Imagine facing a major health crisis, like needing open-heart surgery. Then, six months later, completing a half-marathon up a mountain with a mile of vertical gain. Sounds impossible? It’s possible. I did it and you can, too, with the support of Chinese medicine.
Unknowingly for decades I had a heart and liver issue. Symptoms were irregular heartbeats, digestive issues, and for a while, panic attacks. When I found acupuncture and Chinese medicine, my symptoms were erased and I studied to become a practitioner. I developed a lifestyle that nourished a healthy mind/body that slowed down what might have otherwise been a rapid decline.
I didn’t know at the time, but my liver could have failed on me.
After another symptom emerged last year – atrial fibrillation – I decided to get to the bottom of it. After a battery of tests, I was diagnosed with cirrhosis and within months I was on the operating table for open-heart surgery.
Due to all I had cultivated, I was in excellent shape going into surgery. Everything I learned from Chinese medicine prepared me for and provided the resources to tackle recovery and the Mt. Ashland Hill Climb just six months later.
This medicine can help you, too.
What are you up against? What seems impossible to you right now?
By integrating the principles of Chinese medicine, modern science, and traditional wisdom into your mind and body, you, too, can have the support to do your impossible. Here’s how it works:
• Acupuncture: Stimulates your body’s innate healing intelligence by deeply relaxing the nervous system, relieving pain, reducing inflammation, improving circulation, and enhancing your sense of wellbeing.
• Chinese Herbal Medicine: A sophisticated pharmacopeia of botanicals that can be combined not only to treat most issues from colds and flus to digestive issues to autoimmune diseases, but can also build and strengthen your body.
• Nutritional Therapy: You are what you eat. When you modify what your body metabolizes, you change your physiology promoting optimal energy and vitality.
• Meditation and Mindfulness: This is crucial for managing stress and promoting mental clarity. Stay focused and calm during recovery or preparation for medical procedures, difficult work situations, or your impossible challenge.
• Yoga and Exercise: Gain and maintain strength and flexibility, reduce injury from exercise and promote balance and harmony in your body and mind.
When put together, these practices and therapies can transform your health, build resilience, and open a portal to your will power that when focused can move mountains (or at least climb them).
If you’re intrigued, let’s talk about how integrating Chinese medicine and other wellness practices can support you to scale that impossible mountain of your own.
