This is where your baby breaths
Breathing is key – right, breath of life? So running around like a chicken with its head cut off and taking shallow breath is not good. I went for a second round of acupuncture but this time instead of focusing on the pain in my back we decided to open up the four gates, to get my Qi flowing – from Wikipedia:
Health is a condition of balance of yin and yang within the body. Particularly important in acupuncture is the free flow of Qi, a difficult-to-translate concept that pervades Chinese philosophy and is commonly translated as “vital energy”. Qi is immaterial and hence yang; its yin, material counterpart is Blood (capitalized to distinguish it from physiological blood, and very roughly equivalent to it). Acupuncture treatment regulates the flow of Qi and Blood, tonifying where there is deficiency, draining where there is excess, and promoting free flow where there is stagnation. An axiom of the medical literature of acupuncture is “no pain, no blockage; no blockage, no pain.”
Meanwhile, as she was describing what she was going to do, she put her hands on my shoulder and pushed down and then a hand to my stomach, and said, this is where your baby breaths, this is where you need to breath.
Now, to unlearn 50 years of wrong breathing.