What my Blog is about

You know how an idea or a feeling can be expressed beautifully in some foreign language, but it doesn’t quite translate into English? For example, the French expression “Je ne sais quoi” isn’t the same as “I don’t know what”. Chinese Medicine is like another language when it comes to explaining our bodies and health issues. The real power of Chinese Medicine is not that there is some magical herb for a particular condition, or that there is an acupuncture point for almost any condition. If we are still thinking of health and disease solely in the language of Western Medicine and trying to use acupuncture within the framework of Western Medicine, then we are missing out on that “Je ne sai quois” that comes from a different language. This is an opportunity to see deeper by seeing differently. The real power is that the Acupuncture theory of Chinese Medicine gives us a true alternative, a different language to use to understand health and disease.

So this is what I want to cover in this blog. Acupuncture Theory, T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Qi Gong are all based upon these same ancient theories that form the language of Chinese Medicine. It is my feeling that all of this sprang from the deep direct understanding that comes out of meditation practice.