161 Vitality, Attention, & Sensing: Learning to Listen in Stillness • Chip Chace
Diagnosis There are many ways to attend to our patients in clinic. We can work through mental models that we’ve acquired from our schooling, study, and clinical experience. We can also use our innate human ability to touch, palpate and sense. In this episode with Chip Chase we...
158 Listening, Non-doing and Appreciative Attention • Alice Whieldon
Diagnosis Medicine is a curious business. The “agreement” is that the patient has a problem and we as practitioners are going to fix it. It’s not an unreasonable expectation in our fee for service world. And after all, we are the experts that are supposed to know how to resolve...
157 Practicing Acupuncture in Rural America • Barbara Bittinger
Business & Practice Management Nothing new about city and rural life being very different. But what about when it comes to having an acupuncture practice? What’s it like to practice to practice away from the bustle of big city? Are country folk really that different from city slickers? And what...
153 Untangling Emotion • Lillian Bridges
Diagnosis We often think of emotion as one thing. That we are sad, or angry, or frustrated, or joyous. But often it’s more complicated than that. Many times there will be an entanglement of emotion. Love and anger, grief and guilt, or excitment and anxiety. It’s when emotions...