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Creating an intention for your fertility

April 1, 2018 By Monica Mae Leibson 2 Comments

Focus the mind to reduce anxiety

Use this practice to focus the mind on what we desire, rather than letting anxiety and fear get the best of us.

Step 1: Release the past. If our mind is cluttered with memories of yesterday or anxiety regarding tomorrow, we cannot truly create from a blank slate.

Breathing in, I allow myself to come into this present moment. I choose to consciously release the past at this moment. I internally declare that the past has no power over me and I release and let go. (Deep sigh of relief.) [Read more…]

Finding Balance When the World Seems Out of Balance.

January 17, 2017 By Karen Siegel Propis Leave a Comment

For each new year, we often set health-related goals. We want to eat better, exercise more, balance our lives, and try to behave in a kinder way in our world. When we strive for balance, we don’t often think about balancing our physical health and our emotional health. We tend to focus on the physical aspects of our being. However, our emotional health impacts our physical health in ways we don’t often realize.

Chinese medicine recognized thousands of years ago that an important relationship exists between emotions and physical health. The Chinese Canon of Medicine recognized that emotional and psychological factors are important causes of physical illness and can negatively affect the internal organs of the human body. It states that “anger hurts the liver, joy hurts the heart, brooding hurts the spleen and melancholy hurts the lungs.”

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Natural Cures for Seasonal Affective Disorder

September 23, 2015 By Julie Silver Leave a Comment

As the dark nights and short days of winter are upon is, it is not uncommon to feel more tired, lower energy, and a desire to stay inside a warm house and cozy up with a good book. For many of us, this is a passing experience that can be cured by a weekend getaway or a few sunny days. However, for some, these symptoms can be indicative of a form of depression called Season Affective Disorder. According to the web site familydoctor.org, as many as ½ a million people have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). It is not surprising that SAD is more common in the Northern part of the country. Symptoms of winter-onset Seasonal Affective Disorder include: loss of energy, depression, anxiety, oversleeping, changes in appetite and difficulty concentrating. There are a number of natural ways to treat SAD. [Read more…]

Spring Liver Support

March 12, 2015 By Julie Silver Leave a Comment

Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on the theory of “Qi Energy”. Qi energy is what guides all functions in our body – breath, movement, reproduction, digestion are all functions of qi. In TCM, every organ has Qi energy and each organ’s qi oversees different functions of the body. Every organ has a season in which the functions of that organ are “in the spotlight”. The organ (and qi) associated with the spring is the Liver.

Spring is a good time for rejuvenation and change. It is a also good time to think about supporting the Liver. In TCM, the Liver Qi regulates the flow of qi throughout the whole body. There are over 20 kinds of qi that the Liver QI keeps flowing smoothly. Stress in our life tends to effect the Liver qi. When this happens, the Liver qi does not flow smoothly, and it gets stagnant. Headaches, PMS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Depression, Irritability are all thought to be associated with Liver Qi stagnation. There are many ways we can support the Liver and assist it in its job. [Read more…]

There is always something to work on

November 10, 2014 By Editor Leave a Comment

When was the last time you had a preventative treatment?

In every social event or new encounter I have with people there is a question that comes up…”so what do you do for a living?” being an acupuncturist and a healer, immediately after my answer I get a list of medical diagnoses and health issues with a question following – “can acupuncture help with it?” Or even better – “I had acupuncture and it helped me a lot!”

Don’t get me wrong, I love talking about acupuncture, it is my passion. It is also my absolute pleasure to give as much information as I can to anyone who is interested in hearing. But when was the last time you had acupuncture? And if you did…why did you stop? Are you 100% fine now?

Acupuncture (Chinese medicine) is originally a preventative medicine. When Chinese medicine is taught, the practitioner learns about the healthy body and the way to maintain good health. Only after, it is taught how to bring someone back to balance from illness.

In ancient China every village or community had its Dr. The medicine man would be reworded for the amount of healthy patients he had and not for the sick. It is written in the Huang Di Nei Jing that the most skillful Dr. is treating healthy patients. The reason is, that Chinese medicine is a preventative one in essence.

The skilled man would walk in his village or town and summon patients when the time was right. He knew the people of his community, their weaknesses and health tendencies. He also knew their energetic birth chart and would see if the upcoming energies in the next season are going to affect their health.

Most people pay hundreds of dollars every month for health insurance that does not insure their health at all. It is important, but doesn’t prevent them from getting sick. Many people do not consider having a health issue even though being medicated for one. “Everything is fine” people say, but behind this sentence, stands at times, a long list of drugs they depend on and a history of highly invasive medical procedures.

Being medicated (at times necessary) doesn’t fix the problem, the root cause is still present. Eventually if no energetic change is done, new symptom or illness might rise. Acknowledgment that something is off track, is the first step towards a positive shift and real healing. There is always something to work on.

Eran Reznik

Dip.Ac.

NCBTMB

Acupuncture to heal the past

October 31, 2014 By Editor Leave a Comment

How does our pain and illness relate to life experiences?

Life is a constant change of events. From the time we are born through childhood and into adulthood, we go through numerous life experiences that shape us as the individuals we become. Some of these experiences are positive and some are not so pleasant.

Any life experience exposes us to energy. How this energy affects us and to what extent is determined by two factors – how resilient and strong we are verses how traumatic the experience is.

life experiences can be overwhelming at times and hard to process, especially at a young age. They can alter who we are as individuals, cause us to change the way we make decisions and prevent us from being true to our own nature.

Some of these emotions are passed on to us by our ancestors (and present for many generations in the family), some are due to traumatic events we have had to endure, and some are related to unresolved past issues.

A great deal has been written in ancient Chinese writings about emotions, and in the cases mentioned above, they are viewed as “demons” that can gain control of our lives. Internal and external “demons” are “parasite–like”; consuming our energy and prohibiting from us to be true to our heart. The energy associated with these “malicious demons” can contribute to disease.

There are specific techniques in acupuncture to help patients process these life events without digging in or dwelling in the past. By using specific acupuncture points at specific times, the treatment allows the body to let those “demons” go. In order for healing to be successful, such a process is essential. Without it, the “demons” will continue to harm the body.

It is written in the The Yellow Emperor’s book of Internal Medicine, (which is considered to be the doctrinal source of Chinese medicine)

“In order to make all acupuncture thorough, one must first cure the spirit.”

You are welcome to contact our office if you have any questions or make an appointment.

Eran Reznik – Dip. Ac. NCBTMB

Lessons Learned from “Proof Of Heaven” by Eben Alexander, MD

June 12, 2013 By Julie Shindler-Cohen Leave a Comment

Eben Alexander’s memoir, Proof of Heaven, details his experience while in a coma for 8 days. The interesting twist of his memoir is that he was a neurosurgeon who completely dismissed his patients’ accounts of consciousness and existence beyond the physical world because the concept did not fit within the scientific understanding of brain function and reasoning. And yet, when he contracted bacterial meningitis (a very, very RARE occurrence) and his brain was completely shut down, he experienced an afterlife that supported the experiences of all his patients’ accounts that he had dismissed for years. The revelation that came out of Dr. Alexander’s experience was that human beings are much, much more than science recognizes. Moreover, our minds are not just the mechanical workings of our brain function! Instead, there is an energy/spirit in all people which means that our behavior and life choices include much more spirituality than most of us understand. [Read more…]

The Power of Intention

April 7, 2013 By Julie Shindler-Cohen Leave a Comment

Acupuncture is, among many things, a transfer of energy. When we needle a point, we are using the needle to active the acupuncture point’s unique function. Each acupuncture treatment is a combination of points that are used to treat each person’s Chinese medical pathology. However, I have found that the concept of intention is just as important in an acupuncture session as the point prescription. Intention is the idea that when the acupuncturist is inserting needles, they direct their energy into the overall intention of the treatment. [Read more…]

Judging a Book by It’s Cover

December 17, 2012 By Julie Shindler-Cohen Leave a Comment

In practicing traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), there is a wide variety of methods to create a diagnosis. Perhaps the most obvious to our patients is asking questions. Many patients find that when they come in for their first acupuncture treatment, we (the acupuncturist) ask many questions pertaining to the “chief complaint” as well as other aspects of well-being. For the acupuncturist, the answers to the questions give us our first clues as to which energetic channels are out of balance and where the pathology is located. Next, palpating (feeling) the pulse and observing the tongue are more objective methods in supporting (or not) our preliminary diagnosis. [Read more…]

Inner Smile Meditation

June 5, 2012 By Julie Shindler-Cohen Leave a Comment

Many patients want to know what else can be done–outside of the treatment room–that will balance their energy. My answer is always the same—meditation! This may sound scary/impossible/weird to some people, but the ancient practice of Qi Gong offers “instructions” on how to meditate. For me, this is easier than traditional meditation for 2 reasons. First, the goal is not to quiet the mind. Instead, the qi gong practice gives instructions on how to cultivate and move your energy, or qi. Second, in regularly performing qi gong exercises, you begin to cultivate and move your own qi. (I tell many people that qi gong is “self- acupuncture”) In general, qi gong allows each person to ask their body what it needs and use one’s own energy to bring the body back into balance. [Read more…]