Good Book: Acupuncture for Dummies

Want to encourage folks to read up on the science, and not just the 'beliefs' of acupuncture. Although there is a mind/body connection that is facilitated in obtaining acupuncture; true physical changes can come from facilitating the immune system, inflammatory responses, and gaining true rest and relaxation for the body. Acupuncture, I say, gives the body some profound downtime, or 'zero-ing out' on the table, which allows rebalancing of the energy of the body.

Take it from an exhausted overworked meeting planner of 16years! Your body forgets how to relax, muscles are in profound tension, and acupuncture seems to allow the body to go to a new level of wellness.

So, try acupuncture....it works for more than just pain.:)

Thought for the day

'If one will begin with certainties, one will end in doubts; however if one were content to begin with doubts, one will end in certainties'

Transformation

'When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truely
heroic transformation of consciousness'

Efficacy of acupuncture

Ok skeptics...

Many studies have shown the efficacy of acupuncture for pain-related syndromes. People accept that acupuncture can help pain, but mistakenly think that somehow it just masks the pain, or makes it go away for a short period of time. In actuality, acupuncture can help heal the root causes of physical pain and prevent further complications.

Injured muscles and tendons tighten in response to untreated pain. As the muscles tighten, they exert pressure, twisting and turning the supporting structures and creating further problems in the body. Eventually, untreated injuries may cause the greatest discomfort upstream or downstream from the original site, creating a confusing clinical picture.

Acupuncture and bodywork can treat multiple sites, helping to address multiple manifestations of the injury. Once the tightened structures become readjusted and more elastic, circulation is restored, and the tissues get more oxygen, allowing metabolic wastes to flush away.

Great 2008!

My theme for this year. As they say, you must have a thought to have a thing. Thoughts include the energy that creates our things. This year I want to be 'the year of Yes's! because the questions is.....what could be possible with 'a year of Yes's'.....

I don't want my thoughts like orchids in the closet, to sit feed and nourished, but never touched by the light and love of others. I appreciate my AOMA friends, staff, and clinic supervisors who each and everyone have touched my life and changed it deeply and forever.

May we have fun, fill each day with joy, and may we listen deeper than we ever had to our patients, or loves, and ourselves, never taking for granted the intimate things God is trying to give to us.

Love, Carol