Hi Reader,
How's it going? for real... you can reply to this email and share anything.
I have been in community healing for 24 years now, alongside activists, artists, changemakers and revolutionaries. If you are struggling to find ground, and want support, please reach out, community is life!
This summer the heat and economy are offering me time. It took a minute, but I am realizing this is an opportunity to hang with my kids and get some things done before it all gets super busy in the fall. It is also a time for me to reflect, to write and to connect a bit more, with all of you.
In this message...
- Thoughts on the overwhelm
- Practices to free your flow
- The Shen (Heart-Mind), Western Science catches up
- Research - short survey - please contribute
Thoughts on the overwhelm
I was chatting last week with a dear friend about stress and feeling ungrounded and she reminded me that...everyone is overwhelmed.
As wise friends can, she cut through my limited view, with grace and courage. Given all of what has happened, is happening and will keep happening, how could we not be overwhelmed? I felt my mind expand, "this IS what's going on, everyone is feeling the fear, anger, despair and disbelief.
In the clinic and in community I see ongoing pain, sleepless nights, worse digestion, and the fear, grief and worry in what folks share.
Panic is not a place to respond from, so then... from my perspective it is time to assess; where are you at and, given that, what now?
Financially, spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally, relationally and whatever else you see take some time to check in, get clear on whatever your reality is right now and from that place, decide.
From congruence, we generate.
We are all impacted by global climate change. There is no immediate "fix", still, if we do nothing? Nothing changes.
We can practice to cultivate capacity and embrace reality. We can get free to then liberate others. We can loosen the hold fear has on us so we can consider the decisions each of us can make to turn these local/global horrors around.
In disbelief resides hope.
Medicine happens with nervous system resets, movement practices, being responsible for our well being and learning about our bodies, communities and commitments. Medicine is herbs, pills, foods and the Land upon which we live. Medicine is music, activism, policy change and inner healing.
Healing is always happening.
We are of strange design, wired to survive, yet truly living is in thriving. Withering plants will survive amidst suboptimal conditions, yet flourishing, blossoming and blooming is what Life is here for, human animals included.
I have some answers, experience with healing trauma, pain, stress and practices to share. If you want to check them out, read on or connect directly.
Thank you for your time and attention,
Lamia Gibson, R. Ac, Shiatsu Therapist & Health Detective.
Moving your Qi to get free
Moving the Qi through your own meridians is a subtle, yet significant, way to free yourself and the world around you.
On Tuesday I met up with a friend to practice Taiji. It has been a while since I played, yet the moves came right back as we moved through the 24 fist form.
The next day I was offering Shiatsu and could feel my stance, form and Qi flow was more fluid, strong and clear. The client left feeling refreshed, her Qi flow clearly more free. She takes that flow to her family, community and herself!
You don't have to be directly working with energetic medicine to generate free Qi flow by moving Qi in your channels. Sharing Qi flow just happens because we are connected, human to human, to Land, to others and to Universal Qi consciousness.
Move Qi, clear heat, clarify Heart
There are more Qi flow videos on my YouTube channel. Get moving, get free.
The Shen (Heart-Mind), Western Science catches up.
Traditional Chinese Medicine has known for 3000 years that the physical Heart is connected to our consciousness via energetic pathways, the meridians.
The Heart houses the Shen, mind & consciousness.
Over the past decade or so western researchers have been discovering what TCM has know all along, The Heart receives from, and sends messages to, the Brain making the Heart a place of consciousness, thinking and direct influence on our mental, emotional and physical health.
There are 3 articles here for you to learn more about these connections from multiple systems of medicine and the TCM understandings of Shen.
Let's chat when you are in the clinic, and let's stay connected by signing up to my email list (if you haven't already!).
Research mode
How does the way I practice benefit your health and well being?
How am I unique in my approach?
How does Acupuncture, Shiatsu, cupping and food as medicine help you?
For the next year or so I am gathering data on my approach, and it's effectiveness, so as to develop a curriculum for teaching other health practitioners.
Fun, right?
Your contribution will be significant, guaranteed.
and take care of overwhelm, numbness, pain or dis-ease. Plus, I have great referrals if I what I offer isn't quite what you need.
May we all get free,
Lamia
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