To demonstrate the power of 5 Element Acupuncture in healing the mind and soul after mental and physical trauma, I wanted to share one of my patients’ tales with you.
I asked “Pamela” whether I may share her narrative because it almost perfectly captures both spiritual sickness and recovery in all spheres.
Shock and other types of emotional illness can be treated with acupuncture using the five elements.
Acupuncture is frequently referred to as “TCM” by those who practise it most frequently in our nation (Traditional Chinese Medicine).
This style of acupuncture emerged in Maoist China after Mao assumed control.
As most of the old family traditions of medical practise and teaching had been lost, he was forced to devise a mechanism to quickly train individuals in fundamental healthcare skills in order to address the health care crisis in his nation.
He created a teaching method akin to that of a university, which has many advantages (I employ it for issues like jet lag and damaged ankles), but he lacked diagnostic abilities and a working knowledge of what we may call the fundamentals of mental health care.
This is the type of Chinese medicine that is currently most popular in the US.
Based on the cultural views emerging from China at the time, any mention of “spirit” had been removed from the medicine.
Before the Cultural Revolution, the 5 Element Style brought to Europe the ideas of spirit and how to handle emotional health.
The first 5-Element school opened in Maryland in 1972, introducing the concept to the rest of the country.
In order to help those who are suffering, I asked pamela whether she would feel comfortable telling others her story. She answered yes.
She stated, “I saw a few changes almost immediately that dramatically enhanced my quality of life after my first treatment with Linda.”
My sleep was the first thing to improve.
Before I met Linda, I had many sleepless evenings and frequently jarring dreams.
After I met Linda, I began getting 10 hours of sleep every night, making up for all those months of insufficient rest.
I awoke feeling energised and refreshed.
The other thing I observed after meeting Linda was a reduction in my anxiety.
My muscles weren’t as tight, and my body was more relaxed.
This increased my general energy and also helped me feel more at ease in my surroundings.
I began acupuncture in part to help me become more emotionally and physically resilient.
Prior to a few months, I was in a situation that left me feeling fragmented and incomplete.
I’ve spent months attempting to reassemble these parts and make them function as a single, powerful component.
I thought I had accomplished that, but I still have a delicate nature and am easily fragile.
In contrast, Linda is helping me to fortify those connections so that I may fully rediscover myself and become even more robust and strong.
Pamela had made the decision to move her boyfriend and family out of the west and attend college on the east coast.
She was a strong-minded, self-assured, vivacious, and active young woman who was eager to set out on her own and start her studies.
Shortly after arriving, she was given the drug in a pub, and you can probably guess what occurred next.
After the incident, she was instructed to take anti-HIV medications, and she spent the following three months confined to sitting on a couch.
Drugs, in her opinion, “took everything out of her.”
She claimed that despite her efforts, she was unable to return to school because She didn’t feel good
Even though she “knew they were murdering everything inside her,” she was terrified to stop taking the pills.
She shed 10 to 15 pounds.
She eventually dropped out of school, went back home, and re-adopted her parents.
She felt damaged and broken as a result of the drugging, the HIV medications, and the subsequent incidents.
She reacted strongly to everything and was generally more perceptive to the outside world.
To her, it was challenging to simply get through the day.
She spent most of her time being silent and still since she struggled to sort through concepts and information.
She wasn’t as certain about straightforward matters, like her favourite season.
Her family mistook her lack of happiness for depression.
On a scale of 1 to 10, she scored an “8” for tension and anxiety.
She also mentioned having vivid nightmares, weariness, a neck ache, and morning exhaustion.
I would say that her spirit had wandered off in my language.
The spirit truly consists of five aspects, according to Five Element Acupuncture.
The liver, according to Huns, is most similar to what we call the soul in our society; it is instinctual intellect and the subconscious, and it is responsible for our ability to develop and carry out plans, as well as our hopes and aspirations for the future.
A spirit corresponds to each organ.
The most intuitive component of human nature is controlled by the lung’s spirit, the Po.
Except for the Po, I would argue that all of this young woman’s spirits had “gone asleep,” leaving her to carry out all of her life’s work.
She was unsure of what she truly wanted (the spirit of the heart, shen, is responsible for this and is considered to be what we might call “consciousness”).
She struggled to focus and lacked motivation and willpower (both of which fall under the purview of the renal spirit) (under the domain of the Yi, spirit of the spleen).
She said that after her initial therapy, she was sleeping a lot—10 hours per day—and had no nightmares.
She continued to have intense dreams, but their focus moved from being exclusively about college to being about long-lost acquaintances.
She wasn’t roused by the dreams.
She had been “very fantastic” and enthusiastic all day.
She reduced the frequency of her counselling sessions from weekly to once every two weeks as her anxiety improved.
Her neck ache had gone away.
She claimed that while all the broken bits of herself had been put back together, they still weren’t “bones.”
She didn’t have to think about every action she took to complete her duties, which made it easier for her to get through the day.
She said that she felt “better than I’ve ever felt, more in tune to what my emotions are telling me” when asked how she was feeling.
This came from the initial therapy.
Three steps of therapy are used in 5 Element acupuncture: eliminating shock, nourishing the body and releasing physical blockages, and treating the spirit.
Although it is typical to work on all stages at once, a general thematic timeframe is adhered to.
You can see from pamela’s example how effective the therapies are at curing shock.
After such a procedure, it is necessary to fortify the spirit and constitution on a fundamental level in order for the patient to hold onto and occasionally embrace the fresh insights, renewed vitality, and awareness that come from having the shock removed from the body and mind.
The realisation that one needs a belief system or another kind of support outside their thinking to enable them to face some of life’s ugliness and be able to see beyond it frequently results in an awakened spirit.
The healing of the spirit starts at this point.
They frequently have the ability to view horrific experiences as lessons gained that enriched their lives in some way or helped them realise they wanted to live from a more profound place.
We can live deliberately, gratefully, and healthily thanks to the paradox of suffering causing growth.