Chinese New Year celebrates the Year of the Water Dragon beginning Monday, January 23rd, 2012. According to Chinese culture the Dragon is a symbol of power, superiority and rule. Chinese New Year symbolizes new beginnings and a fresh start. Socially, it is a family affair, a time of thanksgiving, reunion, forgiveness and sharing. Traditionally people clean their houses from top to bottom to get rid of old stagnant energy and make room for positive energy of the New Year.
• Poor memory Imagine being able to relieve your stress easily and naturally. Acupuncture therapy helps your body to tune into your parasympathetic nervous system or relaxation response. After a treatment your heart beat is more regular, breathing is deeper, you’re bringing more oxygen into your blood stream, smooth muscles are relaxed and digestion is more complete. And on the psychological level it can help you to feel clear headed and refreshed. Happy Chinese New Year! Chinese New Year (according to lunar calendar) starts on the 3rd of February 2011 on the New Moon after Winter Solstice and is celebrated all over the world. It heralds new beginnings and a fresh start. Socially, it is a family affair, a time of thanksgiving, reunion, forgiveness and sharing. Traditionally people clean their houses from top to bottom to get rid of old stagnant energy and make room for positive energy of the New Year.
Join us to learn a wealth of information about how acupressure points stimulate energy, blood circulation and improve internal organ functioning. Here’s a brief sample of the tools you’ll get: • Special points that rejuvenate your face and body. Here is an article on yawning I posted last year. Laugh if you want (though you’ll benefit your brain more if you smile), but in my professional opinion, yawning is one of the best-kept secrets in neuroscience. Even my colleagues who are researching meditation, relaxation, and stress reduction at other universities have overlooked this powerful neural-enhancing tool. However, yawning has been used for many decades in voice therapy as an effective means for reducing performance anxiety and hypertension in the throat. According to OK! Magazine Jennifer Aniston decided to get acupuncture after her friend Sheryl Crow advised her to do so. Apparently Jen sees Sheryl as some sort of a health guru and has been getting the singer’s advice on Chinese medicine. “Jen sees Sheryl as her health guru, so when she suggested acupuncture, Jen went with it straight away,” said one insider. Jen wants to get pregnant so she’s convinced acupuncture will give her a helping hand. “It’s reduced her stress, made her skin glow, helped her with weight loss and made her happier,” said one insider. Maybe you didn’t know that April 16th is National Stress Awareness Day. It’s no coincidence that it falls the day after taxes are due. One of the biggest reasons people come to our clinic to receive acupuncture is to relax and reduce stress. Signs that you might be caving in from stress include tight neck and shoulders, digestive problems, anxiety, depression, headaches and insomnia. Have you sometimes gone to bed, be unable to sleep and then wake up in the morning just as tired as the night before? Did you know that 80% of people in hospitals are there because their stress has manifested as a chronic health problem that now has to be treated more drastically? Your body’s stress mechanisms were designed to support you during stressful times, like in an emergency. But not during the constant stress to which we are often exposed. Stress can be externally produced by an unfulfilling job, a difficult supervisor, a stressful home life, caring for an aging parent, or by uncertainty about the circumstances around you, either about work, or world issues. And stress can be internally produced…for example, constant worrying, driving yourself too hard, being a perfectionist, or carrying grudges. |
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Steven Sonmore, LAc is a licensed acupuncturist in Minneapolis, Minnesota with over 20 years experience of health care and pain management.