Posted in Acupuncture, Health, Wellness on Aug 31st, 2006 No Comments »
You know when it happens.
You sense the Fall change of light, and the way that the air contains a chill along with a slightly metallic smell. You notice it in the Spring when a certain kind of green invades your vision. The seasonal pivots, the moments when we know deeply in our being that we [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, China, Curiosity, Travel on Aug 26th, 2006 No Comments »
I’d been dreaming it, hoping it, wishing it. That this fall I’d go back and drop myself into the swirl of life in China. Go this time, not as a pilgrim, but as a doctor with his feet firmly planted here in the USA. Tethered like a kite aloft, able to glide on the winds, [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Curiosity on Aug 15th, 2006 2 Comments »
Hey, if it is pain you want, we can refer you to some other therapies.
Acupuncture, while it does have sensation, few would call it pain.
My good friend in Taiwan, Jean Paul, an accomplished acupuncturist, has this to say about acupuncture and pain.
Acupuncture hurts less than:
• biting your tongue
• a mosquito bite
• a hypodermic needle [...]
Posted in Back pain, Health, Movement therapy on Aug 12th, 2006 2 Comments »
This first thing I noticed about Taiwanese traffic when I first got there was that it was all over the place. I’m not talking about the major wide boulevards that mingle scooters, buses, Mercedes and pedestrians in a slow motion explosion of movement. Or the way they manage to compress the traffic of 4 lanes [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Back pain, Health on Aug 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
Think about where your power is.
Most people would say the hands, or our unique ability to walk upright thanks to those muscles in our calf that allow us humans the anti-gravity trick of balance on two feet.
Some would say it is the opposable thumb that allows to us grip, or the almost developed as a [...]
Posted in Acupuncture on Aug 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
There are moments were the world is suddenly and completely different.
The first moment you noticed her hair falls like a kiss around her shoulders.
The space between breaths, when as a child, you first found balance on a bicycle.
The illumination and heart expanding feeling of getting a vision that launched your desire to quit a job, [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Curiosity, Medicine on Aug 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
In the early 80’s, I said “I’d never use a computer”.
By the late 80’s it was how I made my living.
In the 90’s I said “I’d never work for a big company”, but it was the paycheck from a big company that put me through acupuncture school in the mid-90’s.
I never thought I would learn [...]