Emotional Pain
Acupuncture can be used to ease the pain stemming from difficult life experiences and helps to balance emotional energy directly, as well as revitalizing physiological structures, like the adrenal glands, that underlie the biochemical aspects of our emotional responses. Ideally, when treating emotions acupuncture is combined with other gentle therapies to provide lasting support.
To appreciate the value of acupuncture in treating emotional issues one needs to understand the energetic nature of emotional experience which is directly related to the energy flow of the acupuncture meridians. The value in using acupuncture to address emotions is that we can treat emotional experience directly.
For example, in response to a significant loss, it would be natural and expected to experience the emotion of grief. Treating certain acupuncture points would allow us to move through the natural process of grieving with greater emotional equanimity and with greater physical resilience.
