Two weekends ago I was happy to see a major article about acupuncture in the New York Times. While the article provides greater exposure for acupuncture treatment, I was struck by the overall lack of understanding of the medicine. [edgtf_blockquote text="To understand eastern therapies such...
Transition and change is the natural movement of life. The oldest existing classic in Chinese philosophy is the “I Ching” or “Book of Changes.” Health and disease is often related to our ability to transition and move through change. The “I Ching” describes the process of...
A different type of thinking is required when embracing acupuncture’s therapeutic power. For example, it's possible through the use acupuncture to affect the inside of a joint or an internal organ simply through stimulating an acupuncture point on the surface of the skin without needing...
Commitment is key to success within any endeavor. “The Tao Te Ching” chapter 10, entitled “What Can Be Done?” teaches, “by concentrating our vitality and inducing tenderness, we can become like a little child. By purifying, cleansing and profound intuition, we can be free from...
“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” This wildly popular quote comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is perhaps one of the most quoted lines from Shakespeare within...
