Daoyin, QiGong: Everything You Need to Know
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
Release Date: 03/12/2024
How to Reclaim Your Mental Space and Harness Your Attention
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
When our attention isn’t our own, when it’s splintered and captured by every chiming, dinging, insistent notification or voice around us, we quickly become jumbled, stressed, and disconnected. Much of the current conversation surrounding reclaiming our mental space from relentless attention grabs and distractions is in service of increasing productivity and focus. This post isn’t about that. Today let’s take look at how to reclaim your infringed-upon mental space for healing’s sake, and what it means in terms. https://brianhuwe.com/2024/04/02/mental-space/
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Is Focusing on Healing Just Narcissism?
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
People are interested in understanding narcissism, and thank goodness! Because that mess is destructive; the sooner we can recognize it and put in boundaries, the better off we are. It’s one thing to recognize narcissistic patterns in family members, coworkers, celebrities, and/or real-life political nightmarish figures, but what about feeling like you’re a narcissist? Do you ever wonder if focusing on healing is, ultimately, just narcissism? And maybe, just maybe, you — like — shouldn’t? Let’s look into the yes and no of it all. ...
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Can You ‘Heal Yourself With the Power of the Mind’?
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
Can you heal yourself with your mind? Is that even a real thing? And, if so, how do you heal yourself? As usual, my understanding of Chinese medicine says yes, of course, and no, not at all. Let’s unpack it. https://brianhuwe.com/2024/03/19/how-to-heal-yourself/
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Daoyin, QiGong: Everything You Need to Know
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine uses multiple modalities and tools to accomplish this — including acupuncture and associated techniques, tui na (Chinese massage), herbal medicine, food therapy, meditation, and daoyin. Some of these modalities, like acupuncture, can happen only in the clinic. Others, like meditation and daoyin, are ultra portable and can be practiced at home, while on a walk, during work breaks, or many other places besides. Today we’re going to focus on daoyin: its roots, its function, and its modern-day applications. We may not cover everything you need to know... but it’s a solid...
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Meditation Chairs: What They Are + Why Don’t You Need One
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
Boys howdy, meditation chairs are hot right now! And they are purdeeeeeeee! And there are a couple of situations and ways in which meditation chairs can be very useful. And also? Don’t fall prey to the hype. A rolled-up blanket or a chair you already have or a stump outside or your bath mat can — in most cases — do the trick. For all its beauty and I-want-that desirability, a meditation chair will most likely not revolutionize your practice and mental health any more than that rolled-up blanket, chair you already have, stump, or bath mat. That’s because meditation is an inside job, and...
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Why Fear and Shame Are So Common in Healing
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
Have you ever experienced fear or shame related to healing? Maybe you’re experiencing it now. Let’s talk about why these (normal) feelings come up, what their source might be, and how acknowledging them helps them move along. https://brianhuwe.com/2024/02/27/fear-and-shame-in-healing/
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How Much Does Acupuncture Cost?
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
How much does acupuncture cost? From practice type to treatment frequency, learn what to expect, which factors affect the size of your investment, and whether it’s covered by insurance. https://brianhuwe.com/2024/02/20/acupuncture-cost/
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Healing Is Like Learning (and Treating Is Like Teaching)
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
Ever wondered what makes Chinese medicine unique? It’s all about reconnecting mind, body, and spirit. Dive into the philosophy of healing in Chinese medicine — where true recovery begins with understanding and reintegrating the self. https://brianhuwe.com/2024/02/13/healing-learning-treating-teaching/
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Detox Symptoms After Acupuncture
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
When certain kinds of acupuncture treatments are performed, it’s very common to have a reaction afterward. That reaction is not only expected, it’s desired. Not everyone experiences detox symptoms after acupuncture. It depends on the person, their body, the treatment, and more. https://brianhuwe.com/2024/02/06/detox-symptoms-after-acupuncture/
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Magic Wands, Silver Bullets, Hacks, and Chinese Medicine
Needles & Notions: An Exploration of Healing with Chinese Medicine
We LOVE to lump things into categories of “good for you” and “bad for you.” But when we allow ourselves to experience life fully without trying to reduce it into tidy silos, we get a lot more out of it, and we’re far less fragile. Learn how perpetually chasing silver bullets to avoid the negative and make life easier can rob us of resiliency, adaptability, and a full experience of life.
info_outlineChinese medicine uses multiple modalities and tools to accomplish this — including acupuncture and associated techniques, tui na (Chinese massage), herbal medicine, food therapy, meditation, and daoyin. Some of these modalities, like acupuncture, can happen only in the clinic. Others, like meditation and daoyin, are ultra portable and can be practiced at home, while on a walk, during work breaks, or many other places besides.
Today we’re going to focus on daoyin: its roots, its function, and its modern-day applications. We may not cover everything you need to know... but it’s a solid start.