Acupuncture is a well developed science that can seem very complicated to a new patient. Honestly, it may always be a mystery as to why acupuncture can remove your pain instantly or relieve your indigestion. But one of the most exciting things to realize when you start getting results with acupuncture is that your body is the one making the changes it needs to heal.
When a patient comes to me to thank me for the help that they have received from treatment, one of my favorite things to say is: “there is nothing in the needles.”
One of the ways that acupuncture works is by giving your nervous system information. The needles send prompts and reminders up the nerves to signal the brain that it needs a new way of doing things. What an acupuncturist is doing to the nervous system is similar to what a programmer might do to a computer. Using a series of simple interventions, we work to organize the core operating structure. We know that if we can create order, function will return to the entire system.
My job is to be fluent in the language of acupuncture and communicate it to my patients in a way that they can understand. I provide information, my patient’s interpret it and choose to apply it. Ultimately, it is their ability and willingness to learn that has made the healing possible.
Acupuncture offers the incredible experience of engaging the body’s potential to adapt and evolve. This potential is, in fact, always within you.
