New Year, New You
The beginning of a New Year is always a time to reflect on life changes we want (or need) to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.
If you are intent on improving your health this year, acupuncture may be the very thing you need to "stick" to those resolutions.
Happy New Year!
Lighten Up
How to Lose the Weight and Keep It Off with Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
Losing weight is the #1 most common New Years Resolution. Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine are useful tools in the battle with weight loss.
While acupuncture is not a wonder cure in the treatment of weight control, it is effective in making it easier to lose and maintain weight loss if the patient is willing to change their lifestyle.
Acupuncture needles inserted into specific points on the body and in the ear release endorphins which have a calming and relaxing effect that makes it easier to deal with stress, frustration and anxiety that can trigger overeating and bingeing on fattening foods. Also endorphins affect the digestive and hormonal systems so acupuncture can help rebalance the organ systems that are running too fast- or in this case too slow—i.e., the metabolism and the will power.
An acupuncture weight loss program may include acupuncture, breathing and abdominal exercises, Chinese herbal medicine, nutritional counseling and lifestyle changes.
Your acupuncturist will use a combination of ear and body points to help you lose weight.
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Quit Smoking
Acupuncture has turned a growing number of cigarette cravers into permanent ex-smokers. If you are highly motivated and ready to quit, acupuncture can empower you to take control and begin a healthy and smoke-free life!
Your acupuncturist may do an interview to learn about your unique smoking habits and perform a physical examination including blood pressure, taking the pulse and observing the tongue. The emotional and physical symptoms that you are experiencing will help create a clear picture on which your practitioners can create a treatment plan specifically for you.
The acupuncture treatments will focus on the jitters, the cravings, the irritability, and the restlessness that people commonly complain about when they quit. It will also aid in relaxation and detoxification.
Each patient is custom-treated according to his or her specific and unique diagnosis. Usually a combination of body acupuncture points and points on the ear are used that are believed to influence the organs and energetic pathways associated with smoking.
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In This Issue
New Year, New You
Lighten Up
Quit Smoking
Quick Energy Boost
Words of Wisdom
Quick Energy Boost
Acupuncture point, Kidney 27 (Ki-27), when tapped with your fingers, will affect your energy levels, sending electrochemical impulses to your brain and releasing neurotransmitters, according to Donna Eden, author of Energy Medicine.
Tapping or massaging point Kidney 27 can:
* Energize you if your are feeling drowsy
* Focus you if you are having difficulty concentrating
30 Second Energy Boost
* Ki-27 is located below the clavicle about two fingers breadth lateral to the sternum.
* Most people will feel a slight indent where the acupuncture point is located.
* Tap or massage both points while breathing deeply, in through your nose and out through your mouth.
* Do this for about 30 seconds
Words of Wisdom
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."
~ Marie Beyon Ray
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