273 Intention, Awareness and The Power of Restraint • Zoe Brenner
Acupuncture Our job as Chinese Medicine practitioners is not so much to impress our ideas on patients but to cultivate a capacity and restraint to allow them to come back to themselves. Our assessment is meant to determine the patient’s understanding of their disharmony, and...
272 Ishizaka Acupuncture, Attending to the Stillness in the Center of Motion • Kubota Sensei
Acupuncture Many acupuncture traditions share the idea that our troubles stem from a root cause , and treating the root is an essential part of the therapeutic process. Then there is the branch where symptomatic issues present themselves, this is the focus for the patient, and...
246 Tools, Perception, and Attention • Gary Klepper
Acupuncture Our tools don’t just expand our faculties. They change what we can do by training our physical and cognitive senses. They temporarily become part of who we are. In a sense—we are the tool in our clinical work. We act as a kind of both filter and mirror for our...