Essential Healthy Habits


To live a healthy life at the most basic level, we all know that there are certain habits that must be maintained on a consistent basis. 
Want healthy teeth?  Brush a few times daily, floss at least once a day, and visit your dentist for regular check-ups. 
Healthy bodily hygiene requires that you shower or bathe daily.
Living at a healthy bodyweight results from consistently eating the right types of foods, and regularly engaging in some form of exercise.
Most importantly, living your life at your absolute healthiest, with 100% energy flow and maximum expression of life requires clearing the body of meridian imbalances and then maintaining those changes through consistent wellness treatments.
These are truths that cannot be denied.  When you quit performing any of these proactive habits, its corresponding aspect of health begins to decline.
So let’s say you did give up these habits.  What would happen to your state of health as it relates to that activity?
Quit brushing and flossing and you risk losing your teeth.  As undesirable as this would be, you can still live without a mouthful of teeth.  Sure it’s more difficult, but you would survive. 
Give up bathing and, while your circle of friends would quickly diminish, you would be in no imminent threat of losing your life.
Stop exercising or eating well and soon your neglect will be written all over your expanding body.
Start powering down or inhibiting the meridian system, however, and your quality of life plummets right along with it.  Shut the meridian system down completely, and you will be very unhealthy.
This is not to imply that if you give up your acupuncture treatments that disease is imminent, but it does speak volumes toward the importance of keeping the power of the meridian system flowing freely at all times.
Life revolves around the meridan system and when there become imbalances, or blockages, the energy that runs the body is diminished.

As important as it is to correct meridian imbalances and restore normal function to the meridian system, it is just as critical to maintain those changes.  A lifetime of preventative, wellness acupuncture care is one of the healthiest habits that you can engage in.

Egg Carton

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!