Human intent as it affects health

I believe that intent has a great deal of effect on health..patterns of thinking and behavior determine much in our overall state of our own health. In terms of intent of a practitioner, I think it is equally important. The state of our inner life, our heart, can be transmitted and felt by those we work with and it is important to strive for a peaceful and compassionate state of being, both towards ourselves and others. Will an acupuncture point work if I am worrying how I'll pay my rent? I think it will have an effect, especially if the persons own healing intent is strong, but inserting needles while pent up and worried also may have an effect of it's own, maybe on my patient, maybe on me as well. I think, overall, the most effective and enjoyable treatments I have observed and received have been at the hands of a calm, caring and focused practitioner.

Conclusions from Kirilian photography...

i think i will have more to say after i've experienced this for myself, but as of now...i guess i imagine it be picking up some aspect of the interaction of our being and the environment..which is determined by the present happenings of both our selves (thoughts, feelings, qi, blood, desires) and the environment....i'm looking forward to seeing me and you too:)

Acupuncture as effective energy medicine

In my experience, Oriental medicine has a powerful effect on whole beings; matter, energy and all. The way we talk about this reveals some apparent limitations in our language. Asking if a medicine is energy medicine or physical medicine implies the underlying concept that mind/spirit and body are separate. Does it treat the energy, the body or both? Using that dichotomy, yes, acupuncture/Oriental medicine is energy medicine, and I believe that surgery and pharmaceuticals are as well in the sense that their use will have an effect on the whole being. Oriental medicine differs in that, even if there are no scientific tests to categorize a persons complaints, as occurs so often in "Western"/modern medicine, there is still a pattern to be identified in terms of qi movement and elemental aspects of them.
I have been deeply moved by acupuncture, released and unwound ancient ethereal conflicts that I didn't even know were there, and I've also experienced the throbbing and very physical pain of a migraine dissipate at the tip of a skillfully applied needle...