As often as I encourage people to practice meditation, qi gong, or mindfulness I am met with “How do you do that?” I usually respond, “Oh, just check YouTube, there are tons of guided meditations.” I had a look around and while there are many videos some of them can get a little complicated. I think a practice should be simple then we are more likely to practice it regularly. Well, I grabbed a microphone, danced around, then recorded a very simple meditation that anyone can do. I had office and desk workers in mind so you can do this in the middle of your work day. Try it out, let me know what you think! ~Think...
I thought I would take a moment to update you on what has been going on in the clinic and the website. As you may know I write little articles or ‘blogs’ every week or so and I have a massive list of topics that I want to eventually get to. My goal is to be able to reach and help more people with simple and highly effective health tips. I am limited by the hours in the day to be able to see people 1 on 1 but using the internet makes all that information accessible to anyone at anytime. The problem has been trying to decide which articles to focus on, as I have no shortage of ideas! I am working up the courage to post some videos of some of my ‘rants’ that I inflict upon patients in clinic but I am not used to seeing myself in video. I’m getting there! There is a tool called Google Analytics that allow a person to analyze their website to see where their visitors are coming from, what they are looking at, and what pages are looked at the most. Don’t worry, I can’t actually see who you are just general information. For example, I notice that there are a lot of visitors from Victoria, Toronto, California, and for some reason Mexico! There is a tool that shows what people search on Google that brings them to my website and this has been very interesting. Here are the top 3 searches: The 3rd most common search is “acupuncture Victoria BC.” That’s not too surprising. The second most common...
Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on a several principles; the Yin and Yang Theory, Meridian Theory, Qi Theory just to mention a few. One important and very complex idea is the 5 Elements. 5 Elements was developed by observing nature and noticing that everything is either one or a combination of 5 different ‘elements.’ Each element represents a combination of personality traits, health patterns, and ideal lifestyles. It is important to recognize your ‘nature’ and keep yourself in harmony with the other ‘elements.’ Here is an online questionnaire that can help determine what element you may be. Acupuncture, qi gong, exercise, diet and lifestyle can help encourage your element and live in balance but it helps if you know what element you are first! What element are you? Take a simple test here. ~Think...
