Lifestyle Guidance

The choices we make each day deeply influence our vitality and resilience, and the art of living is cultivating a relationship with the body, mind, emotions, and the world we live in. Health is the result of balance and symptoms express in patterns of disharmony. Holistic medicine understands the connections between seemingly unrelated issues and illuminates the path to return to wholeness. Diet, sleep, emotions, the seasons, movement, relationships, home, work, these are all foundations that must be in alignment for health to radiate.

Acupuncture and herbal medicine help but cannot bring lasting changes when daily forces are continually causing imbalance. When we learn to navigate the constantly changing moment we can then learn life’s lessons, feel gratitude for the gift of life, and enjoy the ride too!

In holistic health, more emphasis is placed on prevention than treatment and this simply happens when we are living in right relationship with ourselves, others, and our environment. Everyone has a unique constitution, each person has qualities and characteristics that are their essential nature, this includes body type, warmth, moisture, the core pattern that express across all part’s of one’s life. The constitution is vital to understanding how to be ourselves, how to not try to be someone else, always living in unserving expectations. Emotions are clear guidance that inform us of how we feel about something, they help us navigate as we walk our journey, they are here to be felt and understood as a helpful guide. However emotions can also impact our health, for example long term sadness inhibits the lungs and reduces the qi that we need for all other processes. At it’s absolute root, holistic medicine honors the interconnection of the mind, body, and spirit, there is no separation, and it possesses powerful tools to address all parts of a whole human being. 

We are greatly influenced by the seasons and climate and we must find a rhythm with the rising and falling of the sun each day. A healthy balance between work and getting enough rest is essential to recover from the demands of life. Diet replenishes our energy when we consume what the body needs, but it’s also plays a large role in most health challenges. Stress and a fast paced way of life is likely the largest unseen influence that can cause issues, again knowing ourselves is foundational to finding harmony. Movement is life, it’s qi, the body is how we experience life, and movement helps clear blockages. Exploring life through the body is central to the free flow of energy, it’s about finding what you love to do rather than what you think you should be doing. One way Chinese medicine explores life is though mindful breathing with movement and awareness practices such as TaiChi and QiGong. Our home and living environment is also central to health, everything matters, clean air, sunlight, the home is the container of our lives.

Ultimately the goal is to support you by watering the seed of your greatest potential, we resolve obstructions and nourish your lifeforce so you have the opportunity to return to the pure expression of yourself. When we are clear, healthy, and in harmonious relationship with life we have the chance to discover our true purpose, what we are here for. When in thriving health we may then offer the gift of our essence by fully living, to be in service to creation by radiating forth our unique light. We are the healing the world needs when we live from the heart, feeling life, in celebration, willing to do the work, to learn and grow so we may be free and filled with vitality.