Acupuncture and Brain Patterns
For years, we’ve had patients coming to our center and saying, “Why am I feeling like I am stuck in a pattern? I am stuck in a cycle, and I can’t get out of it.” These patients could be having stress, anxiety, depression, pain, or inflammation. Did you know that acupuncture is a time-tested strategy for breaking these patterns?
These vicious cycles are no different than a bad habit. Think about it. Have you ever had a bad habit that you wanted to break? The answer is probably, “YES!” Think about that time you said, “I am done with this. I’m going to break this habit,” and you take action to break the habit, and the habit starts to reduce.
Now, if you don’t jump right on that habit again, what do you think it will start doing? That’s right, it’s going to go back up again, perpetuating these vicious cycles of stress, anxiety, depression, pain, and inflammation.
The time-tested medical modality called acupuncture is what ancient medical practitioners created in China and have been used and evolved over 3,000 years to break these patterns. Biomedical acupuncture disrupts these vicious cycles by interrupting the neurological signal that is causing the patterns. Once we interrupt the signal, the signal will go down, thus reducing the pattern of unwanted thinking and behavior.
However, just like a bad habit, the signal will go back up again to recreate that old pattern of stress, anxiety, depression, pain, or inflammation if it remains untreated. So, we continue to interrupt the cycle over, over, and over, causing the pattern to lower and lower until we get to a point of resetting or rebooting the body’s self-repair system!
Here’s a question: Do you trust that your body has the natural ability to heal itself? Yes, of course it does! The only time it doesn’t heal is when there is something interfering with that self-repair process. Whenever you exceed demands beyond your ability to recover, the body goes in this self-protection mode, which means it becomes faulty. See, the body was never meant to take on chronic stress or chronic demands. It was built for short-term stress, so long-term chronic stress takes a big toll on the body.
When you exceed the body’s stress limits over a long period of time, the system becomes faulty and it goes into protection mode, creating its own demise. It’s like a smoke alarm that keeps beeping, but the fire happened a long time ago. So we need to continue to interrupt that pattern, so that it the body no longer responds with pain, inflammation, stress, anxiety, or depression. As we continue to reduce the signal strength of these vicious cycles, we see the body starts to recalibrate, reboot, and reset over a period of treatment time!
At this point, the patient starts to experience momentum in their health because the body really wants to stay in balance, what we call homeostasis. The patient is then able to take control of their health and own it!
That is how we help support patients here at The Center for Integrative Care.
To find out more about how we can assist you with your specific health concerns and how we can best integrate the use of natural medicine along with your current health care in a safe and effective way, call (619) 287-4005 to schedule a free consultation with one of our functional medicine specialists. We will answer any questions you have to find out if and how we can help you with your healthcare needs.