comes to gender. It seems very limiting, and narrow to only have two ideas of gender roles. 

But everything in nature, every phenomena can only be understood in binary - or rather, through contrast. Check my project ichingofgender.com to explore your binary code of gender presentation. 

We always want to know, how long is it going to take - to get better, to heal?

At times it seem like it is hard, and difficult and long. Why is that? 

Acupuncturists do not like cold things. We don't recommend drinking icy drinks, and juices or eating salads. Why is that?  

Did you ever feel not quite like yourself? Have you had weird obsessions with things that never called your attention before? Those might be signs of a foreign energy that entered your field. In Chinese Medicine we call these ghosts.