Monday, August 18, 2008

My boss has started this thing where every monday she brings in her acupuncturist in to do secessions with the staff, last monday I was busy, but I went yesterday. I never sleep really well, it usually takes me a long time to fall asleep and I wake up several times during the night. So i thought I would try acupuncture! So i got little needles all over, one in my stomach, one between the eyes, a few on my next and my shoulders arms wrists and legs. It felt really cool. It didn't really hurt when they went in, but I could feel tingling and stuff. I also felt a lot of pressure release from my head and my jaw relax a lot (I always clench and tighten my jaw, have a little TMJ). When I was done with it I talked to the guy for a while and told him how my head felt a lot better and my jaw was super relaxed and it is almost never relaxed. He told me how usually with chinese medicine and acupuncture when you try and help one problem it often solves many problems because they are all related in some way; they don't just find one problem and try to stop the symptoms, but they go to the root of the issue and try and create balance. (something along those lines). Anyways, I slept GREAT last night, fell right to sleep and didn't wake up at all during the night. However, I had real trouble waking up in the morning. I felt half asleep till about 10:00am. I thought it was really cool though and I will definitely do it again.

Tomorrow I am going to a school to train youth leaders about a program they are helping with on friday. I get to show them different activities we are doing and teach them about leadership and team-building activities.

On Thursday we are having a party to celebrate the end of summer and because two people are leaving. So we are renting a junk and going to a different island Sai Kong, and doing some wake boarding and just hanging out on the boat. After that I am going to see the finals of the Equestrian jumping. So it should be a very fun day!

2 comments:

Greg Flejtuch said...

Meghan,

Marla's been seeing an acupuncturist every week for years and loves it. And she usually comes out of there loopy. I've had it a few times and I think it's helped me. And her guy and other therapists say the same thing- everything is connected.

Greg & Marla

Shawn Roberts said...

Hey Meghan,

I realized after we got off the phone yesterday that you never gave me an address to send the package...If you want to give it to me next time you call, or you can email me ( shawn.roberts@gmail.com ), I can get it ready to send.

~Shawn