Acupuncture

I got acupuncture today. I've gotten it every Wednesday for a few weeks now, and I'm honestly starting to feel long-term effects. I feel like I am becoming more centered, more grounded. It's an amazing thing. Chinese medicine is fascinating. It's been around for so long. It's an intentional medicine, and I really like that. In Chinese medicine, everything is connected to everything else. Nothing is random. Our bodies are made up of different systems, and it's when these systems are out of whack that we start feeling crappy. I don't totally understand the whole yin-yang thing yet, but I've experienced enough to honestly believe that yin and yang truly do dwell within each of these systems and the harmony or dissonance between the two 'energies' directly affects our chi--which is our life force/spiritual energy . . . that's my understanding of chi, in essence, anyway. Our entire existence--mental, physical, spiritual, and otherwise--is a balancing act. I've always been something of an extremist. I am most likely to gravitate towards one pole or another, and, for some reason, I just can't seem to be comfortable anyplace between the two. So this whole approach to health through is a scary struggle--but it's a necessary struggle. And acupuncture is certainly proving to be an incredibly helpful component against this war-on-self-terror.