1529 Queen Anne Avenue, Suite 100, Seattle, Washington 98109 (206) 298-9376April Hulvershorn, M.Ac., L.Ac David Goodell, Ac.M. (UK), L.Ac.
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About Classical Five-Element AcupunctureThe following consists of excerpts from Talking About Acupuncture, a book transcribed from a lecture JR Worsley gave in 1982. It includes minor editing by Judy Worsley and the Worsley Institute editing team to bring quotes from different sections of the book into context for this website. This book and others about acupuncture are available from the Worsley Institute. “There is more sickness today than there was fifty years ago, simply because we are abandoning and neglecting the most integral part of man and woman. If the spirit within us is deficient, we are much more susceptible to disease. The strength of each individual depends on this core.” “This spirit within each of us is God, the Ultimate, Consciousness – call it what ever you want. We are an extension of the universe.” “Many people talk about vital Chi energy, the life force, and think it's enveloped within us. Really, it's just an extension of the ultimate source of energy which comes from the cosmos. We are part of that – the macrocosm and the microcosm.” “Do you know, a child of seven can understand the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine? It’s so simple; it’s so basic; it’s so natural. Yet we have turned our backs on it. We are now going in for things that isolate the body. You have a cardiac specialist; you have a pulmonary specialist; you have a kidney specialist. We are specializing in parts. We are not parts; we are one. Any one part of us that is not functioning correctly must affect the whole. The part that is affected is not necessarily the cause; it may only be the symptom.” “As I go on to explain to you some of these very basic natural laws, you will see the wisdom of this system of medicine. How valid it is. And you will start to learn much about why you behave the way you do.” “You will also find we lay far too much importance on physical pain, and physical symptoms. I put it to you that most people can tolerate a fair amount of physical pain. But you know what you can’t tolerate – when it starts to get to your mind. When you get depressed, when you get worried, when you get anxious, when you feel within yourself you don’t want to bother to carry on. That is worse. The mental anguish is worse than the physical pain. And when you go deeper to the spiritual anguish, that’s the time when you want to give up. It’s not worth living – there’s just no point in going on.” “Another reason we are not winning the fight against disease is that going back perhaps 100, 200 years, ‘named’ diseases like arthritis, back pain, rheumatism were very often caused by people having to work outside, badly clothed, badly fed and badly housed. Being exposed to these harsh conditions affected the physical body. People got sick. Now, at least in the West, everyone’s pretty well housed, everyone is pretty well fed. If it rains and you have an outside job, now you can come inside. You don’t have to work up to your knees in mud like they did 100 years ago. You have all the facilities under the sun available. And yet there is still as much arthritis, back pain, rheumatism as there was 100 years ago. But now the cause is internal, not external. The disease is being caused now by worry, fear, grief, hostility, anger, hatred, jealousy: all of these are now manifesting in the physical body as rheumatism, etc.” “When you have these two contexts, you can see how foolish it is to treat rheumatism. One was caused by excessive damp, cold, standing in water, no ventilation, no warmth, bad clothing. Nowadays it is the internal factor. The hatred, the anger, the fear converts to aggressive energy, and then you manifest rheumatism, and you can’t move your arms. How stupid to give a pill to cure it! One was caused by an outside factor; now it is caused by an inside factor.” “Our job is to find the cause of disease; so, in this case, we would try to find the internal cause of the rheumatism. Once we have established the cause we will try to correct it. If we can correct it, the rheumatism goes not for a day, not for a year, but forever. So the main thing in this system of medicine is first our ability to diagnose the cause of the disease.” © 2004 J.B. Worsley and Worsley, Inc.
How Classical Five-Element Acupuncture WorksThe text below is taken from Talking About Acupuncture, a book transcribed from a lecture J.R. Worsley gave in 1982. It includes minor editing by Judy Worsley and the Worsley Institute editing team to bring quotes from different sections of the book into context for this Web site. Talking About Acupuncture, by J.R. Worsley, and other books about acupuncture are available by visiting the shop page of the Worsley Institute. “This system recognizes that when our internal organs are working in balance and harmony as Nature ordained, it is impossible to be sick in body, mind, or spirit. Every disease throughout the whole of the world is caused as a result of one or more of these organs not functioning correctly. As the organ starts to go out of balance; disease will be the result, either disease of the mind, or disease of the body, or disease of the spirit.” “Basically, all we have to do is to correct the imbalance – bring these organs as near to balance as we possible can; then the disease will disappear.” “How do we influence these organs?” “Each organ in our body has a meridian or pathway going through it. Along this meridian flows the vital Chi energy, or life force. It is this vital Chi energy that allows the organ to function.” “Along the meridians are certain acupuncture points. We go into the acupuncture points and we can influence that Chi energy to balance it so that the organ can function optimally. Our aim is to get all of the internal organs to come to as near balance as possible.” “The joy of this medicine is that it is a preventative system of medicine. If you went to a doctor at the change of every season and he was able to make a diagnosis as soon as he felt that some part of one of the organs was slightly imbalanced, he would correct the imbalance, thus preventing disease.” “The beauty of this system is that we can pick up the distress signals as Nature tells us. Nature tells us not once, but about five different ways, long before symptoms of an illness appear. The minute any organ starts to imbalance, our body sends out distress signals saying, 'Hey, get this seen to'.” With proper training, a practitioner of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture can detect the cause of the distress and help correct it before sickness takes hold. Even if a person has become very sick, balancing the functioning of these organs, i.e., treating the cause of the illness, will help enable the person to become well again. © 2004 J.B. Worsley and Worsley Inc.
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