Something I've observed in my recent life in Chinese Medicine, is that for many of us practitioners, we are drawn to and have a desire to help patients that have similar experience or have vulnerabilities that reflect parts if ourselves, our history, that we are continually trying to heal.
For instance, a dear friend who has a special place in her heart for patients who struggle with addiction, has had first hand experience and has an exceptional way with others who struggle to beat their addictions. Fundamentally, as human beings, we all have fears, but coping mechanisms are taught and some of us are not lucky enough to have had positive coping skills modeled and further still some are born with dispositions toward mental instability or depression, which creates a more challenging position.
We are all susceptible to the elements, but in Chinese Medicine, we believe that strengthening your Wei "Protective" Qi helps us to block external influences from entering and finding a home in our bodies. This analogy can be extended to social environment. The stronger we are internally and mentally, the less likely we are to suffer any damage from the everyday stressors or even bigger life events. We feel in the moment, adjust and work through the more difficult things, then let things go. And that is the normal and healthy processing of any experience or illness. Something's leave lasting impressions, like a physical disability or virus that can in weakened states flare up, but overall, like painful emotions, they become part of our history but not our defining characteristic.
Pathology can take many forms and vary in severity. Health is a constant flow a homeostasis within a range of moderation, not a static state. The only static state we will experience is death, and even in death, there is a process of decomposition and returning to the earth, and for some, there is much more beyond death.
From the mobile office
Note: Please consider any absurd errors as my little machine's Automatic Dada Poetry.
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