Mental Health

When it comes to the mental health, stress comes first. In modern society, everybody gets stress and talks about their mental health. Stress is part of our mental health issue. However mental health can cover more than just stress itself. 

According to BeyondBlue website, mental health is a state of well-being in which every individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community. mental health is very important in our life and the quality of the life. 

 

How much do you know about your mental health?

Do you know the mental activity comes from the energy of our body organs? In the western medicine, the mental health comes from your brain activity mainly such as thinking, worrying, depression, anxiety.  So you read books and have consultation with psychologist, and you take medication with reduce or increase chemicals in our brain such as dopamine and serotonin. 

People also mentioned meditation and exercise would help your mental health. So you ride bicycle, do bush walking, running, and even yoga.  Yes, definitely, all these exercise and medication would help your mental health. However, you didn't answer the first question which the mental activity comes from the energy of body organs?

 

How Eastern Medicine think of our mental activity?

In the Eastern Medicine theory, our organs such as Lung, Heart, Spleen, Liver, Kidney, Gall bladder, Pericardium govern our metal activity. 

When a certain organ becomes weak or has disease, we tend to have a certain emotion or mental activity. Each organs have its own energy and characteristic, so that they represent our specific feelings.

• Happiness belongs to our Heart.
• Anger belongs to our Liver
• Worries belongs to our Lung
• thinking belongs to our spleen (including pancreas)
• Sadness belongs to our pericardium
• Fear belongs to our kideny
• Shocking belongs to our gallbladder

 

How can acupuncture help our mental health?

Acupuncture is a main tool for modifying and enhancing our body Energy Flow (氣 - 기, Chi, Qi).  If we explain our body Energy(氣) as bioelectromagnetic field in our body, the acupuncture needle is the best tool to modify this Energy(氣). The acupuncture needle can be inserted into a specifice points in the meridian in our body. 

Our body has main 12 meridians which are connected to our internal organs such as Heart, Liver, Lung, Spleen, Kidney, Pericardium, Gallbladder, etc.

Therefore, we use acupuncture to modify the energy flow (氣) in our body according to the diagnosis about your mental health. This acupuncture helps the energy of a certain organ which governs our certain feeling, so that we get better mental health. 

 

Who needs acupuncture?

Acupuncture doesn't have any chemical attached. It uses a fine needle, almost painless needle. Therefore, someone who suffers from any mental health issues can get acupuncture. Your acupuncturist will tell you about acupuncture and how it would help.

People who want to be in a good mental health states can also get acupuncture regularly to enhance their body Energy flows (氣).