Written by admin on 2009-03-20T13:05:43+0000">March 20, 2009 – 1:05 pm
You may find this surprising, but acupuncture treats everything from mental tiredness to foggy thinking, from tears to grief. As it is a transfer of energy, it can be pulled or pushed to where it should be. It can create relaxation in one part of you and improve vitality generally. If you’re crying as you talk to me, I can dry your tears with acupuncture, leaving you with greater inner strength, because I have moved the energy and removed the stress.
Tension release is a breeze. It’s gone in minutes. Why have a nervous breakdown? No matter what the cause of the stress, it is a matter of energy dispersal. Why take drugs for tension? There are no side effects from acupuncture. If you are exhausted, we heat certain points in key areas. Why be tired? Read my book Why Am I So Tired? (Pan Macmillan, 1992).
By the time you approach menopause knowing your energies are balanced, your eating habits stabilised, your joints in position (thanks to your chiropractor), your exercised body keeping your circulation pounding and all your organs functioning as they should, what symptoms could you possibly have to worry about?
Menopause doesn’t mean illness, it means your periods stop. If there are symptoms of the disease, you have been ignoring your health, and that is our business. Your body’s innate knowledge of its systems and their inter-relationships is supreme. The alternative therapist works to help your body heal itself.
Jean’s story-Jean was fifty and past menopause and blamed her health problems on that. Her friends noticed that she was speaking in a breathless manner. She had her blood pressure checked and found that her diastolic pressure was up 30 points above normal. Refusing any drugs, she visited her friend’s chiropractor and asked him if there was any reason he could see for her problems?
It was found that her pelvis was out of alignment, and there was also pressure at the top of the neck caused by the spine compensating for the tension at the base of her back. This neck strain affected her nervous system, and needed correcting.
She was a little nervous but had complete faith in his ability. He was highly qualified and his manner was confident and reassuring. He adjusted her neck while she was sitting up. The sound of the adjustment, instead of frightening her as she’d expected, gave her a deep sense of ‘rightness’. After, when the blood pressure was taken, it had returned to normal.
What she didn’t expect was the bonus of sleeping the best sleep of her life afterwards; her nerves settled down so that she wasn’t jumpy with her family anymore.
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