Facets of a Diamond – Blog
It is said that when drowning your whole life flashes before your eyes. If so, then at that very instant we suddenly Know why we have lived.
Chi is everywhere – Heaven’s Breath. Around us everywhere as etheric chi. When inspired into the body it is transmuted into bodily chi by the thymus, the controller of the acupuncture system. From there it flows through the meridians in a definite sequence, bestowing this energy, this “love,” on every organ and tissue. Then finally exiting to rejoin the etheric chi.
As a doctor, my work was to help, to encourage, to treat, perhaps even at times to heal. Always underneath is a degree, often a large degree, of preaching, of fear-mongering: “Do this – or else.” The other day I overheard a (lay) “healer” telling a “patient” that he could possibly come to need a colostomy. Telling – terrorizing.
In the draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote: “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
For years I had to use a faulty electric hand drier in the toilet of an office building I visit very frequently. Sometimes it would turn on when, as instructed, I placed my hands under the nozzle, or if I hit it – just so. But next time in the same place, it would not.
One of the most difficult ideas to accept is that a person who has wronged us is doing his best. The act may have been hurtful, counterproductive, destructive. It may seem to have been a very bad decision, yet it was for him at that moment the best he
When I worked in the chronic back wards of a large mental hospital, I had more than two hundred highly disturbed and disintegrated patients whom I was supposed to treat. But how? What could I do over and above the usual tranquilizers? I knew all the patients by name and spoke to as many as
The negative emotion associated with the liver meridian is unhappiness. Unhappiness is often confused with depression, so it important that we distinguish between the two. In psychiatry, depression has now become quite acceptable because we have antidepressant drugs. On the other hand unhappiness is not acceptable and even has a rather childish or epithetical connotation
The liver meridian relates to the feeling of happiness or unhappiness, which relates to whether you believe that mommy is smiling on you, or not.
When the gambler blows on the dice in his hand, he is hoping that Lady Luck, mommy, loves him. If they come out as he wishes, it means that mommy loves
The predominant emotions for the liver meridian are happiness and unhappiness.
Let us examine some of the expressions and origins of the word happy. You will be reminded, as I was when I first came across them, of the successful gambler. For example, happiness is defined as luck, or good fortune, or the state of prosperity.