The Angry Healer /5E

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Hi Marie,

 

As acupuncturists many of us pride ourselves on spending time with our

patients, this is in contrast to the 3 - 5 minutes that a western doctor

usually spends with patients.

 

Which ever acupuncture tools we use we are in the people business. This

means that as healers we need to be like pianos, capable of playing all the

emotional key notes available without getting stuck on any one note.

 

A 5E acupuncturist is no more qualified than a TCM in this respect. And it

behoves all of us to spend time either in counselling or psychotherapy

courses.

 

A trainee acupuncturist came to my practice a while back. Within 15 minutes

of talking we touched on raw emotional issues. Her impulse was to walk out

of my clinic 'to spare me seeing her cry'. Without her experiece of crying

with my support, She would one day go out into the 'Field' and possibly

suppress her patient's needs to express themselves.

 

One does not need to be a psychotherapist or a cousellor to be an efective

acupuncturist but there is no doubt that feeling at home with all maner of

emotional expression helps us to do a better job.

 

It is my experience that when we do 'efective' acupuncture we restructure

the physiology and release unexpressed / unacknoledged emotions. this has

the effect of bringing comfort, serenety and greater self awareness as well

as less pain etc.,

However, Our psyche will not allow us to experience greater emotional trauma

than we have the capacity to experience at any given moment in time. so

there is always a fail safe device.

 

I do have one caveat in this respect based on observation. 'Wrong

treatments' Do have the capacity to open the pandora's box of our

subconscious, bringing to the surface trauma that we are not ready for.

 

And in my experience 5 E practitioners are more likely to err in this

manner. When this outcome occurs I have oftern heard it say The patient is

experiencing ' healing crisis' sadly this is seldom so.

 

salvador

 

 

 

>Hi,

>

>This raises a question that I have been puzzling over, as I try to

>understand more about Five Element acupuncture. I send this

>question out to the Group. Where can I get information on just what the

>overlap, or distinction is, between Five Element and psycho-therapy?

>

>To say that the purpose of 5E is to help a patient grow and change

>suggests to me an emotional growth that could involve changes on the

>level of psychic landscape -- the confronting of old griefs and wounds,

>perhaps even the re-living of old traumas.

>

>How do you provide the support needed for such profound emotional work?

>What if the patient has flashbacks, or dissociates?

>

>Or, in other words, how do you keep the patient's emotion contained so

>that it *doesn't* overwhelm? What do you do if it overwhelms the patient,

>or if it overwhelms the practitioner?

>

>I haven't begun my reading of Worsley's books yet, but are there any

>articles anyone would recommend? I would be grateful for anyone's

>generosity in commenting, too!

>

>With my thanks -

>And Peace and Wellness to you all,

>Marie

>

>

 

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