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1 Ethics NCCAOM® PDA Point
Read MoreExcerpt: “For clients that are seductive for whatever reasons (having very deficient fire and desperately, desperately needing to be loved especially if they are in a position of self exposure), keep on giving them all the love they are looking for but do it only from left wrist Fire, from the Heart. Let them know that they are absolutely perfect, beautiful, holy, lovable, and not G-d’s mistake.”
1 Core Knowledge NCCAOM® PDA Point
Read MoreExcerpt:“One of the things the things that is difficult about teaching the HM meridian is the issue of understanding the trajectory in terms of a dual direction of flow.”
1 Core Knowledge NCCAOM® PDA Point
Read MoreExcerpt: “What I am here to speak about is the flipping of coins; the welcome chaos, the open chance and instability of the universe; and how this allows free will to overcome determinism in the healing of body mind and spirit in Chinese Medicine.”
2 Core Knowledge NCCAOM® PDA Points
Read MoreExcerpt:“One of the greatest benefits of practicing Chinese medicine in contemporary America is that when the insights of two different cultures come together, the results can be revolutionary and startling. Contrast provides opportunity for perspective and growth; but it can also provide opportunity for misunderstanding, conflict and alienation. How do we work with difference—of thought, of paradigm, of culture, of perception?”
2.5 Core Knowledge NCCAOM® PDA Points
Read MoreExcerpt:“In some sense this is the LAST point on the GB meridian; it is everything we bring from our conceptual pigeon-holing analytical process to the moment of seeing. How is what we see framed by our minds? What is the structure of our witnessing?”
2 Ethics NCCAOM® PDA Points
Read MoreExcerpt: “I have been very interested in: What is the client-practitioner relationship anyway, and what does it have to do with healing, and what are some of its parameters and funny habits in its off-time? … You’re one of the first clients with whom I actually felt like I was doing something I could call healing, and I moved through student clinic and out into my practice on my own with you in many ways on my leading edge. And then I watched you become practitioner, and felt or sensed how that changed our relationship, for you to also be practitioner to others. I’m interested in that; I’m interested in what it is that we are doing.”
2 Core Knowledge NCCAOM® PDA Points
Read MoreExcerpt:“The bladder is the night watchman. Pang guang is the word for bladder in Chinese. Pang is a vesseled space, a container. Guang is in a lot of GB points, and is an alternate name for GB 24 sun and moon. The character either means a person carrying a torch, or a person with their head on fire, in which case they may be a human torch. It is translated as light, radiance, brilliance, light bearer.
That is the bladder: pang: a vesseled space, guang, light. It’s a night light. It’s the light in the darkness. It’s the stars in the sky. It’s the campfire in the dark. It’s all about light in winter.”
1.5 Core Knowledge NCCAOM® PDA Points
This class is a fundamental introduction to 5 Element Treatment Protocols for acupuncturists who are new to the 5 element approach.
Read MoreExcerpt: “The Constitutional Factor (CF) is the primary cause not only of the client’s illness, but of the client’s health. It is like a first domino in a long chain reaction. This domino did not fall down long ago in the past, leaving us the pieces to pick up now; it is continuing to fall down potentially every moment of the client’s life, thus every time knocking right back down again every domino that we pick up. This is why, although symptomatic treatments may bring dramatic immediate results, the effects are relatively temporary. The root disharmony will keep on producing a chain reaction of illness, until it begins to heal.
Healing is not a removal of illness; it is journey toward virtue, or greater and greater alignment with Tao. Once the CF is oriented towards this journey of healing, this too has a profound chain reaction effect. If, at any time, there is any way that we can access the deep power of the core virtue to help shift another Element towards virtue, this is always preferable, and most likely to be an enduring shift.”
1.5 Core Knowledge NCCAOM® PDA Points
Read MoreExcerpt: “LR 1 Da Dun is the first point in the meridian. Where do you begin? I guess at the beginning. It’s the point for beginnings; it’s a point for “where do I even begin,” it’s a point for feeling like you can’t even get started.”