I interrupt what I was going to say today to give you a story that appears in today’s National Post. It’s about anxiety and how doctors and pharmaceutical companies are “treating” it.
The doctor in the story does what so many of his colleagues so or don’t do for that matter – he knows there’s something wrong with the way things are done, but he doesn’t have the courage (OKay, the balls) to tell it like it is. No wonder things never get better!
In Chinese medicine, we understand how the emotions affect you. Prolonged fear affects the Kidney Organ System. Fear can be called anxiety – makes sense, right?
Well, as it happens, each Organ System governs certain parts of the body. The Kidneys govern the bones, the head hair, the lower limbs, the major energy sources of the body (Yin and Yang), growth, and reproduction.
So let’s look at head hair. If a person is under a lot of stress – in this case, anxiety, if you are constitutionally weak in this part of the body, your hair will fall out.
Hiding from the fear/anxiety is about the worse thing you can do. But this is exactly what happens with western doctors. They only know how to prescribe anti-anxiety pills, as the article and show will reveal, instead of actually getting a person to face whatever the fears are.
In my clinic, my clients learn to do this. They identify what the fears are because it’s so often a phantom and unknown. Then they’re guided to a point where, it’s really not as significant as they thought.
If it is significant then I guide them with tools and strategies to take positive action on them. The anxiety goes away and life frees up!
Be brave and do something positive and concrete. You’ve just learned a valuable life skill that you then can teach, like, to your kids.
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