Integral Wellness involves the ability to be Awake on all levels of being alive.
Health in an integral context includes the balance of your Physical, Mental, Emotional, & Qi Systems. It also involves your state of Living and Working Environments and how they play a role in your Well-being.
Traditional Acupuncture abides by a system respected internationally that involves Organ and Spirit Health measured and maintained by Qi.
Most people refer to Qi as Energy; however there is a bit more to it then that. Energy [E=mc2] has already been defined by the great Einstein. Qi is LifeForce which is undefined yet powers through us and all things – Creation itself. The drive to be Alive.
Integral Wellness & Traditional Acupuncture takes the spiritual root of the medicine and applies it to open and promote one’s Consciousness within all these levels of being Alive.
Defining Spirituality, according to Deepak Chopra he explains it as Consciousness itself. Consciousness is the ground of being that differentiates into everything that we call reality: our moods, feelings, emotions, cognition, perception, speech, behaviors, personal relationships, social interactions, the environment that we create and to that of the forces of nature around us.
The Dalai Lama, came to Christchurch in 2011 – the most powerful message relayed was to use our intellect; our Minds. Having the abilities to choose, to comprehend, to take action or not to take action was spoken about and the ability to Create.
Dr. Daniel Siegel author of The Whole-Brain Child states: “The Mind is an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information.” This definition allows one to see that our minds are like a switchboard or regulator constantly interpreting and processing Consciousness.
Most of our attention on dis-ease is how we “think” about whats happening to us rather than the actual dis-ease. By integrating your Health of Mind and promoting the Health of the Body we can achieve Strength.
Within this framework of Conscious Medicine we look at your Western Medical Diagnosis alongside your Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Diagnosis and treat in accordance to harmonize the Whole.