Our heritage is to lead long, healthy, happy, fully productive and creative lives. This we can do when our Life Energy is optimized. Our ultimate goal is to develop our true potential, aspiring to fully evolve. Some of the avenues through which this can be achieved include reducing stress, raising Life Energy, activating the thymus, and releasing creativity.
Stress reduction is essential. Depending on the nature of the stressful stimulus, it may produce a reduction of thymus activity and overall Life Energy, and/or a meridian imbalance related to a specific negative emotional state. Over the years, negative emotional patterns are established and set as a result of such stress. Ultimately, disease occurs. My research includes the study and delineation of emotional attitudes, stress, and other factors that lead to a diminution of Life Energy. From this we can develop methods for overcoming these factors.
What Is Life Energy?
Life Energy resides within each individual. It is the term that I use to describe the innate healing power of the body, that which causes us to heal - to love. Although I believe I coined the term, the concept of Life Energy has been around for thousands of years and has been given many different names throughout the history of medicine. The Greeks called it thymos, Hippocrates called it vis medicatrix naturae, the healing power of nature, while Paracelsus wrote of it as Archaeus; the Chinese Chi; the Egyptians, Ka; The Hindus, Prana, the Hawaiians, Mana. It is Spirit, it is Love. It evokes the true and only healing, that which occurs from within.
This is what I mean by Life Energy. It is through this, and only this, that all healing takes place. Life Energy is intimately connected with health in the broadest sense, in that underneath the specific symptoms of any particular illness we will always find a diminution of Life Energy. Therefore, if we want to help overcome the root of the disorder, whether mental or physical, we have to raise the Life Energy of the patient. In other words, the only true healing comes from within, by raising the Life Energy. This principle is basic to my work.
Life Energy flows throughout the body via the acupuncture meridians, each of which vitalizes certain organs, muscles, and tissues......
