Knowing the Patient’s Threshold, or Therapeutic S & M
By Christian Nix
Of all the areas of learning about acupuncture and moxabustion, I find kinesthetic technique
the least well-attended.
It seems to me there are two principal reasons for this shortfall:...
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Knowing the Patient’s Threshold, or Therapeutic S & M
By Christian Nix
Of all the areas of learning about acupuncture and moxabustion, I find kinesthetic technique
the least well-attended.
It seems to me there are two principal reasons for this shortfall: 1)
teaching kinesthetic awareness requires a teacher with good kinesthetic awareness and such
people are simply in short supply; 2) as a corollary to #1, not all students possess the patience and
perseverance to engage in the concentration and repetition required for high quality kinesthetic
awareness; still fewer posses the kind of ‘internal wiring’ that makes such awareness natural.
Let me explain further by way of contrast.
Studying a chart and learning that a given point
is so many cun from such-and-such anatomical landmark is a purely mental application.
From that
moment, there is point location - i.
e.
where is the precise point on the actual living body at which
the patient will experience a therapeutic response; and of co
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