This winter has been especially frigid, the earth feels like a frozen tundra. But having your bank account frozen is no laughing matter, it’s your worst nightmare. Not having access to your funds is analogous to being stuck in purgatory. Similarly, when the human body finds itself in a limbo state, this is a desperate attempt from your survival mechanism to get your attention, it’s a call for action in order to unfreeze. You know the old saying “ If it don’t move, throw dirt on it! “. Don’t become one of those people.
According to Western functional medicine, fight flight-freeze are automatic responses that help the body protect itself from danger. While these are all acute stress responses, freezing is the most insidious of all. Because of its inert nature, if prolonged over a period of time, it can become a chronic persistent problem. With fight or flight, at least you get some temporary relief, because these require physical movement as well as emotional involvement. To emote is to move. In any situation, when the homeostasis is static, emotion is necessary to transition from inertia to movement, darkness to light. When someone is in a frozen state, not only is she/he devoid of feelings and apathetic, but because the individual is unable to tap into her/his deep reservoir of life force energy, the person simply has no clue. In my clinic, when asked about how she/he feels after the acupuncture treatment, the answer is invariably: I don’t know.
When it comes to fight-flight freeze stress response, conventional wisdom tells us that we have no control over the reptilian part of the brain. But Chinese medicine with its long illustrious history, says that a maladaptive nervous system can be repaired with the help of Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. In this time of impasse, many turn to Acupuncture to restore balance in the nervous system by opening meridians to promote the smooth flow of Chi and Blood. In addition, Chinese herbal remedies can help unleash the primordial life force energy embedded in each of us. These ancient tools become the catalyst and provides the pivot necessary for change.
Money is the expressed form of material wealth energetically. Whether the energetic block occurs in the nervous system or bank account, the only way to re-establish natural flow in life is to break through the stagnation.
