Using mindfulness breathing with Acupuncture

I have been using the mindfulness breathing more and more in the clinic and with some lovely feedback. Just seems quite a natural addition to the treatment space,.Once I have decided on the correct treatment for today and once the needles are in place then I leave the needles in for about 20 minutes or more. So during this time if my client is having any issues with stress or worry etc I will talk through some simple steps guiding attention to the breath and to the sensation of the body lying on the couch. This helps to settle the busy mind. Somedays I might get to do this 3 or 4 times depending on who is coming for treatment and so I get to have a little mindfull time too....lovely!

Well did I tell you one about when i got a speeding ticket on the way home from..............

As you may have gathered I am just getting into mindfulness meditation, which is like a non denominational secular form of Buddhist practice. The course is in Leeds and I am out here in Holmfirth, about 30 miles or so to travel, and I set off home trying to find my way in the dark and all that jazz and got a bloomin speeding ticket! So much for being in the here and now. Turns out there is more to it than that, have to be in the here and now and DRIVE AT THE CORRECT SPEED!  Top Tip, cheers, Stacey

Mindfulness.

This is very much a here and now thing for me as I have recently embarked on this journey, or more accurate, I have returned to it.  And here and now I am doing my best to practise, to be more fully present to my experience of life. A way of being with all of my experience without trying to change or mend or fix any of it.

Where is the difficulty if there is no resistance?

There must be some kind of strange balance to be found for me as a practitioner of Chinese Medicine. As a practitioner I am  programmed to fix, change, mend, that’s kind of the job. And yet seeing how helpful it is to many of my patients for them to find this way of being with their difficulties and not pushing them away even as we together try and heal the problem. This way of working means we go deeper into the heart and core of the problem. If we are trying to work with stuck energy in one form or another, stuck in the throat, the gut, the shoulders, some kind of emotional blockage, some kind of rejection of a too uncomfortable emotional experience, so some door is closed inside, getting up close to that blockage with patience and curiosity and tenderness, and letting it be, letting it speak, letting it go.

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