Category: Research & Articles
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Feng Shui for Wealth
Categories: Research & ArticlesBy Amanda Collins Your surroundings have a powerful effect on what you attract into your life. When the energy around you is blocked or unbalanced, your prosperity, health and relationships can be adversely affected. Feng Shui improvements unblock the flow of positive energy, remove negative influences and allow you to attract the prosperity and abundance…
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Celebrating Summer with Feng Shui
Categories: Research & ArticlesSummer, the most Yang time of year, is finally arriving. Summer is symbolic of fire, heat, beaches, outdoor activities, and moving outward in nature and in our lives. It represents expansion and activity, abundant energy and longer days. The Summer Solstice on June 21st provides a poignant example of the cyclical nature of Yin and…
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Surviving Winter with Chinese Nutrition
Categories: Research & ArticlesFrom the exuberant growth of spring to the chilling winds of winter, the seasons have a profound effect on our health and the way we live our lives. Nutrition in Chinese medicine considers multiple factors such as a person’s body type, age, energy, and seasonal influences. In this way, a proper diet is used in…
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Chinese Cupping Works Wonders
Categories: Research & ArticlesTraditional Chinese medicine brings to mind acupuncture and the use of natural herbs as healing remedies. Cupping is a lesser-known treatment that is also part of Oriental medicine, one that can provide an especially pleasant experience. Cupping is the term applied to a technique that uses small glass cups or bamboo jars as suction devices…
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Cancer Fatigue and Acupuncture Points
Categories: Research & ArticlesI was sitting at the desk in my office when a woman in her seventies suddenly appeared in the doorway and asked me, “Excuse me, do you treat cancer patients?” As I was looking for the right words to form my answer, the woman made that task easier for me. “You see, my husband has…
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Trauma: The Hidden Pathogenic Factor
Categories: Research & ArticlesHave you ever experienced a burn that instantly felt better once you put ice on it? After a few minutes of relief, it is natural to assume that removing the ice would not cause an increase of pain, so you remove the ice. Surprise, the burn becomes more intense and the pain sinks deeper into…
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Secrets of a Feng Shui Goddess
Categories: Research & ArticlesConsidering we spend over 80% of our time indoors, it’s vital that our home is supportive and nurturing for us. When you enter your home, you should feel as though it is hugging and embracing you. Your home is merely an outward expression of what is going on inside its tenants. This is why it…
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Ayurveda and Sleep
Categories: Research & ArticlesSleep is a key ingredient for a healthy and joyful life. Good sleep acts as a rejuvenator of the mind and regenerator of the body, enabling us to perform optimally during our waking hours. Even powerful medicine is of hardly any use if this fundamental ingredient of life is missing. Unfortunately, the modern approach to…
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MaMassage: The Benefits of Prenatal Massage for Mamas-to-be
Categories: Research & ArticlesI believe massage therapy has a ripple effect–a radiating energy, an extension of our clients’ own healing processes, on through to the other humans within their circle. In our work with pregnant clients, this connection is even more obvious, and infinitely rewarding. When we work with a woman who is carrying another human inside her,…
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Reaction Without Thought: An Interview with Herman Kauz, Tai Chi Master
Categories: Research & ArticlesHerman Kauz has been a prominent teacher of tai chi for over 60 years. For the past 15 years, he has instructed the free Push-Hands class on the San Diego campus. In the 1970s, he trained with Cheng Man-ching, himself a student of Yang Chengfu, who was one of the most famous teachers of tai…