The other day a new patient returned and shared with me an experience I have heard so many times, although never expressed quite like this… Perhaps you can relate to this as well? “After I have a treatment, it feels like… ‘acuphoria’!” I thought it was such a wonderful expression that I immediately told her that I was going to ’steal’ it! I simply love this new word. And as promised (and with her permission), I am stealing it… but only to share it with you!
What is this acuphoric feeling? I believe there are many things at play here.
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Carefree Youth
I grew up in a very different era… perhaps you did too. I would spend the entire day outside,
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“In Taoist tradition, it is said that when the yang and yin essences of the parents unite at the moment of conception, the star seeds of the shen are scooped up in the ladle of the Big Dipper and poured down into the heart of the developing embryo.”[1]
All ‘organs’ in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are energetic as well as physical and encompass body, mind and spirit as one. They often have some unique properties that we don’t normally associate with the organs the way we are used to thinking of them. TCM theory views the heart in its own way… it is more than simply the organ that moves blood in our bodies.
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