215 Inquisitiveness, Engagement and Vitality • Velia Wortman
Acupuncture As practitioners of Chinese Medicine, it’s our responsibility to address all aspects of our patient’s experience: mind, body, and spirit. This demands that we listen carefully to the various streams of information at our disposal—whether from our learned experience or...
213 Boundaries, Filters, Language and Flow, The Terrain of Empathy • Diane Fabian Smith
Diagnosis I’m reminded of the stillness of cats. How they can sit both still and yet completely and serenely attentive. So too with resonance, there is the yin aspect of stillness with the yang expression of vibrating with the influence of the environment. And in the middle,...
212 Pulse, Presence and Process- Navigating the Flow • Ross Rosen
Diagnosis Pulse palpation…the telling touch in Chinese Medicine. It’s an integral aspect of East Asian that is simple in some ways, and deeply nuanced and complex in others. Feeling and interpreting a patient’s pulse is only one facet of clinical interaction. A practitioner has...
210 Sitting in the Fire- Ethics, Presence and Connection • Seanna Sifflet
Diagnosis How we are with ourselves affects how we are with patients. Our own difficulties in life can assist us in helping others, but it requires that we are able to come to a sense of neutrality with those traumas of the past. In this conversation with Seanna Sifflet we...