Energy Medicine and Energy Fields-Week 11 Biophysics

• Acupuncture as effective energy medicine

Yes, it's very interesting if you look at the "Biophysics-- 'The Myth and Reality of Energy Medicine'" article, it is interesting that Westerners are taking ideas from other medicines and trying to come up with their own Westernized version of it.  I've never heard of Chinese medicine conceptualizing Qi as electromagnetic fields, but perhaps the description of the electromagnetic fields and how they interact in a person's body might be similar to descriptions of how Qi works in a person's body.  It seems challenging for Westerners to have to use Western science concepts to describe something like what Chinese medicine has--for example, describing Vital Energies as "nuclear rearrangements ..in the form of Alpha and Beta particles."  The other thing is that it's just not as poetic as Chinese Medicine.  Maybe they ought to draw on the poetry of some Western dude like Aristotle as well and then they might have something!  But certainly one way people define energy as Qi, and I'm just grateful I have thousands of years of perfection of this "Chinese Energy Medicine" to work from rather than to start from pretty much scratch with trying to conceptualize it from a Western perspective--of course I might disagree with myself a little because I do think in the roots of the Western mind some of this exists--it may just be washed into a recognizable nothing--for example I know all people come from indigenous backgrounds, and Chinese medicine comes from indigenous backgrounds as well.

• Human intent as it affects health

Really, you can just see this as in general when humans intent to do something eventually they have come around to it in one way or another.  Sometimes this may be like symbolic ways, such as pursuing the top of the mountain might be paralleled to "death"--if one aims for their own version of heaven on earth, death is what they might achieve.  But really, the only limits are how far humans can get with the limits of what exists on Earth.  So then the more important and common sense question is, how valid is what you're intending to do, or more simply put, is what you intend to do really your best contribution?  So many have strange motives in mind, and I always believe everyone should intend to be their best selves and have a kid-sense as to what "best" means.  No best doesn't mean being the richest or what have you, it means acting in a respectful way, with dignity, with grace, working to be able to do this.  So an intention for better health insofar as it promotes a person to be at their best is certainly achievable, and really required for anything one does to be worthwhile.  Why have these great achievements when achieving them makes you into a suffering monster who brings everyone down with them?

• Respond to another classmate’s blog

This week I responded to http://acchsgrad2014.blogspot.com/'s blog entry