Acupuncture as effective energy medicine
http://www.acupuncture-dfw.com/energy.html describes acupuncture as "acting on the body’s own subtle energy system to clear obstructions and maximize the flow of energy and blood through the healing mechanisms of the body; including the nervous, endocrine and immune systems, which enhance the body’s own innate healing capacity and lead to an overall increase in energy and vitality."
I guess this is what is truly wonderful about acupuncture. It takes the resources we already have and just re-directs them. And that is what is great about TCM too. If acupuncture isn't enough, we have herbs to give their chemical reactions and their energy to the body. I remember seeing an "invasiveness" chart from Dennis' class. How the least invasive healing modality is meditation, and the most invasive is surgery. Acupuncture, herbs, pharmaceuticals, qi gong, etc. are all somewhere in between. It put healing modalities in a whole new light, and it made me realize that all medicine is essentially energy medicine. It all works with a range of energy levels.. from light to the energy is the densest (material) form.
What conclusions can you draw from Kirlian photography?
Michael analyzed my photograph briefly, and talked about feminine energy, deprogramming, stubbornness, and spirit guides. It was a little hard to understand what he was saying, as I've never done anything like this before. I looked up Kirlian photography on wikipedia, the research done on it, and various analyzations of it, and am completely confused by all of them. To be honest, it is hard to draw any conclusions. I think I will keep my aura photograph though, and look back on the experience with an open mind. And if my spirit guides, stubbornness, and strong feminine energy are truly present in my aura, then I am proud that is something I am projecting to the world.
Human intent as it affects health
Human intent is huge in terms of health. I know firsthand, when I used to get terrible stomach aches when I was 15, and one of the only things that ever helped was some sort of qi-gong type visual imagery that I half heard about and half made up on my own. My intent was to have a peaceful abdomen. And I would breath in white light and breath out dirty brown stuff (in my mind). Also, I remember being really little, and having the intent of being sick because I didn't want to go to school that day. I never liked lying, so I would amplify any sort of not-in-perfect-health feeling I was feeling that day, and use it as my excuse to stay home. I would usually really get sick on those days.
2 comments:
Hi Laura,
Thank you for describing acupuncture in this way -- taking the resources we already have and just redirecting them. That is a very enlightening, helpful sentence which I hope I never forget. It is not that the acupuncturist is doing the healing, just helping the other person to heal themselves. What an empowering thought! And what a wonderful way to have confidence in acupuncture. It is not overcoming nature, or battling anything, or rendering an individual deficient in some way, but precisely the opposite: having belief in the body's ability, and in the natural order of things, to bring itself into balance. That's a really beautiful way to look at it.
Frances
hey laura,
i really appreciate the way you wrote about acupuncture and energy medicine. it is a perspective which i can definitely see and agree with, but i hadn't thought about it in that way before. i don't know if i've ever even read a definition of acupuncute before. so i appreciated that you began your post with that definition. i thought it was very interesting. and although i wouldn't have made the assertion that all medicine essentially is energy medicine before reading your post, i can see how that could really be true.
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