Here are a few things: Pain, especially chronic pain, has a lot to teach us. It is an opportunity for us to gain some deeper insights into why we have the health concerns we do, examine how our beliefs, habits and lifestyle choices affect us. This can lead to a level of discovery and healing […]
Posts tagged personal cultivation
the seeds of war
I was a teenager during the Vietnam war, and like many of my generation, I was passionately opposed to it, indeed to killing of any kind. I felt so strongly about it that, for some months anyway, I allowed myself to get sucked into arguing with my very Republican father about it every night after […]
think positive… or not?
Positive thinking, the power (or law) of attraction, stay on the sunny side – this has all been in the culture for a while now, and the push-back is starting to get some traction. Being ‘realistic’ is the new thing, and I have some thoughts about this. Firstly, the Law of Attraction et al is […]
between heaven and earth
Back when I was training to become an acupuncturist, I discovered something really cool. To help you understand the total cool-ness, you have to first picture this. We’d started our clinical work. This meant we were going to start to implement what we’d been studying – and boy, didn’t that just feel … inadequate. We’d […]
why don’t I get better?
This blog is one of those ‘please bear with me while I sort this out for myself’ blogs, because it applies to me as an individual (why don’t I get better). It may also answer a question I’ve had as a practitioner, to wit: you stand in front of me and tell me you need […]
Desiderata, a Spiritual Poem
I have not read this since I was a teenager; in fact, I haven’t even seen it since then. I didn’t know it was written by American poet Max Ehrmann, in 1927, another time when the world was dancing as fast as it could. It feels more right now than it did when I first […]
you have a choice
I am continuously baffled by conversations that go like this: ‘You’re an acupuncturist?’ ‘Yes, I am.’ “I always wanted to try that. I’ve got this [insert issue here] problem. The doctor hasn’t been able to do anything about it, and I don’t like pain medication, it messes with my head.’ ‘I’m sorry to hear that. […]
life… is like a river
I got caught between two patients the other day. This hardly ever happens, which is kind of a miracle when you work in a community clinic and people are together all the time. The first patient was in great emotional distress and the only one present at that moment, so I was giving him my […]
what others think
Hands up, out there, everyone who has spent time worrying about what others think – about how they look, what they do, what they have. Yeah, I thought it would be most of you. Me, too. It’s not a bad thing, is it?. After all, we have to live with others, right? What we do […]
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