214 Eastern and Western Philosophy & the Future of Chinese Medicine • Brenda Hood
Acupuncture How we think influences what we do. The models and frameworks we use to understand not just our medicine, but the world itself, opens or limits the options we can offer our patients for treatment. While the Venn Diagrams of East Asian and Western medicine share some...
213 Boundaries, Filters, Language and Flow, The Terrain of Empathy • Diane Fabian Smith
Cultivation 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,...
210 Sitting in the Fire- Ethics, Presence and Connection • Seanna Sifflet
Cultivation 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...