Vibrational Healing Night
Thursday, May 9, 7pm

The human body is made up of frequencies that form a harmonic & balanced whole when we are healthy. However, the vibrations of the body can easily go out of tune when we experience physical or emotional stress, improper or destructive habits.

Experience a lightly guided meditation with the powerful energies of Therapeutic Touch, Universal Light, Prana, Crystals, Sound, Aromatherapy & Sacred Geometry emanating through your five senses. These frequencies, gently yet powerfully, effect brain-wave activity, allowing one to travel into an altered state of consciousness. As different parts of the brain are affected they release different hormones & neurochemicals (the bodies natural feel good chemicals) which can release pain, strengthen will-power, increase one’s creative talents & overcome addictions.

Surrender.  Let go.  Allow flow. Allow those deep rooted emotions & traumas from your subconscious to be released, to be healed. Connect with Spirit & your heart’s true desires. Discover who you really are. Allow yourself to feel. To feel joy, bliss, happiness, ecstasy. Allow your Light to shine & when it does you create everything you’ve always wanted in your life!

Join us at 2720 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Suite 109 in Fort Lauderdale.
Investment for Vibrational Healing Night is $15.  7pm start until 8:30pm
Seating is Limited.  Please RSVP by Monday, May 6 by phone or email.
954-675-5189 or HERE

Please make note of the change in treatment hours for the week of March 25 and the week of April 1.

The office will be closed on:

• Tuesday, March 26
• Wednesday, March 27
• Monday, April 1
• Tuesday, April 2

Please schedule your treatments in advance so we make sure you get the treatment you need according to your treatment plan.

Scars. We all have them. Some are from traumas as children, others are from surgeries such as C-sections, episiotomies, or broken bones. Some are from vaccinations, tattoos, body piercings, and IV drips. And some are from dental decay or other dental toxins.

But what kind of effect do scars really have on our bodies?

Recently we have been doing more research and work on scars and the kinds of effects they can have in seemingly remote areas of the body.

The results have been startling.

It turns out that a scar or trauma site can create what is called an Interference Field. An interference field is something that alters normal nerve, lymphatic and energy flow.

Not every scar will cause these, but when the body doesn’t have sufficient quality and quantity of nutrients at the time of injury, proper healing cannot take place. And once the body has become weakened, the injury site starts to become a sort of energy sink for chemical and metabolic toxins to store there.

So, how do we get rid of these interference fields?

Mud packs.

We use mud packs from Premier Research Labs. They are made from a combination of various rare earth substances with maximum cation exchange capability. Toxins are very highly positively charged (cation), and the mud is very negatively charged (anion). When the mud is placed over the injury site, it will draw the poisons into the mud.

Opposites attract right!

Several mud packs may be needed depending on the severity of the trauma site. A trained practitioner will be able to help you decipher what the body needs to repair.

It seems strange that mud packing can have such a profound impact, but it’s really not that strange at all. Mud has been used for thousands of years, and currently there are over 840 worldwide clinical research studies available on PubMed which proves the effectiveness of these muds.

So why aren’t more doctors using mud you ask?

Well, we live in a high tech world. The wisdom of the ancients doesn’t always look so appealing if it isn’t flashing lights and beeping. But it can’t be ignored anymore. Mud packing is here to stay, and is proving to be a very powerful piece of the healing puzzle for people with chronic conditions.

For more information on Mud therapy, you can click here.

Qi Gong For Health & Longevity

4 Classes Sunday, Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14, 28 – 10am-11:30am
taught by Howard Moskow, A.P., P.T.
($20 per class, $60 for the series)

Howard’s Purpose
To empower individual and planetary healing and transformation.  To teach the most effective Qi cultivation (Qi Gong) techniques and support a deeper connection with source.

What is Qi Gong?
Qi Gong is a powerful system of healing and energy medicine.  It is the art and science of using breathing techniques, gentle movement and meditation to cleanse, strengthen, and circulate the life energy (qi).  Qi Gong practice leads to better health and vitality and a tranquil state of mind.  In the past, Qi Gong was also called nei gong (inner work) and dao yin (guiding energy).

Self-healing Qi Gong
Healing Qi Gong (also translated as “medical qi gong”) is the preventative and self-healing aspect of Chinese medicine. We are all exposed to stress. Qi Gong teaches us how to control our reactions to stress so that life events do not cause such symptoms as high blood pressure, frustration or anxiety. Healthy people practice Qi Gong to become super healthy. Healers use Qi Gong toprevent “healer burn-out” and to maintain a positive presence.

Benefits of Self-Healing Qi Gong
Experimental evidence suggests the following healing effects of qi gong exercises and meditations.

Cardiovascular : lower resting heart rate; normalized EKG, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels
Respiratory : slower respiratory rate, improves gaseous exchange, significant benefits for asthma & bronchitis
Immune System : better targeting of antigens, significant anti-cancer effect
Circulation : improves microcirculation, prevents vascular spasms, very helpful for angina, migraine, and Reynaud’s Syndrome (cold hands & feet)
Brain : improves cerebral blood flow, less incidence of stroke; reduction in frequency and intensity of seizure disorders; slow, high amplitude brainwaves suggest relaxed and integrated state of consciousness
Musculoskeletal : improves posture, balance, strength, stamina, flexibility
Chronic Pain : significant pain reduction from all causes, including injury, surgery, arthritis, fibromyalgia
Mental Health : decreases: stress response, Type A, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, depression. Improves memory and interpersonal sensitivity
Longevity : improves: blood pressure, vital capacity, cholesterol and hormone levels, kidney function, mental acuity, vision and hearing, skin elasticity, bone density, immune function, digestion, balance, flexibility, strength, libido. Destroys free radicals (major cause of tissue degeneration) by stimulating activity of superoxide dismutase

What will be covered in the Qi Gong classes
*4 Classes will be starting Sunday, September 30, 10am-11:30am

The core qi gong techniques will include:

Standing meditation and activating the energy gates of the body – this is probably the single most effective technique for beginners.

Smiling eyes meditation and self-healing – similar to standing meditation but done sitting.

Micro-cosmic orbit meditation – connects the two central qi channels which feed all the acupuncture meridians

Space is extremely limited, call or email with your RSVP.

Howard has been practicing Qi gong for over 35 years.  He has studied with many gifted teachers of Qi gong and healing.  Highlights of his Qi gong background include:  Er Mei Qi gong with the lineage holder Fu Wei Zhong, Tai Qi and Qi gong with master Ahn, Daoist yoga with Mantak Chia, sound current meditation with guru Prem Sing Rawat and internal martial arts with grand master Lin Chih Young, one of the only grand masters of the complete taoist martial arts tradition.
Howard is a licensed Acupuncture Physician and Physical Therapist in Florida and N.Y.  He has taught throughout Europe and America and is now starting to teach in South Florida.

Please fill out the INTAKE FORMS and the METABOLIC ASSESSMENT FORM BEFORE coming in for your first visit.  This way you can take your time with the questions on the forms and be more thorough.  Below are the 2 forms which need to be completed:

Intake Forms
Metabolic Assessment Form

We feel so strongly that this information is vital to every one’s understanding of their health and wellness that it will be a mandatory part of a new patient’s treatment plan.  Current or past clients are invited to attend at no cost and permitted guests.

Foundational Holistic Health:  What you need to know beyond your treatment.

Thursday, July 26 at 7:30pm

Today there is so much information about health, and especially nutrition, making it hard to tell the essential information from the misinformation and fluff.  This foundational lecture will present the critical information needed to accelerate your healing process.

LEARN:

• Why to eat,  When to eat, How to eat and How Much to eat. Why this information might be more important that WHAT food you choose.

• The 3 basic ways of handling emotions and why only one really works.  How to re-program your mind for a spectacular life.

• Why the proper fats are essential to your health.

• How to use Superfoods.

• The critical role of enzymes in your diet.

• The role of the glycemic index in your diet.

• The underlying principle of hologenics.

Seating is extremely limited therefore in order to save yours, you must RSVP via phone or email by Friday, July 20th.  You may RSVP for a guest as well.

As the summer solstice just passed, it is a perfect time to explain the yearly energetic cycle and how the body responds to the seasonal energies.  This year, the summer solstice fell on June 20, 2012 at 23:08 (11.08pm).  In the U.S., many see this as the beginning of summer.  As far as seasonal energies go, this is actually the pinnacle of summer energy.  Think yin-yang theory.  The summer solstice marks the longest day (day = yang) of the year and the shortest night (yin = night).  The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year and the longest night.  So you see, the summer solstice is the most ‘yang’ day of the entire year!  The height of summer and yang-fire energy.

Our body’s energy works in conjunction with the daily, monthly and yearly cycles.  We are at our most healthy when abiding by the natural cycle.  Be active during day and sleep at night is the most basic rule.  Women have monthly cycles as all are aware.  The words menses, moon and month actually come from the latin word mensis (month).  As for yearly cycles, do you notice how many people tend to put on weight in the winter and are more active in the summer?  You can optimally cleanse your body when paying attention to the yearly cycle as well.  Springtime is the best time to help your body rid itself of winter weight and toxic build-up as the energies are beginning to move outward during this time.

Timing seasonal energies is quite easy.  I usually just count 45 days before the solstices or equinoxes (365 days a year divided by 4 seasons = 91.5 days each season).  For example, 45 days before the summer solstice was approximately May 7, the accurate start of summer from an energetic standpoint.  45 days after the summer solstice will be the start of autumn energies (August 4) and the fall equinox will be the peak of autumn.

It is always a good time to get an acupuncture ‘tune-up’ around the solstices and equinoxes as the body does go through energetic changes during these times.  In summer, the energies are at their most surface.  When fall comes the energies begin to turn inward reaching their most internal at the winter solstice and come springtime, the body’s energies begin to awaken from their winter hibernation.

Summer is also an extremely good time to strengthen health even though you feel good.  Many people tend to get sick in winter and there are tonifying strategies in Chinese medicine employed during summer months (or the ‘yang’ time of year) to help strengthen and prevent winter (the ‘yin’ time of year) weakness and sickness.

I wanted to start blogging to inform people about what we do here at Affordable Acupuncture, about how to get the most from treatment, about what Oriental medicine is and how it works, about a healthy lifestyle, about the health dangers out there in the world and about answer common questions patients often have.

To begin, I wanted to address something very important.  Expectation.

What I mean about expectation here is expectation of treatment progress and expectation of when one ‘should’ feel better.  Expectation can pertain to so much more (life, relationships, wealth, etc.) but I will not write in depth about these.

I had many conversations with a wise Buddhist monk I met in Kunming, China.  In one, he discussed that everything here in this illusion has a twin.  Good has bad, sun has moon, night has day, old has youth, yin has yang…etc.  How would we know what good times are without having bad times?   Would you know what happiness felt like if you never felt sadness?

Expectation’s twin is frustration.  Or one can say, expectation breeds frustration.  Without expectation, there can be no frustration.
In our American society, people want it now, want it fast.  Immediate gratification.  Instant riches, to get there now, fast food.  Western allopathic medicine feeds into this immediate gratification belief system.  Take this drug and feel better, fast.  Do you have a headache?  Well, take an Advil.  Do you have horrible back pain?  Well, take some celebrex.  Do you have stomach discomfort?  Well, take some nexium.  Are you ‘depressed’?  Well, take some paxil.  Still depressed?  Well, add abilify to the paxil.  Do these drugs really get rid of your problem?  Or do they temporarily numb and mask your symptom(s)?  Unfortunately, this belief system of what medicine is crosses over into the holistic medicine world.  Many people expect to be healed, if not immediately, then fast. If they do not ‘feel’ that anything is happening within 1-3 treatments, then it must not be working.

We have had many clients frustrated with acupuncture and Chinese medicine.  I will not lie to you.  Not everyone is 100% satisfied.  Impossible.  Many times the cause is not that the medicine does not work.  Rather, the problem is expectations were unreasonable and frustration was bred.  Acupuncture is a holistic treatment.  Holistic treatments are like a nudges to the body to begin healing itself.  With enough nudges, the body will move in the right direction, towards health and away from disease.  Acupuncture is not a panacea and one treatment will not fix all your problems.  Often, we get asked: “How many treatments do I need?” or “How long will it take for me to be better?”.  The only answer is… “It depends”.

“It depends? How can I rely on that?  Are you trying to get me to come for treatment forever?”  What does that mean?”  Of course these are just assumptions as to what my clients are thinking.  I cannot hear my patients’ thoughts.  At least not yet.

An ancient Chinese general rule is that for every year a health condition has been a problem, one month of treatment is necessary.  You can start your expectations there and any less treatment will be saved time, money and energy.  Some people heal faster than others.  It is that simple.

More general rules are:

• The older one is, the longer treatment will take.
• The weaker someone is, longer treatment and more frequent treatment is necessary.
• The more frequent treatment you get, the faster you will feel better.
• Lifestyle changes are necessary in conjunction with treatment.
• Just because you feel better, you might not be entirely rid of the problem.

These general rules are not always the case, however.  ‘Always’ twin would be ‘Never’.  I use the word ‘general’ as the rules pertain to more of the people rather than less.  We do see some people who heal dramatically fast.  I have treated people one time and don’t hear from them for 1-2 years and they tell me their shoulder/neck/digestion has been better ever since the treatment.  It is always a pleasant story to hear although I do not make it my expectation to heal everyone who comes into the office in one treatment as that would create my own frustration.