This style of acupuncture is called hari, and is based primarily on touch diagnosis through observation of pulse and abdomen. Taoism, internal healing, and how these arts prepare you for meditative states of consciousness and lead to enlightenment. To the degree that we are willing to look honestly within ourselves and truly see and accept our faults, is the same degree of vision we are granted with our patients and our pulse diagnosis.
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There are 3 Internal Arts practiced in China, and these are more "spiritual" than martial in the focus and context.
They are called Hsing I Chuan (Xing Yi Quan), Tai Chi, and Ba Gua.
In association with The Hari Society, I organize, assist, and teach continuing education seminars on Japanese Acupuncture.
These seminars give professionals a chance to expand the scope of techniques, and refine their skills to provide new services for the patients they treat.
I am most grateful to share what I have learned from my studies.
They are called Hsing I Chuan (Xing Yi Quan), Tai Chi, and Ba Gua.
In association with The Hari Society, I organize, assist, and teach continuing education seminars on Japanese Acupuncture.
These seminars give professionals a chance to expand the scope of techniques, and refine their skills to provide new services for the patients they treat.
I am most grateful to share what I have learned from my studies.
The standard response is to say that our bodies have what are called meridians, and they can be thought of like arteries or veins of the body.
Instead of carrying blood, meridians carry a signal to awaken the flow of bio-electrical energy through the body.
The Chinese call this "Qi", the Japanese call it "Ki", the Indians call it "Prana", but when you really look at this Life Force you will begin to see miraculous things indeed.
Many articles have been written about acupuncture, some mystical and some scientific, and as we study this flow of Life Force and Qi through our bodies we begin to realize how important it truly is.
Instead of carrying blood, meridians carry a signal to awaken the flow of bio-electrical energy through the body.
The Chinese call this "Qi", the Japanese call it "Ki", the Indians call it "Prana", but when you really look at this Life Force you will begin to see miraculous things indeed.
Many articles have been written about acupuncture, some mystical and some scientific, and as we study this flow of Life Force and Qi through our bodies we begin to realize how important it truly is.
Have you ever listened to the album "Moonbeams" by Bill Evans?
It actually makes me feel like I am in the room with a genius who is simply playing over the finest tapestry the world had ever given him.
He was a great jazz pianist, and one of my personal favorites.
In addition to Bill Evans I think Red Garland is another jazz musician I truly admire, but to be truthful these are just fingers pointing the way to another realm.
My personal taste of a Be Bop Trio in the 50's would have been the thing to experience on planet Earth.
It actually makes me feel like I am in the room with a genius who is simply playing over the finest tapestry the world had ever given him.
He was a great jazz pianist, and one of my personal favorites.
In addition to Bill Evans I think Red Garland is another jazz musician I truly admire, but to be truthful these are just fingers pointing the way to another realm.
My personal taste of a Be Bop Trio in the 50's would have been the thing to experience on planet Earth.
I should really call this getting your nervous system stabilized, and one of the best ways to build strength in your Root is to do the stepping of Ba Gua in a straight line at first.
Whether you hold the Single Palm Change, Fire Palm, Water Palm, or you put your hands behind your back it doesn't matter when it comes to rooting and stepping.
When you magnetize Kidney 1 and you build the strength under your foot from the Achilles and the Qi begins a stretching feeling underneath your foot.
The Qi moves through the 5 metatarsal bones, ligaments, tendons, and toe joints.
Whether you hold the Single Palm Change, Fire Palm, Water Palm, or you put your hands behind your back it doesn't matter when it comes to rooting and stepping.
When you magnetize Kidney 1 and you build the strength under your foot from the Achilles and the Qi begins a stretching feeling underneath your foot.
The Qi moves through the 5 metatarsal bones, ligaments, tendons, and toe joints.
So, I have thought long and hard about this, and really expect my thoughts here in the next few lines to become controversial.
But here it goes anyway after years of reflection on the 2nd Fire coupled meridians, the Pericardium and San Jiao meridians.
The more I practice Tai Chi (taijiquan) the more these meridians FEEL to me, like they carry the spiritual energy of Wood Element Qi.
When those meridians open in an acupuncture theory context, and a pulse balancing context I use them as Fire.
They tonify Spleen and Stomach when doing acupuncture and moxibustion therapy on those meridians.
But here it goes anyway after years of reflection on the 2nd Fire coupled meridians, the Pericardium and San Jiao meridians.
The more I practice Tai Chi (taijiquan) the more these meridians FEEL to me, like they carry the spiritual energy of Wood Element Qi.
When those meridians open in an acupuncture theory context, and a pulse balancing context I use them as Fire.
They tonify Spleen and Stomach when doing acupuncture and moxibustion therapy on those meridians.
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