About Qi & Healing
When energy becomes blocked
Qi (energy) and Xue (blood) flow through distinct pathways (meridians) that cover the body. These flows can become blocked and stagnant (due to diet, nutrition, emotions, stress and the environment) and contribute to pain, disease and discomfort, blocking toxins in the body and throwing the immune system out of balance (allowing pathogens to affect the body). Energy becomes stuck in what Traditional Chinese Medicine refers to as “the meridians”.
A great sage once said: “Balance is, when emotions have not yet emerged. Harmony is, when they are active, yet all in proportion.”
This tells us that emotion not only has a powerful energetic effect on the organism, but that its appearance tends to unsettle the natural balance.
The focus of healing
Oriental Medicine aims to restore balance and harmony on all levels by enquiring into the nature of the disturbance at its core. The correct identification of stagnation and its specific location makes it possible to effectively harmonise disease states. A supple body is nourished by a flexible mind.
Practitioners of Oriental Medicine encourage clients to become aware of balance and to harmonise dysfunctions. They do this by enquiring below the surface of symptoms.
Treatment is as much about learning new ways of thinking and making new choices as it is about specific treatments. It’s about accepting full responsibility for one’s own life, becoming aware of and letting go our clinging to unhelpful ways of being, and it’s about living in harmony with the natural cycles of our environment.
The role of food in TCM
Living in harmony with nature, our environment and therefore the seasons is at the core of Traditional Chinese wisdom. As Traditional Chinese Medicine is also a system that is rooted in prevention, food is considered medicine.
The ancient Chinese used food and its healing properties to build up the body when deficient, cleanse it when toxic, and release it when in excess. With these basic principles of eating with the seasons, and an awareness of the organs associated with each phase and their respective emotions, we can all stay healthy, strengthen our bodies, minds and spirits and live long, happy healthy lives.
Let's Work Together
Many years of successful clinical practice have brought Kim to focus on her current areas of health specialty.
Whilst these areas can be complex and heavily interconnected, Kim provides a safe and trusting place to explore with her clients the particular challenges, treatments and opportunities for change.