We’re all aware of the cost of energy these days; from the price we pay at the pump to fuel our cars, and what we pay to heat and cool our houses. Most of us are aware of energy every morning by how we feel when we lift ourselves out of bed and how we feel when we lie down again at night to go to sleep. How much energy we have, or don’t have, for everything we need and want to do each day is the energy Oriental Medicine refers to as CHI or HEALTH.
Category: Oriental Medicine
Oriental Medicine: Improve Your Health in Spring
Early Spring is the time to start rebuilding the strength of your Kidneys, which get depleted from their Winter work.
The Wood energy of Spring is a time when the health and vitality of your Liver and Gallbladder become the focus of your body’s attention.
It’s Springing Up
Spring is upon us, and within us! Chi–Life-Force–Energy has a ‘springy quality to it—outside and inside of you.
The energies associated with the Wood element are flowing, pulsing and growing, and from a 5 Element point-of-view, your health will benefit if you employ some Chi Kung and 5 Element Diet and Nutrition to help balance out the seasonal impacts on your Liver and Gallbladder.
Integrative Medicine: Vaccines And Herbal Medicine In COVID Time
“COVID to the left of me, INFLATION to the right of me—the NEWS vollies and thunders! Yet here we are, afoot and in wonder.” (Apologies to A.L. Tennyson; ‘Charge Of The LIght Brigade’)
Yes, we are in a time of wonder for sure. Wondering about this, and wondering about that, and wondering what does personal health care consist of in this time of COVID, in all its many manifestations.
Lighten Up: New Vaccines, New Awarenesses; Thriving in Tough Times
In this time of vaccinations, in this Time of C.O.V.I.D. we are looking for assurance. The vaccination is the insurance, and from it we look for assurance.
While vaccination do provide an excellent statistical level of anti-COVID assurance, at the same time we need to self-insure by looking at our current situation in a Darwinian light, and make choices using ‘The Light’ that is present in each of us by dint of being alive. It’s not that esoteric; just take a few slow, deep breaths and things get clearer. And when things fog up again, take a few more slow, deep breaths. Given how things are these days, we should all be doing daily deep breathing.
