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W

e Jews are lucky. We have
the secular new year and the
High Holidays to reflect on
the past year and hope for a better one to
come. We pray to be better people, to be
forgiven for our sins, to be sealed in the
Book of Life, and that we and those we
love will be healthy.
For the secular new year, we more
often set health-related goals. When we
strive for balance, we don’t often think
about balancing physical health and
emotional health.
Chinese medicine recognized thou-
sands of years ago an important relation-
ship between emotions and physical
health — that emotional and psycho-
logical factors are important causes of
physical illness and can negatively affect
the body’s internal organs. For example,
“anger hurts the liver, brooding hurts the
spleen and melancholy hurts the lungs.”
Medical texts over the centuries have
made suggestions on how to attain emo-
tional health. In one Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM) text, the recommenda-
tion is to be optimistic, noting “optimism
will help you forget sorrow.” A positive
outlook promotes circulation of blood
and Chi (life force/energy) and, thereby,
improves health. It makes sense we can-
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with anxiety, grief or anger for any
length of time.
With the stress of the elections and the
holidays, finding the balance between
eating, drinking, exercising, family
visits, politics, managing the outward
expectation of what we “should” be feel-
ing and what we are “really” feeling, can
be overwhelming; many feel physically
and emotionally exhausted. This often
continues unchecked for months, and we
wonder why our New Year’s resolutions
have fallen by the wayside.
Our ability or inability to handle stress
(physical, emotional and spiritual) mani-
fests in physical issues. Chronic stress
produces excess cortisol and adrenalin,
which have negative effects on our body.
Cortisol creates worry or fear and vigi-
lance, and produces anxiety. Adrenalin,
the fight-or-flight hormone, physically
prepares the body to react to a threat.
Overproduction of these hormones will
often interfere with the body’s ability to
handle stress.

CONSIDER ACUPUNCTURE
Clearly it is easier said than done to
attain and maintain emotional balance
and harmony. A profound-yet-simple
solution to helping reverse the runaway
trajectory of emotions is through acu-
puncture. By definition, acupuncture
works to balance the imbalance.
How do you know your problem can
be treated with acupuncture? Consider
the following: If the liver energy is too
strong, for example, one may feel irri-
table, angry, depressed, frustrated and
bloated. If the heart energy is out of
balance, one may experience insomnia,
obsessive thinking, anxiety or palpita-
tions. Acupuncture works to balance the
energies to alleviate those symptoms.
Acupuncture is a more than
2,000-year-old Chinese system of medi-
cine that places very fine needles in stra-
tegic areas of the body to promote heal-
ing of its unhealthy parts. The needles
act like a faucet by either increasing
or reducing the flow of chi and blood
through established channels or merid-
ians.
Although chi is not readily definable
in Western medical terminology, it signi-
fies movement or energy.
The reason for most ailments
(physical or emotional), according to
Chinese medicine, is some kind of