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Acupuncture that Heals You from the Root

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How can we help?

You may identify with some of the following goals:

  • Improve my mental health and emotional resiliency

  • Have more capacity to life and my emotions

  • Improve my capacity for Joy and Happiness

  • Have compassion to myself and others so I can experience forgiveness

  • Reframe my emotional life into a positive experience

  • Have insight and healing to my chronic tension and pain

  • Reframe my childhood experiences and integrate them

  • Reframing past emotional events

  • Learning how to ground and feel rested in life

  • Improve my self confidence, self love and self acceptance

  • Allow my nervous system to feel rested

  • Support and better manage my chronic health condition

 

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What is NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)?

 

Neuroinguistic programming (NLP) is a psychological methodology and collection of techniques that emerged in the 1970s, utilizing language to influence our perceptions and allowing us to access and reshape memories and thought processes.

 

NLP can assist in healing emotional trauma and fostering new behaviors and mindsets, leading to a more positive outlook on life.

 

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Why Combining Acupuncture and NLP is such a great approach?
 
As a trauma-informed practitioner, Natanel (Nir) understands that challenging emotional events and unresolved emotional trauma can leave deep imprints on the body and nervous system. To address this, he offers a unique integration of Acupuncture and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), guiding his clients through a meaningful and transformative healing journey.

Long-term emotional struggles can significantly wear down the body’s natural healing capacity. Consider the recovery from a physical injury like whiplash: while two people may experience the same physical event, the individual carrying past trauma often faces a much longer healing journey. While not every physical pain is purely emotional, our chronic internal state plays a decisive role in our resilience and our ability to bounce back when we face life's challenges.

 

The Blueprint of Resilience

Our early childhood experiences form the blueprint for our future well-being. Because these events occur while our identity and sense of security are still developing, they have a huge impact on our adult lives. Investigating these early roots is a vital step toward reclaiming both mental and physical vitality.

Witnessing and Reframing Trauma

It is often said that "Trauma wants to be witnessed in order for it to be healed" This process is most effective when guided by specialized tools—such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)—which allows individuals to revisit past emotional events from a place of safety. By reframing these experiences while remaining grounded, we can resolve the "stuck" emotional patterns that deplete our physical energy and can inhibit healing.

The Nervous System and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

When an emotional injury remains unresolved, it creates a state of chronic stress. In the language of Traditional Chinese Medicine, these states act as "Internal Pathogens" impeding the energy of the internal organs and disrupting the healthy flow of Qi.

To address these deep-seated imbalances, Natanel integrates Acupuncture (TCM, Japanese, and 5-Phase styles)

with  NLP methods to heal and balance the emotions and the nervous system:

  • Acupuncture: To ground, balance, regulate and strengthen the Chinese Meridian System, Internal Organs and the Nervous System.

  • Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP):Helps rewrite the subconscious "programs" that keep the body in a state of stress or emotional reactivity.

  • Guided Imagery: To create a safe container to access subconscious emotional information so it can be reframed and healed.

Accessing Your Internal Resources

By combining these approaches, together we are able to help symptoms but also to address the emotional root cause that is affecting the capacity of the person to heal.

Addressing Root Causes can support healing from chronic health issues that were previously non responsive to therapy.

When you come for a session, Acupuncture can be practiced as an effective stand alone modality to help you with stress, pain, and nervous system dysregulation or to help manage a chronic health condition.

If you are aware of an emotional trauma from your past or curious if a chronic health condition is related to an emotional injury, we can together explore these aspect of your healing journey using NLP methods.

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"He who treats the body without treating the soul is like a man who repairs a house but ignores the fire burning within."

 

Attributed to Traditional Wisdom

 

Emotions and Chronic stress as root causes for illness

 

Acupuncture is exceptionally effective at resolving conditions rooted in stress, emotional imbalance, and nervous system dysregulation.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) teaches us that an illness can have an emotional root cause, this emotional root cause can have a role in keeping the illness from healing and the affect the 'Qi' - life force of our intenral organs.

 

By accessing, witnessing  and healing our emotions we can free up healing resources for the body to use in order achieve more effective and long lasting healing.

Emotions Vs. Internal Organ Energetics

  • Anger & Frustration injure the Liver / Gall Bladder ( side of body, joints)

  • Overstimulation & over joy, injure the Heart ( Cardiac, dizziness, emotional dysregulation)

  • Worry & Pensiveness injure the Spleen. (digestion, fatigue, sugar metabolism, muscles)

  • Sadness & Grief injure the Lungs. (skin, constipation, asthma)

  • Fear & Fright injure the Kidneys. ( lower back pain, bone pain, adrenal fatigue)

Chronic tension in the body can be related to emotions and stress

  • Chronic neck and shoulder tension or any chronic tension that appeared after an intense emotional event

  • Tension headaches and migraines

  • Persistent lower back pain

  • Digestive distress and "nervous" stomach, acid reflux

  • Chronic fatigue and depleted vitality

  • Chronic issues with sleep

  • Feeling constantly emotionally dysregulated, brain fog, reactive, easily triggered

  • Numbness, tingling, bad circulation, chronic pain with medical reason.

 

Resolving what holds you back from healing

To truly heal requires looking beyond surface-level symptoms to address the underlying root cause. When painful emotional information is suppressed, it consumes internal resources that could otherwise be dedicated to recovery.

 

These unresolved emotions can limit the capacity of your body to heal, In cases of chronic pain or persistent illness, acupuncture alone may not be enough if the subconscious mind remains in a state of stress; lasting relief often requires accessing, pacifying, and reframing that stored information. One of the effective way to reframe and heal emotional events is using NLP ( Neuro-Linguistic Programming) or other trauma related therapies.

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about us

Natanel (Nir) is an experienced Acupuncturist which uses different styles of acupuncture to support you in achieving your Health Goals, experiencing a Stress Free Body and a Sense of Well Being.

Treatment Modalities

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Body Acupuncture

Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine principles and the capacity to 'read the qi' we can discern which are the most active points in relation to you main concerns.

 

Combining a few styles of body acupuncture according to the needs of the patient.

 

To achieve a lasting change in the way we inhabit our bodies to creates a sense of greater well being.

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Low Level Laser Therapy ('Cold Laser')

'Cold Laser' can be used instead of acupuncture needles for kids and adult with similar results.

 

The cold laser can also penetrate deeper through different tissue and can be used to help and accelerate the healing of local structures.

Contact Us
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GET IN TOUCH

723 Cassiar place

(Dilworth mountain area)

Kelowna.

Tel: 778.594.1066

zen.needle.acu@gmail.com

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© 2014 by Nir Saar R.Ac.

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