Our lives unfold in space-time. It’s the water in which we swim and so like fish, it is difficult to know the influence of the matrix within which we live our days and experiences our lives.
The Chinese ba zi, the eight characters, is a system based on the heavenly stems and branches that can help us to orient to the influences that shape us and can guide us in making sense of certain seasons of our lives.
While often used as a kind of 算命, suan ming, fortune telling system. The Ba Zi can help us or our patients to better understand the arising and falling away of particular influences that can affect our health and wellbeing.
Listen in to this conversation on how these eight characters of influence can help us to orient to the cycles of heaven and earth.
My deepest meaning is helping others nurture their nature. To do so I apply daily self-care cultivation which integrates martial self-protection, medical self-healing, and mystical self-awareness. Our greatest influence is not via eloquent descriptions nor elegant prescriptions. It is how well we embody the principles.
Paul Wang, DACM, L.Ac,
In another life I may have become a cosmologist rather than an acupuncturist. Yet Chinese physiology embodies Chinese philosophy rooted in Chinese cosmology.
So perhaps I am a clinical cosmologist. One who sees us each as a uniquely unfolding universe. Enjoying this wellness of wholeness simply requires taking a chance on change.
Paul is one of the instructors for the Si Yuan Balance Method
Learn the Ba Zi and see Paul’s teaching offerings with acupuncture
