Sunday 31 August 2008 12:35AM

This post is about 1) Crisis 2) Magic Hands 3) The problem with the Heart and Pericardium Channel.

Crisis

I'm feeling major inner turmoil, and no that is not some kind of exaggeration!

I'm feeling very torn between immediate gratification to enjoy life vs. intensive suffering of sorts while I try and gain my extended professional qualification...

Ever since the doctor said my eyes are screwed due to city pollution, I've just been like SHITE! WHAT'S THE POINT?!!! cos if my eyes are already screwed in a city as clean as this, how ever will I be able to go to China for further training?!!

Magic Hands

Now I have more massage experience as both the giver and receiver I'm starting to realise...wow! I have Magic Hands! And that is true of just about any asian female with little warm hands...I've received several compliments on how I have magic hands massage wise...it occurred to me, hmmm this could potentially be a reasonably lucrative/flexible side business...great help while I struggle as a poor full-time student...the only thing is, for me, massage still has those negative and sleazy connotations...and although I seem to be good at it I'm not a comfortable touchy-feely person and plus, I don't know if I wanna be even conceptually associated with the skankier side of it which is sure to come up if you're servicing the general public in their private residence...

The Problem with the Pericardium and Heart Channels

For clinic practicum this week we covered the PC and HT channels. It was a nightmare- we did HT1(situated right in the centre of the axilla) I was rolling around and hysterical cos I am incredibly ticklish! Then we needed PC6 and HT7-YeeeowOOOuch! Oh my gosh- the girl in the next room who screamed out obscenities at the top of her lungs put it best- it was PAIN!

My left arm was fine but my right arm(which has been done twice now historically...oh my gosh, all my tendons and nerves are in the way). Mental note: nobody is allowed to needle my PC6 or HT7 on the right side ever again.