We were taught in acupuncture school that "a patient can only heal as much as their practitioner has healed." At first hearing this, I could make sense of it, but didn't believe it was necessarily meant to be taken LITERALLY. I ran through different interpretations in my head, like perhaps a patient can only benefit from their doctor's advice to the extent to which it is actually GOOD and TRUE advice. Or maybe, medical advice and counseling is only valuable when the doctor himself has been through the same lion's den as the patient and can counsel from real personal experience. And it's true, a patient's energetic body can discern between advice their doctor actually follows and advice they simply read in a book or memorized in school.
But this axiom proves to have more bewildering and mysterious implications. Call it quantum physics, magic, the law of oneness... I don't pretend to know how it all works, but I do believe that the meridians, the channels of energy recognized by healers, traveling the terrain of our bodies like rivers coursing through the earth, are part of the fabric of the universe, the code of the matrix, the secret language with which the universe communicates to us. When you listen it says that we are all connected, we are all coursing with the same life force that IS OF THE SOURCE. Bare with me. To physically touch a person with the intention and attention of healing, to involve yourself with their vulnerabilities, pains, hopes, and desires, and to deeply listen and witness where they are on their path, their own divine journey, is to perform an exchange of energy. Not unlike the many other exchanges of energy we create in a typical day - giving a hug, flipping someone the bird, offering a helping hand, cutting in front of someone, expressing love or gratitude, or even just standing next to someone in a shopping line - these actions are our bread and butter, interpersonal exchanges that affect our energy. The reason I am writing blog posts is to share some of what I have learned. Acupuncture, like the universe, has truths so mysterious that I find it difficult to convey the HOWs and WHYs of the system of medicine. I hope these posts can help me to elucidate some of those truths, for myself as much as others. And the question becomes: how to turn these day-to-day interactions into something more and how to use modalities of healing in a way that actually WORKS. The postulated statement "a patient can only heal as much as their practitioner has healed" may mean something very literal. So back to the original question... Each acupuncture point has its own functions, its own dimensions and potential for health and imbalance. Each time we stimulate a point, we are asking it to perform that function in better balance. What if each acupuncture point needled, and each treatment is ONLY as effective as the health of that system within the practitioner? Can we only raise the vibration of that point to level of purity as that within the practitioner? That's heavy...talk about duty to your fellow man... Although, somehow I believe this isn't entirely true, for the mere reason that the patient's body accesses their own resources to heal, accesses the divinity within them, the divinity channeled by their guides and helpers along this life. So perhaps the limitations of the practitioner aren't directly translated to the limitations of the patient. But I do believe it works the other way around. The stronger the light you cultivate and radiate, the more potential healing you are tapping for your patients. It's nothing that hasn't been said before, just not by me! So while I wait for my practice to grow, as I take time off work to birth and begin to raise my daughter, I keep reading, keep learning, keep meditating, and keep working through my SH*T (if you know what I mean) so I can be a more healed person to offer better healing to others. Don't get me wrong. I don't think acupuncture is THE ANSWER. We can all channel the divine wholeness. Even outside of a "healing space," the same applies. I believe, like many others, that the more moments we experience gratitude, love, compassion... the less we let our minds obstruct our divine power and the more light we radiate out and attract to us and our loved ones, ultimately the more we elevate the world. (Possibly even rippling out to other dimensions, universes, timelines - if you believe that sort of thing. It's a tall order, but we're taller.) Stay tuned for my next post, "How did my hip pain go away after you needle my arm?" Well, do you want the long (confusing) answer or the short (possibly more confusing) answer?" Over and out.
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