Discovering the Abdominal Brain - Traditional Chinese Medicine to further one's healing
In this episode I discuss the impact of discovering the abdominal brain, a concept further elaborated upon in Traditional Chinese Medicine. I also detail certain encounters and conversations with nursing staff and other patients at McMaster and learn that I share something in common with a fellow sufferer of a similar irritable bowel disease. Join me on this journey of self-healing and overcoming.
“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.”
Landscape by Dong Yuan, 18th/19th Century - Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The system of Chinese medicine emerges from a self-consistent and holistic conceptual framework in which the human mind-body system is viewed in relation to the cosmological whole. We are part of a great Unity, a Universal Pattern, the Tao. Our health is dependent on maintaining harmony and balance in the midst of inexorable change. By understanding the Way, the true nature of this change, the Tao manifests in each moment, our path to health becomes spontaneous and natural. ”