Article: Heaven and earth: the ancient roots of Chinese medicine.(strong roots)

I hold the needle close to the skin ready to touch the point. My feet are planted on the ground and I imagine myself as a channel from the sky. The point is a gate. The needle creates a moment of chaos, an opening, a disturbance, an opportunity to change this woman's energy so that a larger change will begin within her body, mind, and spirit. She breathes in and then relaxes. The color of her skin shifts and she laughs. The mysterious act of inserting a needle in an acupuncture point along a meridian of qi (qi is the breath or life force that streams through the body along a complex system of channels known as meridians) connects us to an ancient tradition.

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