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Newsletter: Health Care is Self-Care

Hope is in the air. It’s a new school year and we are all starting fresh. Let me tell you about my kindergartner, Emmie. She wants to be a scientist when she grows up. Her favorite book is a book about the human body called “The How and the Wow of the Human Body.” She loves reading all about her bones, muscles, and viruses. For Emmie, the first day of kindergarten marked the first day of her training as a scientist…

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One of the first things I learned as a student of Chinese Medicine was that everything has a cycle. The world of nature moves in rhythm and shifts according to what is needed, what is timely, and what is necessary. The theory of Yin and Yang is essentially a distillation of this wisdom into tangible and applicable practices that inform the health of not only the body, but the mind and the ethereal. This idea of practicing or living in accordance with the rhythm of the necessary, the timely, and the needed is also true for us as human beings.

There is this idea in Chinese Medicine that Women and Men move through life in cycles of seven and eight, respectively. These cycles are an attempt to describe the evolutionary process of aging observed in Women and Men and how it affects and impacts health at different stages of life. These evolutionary stages are also a timetable to describe a very important concept in Chinese Medicine called Jing.

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