origins are ancient.  Thousands of years ago, people lived according to the rhythms of nature. Waking with the rising sun, sleeping during the dark hours, watching the sky change and the weather shift. Understanding the seasons and how to prepare for them. Medicine people could "see" how the meridians flow in the body and connect to the energy of plants as medicine.  Our nervous systems were coherent and we used fight or flight chemicals when we were literally fighting or fleeing for our lives.

 

As humans have evolved over millennia, we now find ourselves navigating a very busy world.  The chemicals of stress can be very difficult to turn off.  The constant news cycles, connection to smart phones and social media, 24/7 availability trigger our central nervous systems and become the proverbial tiger.  Now the systems of the body are sourcing from an incoherent signal of high beta stress hormones and we become addicted to our emotional states.  Sometimes in order to break the cycle of our limited-selves we need to be available to see our circumstances from a different perspective.

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I believe acupuncture is an essential tool to settle the central nervous system so the body can concentrate on healing... acute or chronic, something it inherently knows how to do, and at the same time give the mind a chance to see life's "bigger picture."