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Acupuncture and Securing Your Future Health

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It has come so abundantly clear to me recently how important it is to invest time in planning ahead for our health and well being as we age. We will spend hours and much money securing our financial futures yet we push through colds/flus, ignore the little pain in our knee until we can’t ignore it any longer, or make unwise choices with our diet and level of exercise. These actions are not meant to help us secure a long term future of good health.

A good friend of mine even said to me today that when she gets sick, she can’t afford to stop. A client of mine knows she needs to exercise but at the end of her day, she’s so tired, she just goes straight to bed. My business colleague who manages a home health company explained that he rarely comes in contact with people who planned to have health issues or have planned to address and have answers for the last 5 years of their life. So why do we do this? My colleague who is a life coach has spoken to the concept that we live our days without thinking constantly of death, it’s a protective mechanism our brain does naturally to save us from paralyzing ourselves with fear of the possible and unknown.

What can we do about securing our future health? Start by thinking about adding acupuncture to your foray of health options. Of course I don’t need to tell you to eat healthy and to exercise because you know that already but the immune boosting properties as well as other amazing physical/emotional reactions that result from receiving acupuncture on a regular basis as indisputable. Ask someone who has had acupuncture, they’ll tell you the truth. Also consider looking into long term care insurance. Some states may/may not have this option but I do know that if you can afford it, it may be worth it in the last 5 years of your life.

The bottom line is that the only things we can count on is death, taxes, and change. None of those are we able to avoid or completely change. But what we can do is make a positive effect on the death part. Therefore, “how do you want to live your dash”…think acupuncture.

Acupuncture, Compassion, and the Fragility Of It All

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As I was picking up the sticks in the yard left strewn all over from the freak thunderstorm that ravaged Massachusetts yesterday, my mind got thinking. I mean, what else are you going to do while you bend over repeatedly and pick up the smallest of all sticks? The fragility of it all. I watched as the storm came, observed its fury and intensity, and then it left, leaving blue skies and white puffy clouds behind. As if nothing had ever happened. Yet we could see the vegetation damage, we could hear the sirens answering distress calls of drivers, and you could understand the frustration of the many without power. When I woke my children up this morning, my son told me he didn’t want to go in another bus again. Why?, I asked. He started recounting his trip back from Hampton Beach yesterday in the violent storm that made the bus pull over and wait it out due to poor visibility (thank you to that smart bus driver!). As they waited, he told me a tree feel down right behind their bus and the hail was so loud on the roof! It started to sink in again…the fragility of it all.

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine understand the fragility and the need for balance in this lifetime with the bodies we are given. Yet, with our lifestyles and expectations, we throw our bodies out of alignment many times a day. Acupuncture helps put the body back into it’s homeostatic state, where it wants to be, while assisting it to heal itself with time. One of the main reasons I left Western Medicine and became an acupuncturist-herbalist is because I do this work with compassion and respect for the fragility of it all in each of my clients.

That compassion is what may be missing in our everyday lives. Compassion for ourselves, for our loved ones, for people we have never met that we encounter on the street, for animals. We are possibly experiencing that lack of compassion now with the outrage towards the dentist who hunted Cecil and the dentist’s choices on that safari, the BLM who corrals wild mustangs and causes unnecessary harm, the increased use of illegal drugs and the unnecessary deaths that follow, the way people treat people unjustly and without kindness…the list could go on…unfortunately. It is through the eyes of compassion that we may be able to heal the wounds of our community/world as well as ourselves….micro and macro. I choose to start with individuals and by using acupuncture and compassion.

This morning I heard a song and looked up the lyrics…how true they seemed to ring with this blog’s title: Acupuncture, Compassion and the Fragility of it all”:

“So far beyond our needs, a welfare problem
We read our magazines, but actions speak louder than words.
What end justify the means? Reality — insanity.
Why can’t you open your eyes?
Why can’t you open your mind?
Why can’t you open your eyes?
It’s all in our hands, this could be a last chance.
Almost out of breath and life
And people all around the world are watching
Almost out of breath and life
And all over the world we’re doing nothing.”
– Out Of Breath, Neverstore

What are you going to do today to impact your life, your health, and those around you? First, recognize the Fragility of it all.