Selling your soul to education!!

So anyway I was reflecting...I've devoted so much of my life to study and learning! I definitely don't think that it is an exaggeration to say that people who pursue intense studies and careers which take years and years definitely sacrifice a lot for their game! The lifestyle it entails is incredibly taxing and the hardship is not able to be understood by people that have never engaged the peculiar struggles or challenges that serious dogged continuous dogged high level studies present and how much they demand and take from you!

So anyway...as I look to get back into "the game" I want to do it with a refreshed LIFE perspective and despite being unlikely to accommodate MUCH life balance I don't want it to be like before...I'm going to have boundaries and not spend all my waking and non waking hours in obsessive puzzling and not give all my energy to others!

And for now I will continue to rest up and refuel recharge so that I can attack it again with better vigour...even if I have lost the "passion" I once had...

2:14AM 11/11/2

Time Out A Good Thing

It occurred to me while reflecting that although I have really missed being "out of the game", it's actually been a really helpful imposition.

Cos health and healing can actually be an incredibly complex multi-faceted matter, especially when you have a complete holistic TREATMENT as opposed to futile band-aid solutions that will likely cause all sorts of other afflictions approach (lol) that's a definite STAB at Conventional Medicine...

So anyway before what I was trying to do was treat the most COMPLICATED of last hope weird cases which even elude highly experienced and trained specialists...

Boy was I totally underprepared for what awaited me- so now in hindsight this time out has been great preparatory time especially with the deepening of my understanding of what governs health and healing and how it all works! Before it was like I was trying to operate with only 70% of the puzzle!

So anyway since I've been on a timeout I've pointedly avoided engaging in treatment. However I have had various people ask me for consults and whether I have my own business cos they would like to come for treatment :)

I have also treated a professional flautist I met travelling (as a friend just cos I thought she could use some clearing of a bad respiratory residual pathogen that doesn't help her cause) and partially cos she was just so fascinated about my craft.

And with good results :)

Lately I delved back into it for me too- I've dared to take herbals in the form of patent pills again, having recovered from my fear about contamination issues...

Anyway I think it's doing something. Always amazing to realise how potent these thousands of year old empirical formulas are! I hope I'll be all good soon!

Once I get spare time again I can feel my fingers starting to itch...I might give this old guy a call who gave me his details and wants to pay me for a consult and take his in depth case history just to ease myself back into the game.... but it's gonna be at cost(lol)...one dandelion latte after another...Mmmmm :)

11:45am 2011/4/3

The "Knack"...Still got it!!! :D

So...the other day my mother had major arm pain (tennis elbow to be precise, and lateral epicondylitis to be techy;). This arose as a result of having to cook too much during the festive period and especially lifting too many heavy duty steel pots...

As an acupuncture virgin and complete needlephobe and always somewhat skeptical about mystical forms of medicine she was worried that it might hurt her arm in a way rendering her unable to cook for imminent guests...so I went easy and just did a local treatment with two needles on her opposite unaffected arm...but she was still quite sensitive-expected when that IS the pathology...

However, earlier I had told her to rub some anaesthetising and nourishing herbal liniment in as she was too busy to be needled then, so we couldn't be sure whether her resulting pain alleviation could be attributed in any part to acupuncture at all!

In any case since reading an AMAAAAAZING and INSPIRING BOOK called "Spontaneous Healing" by a Harvard Medical School M.D that discusses the complementary medicine worldview in detail in particular how the body knows how to heal itself and thus many given up for dead or declared incurable by the western medical system defied their "sentences" and got WELL, my mum was inspired to get past her fear of needles and allowed me to do a proper holistic multiple needle point prescription...actually I didn't even take pulse or check tongue cos well...I know her so well I didn't need to- so it was almost like a complete diagnosis and prescriptive treatment by social criteria: character and current circumstances and mindset alone!

She immediately reported feeling incredibly hot all over her body..."That's the sensation of QI"!!! I told her excitedly!

Wow, I think my mum (formerly massive skeptic and massively biased to the western system as far superior) was SO IMPRESSED and between my many stories and her own personal experience of proper acupuncture, I think she is now a ! True Complementary Therapies CONVERT!!YaaaaY!!!! Why so happy? Well cos it means of course that:

I still haven't lost my "Knack"! ^^

which having not been in the game for soooooo long could easily have been the case!

Apart from that success seems inevitable in that the place where I may be residing...soooo easy for me to ply my trade, random people so interested and encouraging...and not only that even in my current locale, random people I get chatting to often ask "do you have a practice?"(as they want to come for treatment...)

Unfortunately I always have to say " No sorry, I'm on the bench for now" :P

But HMMMmmm...maybe I should still hand out business cards to these people cos hopefully I'll be off the bench and practising real soon! :D

22:50 january 7 2011