"Lose your minds and come to your senses" , we were always being told by our mentors.
The social veneer we all place around us has to some extent to be stripped away to allow us to develop our senses and be in direct contact with our own emotions.
This is by no means an easy task for any of us, It requires a form of reconnection with the purest, most profound part of ourselves, a truly wondrous experience for those brave enough to pass through what can be seen as a rite of initiation into our deepest selves.
The five elements as they express themselves in us we become aware of the same in each one of us.
As their characteristics become more familiar to us, we grow to perceive them clearly and develop ways of storing all the parcels of information we have gleaned, ready to be retrieved as we make our next diagnosis.
The four diagnostic indicators, if assessed appropriately, will offer us accurate information about the state of balance of a patient's energy.
Acupuncture masters are skilled very wel, exercising them much as a tennis player exercises on the tennis court.
The changing colors on people's faces, changing smell on the body, changing sounds of the voices, may be sensitive enough to detect emotional changes.
