What is Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is an ancient practice where very fine needles are inserted into the skin at specific points on your body to relieve pain & treat disease. The Chinese developed acupuncture centuries ago according to the theory that energy flows through channels between your bodys surface and your internal organs.  Pain and disease are the result of these channels becoming blocked.  By placing needles at one end of the channel or the other, healthy energy can be restored.  This stimulates chi, your body’s energy flow (pronounced “chee”). By balancing and redirecting your chi, an acupuncture practitioner encourages the body’s natural capacity for self-healing. In turn, this improves the way the body functions. 

An acupuncturist views health and sickness on these concepts: 

• Vital Energy 

• Energetic Balance

• Energetic Imbalance  

Just as the Western medical doctor monitors the blood flowing through blood vessels and the messages traveling via the nervous system, the acupuncturist assesses the flow and distribution of this "Vital Energy" within its pathways, known as "meridians and channels".

In 1995, the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) classified acupuncture needles as medical instruments and assured their safety and effectiveness. The medical community for the most part now accepts acupuncture and a growing number of medical schools include acupuncture training in their curriculum. 

Acupuncture treatment is included in many Insurance plans. It is a sure sign of acupuncture's acceptance into the mainstream. It is also an indicator of its success.

Acupuncture is also completely safe and effective for children.  

BOOK- Many Lives, Many Masters

A good friend whose baby died gave me this to read, it was an amazing book.  Very encouraging to see a serious scientist open his mind to faith without proof. He was never previously religious or into psychic stuff (nor was the patient). He recorded everything & his wife (also a Dr) came into many of the visits, too. The things this girl talked about in her 'past lives' she NEVER could have known.  He risked his career writing this book, as he could have been looked at as 'crazy'

In 1980, Brian Weiss, head of the psychiatry department at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, began treating Catherine, a 

27-year-old woman plagued by anxiety, depression and phobias. When Weiss turned to hypnosis to help Catherine remember repressed childhood traumas, what emerged were the patient's descriptions of a dozen or so of her unknown 86 past lives, as well as philosophical messages channeled from "Master Spirits." (*these spirits gave specific messages about Weiss' dead son as well as Weiss's mission in life-that Catehrine would NEVER had known*) Catherine's anxieties and phobias soon disappeared, says Weiss, and she was able to end therapy. The previously nonspiritual, scientific Weiss, awed by Catherine's and the masters' revelations, has written this book to share his new-found knowledge about "immortality and the true meaning of life." 

SMILE (and floss!)

WOW, getting healthy thru our feet, our hands, our ears and now our TEETH!

I luv my dentist’s philosophy: “imagine washing your hair WITHOUT shampoo - you wet it, but don’t use shampoo...that is how brushing w/out flossing is.”   ohhhhhh

My FAVE place to floss is - in the CAR!  yep...sitting in traffic, or at a light.  You DON’’T have to be standing in front of the mirror .... so, get creative cause studies have shown that flossing ‘helps’ prevent cancer, heart disease, strokes and diabetes!  Another bonus is the obvious...less cavities and less time & money spent at the dentist!   I’ll take that!

The culprit is the bacteria.  Read a bit more below, and if you want more info, dial up the infamous GOOGLE.

Plaque builds up on your teeth. The plaque forms tartar, which can only be removed by a dentist or dental hygienist. The plaque and tartar provide a nice home to BACTERIA which can cause gums to become infected. Infected gums release pro-inflammatory agents into the bloodstream which can carry them to other organs of the body.

Inflammation can give rise to cancer. They're still working on the links there, but researchers are sure that the link exists. A fairly solid link to pancreatic cancer in men has already been established. As far as heart disease is concerned, the bacteria related to periodontal (gum) disease, being inflammatory in nature, can stimulate the immune system. A result is atherosclerosis, i.e. a formation of deposits within the body, which can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and similar damaging episodes in other organs.