Week 11

Acupuncture as Effective Energy Medicine

Acupuncture is effective energy medicine because it works directly on Qi (roughly translated as energy) to get it properly flowing again. When energy is trapped, it creates blockages in the Qi mechanism and often in the Liver, which is responsible for coursing Qi all over the body. Trapped energy from negative emotions can cause organ damage to any number of organs, especially the liver and heart. The nice thing about acupuncture is that it not only removes Qi blockages, boosts Qi vacuity and Blood- but by needling acupuncture points, the corresponding organ traced to this meridian also discharges the negative emotion held by this organ. Negative emotion is stuck energy, which acupuncture can help clear through the appropriate placing of the needle, no psycho-therapy required.

Human Intent as it Affects Health

I have mixed feelings about how strongly intent effects health, particularly because I’ve experienced strange healing miracles without trying, and then spent years trying to get my health back in order with super strong intentions and very slow results. I think that certain illnesses are there to teach us certain lessons, and until we learn those lessons, we won’t fully get better, no matter how hard we intend to heal our bodies. Healing our bodies sometimes means learning different ways of emotionally relating to ourselves and others. I have found that to be the case in trying to heal Poly-cystic Ovarian Disorder and uterine fibroids. Breaking up is hard to do- especially when you get an ovarian cyst every time you do it.

In the Vajrayana Buddhist center in Tucson, I layed on a crystal healing table with gold-plates spinning behind quartz surrounding me and sugilite on my 3^rd eye (which is supposed to provide insight into the cause of disease) and was told by spirit that the murder of my father caused the pattern with men that gave me P.C.O.S. The gift or lesson of P.C.O.S has been an intense re-wiring of my relationship scripts in which I am friends with lovers first and foremost, and we can get through any difficulty and still be friends because I am not self-destroying in the name of “love.” My body cannot afford any more romantic tragedies, and so I am learning different ways to relate to the opposite sex and getting weekly acupuncture to try and heal my body with physical/energy medicine as well as doing the necessary emotional work to heal. If I did not have a physical illness with which to grapple, I might have never dealt with my romantic tragedy tendencies to give over my power and try to save men.