A lot of the secrets to healthy longevity, beauty, self esteem, lack of fear and confidence are contained in self defense exercises and techniques.

Personal protection has become an important concern to all of us, our families, and those we care for. The type of self defense we look for is often of a personal need of ours. This cannot easily be gotten out of a group class, where the training is not personalized. Martial arts programs tend to take a long time of doing them to be able to effectively defend ourselves in a real, potentially dangerous situation.

One-on-one personal self defense training is geared to the individual’s size, gender, physical abilities, age and personal realistic goals, and are set forth between the trainer and the student. There’s no need to fear other students and practitioners in a class or group instruction setting, and no ego issues to deal with, just good quality, practical training to fit your needs and expectations. The training should be reality-based and something you can use, almost immediately, if you had to. In a short time, you should be able to defend yourself, get in better shape, improve your breathing capacity, muscle tone, cardio, stamina and endurance. Your coordination will improve, and so will your libido and circulation. You’ll have more energy, sleep better, digest more easily, and be less depressed or anxious.

Look for a self defense personal trainer who is well trained in several martial arts, is open-minded, and is someone you feel comfortable and safe to learn from. This is one of the best gifts you can give yourself!

The procedure is practically pain free, and is usually very relaxing and beneficial to the patient’s general health and well being , with no down time.

Cosmetic Acupuncture treats sagging cheeks, neck, buttocks, arms, breasts, legs, abs, giving them a lift, a fuller look and appearance. It can reduce wrinkles especially in the face. As for breast augmentation there is usually some increase in breast size and firmness. Breast development may continue for as long as three months after the treatments are over.

Results are usually seen before 6 treatments, although the average amount of treatments is 12. The results usually last for a few years. It is recommended that patients have follow up treatments 2-3 times a year, to ensure the duration of the treatments.

Cosmetic Acupuncture is a specialty area of acupuncture. Heat and electrical stimulation are used along with the needling, to accentuate the effect. Most patients are pleased with the results. Several patients have undergone this procedure after having had cosmetic surgery, especially in the area of wrinkle reduction, scar tissue tension, pain, and inflammation.

Cellulite reduction is quite effective using cosmetic acupuncture. The cellulite is softened with special needling techniques along with heat, and then guided away from the site of accumulation.

When a patient looks better, they feel better. The blood flow is stimulated and increased in the areas being treated, whether it be the face, beasts, hips, scars, legs, or abdomen. A lot of patients have blockages in energy and blood flow to these regions of their bodies, and by increasing the energy flow, stimulates the blood to move to those areas of blockage. Where there is not enough of what we want, we increase and fill those space up, where there’s too much we reduce.

Patients in general tend to look younger, with more vigor. Cosmetic Acupuncture is a wonderful natural approach to anti-aging and rejuvenation, a chance to recapture a feeling, and look of youth, without adverse side effects.

Psychological factors around infertility can be worked through by talking them out, as well as by using our bodies wisdom, to help rid us of interfering emotions, making fertility ineffective or complex. Fear for instance is a factor often with infertility for the woman. Fear of pregnancy, weight gain, delivery, stretch marks, responsibility for a baby and child, illness related to pregnancy, or the fetus etc.etc. Expressing these fears is a first step, talking about them is another step, finding ways to shed these fears. The next step is fixing the part of the body that produces and supports this fear.

The part of the body, the organ responsible for our fear, is the kidney. The kidneys are also physiologically responsible for our reproductive capacity and capability. If the kidneys are worked on, strengthened, balanced, energized, they will increase in their reproductive capacity and capability, while reducing the underlying fears around reproduction, thus increasing fertility. This is a great example of the body and mind working together.

Infertility often comes with a fair amount of worry and over thinking. Once again there is an organ responsible for this and that is the spleen. In oriental medicine, the spleen is of utmost importance to the woman’s gynecological health and well being, and her reproductive functions. Worrying and over thinking can be reduced by talking with a health care professional along with strengthening the functioning of the spleen, which will reduce a lot of the worrying and over thinking which can increase fertility.

When the mind and body work together and are balanced, we flow energetically, physically, emotionally, eliminating blockages and obstructions allowing reproduction and fertility to happen. For this to occur, some men and women need help. Spiritual counseling, emotional counseling, meditation, visualization, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and acupuncture and oriental medicine.

Acupuncture, oriental medicine, Tai Chi, Qi Gong will help heal and balance the body’s organs and systems i.e. endocrine, reproductive, increase circulation of energy and blood flow, while reducing obstructions, and blockages. Acupuncture and oriental medicine will help heal the psyche along with counseling, meditation, visualization to reduce infertility and promote health, fertility, conception, pregnancy and delivery.

We can and must struggle against old age. It can be treated just as any other illness because what we’re accustomed to regard as normal, old age is actually an abnormal, premature phenomenon.

We’ve almost from the beginning of human history, looked forward to the day when our lives might go on over the century mark. Various methods have been advanced since the advent of medical science.

Sooner or later every person becomes interested in the baffling problem of the secret of keeping young. It’s only natural that our attention should turn again and again to means for the prolongation of human life. Most people dread old age and subsequent death. Death comes too soon. From time immemorial we’ve tried to find ways for the graduation of physical suffering, for the restoration of youth and for the prolongation of life.

Biology, the study of life, pictures life as a continuous tide-like process consisting of building up and partial tearing down. In this process food particles are assimilated by the living organism; then they’re broken down, thus liberating energy indispensable for life’s functions. Growth may be thought of as an excess of assimilation over dissimilation. Food and its assimilation lead to growth.

The processes of regeneration goes on during our entire lifetime. Despite the rhythmic succession of work and rest, the cells of the organs gradually wear out. To replace them, new generations of cells arise, born of the old cells and resembling them. The death and rebuilding of parts of the organs and tissues proceed continuously within us in the course of our entire life. The liver cells posses the ability to multiply and regenerate. Medicine is faced with learning to control that inner medium in which the cellular elements live, to find methods for its systematic sanitation, cleansing, and renewal. Old age is the loss of the ability to regenerate.

The nutrition of the cell is disturbed, and their starvation sets in, and their life activity is lowered, age comes on. As we age it is often said we dry up. Wrinkles appear, the skin becomes thin and flabby and dry. Aging is characterized by a further decrease in water content. The old organism dries up not because of an insufficient intake of water, but because the aged tissues of the muscles, skin, and internal organs have lost their ability to retain water. The loss of water in the old organism is the result and not the cause of aging. It’s important for us to live a simple life, with as little worry, fear, and sadness as possible, so that we may slow down the aging process. If we need help achieving this then by all means, seek out help. Go for counseling, acupuncture, herbal consults, body work, spiritual guidance use any and all resources available to help in the prolongation of our lives.

Acupuncture heals the emotions and mind through the body rapidly and effectively. Each major emotion corresponds to a major organ in the body which, when stimulated, will effect great changes for the better and allow sexual potential to manifest itself. For instance, anger corresponds to the liver, sadness to the lungs, fear to the kidneys and worry to the spleen. When these organs are energetically balanced and working optimally, the mind will be at ease and the endocrine system will be free to respond to our sexual needs and desires, allowing optimal performance and pleasure for both men and women.

Before we are able to work on sexual relationships between others, our own beings must be finely tuned. This process includes examining diet, our environment and lifestyle, as well as past traumatic injury.

Improper diet includes both over- and underconsumption. Chronic overeating or drinking may result in food stagnation and its further transformation into heat, dampness or phlegm, which eventually will affect sexual function. Likewise underconsumption may injure the spleen and stomach.

Therefore, having a balanced and proper lifestyle and diet are the keys to maintaining a healthy body and, as an extension of this, healthy sexual desire and function.

Traumatic injury, as well as cold, dampness and heat, can cause sexual dysfunction. Acupuncture helps to restore the body and mind to a state of proper function and balance.

Acupuncture treatments can be supplemented with Chinese herbal medicine, which greatly helps restore sexual function and desire, especially between acupuncture treatments. Acupuncture can help alleviate the stress, anxiety, anger, depression, fear or sadness that may interfere with sexual function and cause a reduction in libido.

It is necessary for us to strengthen our nervous systems, reduce stress, and deal with our fears, anxieties and sadness, so that we can protect ourselves and each other. Beginning with ourselves will create a sense of strength and resilience so that we can cope with situations that may threaten us. If this is done with a measure of calm, we will think and act more rationally, remain healthier and be of the utmost benefit to all.

We can use all the resources available to us — counseling, massage and bodywork, self-help books, spiritual guidance, supplements, etc. — to build a society of people who are able to deal with their lives calmly and rationally. Let’s be well in the present. A body and spirit functioning on fear and anxiety cannot be strong, nor can it move ahead in times of need.

Acupuncture is one of the most beneficial modalities available to us for strengthening our bodies, minds and spirits. It is quick, effective and cost efficient. It helps strengthen our nervous systems, reduce our fears and lifts our spirits, so we can live our lives to the fullest.

There is no need to fear acupuncture. It is nearly painless; it’s less painful than living with stress and anxiety.

Acupuncture has been used for centuries to manage stress and anxiety. Warriors used it to keep themselves balanced, calm and strong.

We all need to become strong, and this is a good place to start.

Medical massage is very relaxing, meditative and enjoyable, and it relieves symptoms of illness. It is very effective for chronic pain, stress and anxiety reduction, migraines, female issues, depression, fatigue, pre- and post-surgery issues, immune system strengthening, anti-aging, skin rejuvenation, energy balancing, weight reduction, cellulite, carpal tunnel syndrome, as well as sports- and work-related injuries.

Medical massage incorporates lymphatic drainage, connective-tissue therapy, craniosacral techniques, tuina, guasha, heat treatments, myofascial release, soft-tissue manipulation, acupressure, scar tissue therapy, progressive relaxation and other related modalities.

Medical qi gong is a form of channeled energetic healing, that can rebalance body energies and heal our minds, psyches, souls and bodies. It can help heal many ailments and illnesses on many different levels (physical, etheric and astral). Qi gong therapy is subtle, deep, relaxing and very effective when it is done by a practitioner with a healing/medical background who has been trained by Taoist qi gong masters.

This training takes many years of difficult practice, that often test the practitioner’s dedication to medical qi gong. Many medical qi gong practitioners have had training in the martial arts.

Qi gong therapy often includes teaching simple, easy and practical qi gong exercises to the patient/client so he or she can assist the therapy between treatments. These exercises often are individualized to the patient’s specific ailment, illness or symptom. This therapy has been successfully used for thousands of years in the Orient.

Medical massage and medical qi gong can be done together or separately. They are extremely powerful and effective therapies when done by properly trained practitioners.

Hair growth can resume and improve with acupuncture treatments and Chinese Medicine. In Chinese medical theory, the kidneys are very important to hair growth. Treatments need to increase blood circulation to an optimal level, get rid of blood-flow obstructions and blockages, and fine tune the endocrine and reproductive systems. The basic organs of the body need to be synchronized energetically before hair can begin to grow back thicker and stronger.

The death of hair follicles results from insufficient blood circulation which inhibits the delivery of nutrients and toxin removal. Even when foreign chemicals damage the follicles, good circulation can quickly remove toxins and prevent the follicles from dying.

An overly acidic body can cause hair loss. By balancing body functions, reducing stress and consuming a more alkaline diet, hair growth can improve.

Taking the right supplements and herbal medicines also will help because deficiencies are replenished.

Other benefits from these treatments are: increased energy, better sleep, reduced stress and increased immune function.

Acupuncture and electrical stimulation tend to contract sagging muscles while increasing blood flow through them. With age, we tend to have a decrease in blood flow and circulation to our muscles causing them to lose elasticity, thereby appearing droopy and saggy. This non-invasive treatment can fill out muscles where needed, making us look and feel younger.

Breasts can be enhanced, wrinkles reduced, complexion improved, acne reduced, facial muscles lifted, abdominal muscles contracted and sometimes arms and legs can be tightened.

A general sense of well-being is felt, along with the added benefit of overall health, boosting the immune system, improving digestion and slowing down the aging process in the body.

We all deserve to look and feel our best, especially during these difficult times, we need to replenish and regain our vitality, energy, beauty and health.

When this acupuncture specialty is done properly, it should be relative painless. The benefits certainly outweigh the possible discomfort. Usually a series of six to 12 bi-weekly or weekly treatments is necessary to achieve desired results.

If you feel you would like to look and feel younger and prettier, then you should give yourself the gift you deserve — cosmetic acupuncture.

There are basically two types of depression — exogenous and endogenous. Exogenous depression results from factors in the external environment. Endogenous depression is caused by factors within the person’s body and may be independent of his or her life situation.

Acupuncture can relieve feelings of depression, anxiety and insomnia, giving a person a sense of well-being and self-confidence. It is an effective substitute for sleeping pills, tranquilizers and anti-depressant medication. Many of these drugs have serious side effects when used to replace deficiencies of biochemical serotonin and dopamine in depressed patients.

Acupuncture promotes normalization of body metabolism and stimulates the patient’s body to produce optimal amounts of the biochemicals it needs for good health. As the heavy, sad feeling of depression is relieved, a person feels more self-confident in his or her ability to cope with unpleasant aspects of life and make necessary changes.

Acupuncture is a safe and effective way to relieve depression. It will not, of course, change the circumstances of a person’s life, but it will produce a feeling of well-being and relieve the insomnia that frequently accompanies depression. Since acupuncture does not have the side effects of anti-depressant drugs, electric shock or hormones, it is much safer and usually at least as effective. Acupuncture treatment for depression can be given along with treatment for any other symptoms.