Stress, Anxiety, & Depression
Balancing The Emotions
Emotions have a strong affect on our health and well-being. Acupuncture treatments help to return the body to a state of calm reversing the negative affects of stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and grief.
What you feel is sacred, and it is real.
We can never be fully free of stress, and moments of anxiety or depression, sadness, anger, joy etc. That’s part of our human and spiritual journey. Learning how to see our emotions as visitors or guests, rather than permanent roommates, can help move them along, as well as acknowledging them as teachers, and givers of information. Sometimes these deeper emotional patterns are communicating a greater process that may be rooted in your ancestral lineage. Emotions, especially when they begin to surface in the physical body, can go very deep.
Now, you may not be dealing with levels that go beyond this lifetime, or even adopt that belief at all. Doesn’t matter.
Acupuncture provides gentle, calm relief to help with the process of returning balance into one's life. If you are working with issues around PTSD, bi-polar disorder, panic & anxiety, or depression and the many bodily symptoms that can arise such as headaches, abdominal pain, neck and back pain, and insomnia acupuncture could provide long-lasting effects. The emotional responses of hormonal changes around the female cycle, medication side effects and withdrawal symptoms also respond very well to acupuncture treatment. If you are wanting to ween off a medication, such as an anti-depressant, acupuncture can ease that process. Our practitioners will work in conjunction with you and your healthcare provider for a safe and smooth transition.
When a condition is physically or emotionally debilitating, or is bringing you to a point of thinking harmful thoughts towards yourself or others, backed by a plan of action to hurt yourself or someone else, our practitioners will always refer you out to see a specialist. However, you are welcome to continue to get care from us and together we can create a plan for how you want to feel, and share some of the the tools our practitioners think would be most supportive to you!
Acupuncture works SO well for keeping the emotions and energy moving. When we get too stagnant and stuck, it is really hard to move into a better feeling place. There is a direct relationship between our mental and our physical state of being. We will focus on WHERE in your body you feel pain, discomfort, or blockages, and go from there. Imagine a puddle of stagnant water, collecting bugs and moss etc. This is how I imagine festering emotions. When we are able to introduce a fresh source of water into and out of that pool, it begins to clear. This is what we are going for.
We will also offer tools outside of our treatments to help you keep the energy moving and clear. We practice under the ancient knowledge of Chinese medicine tradition - WE ARE NATURE, and we are connected to all living things. This means that sometimes these emotions don’t begin with us, they are guests - from where?? We don’t always know, nor does it always matter! What matters is that it doesn’t get attached to you, or that you choose not to identify with it as YOU. It is not you.
Let’s get your energy moving more naturally so you can free yourself from what is not you,
and make more space for your own inner SHINE!
