What We Treat: Health Maintainance

The World Health Organization is increasingly stressing the importance of living a healthy lifestyle, and we all know the basics; eat healthy foods, sleep restfully, and exercise. If we know the basics then why don't we do them? One reason is because many of us think that we have more time. We may think to ourselves that we will start eating better, sleeping more, and start exercising some time in the future. We procrastinate and postpone healthy actions that can create positive changes. This type of behavior is very common and irrational. To break these unwholesome patterns, help from others is often required.

Chinese medicine can be beneficial in breaking these patterns because it embodies comprehensive methods and integral principles for maintaining personal health in daily life. These positive changes have been shown to help prevent disease, bring peace to mental chaos, and restore the mind, so that healing and development can occur.

Daily commitment and dedication are vital when maintaining optimal health. In order to remain there, we need the support of others that are more experienced in making life-affirming choices. An acupuncturist can educate on the principles that produce a healthy approach to daily life, regular daily activities and methods of preventing unhealthy environmental factors from negatively impacting health. These changes occur when patients are interested in developing and willing to let go of unwholesome practices and habituated mind patterns.

The Oriental Medical approach is based on the belief that treating diseases or illnesses that have already caused damage in the body is much more difficult than preventing them from occurring in the first place. Not surprisingly, in Chinese culture, the physicians who keep their patients healthy are considered to be the greatest doctors.

In other words, prevention rather than treatment is the emphasis. We are all familiar with the idiom: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This saying has become part of our language because it is true.

From this perspective, care and prevention equals doing the things we know to be true about keeping ourselves well and taking guidance from others. We must recognize that we don't have unlimited time on the planet. What would our life look like if we took responsibility to remain focused on making healthy choices so we can live our lives to its fullest and highest potential?

This is the type of question that we ask our patients, as well as ourselves, everyday. Our practice comes from a rooted belief that positive lifestyle changes will bring into being positive results. If you would like to know more about how acupuncture and Oriental medicine can help you, please feel free to contact us.