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Mental Health

Rectify the Qi: Working Through Fixated States

“If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to control. Let go of your fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.” Tao Te Jing, Chapter 57. Taoism, the philosophy much of Chinese Medicine is based...

How Our Minds Make Us Sick: Acupuncture Treatment for Psychosomatic Issues

Much of our suffering is caused by our mind. Most of us are not even aware of the extent to which our thoughts make us suffer. The way we see the world (and ourselves) has a tremendous effect on how we experience life. Studies have...

Healing Psychosomatic Symptoms Through Mindful Awareness and Acceptance

What does it take to really change? What’s required to break habitual patterns that make us unwell and unhappy? It’s easy to look out into the world and see what’s wrong with it. It’s easy to look at our past and identify what went wrong,...

Understanding Chronic Emotional States and Unconscious Behavior through Chinese Medicine

Worry, anxiety, resentment and fear are draining. We all feel this. Physiologically the emotions create internal heat and consume the blood of the body. Many of us are literally “bleeding ourselves to death” through our emotions. To some of us, our emotional dispositions are so...

Coming Apart: Re-establishing Strength, Integrity and Cohesion with Acupuncture

Much of what I see in my acupuncture clinic are people “coming apart.” To an acupuncturist this means losing access to our energy, vitality and internal resources. Not because of lack, but due to inability to access them. We become scattered. Our acupuncture channels which...