The Luuuv

     It’s all about the love, or “the luuvv” as she would say. That connection. We spent a fair amount in time working on the techniques and strategies revolving around making that connect. Establishing rapport, touching the energy, emulating the patient’s posture, making our energy in line with them.

     Can you tolerate being loved for nothing else than being you, being alive on the planet at this time? Some people can’t even stand being looked at, much less actively seen. That whole “the sacred in me recognizes the sacred in you” thing. Alternatively typed, substituting “scared” in that sentence characterized me at the beginning of doing this work.

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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
- Vincent van Gogh

Choosing

     It’s all about the choosing, whatever it is. Habits are such easy things to take up and so deceitful to recognize. They are often very much confused with what actually is and, therefore, easily mistaken for what must be. In truth, we can choose all of it – how we are in this world. (That's ling - Ling is drawn as rain that falls from the heavens into three mouths of three shamanesses who are dancing between heaven and earth praying for rain. It means marvelous, divine, mysterious, spiritual and ingenious.)

     I can’t lose weight because . . . I can’t stop smoking because . . .

Michael J. Fox talks about his Parkinson’s as his gift. He says it’s a real pain, literally, but it reminds him each and every day to be very much alive. “Live to learn,” he says.

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How does use beget habit in a man. - Shakespeare

Constitution Factor

     A distinctive aid to the Five-Element acupuncturist is to determine where the patient lives at “home base”, what is the place where they are most familiar (maybe not ever most comfortable) from which to carry out their life, perhaps what is their "constitution factor".

     As an example, we as a species tend to collect things. How do we do that – do we hoard or accrete or herd things together? And therein in the manner lies the key. But do not be deceived, coin collectors are no more people of the Metal that stamp collectors are people of the Paper (if there were such a thing.)

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I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.

- Ellen DeGeneres

Daniel's Ethics Seminar

I attended the Jack Daniel (just one daniel please) Ethics Seminar on Saturday. It's a comprehensive covering about ethics, both in acupuncture treatment and in general. About trust and its components, about language, certainly about record keeping. We did drift off a bit about insurance claims, coverage and paperwork. I thought it would be just about sex and money.

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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Wish List part 3

Here are some examples: a quality holiday experience, new earrings, to tell someone about my vacation, work, loves, war, close call, family. Making paper Thanksgiving decorations with the 5 year old grandson, glue and glitter.

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When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred.

- Sun Bear



Wish List Part 2

What’s on your on your wish list? Part 2


I hope that money does not top your list for so many reasons, the main one being that studies and experience and personal stories all say that the money is not what it’s about, that money doesn’t make you happy, that it’s a challenge to have money, that there are a lot of problems with having money. I might suggest that if you are pursuing money in this life, that you may need to leave some room for disappointment when the happiness doesn’t arrive along with the big bucks.

What are some items on that list?

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
- Lillian Dickson

Wish List part 1

In every on line game, a la Farmville, CityVille, FishVille there’s a place for a wish list. What do you want, what do you need to complete your experience? You let folks know what you’re missing and it gives them the opportunity to meet those needs, often with a reward for you, a neatly designed, dove-tailed social interaction.

Why do I ask? Can I further my understanding about life through evoking in you some thinkings about what you wish for? Am I in need of some of those same things? Can I fulfill some of your needs?

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau