What's in Your Carton?
If you’re like most people, before buying
eggs at the grocery store you open the carton to check for broken shells. You’re probably not too surprised when you come
across a cracked egg or two and you simply continue your search, rendering the
previous carton useless. As you proceed,
you notice that some cartons contain 1 broken egg, others contain 2, and still
others have 3 or more. Finally you find
what you came for, a carton with a perfect dozen eggs inside.
Why must you go through the process of
opening each carton? Because you can’t
tell anything about the contents by simply looking at the outside
packaging. Every carton looks identical
from the outside, yet they can be very different on the inside. To randomly choose any carton without knowing
what’s inside would be a foolish and unnecessary risk.
The body is like our egg carton. It is
often so good at compensating for imbalances, that what might look healthy and
in balance from the outside can actually be masking underlying problems or
symptoms. If left undetected, these
imbalances can lead to chronic sickness, degeneration, and disease.
When it comes to our health, we’ve been
taught that what you see and feel is what you get. If things look okay on the outside and you
don’t have any symptoms, you must be healthy, right? We’ve come to learn that this is not the
case. Many diseases and disorders such
as cancer and heart disease have no symptoms or warning signs until the
sickness is well into the advanced stage.
Imbalances are no different.
Meridian imbalances are known as “silent
problems”. They often go undetected
because many times they are painless and reveal few outward signs or symptoms,
yet all the while they are affecting your life-sustaining meridian system.
If there are enough cracked eggs in a
carton, and they are left inside long enough, eventually they will begin to
soak through and reveal themselves.
Similarly, uncorrected imbalances will eventually show themselves as
symptoms.
The only way to know for certain whether or
not you have meridian imbalances is to either wait for your carton to soak
through, or to open the carton and look inside with a acupuncture
examination.
If you wouldn’t take a chance on a $3.00
carton of eggs, you certainly shouldn’t risk your most precious and priceless
commodity: YOUR HEALTH!