Greeting Patients and Friends of Harmony & Health,
Happy Newest Year! We get to wish you another when the Chinese New Year begins mid-February!
In this newest year I encourage each of you to take excellent care yourselves to optimize your potential for a stronger immune system and overall wellbeing in body mind and spirit!
You may feel like hibernating with colder than normal temperatures! We can learn from the animals and nature when we notice they sleep more in the darker days of the year and still get out in the sunshine to kick up their heals whenever possible! Sunshine and Vitamin D! Outdoor solar-powered time is a must for good health.
Sometimes, people cancel appointments when they are sick, and yes, please get rest, that is always a good choice. However, you can still get treatments and reduce symptoms when you are sick, if you are out and about. Just taking “down time” to rest can be so essential to overall health. Please remember that we are not machines, though our lives seem so wrapped up with devices!
When you are in the lovely acu-zone drifting between worlds during your treatment, this is like a mini vacation, and can be restorative, like several hours of sleep! When we are sick, your body wants to rest and restore, it has wisdom, don’t let your worker bee thinking that bops till it drops over run your common sense to rest and restore yourselves!
Keeping Our Immune System Strong
Our immune system can weather these changes if strong. I have great belief in the power of positive words and awareness of our thought patterns that inspire us. I have found I can redirect self-sabotage or judgmental thinking and address illness to keep my QI or life force running clearly and smoothly thru my meridians using affirmations combined with tapping on acu points! I often recommend EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) or “tapping” on a series of acu-points as a simple “re-set” for the body and mind. I’m happy to teach these in your sessions as a tool you can use for your self-healing between treatments.
Acupuncture can help reduce symptoms and speed up recovery times. What I like about Oriental medicine is that there is no one right answer all the time, rather we address each individual as their health presents in a given moment. There are Acute-urgent patterns as well as constitutional or longer term patterns of health or imbalance that we look to rebalance with the many modalities. As many of you know, I address the emotional and spiritual level of illness as well as the presenting physical symptoms and seek to calm, nurture and let your body wisdom ignite to rebalance you to “normal!” I may use massage as a diagnostic to assess where your pains are while at the same time offering nurturing healing touch.
I find essential oils are valuable in setting the healing space for calming, opening breathing and supporting immune health. If you are interested in learning more about essential oils I can blend roller bottles or sprays for you as needed. I may even offer a class on oils before spring!
There are various stressors that deplete our reserves or “back-up battery” as you may have heard me say when I check your pulses and check your tongues as per TCM Diagnostics. Weather fluctuations can stress a weak immune system. When we are stressed, worried, not sleeping well or enough over a short or longer time, these are additional stressors. We can deflect colds and the flu better when we keep up our self- care including regular “tune-ups” to tonify our bodies and reduce stresses with the modalities offered in your sessions of Acupuncture, massage and oriental medicine.
My Top Suggestions for At-Home Wellness
- Warm cooked foods: Stews, soups, chili, and add celery greens carrots root veggies. Herbal tea…I still like good juices, but in colder weather cooked and warm foods are best.
- I find the benefits of Releasing acupuncture with Cupping Therapy beneficial and can address a wide variety of health conditions.
- There are various herbal formulas that treat various symptoms such as sneezing, sore throat, cough, deeper cough, fever, chills aches and pains.
- Hot baths with Epsom salts, sauna or rapid cardio – e.g. walks (wear a hat please!) to promote sweating.
- FLUIDS, hydration is so very important! Vitamin C added to your water can help loosen bowels. Avoid constipation, as your body needs to release toxins especially when sick! Keep your digestive track flowing and going!
- Colloidal silver can help kill germs. I use it in a dab it on a cotton and rub into my ears and nose.I seen it used in a nebulizer effectively.
Herbal Remedies
Sometimes, I may suggest you take herbs. Herbs have always been in the common domain so I encourage you to research herbs if you are inspired, but please let me know what you are taking as it can affect how I treat you. I may have suggestions from my years of herbal research.
One of my favorites formulas can tonify and kick the allergies back at the same time is a variation on an ancient formula with some herbs that target the sinuses as well. I use a natural antibiotic herb or a cough formula to nip the allergy symptoms before they go deeper. I use different brands or herbal formulas depending on what is going on with your tongue and pulse diagnosis, presenting symptoms and your health history. If your symptoms are serious and been there more than a few days, then of course seek out a doctor, as this flu this year can get in deep and may need a combined approach and remember to rest and keep up fluids. Come see me for assistance when you are ready.Best if we can treat it early on but there are different protocols for different stages of an illness.My patients that get regular acupuncture care, have been keeping strong thru flu season I notice this year!
Our bodies are organic and change with seasons, health challenges, stress, and times of year or phases of your lives. Sometimes when a person is on various medications, I will avoid herbal therapy as in post Cancer care. In these cases and others, Acupuncture and its many modalities of treatment can be wonderful for nourishing and rebalancing your emotional and physical self after the very strong and often toxic Cancer treatments, or a surgery.
I understand people have access more easily to western care. In a perfect world there would be more alternative methods and education of what is a healthy lifestyle including integration of holistic methods of cares as in Europe. I am happy to support you in your choice of treatments. Eastern and Western Medicine can work together to be effective!
EVENTS:
Monthly Drum Circle: TBD : Text me with any questions at 512-921-9899. It’s a pot luck and fun community event. Bring a drum or rattle and a healthy dish to share!
Drumming events are a free fun community event.It’s a meditation and good personal expression in a group where we can offer healing intentions for anyone,yet we are lighthearted joyful group , no experience needed.Feel free too message me at QiToGo4u@gmail.com.
New Service offered: Angelic Oracle Readings, this can be helpful getting clarity on your life or events of those near you or important matters of love, work and decisions or hearing from those who have passed on. I have been training in psychic reading for years now and feel it’s time to share on this level if others seek it. You may schedule 30-60 minute readings.
New Service Offered: Prayer Tree. If you have someone or something you feel would benefit from the gift of prayer, I have been told this is a great gift to offer and would like to serve others with this gift. Please let me know and let’s see what doors we can open in the new year! Email QiToGo4u@gmail.com
Thanks for supporting the services we offer to assist your better quality of living at Harmony & Health!
Breath with a smile, it spreads your qi!
See you soon!
JK Khalsa, LAc, LMT