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.

8500/160

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.

6500/160.0


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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

Beautiful Treatment

I was attending the Alex Tiberi seminar in March when he made a comment that his mentor used to make about his treatment. It's not so good when it's not beautiful. As a practitioner, you'll know what I mean. It's the symmetry connection, the linking of the points as well as the functions of the points, the extent to which the patient not only tolerates the treatments, but they actually sink into it.

How’s that for medical arts practice?


Our environment is like a patchwork quilt. Each "patch" is dependent on those around it. If one part unravels, it affects the rest.

- Hemeon

Have No Expectations

     It’s a lot to ask, I'll admit, to put a limit on expectations. Expectations are the source of unnecessary suffering. Not having attachment to the outcome frees us to be a clear observer of what is.


Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

- R. Buckminister Fuller

Hot Acupuncture

If I were practicing in Maine, here’s something I would do. It’s yours for the asking, just give me some feedback. (Do you pay your own utility bills? Hope not.)

Crank up the treatment room thermostat to about 80 and turn on a space heater about half hour before treatment so that it’s about 30 degrees C, around 90 degrees F.

You’ll need two old mike stands with goosenecks. Mount a 1500-watt hair dryer on each. Place one at the foot of the table to blow on the feet and the other around knee level blowing under the sheet.

Buy two bed buddies (bean bags you can put in the microwave for two minutes each); one for each hand.

Get a crock-pot and some assorted-size, round rocks (from a craft store or garden supply place). Practice with this a bit to see how long it takes to heat the water and rocks. Apply the hot rocks on cloth on the patient, on the CV line, between their toes, behind knees, some on the face, etc.

We’re going for sweating here. Hot yoga meets hot acupuncture.

I’ve tried the electric heating pad but they seem to screw me up some way or other when it comes to reading the pulses.

The supernatural forces of spring created windows in Heaven and wood upon the Earth. Within the body they create the liver and the tendons; they create the color green.. . .and give the void the ability to make a shouting sound. . .they the create the senses, create the sour flavors, and the emotion anger.



- The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine