Acupuncture and Modern Life
Acupuncture can help heal many conditions as it works on the holistic basis, treating you as a unique being influenced by personal and work life, nature and environment, hobbies, family and friends. Your pain is unique as it consists of your personal circumstances, emotions, as well as your body’s unique structure. Acupuncture kick-starts and harmonises your own inbuilt self-regulating and self-healing mechanisms.
It is a powerful and quick medium to allow you to quickly and efficiently switch from Fight-and-Flight mode to Rest-and-Digest mode. It works on a very physical level and on a very subtle energetic level, allowing you to come back to your original self.
Why is this important? The reason for that is due to modern living conditions, we have simplified many things in our life. However, the mental and intellectual load has increased on us manifold. We are constantly planning, strategizing, calculating, looking ahead and trying to avoid something bad happening to us at work or otherwise in life, and we are in constant pursuit of good things and experiences.
This type of activity has become predominant throughout the day, every day. In addition, we have to run here and there, do the chores, engage in endurance kinds of sports. This is how most of our daily activities switch on our Fight-and-Flight nervous system and leave it almost permanently on. In this mode, the body withdraws its resources from digestion and elimination systems – proper working of which is the key to our physical and mental health; reduces breathing intake and re-directs the blood to the large muscle groups preparing us to escape from a “tiger”. This is the body’s stress response. Modern living removed the tiger, but increased the anticipation of an imaginary tiger beyond our physiological capacity.
This is how we get sick as our body gets worn out by the excessive emotions and excessive continual stress response. A whole host of illnesses results as we do not spend enough time in the Rest-and-Digest mode.
Acupuncture gently and swiftly puts you into this mode which is where your healing starts. Your body and mind now have a chance to improve.
Acupuncture treatment once a fortnight is recommended to prevent illness or catch illness early enough and treat it faster.
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