Adv Needling - Dr Huang points to the Truth

Sitting in this class is a complete joy. In her own way, Dr Huang points to the Spiritual Truth of the Acupuncturist. As we were discussing needle techniques of tonification and sedation, she simply stated "I don't know if they work." She went on to relate a story about how someone came in with back pain and she used draining method on some back points, drain drain drain for the whole treatment. The patient came in the next week and said, "Thanks! I no longer wake up in the middle of the night to pee anymore, you fixed that problem!" Dr Huang smiled and replied, "Of course, that's what we do here." She then told us that she had absolutely no intention of tonifying his Kidneys and admittedly did not even ask about urination. She was only dealing with acute back pain. She said, "I believe we do what we do, and say to the body, here remember that you have Qi, and then the body does what it wants to do with the Qi."

Lesson 1 : Humilty. I love that she very frankly says "I'm not sure how it works." 30 years in practice and admitting that she doesn't know. This is a very different feeling than all the acedemic references to the nei jing that we tend to get from other teachers.

Lesson 2 : Humilty! She says our job is important and we should still have intentions of draining or supplementing, but in the end, the patients body will do what it will do with the Qi, we are just helping the patient remember. 30 years...

In other news, Catherine Austin's best quote, "Respect the QI" referring to the patient's qi, she says this over and over again. I think it points to the Truth again in that we are merely there as guides, guests even in anothers energetic field. To come in with an attitude of respect and not go in mucking about thinking we are the cause of a patient's healing, "I will heal you!"

Respect the Qi, you are a guest and it is an honor to be invited into a chance to witness a creative transformation of another being.

Interesting Article

Thought i would share. Alot of great articles on this site :) Enjoy, discuss, breathe, live ;)

http://www.chikung-unlimited.com/Mind-Power.html

The YoSan Principle

The Yo San Principle

By Hua Ching Ni

Many years ago in China, when I was a student in my father's acupuncture school, my father told me and all his other students that integral medicine is not an external discipline. It grew out of two million, seven hundred thousand years of human life growth and is based on internal recognition of the problems of life. In this way, it provides effective internal and external solutions. What this means is that integral medicine is a spiritual awareness of life, slowly attained throughout hundreds of thousands of years of real life experience. As internal awareness grows, solutions become self-evident.

So my father told us, "To learn integral medicine, you cannot simply take what has been written in books and study that. You must develop yourself spiritually before you can become a true healer."

He repeated this many times, and I am repeating it to all of you. Reading books is only one step to truly healing. Going to classes is only one step; you need your own spiritual cultivation and awareness so that you can link yourself with the accumulated experience of human development.

What constitutes a spiritual awareness of human life? My father told us something very easy to remember and very easy to apply: a healer firsts needs to affirm positive life energy by learning about the positive energy of the universe and his or her own positive energy. Each person is active and does things right, because of positive life energy. Occasionally, this positive life energy becomes blocked or obstructed. Someone who has developed a spiritual awareness and capability can help restore the normal flow of positive life energy. Basically, the development of integral healing is the result of the experience and understanding of spiritually developed men and women. It is the accumulation of their external discoveries and the self-discoveries and the solutions they applied to different problems.

People lived in China for centuries without any means of communication such as we have today. For a long time, they had to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, without external help. The people who lived in that enclosed environment became spiritually aware, however, by learning to recognize and develop universal positive life energy. That became, in a sense, their religion. They worshipped the respect, protection and love of the nature-giving positive life energy in themselves, thus what eventually came to be called Taoism was never an external religion.

God is just a name for the universal positive life energy in each of us. By manifesting that energy in our lives, we bring out the beauty of life and also some great achievements. Without that energy, nothing can be accomplished in the world.

There was a popular philosophy in China that divided the universe into four stages: Birth, growth, decline, and emptiness or death. These philosophers stopped at the stage of emptiness, however, without realizing the subtle power of regeneration is the powerful force that we call Tao. It is positive life energy. When a person supports that energy, that is called virtue or morality or holiness. If someone does something that harms it, their actions are wrong and can be called sinful.

Although war and other human disasters are created by spiritually ignorant and immature leaders, the regenerative energy always brings forth life again. Although spiritual tend to not become involved in politics, we approve of any political, healing, social, or educational system that supports positive life energy. As future healers, set a simple standard for yourself: do only those things that support the growth of positive life energy in yourself and others. If something is harmful, do not do it. There is no higher discipline than this. Although it applies to any individual and any society, it is not an external doctrine or belief. It does not matter what anyone calls it; what matters is that we apply it.

The second principle my father taught us was kindness. Protecting and developing positive life energy is kind. Cruelty, violence, or brutality is harmful to positive life energy. No evil violent force can last for long. No extreme can bring true progress. Only gentle, kind progress can bring true maturity.

So you need to be objective about what you are doing and being, about the company you keep, about the schools you go to, about the church you attend: do they support your life energy or do they feed your swollen emotions? This is important to consider.

My father always liked to compare Taoist or integral medicine to a pot of boiling water: you do not stop water from boiling by blowing on it, you have to take the pot off the fire or take away the fuel that makes the fire. This fundamentally describes the basic principle of all treatment. Once you discover the trouble, you treat the cause of it, not just the symptoms. Treating the toothache or headache alone is not enough. You need to discover the source of the problem. Once the real problem is solved, the symptom will not come back again. Otherwise, a person needs to sit in the dental chair all over again. That is not healing, it is punishment.

Invitation

This space is dedicated to the deeper side of Chinese Medicine. To sharing the insights we each gather on a day to day and week to week basis. The magic is there if we just open up and look for it. I'll follow this post with the most inspiring words I've come across about TCM.

In Gratitude,
Kai.