Liver Cheese

After my second acupuncture/hypnotherapy treatment I feel the need to reflect and write. Also I'm starting to realize that people really do miss reading my posts when I skip a few days so here goes...

I don't actually want to write much about the actual acupuncture and hypnosis session. Somehow it's private, but I do think all of this Chinese Medicine stuff is fascinating, and I'm still obsessing over what's yin or yang, what's good for me, what's not, and so on. I'm finally starting to feel normal again after last month, which was an emotional rollercoaster - a "healing crisis" perhaps, during which my body starts to react to becoming "unstuck" after all these years.

I have stagnant Liver Qi (pronounced "chee"), or as my co-worker thought I described it - "Liver Cheese". This can happen due to unfulfilling one's desires. I suppose that would adequately describe me - of course if you were to ask me what my desires are I couldn't answer you. I've never really known. Well, maybe as a kid I knew, but as an adult I seem hopelessly confused and directionless. I guess that's how stuck my Cheese is.

Anyway, I'm feeling pretty good after today's session - a little guilty perhaps at taking the time away from work to do this (I took the morning off) for myself, but good nonetheless. It also feels great to have an acupuncturist who I feel really cares about me as a person, unlike most medical doctors and therapists that I've had.

So that's all I have to say for now. I had some green veggies for dinner, some vitamins and herbs, and am now drinking peppermint tea. Just what the acupuncturist ordered!