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The Path Forward

12/8/2021

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Journey to Health | Easthampton, MAYour Journey to Health
As we approach the new year, I’m reminded of something I learned 30 years ago when I was struggling with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and I began a lifelong journey towards health. There is always a path forward.  It’s not an instant cure or a guarantee of life without pain.  Instead, it’s way to find more ease, more joy, less discomfort.
 
At times, this is hard to believe. Life can throw us curve balls and it may seem difficult to find light in times of darkness.
 
What’s true is that light is always there.
 
When I was in acupuncture school, I was taught that, in ancient times, the herbs a person needed would grow just outside their home.  I believe that this teaching remains relevant.  The things we need to heal are close by – in the food we eat, the exercises we do, in the quieting of the mind, in the restorative power of sleep, and in the arms of the people we love.
 
Life gets busy, stressful, and often we forget our own miraculous ability to heal.  I’m in my 60s now.  My body is less forgiving than it once was. Yet when I listen to it, I’m constantly finding ways of renewed health.
 
You can too!
 
My work has always focused on small, sustainable changes that lead to improved health and well-being. 
 
Here are my top 8 suggestions for 2022 to live a life filled with health & happiness, all of which are low-cost and readily available.
 
1) Eat more vegetables.
The easiest way to incorporate this suggestion is to add a serving of vegetables to your diet every day.  Choose something that is not part of your current diet.  I recommend adding a vegetable to your midday meal.  Soup, roasted vegetables, and stir-fries are all good choices.  
See my food blog for recipes.
 
2) Take a walk.
This is one of the easiest forms of exercise.  Remember to wear a good pair of sneakers or hiking boots.  Walking offers the benefit of movement along with an opportunity to experience the healing powers of the outdoors.
Here are some places in Western Massachusetts.
 
3) Buy a buckwheat pillow.
I recommend this to my patients who experience neck pain.  A buckwheat pillow conforms to the shape of your neck and offers support. No more waking up with a stiff neck!
Here are recommendations for what to buy.

4) Get some extra fiber.
We should be getting a least 30-50 grams of fiber a day.  Fiber is found in whole grains, nuts, seeds, fruits & vegetables. Even when we eat these foods, we often don’t get a s much fiber as we need. 
Add a tablespoon of this prebiotic fiber to your diet. 
 
5) Relax your muscles more.
I don’t love the term stretch.  Stretching is thought of a something that we tack on to our exercise routines. I think of strength training and aerobic exercises as activities that contract and strengthen muscles.  Muscles that are constantly in a contracted state end up causing pain and discomfort.  Muscles need time to relax.  Think of stretching as having a conversation with the tight parts of your body.  Breathing in to restricted areas and allowing them to relax creates a life filled with more ease.  My personal favorite way to do this is with a Pilates on the Ball workout.
Pilates on the Ball DVD
Pilates on the Ball Book & DVD
 
 
6) Cut back or eliminate processed foods, sugar, diary, caffeine and alcohol.
Processed foods are devoid of the nutrients that our body needs to function optimally.  Sugar creates inflammation in the body.  Diary can cause overproduction of phlegm. Studies show that caffeine offers some health benefits as it is rich in anti-oxidants, but I see many patients who are revved up from coffee and have trouble getting a good night’s sleep.  Alcohol turns to sugar in the body and heavy drinking is associated with increased risk of death.
 
While there isn’t a one-sized-fits-all recommendation for intake of these foods, most people are better off either eliminating them or making sure they’re used occasionally and consciously.
 
I absolutely believe that we should enjoy the food we eat and not feel like we’re depriving ourselves. There are so many healthy, nutritious meals. 
Take a look at my Yummy, Healthy Food Blog
 
7) Start a meditation practice.
This requires no special knowledge or equipment.  You just slow down, go inside and sit with what is.  Traditional Chinese Medicine teaches that each of the 5 main organs has a corresponding positive and negative emotion and when these emotions are in balance this leads to better health.
Listen to my 5 element 5 organ meditation and find this balance.
 
 
8) Practice gratitude.
The more you count your blessings, the more blessings you will find to count. Our nervous systems are wired to look for danger, which is a survival mechanism. But trust me, most of the time immediate danger doesn’t exist. When we retrain ourselves to look for beauty, joy and appreciate the good things in our life, we have the ability to experience a paradigm shift.  The world can become a safe and forgiving place.
Here’s one way to begin a gratitude practice.
 
One thing that I’ve learned over the years is that the path forward is not a solitary one.  We humans are wired to need connection with each other. None of us live in isolation.
 
If you find yourself struggling, reach out to a trusted friend or family member.  You might be surprised to learn that they are going through something similar to you.  Shared pain is pain halved.
 
If you’re looking for additional support, I offer free ½ hour consultations to new patients or those who haven’t seen me in a while.
 
Simply, schedule one here:  https://www.bonniediamond.com/free-consultation.html
 
Remember, we’re all in this grand experiment we call life together. 
 
Sending blessings for the holiday season and the new year!
 
Bonnie

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How does acupuncture work?

3/1/2021

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Last week when I was treating a patient, she asked this question, “So how does acupuncture work?”  It’s a question that I had asked as a student at the New England School of Acupuncture.
 
The truth is that we don’t actually know how acupuncture works from a Western medical perspective. East Asian medicine has a model that is vastly different from science, which focuses on separating the different parts of the body and has an emphasis on cause and effect.
 
Acupuncture looks at the body as a whole and focuses more on the relationship of a part to it’s whole.
 
Western Medicine is more absolute, Eastern Asian medicine more relative.  Because these models are so different, it’s difficult to explain one in terms of the other. 
 
That said, we do have some clues about how acupuncture works from a Western medical perspective.

  • Acupuncture stimulates secretion of endorphins
  • Acupuncture interrupts pain pathways in the brain
  • Acupuncture may change the levels of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine that are released by the nervous system.  This may explain why acupuncture helps people who are struggling with addiction and anxiety and depression.
  • Studies on mice have shown that acupuncture has an impact on the immune system.  Neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School recently found that acupuncture quieted cytokine storms in mice with systemic inflammation – yes, the type that has been found in some Covid-19 cases.
  • It’s been found that the connective tissue planes, form a network in humans that resembles the meridians described in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
 
All of this is exciting news because it offers confirmation of what I find when treating patients.  Pain decreases, the body goes into relaxed states, colds & flus last for shorter amounts of time.
 
Interested, intrigued by how this works and how it might help you?
 
I’m offering free 30 minute consultations.  Sign-up here.
 
With you in health,
Bonnie

Sources:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S200529011300174X
 
https://oshercenter.org/2020/08/26/harvard-study-finds-acupuncture-can-tame-cytokine-storms-in-mice/

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Take Stock:  A New Year's Message

12/24/2020

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Every year I think about what advice to share as we complete another turn around the sun.  What can I write that will bring you more health, more joy and more ease?
 
There are so many possibilities – eat better, sleep more, find quiet time for meditation.  These are all good things, but I realized the magic missing ingredient in so many wellness and self-care programs is found in the act of taking stock.
 
It’s not enough to set goals.  We need to watch what happens when we put an idea out into the world.  We need to track our progress and record our thoughts and feelings each day.
 
I got this inspiration sitting at my desk, looking at my 2020 yearly planner.  It’s the place where I keep track of things.  Not my daily schedule filled with patient appointments, places to go and commitments to keep. These are stored electronically with a kind of efficiency only the digital world can provide.
 
In my paper planner, I write down goals and dreams, along with notes marking unexpected pleasures and themes for the month.  I use the planner as a journal of sorts, briefly recording my thoughts and feelings on a somewhat regular basis.
 
As I turn the pages, I’m able to look back and reflect. 
  • January, February & March tell of the days before Covid when a trip to New York City to study the central and peripheral nervous system was still possible. 
  • March is filled with canceled plans and an abrupt temporary closing of my practice. 
  • April and May find me at home writing a food blog and missing my nephew’s college graduation. 
  • From June to December, I return to some new normal – treating patients with masks and sanitizer. On days off, I make time to play in the mountains, lakes and rivers of this beautiful valley.
 
I might not have remembered any of this if I hadn’t jotted down notes as the year went by.  I barely remember what I had for lunch yesterday :).    So now I have this incredible gift – pages filled with remembrances, a record of days gone by.
 
As the new year begins, I recommend that you begin (or continue) to take stock.  Here’s how:
  • Purchase a planner that you love!  You want one that feels good to look at and write in.  Here’s the one I bought. It has both monthly and weekly pages.
  • Keep this book open on your desk or somewhere at home.
  • Take notes, set goals and creatively doodle on the pages of this book.
  • The healer in me recommends that you pick a health goal for each month. Keep it simple and sustainable.
 
At this moment, there is the initial pleasure found in the blank pages of the yearly planner that have not yet been filled.  It’s still an empty slate awaiting possibility.  You don’t yet know what the year will bring. (2020 taught us the role of the unexpected.)
 
You stand at this moment, closing one door and about to open another.  This is the time to dream, to imagine, to ask for the wishes that live deep in your heart.
 
Your yearly planner allows for this.  The empty pages are waiting to be filled with the moments & reflections that make up your life.  Write these down. Take stock. Be the creator of your life’s journey.
 
As we enter 2021, I send you blessings to guide you along the way.
 
Bonnie
 
Ps.  If this process sounds appealing, but you don’t have time to get a planner of your own, here's my Roadmap to Health Booklet/Calendar/Journal for you to print out.
 
And if you feel like you need help in the process of creating healthy habits for a healthy year, do get in touch to find out about my Roadmap to Health Wellness Counseling program.
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Find Joy...Be Well...In a Different Holiday Season

11/15/2020

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I look at my calendar and realize that Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away.  How is this possible?

I see that I've added the word Cleveland from Tuesday, November 24th to Saturday, November 28th on my calendar.  In a moment of optimism, my husband and I thought that we would be able to drive to visit his family in Ohio. We would all get tested, wear masks and social distance. 

But a few weeks ago, we realized that keeping everyone safe from the spread of Covid was more important than gathering together.

I feel a little unanchored.  Thanksgiving for Dan and I has always been a time to travel. We either visit out-of-town relatives or indulge in one of our favorite things, a long weekend away from it all. Some years it has been on the quiet beaches of the Cape. Other times we've explored the back roads of Vermont.  In the 16 years that we've been together, we have never spent Thanksgiving at home.

This year we will. 

Are you starting to think about how to celebrate the holiday?  Have you canceled your usual plans, or will you take precautions and gather together?

Either way the holiday will be different.

In 2020, our lives have been upended.  It will take our creative spirits to make this year's Thanksgiving a meaningful one. 

Here are my suggestions:

1) Start to plan.
  • If you're cooking a holiday meal, decide on your menu.  I'll be making roasted turkey thighs, stuffed acorn squash, stuffing and cranberry/mango chutney. Think about when you'll shop and put together a grocery list.
  • If you're visiting someone, think about how to socially distance and wear a mask.
  • If you need to get tested for Covid, research where and make an appointment if necessary.
2) Think about what is most meaningful about the holiday for you. Is it the food, visiting friends and family, watching football? Find ways of enjoying your favorite rituals even if they look and feel different this year. 
  • Perhaps you'll be preparing your mom's mashed potato recipe or your uncle's pumpkin pie for the first time.  
  • Maybe you'll visit over Zoom.  
  • Maybe you'll save loud football cheers for a time when we can once again yell without the risk of infecting someone :)

3) Remember that we're starting the holiday season.  That gives us the opportunity to have small celebrations, small joys through New Years.
  • If you can't visit, send a card.  Write a personal note about how you value your relationship with the person you're sending the card to.
  • If you're not having company, still decorate your house.  Mark the holidays in some concrete way.
  • If you're missing loved ones, create a photo album of holidays past.  Put pictures up to remind you of the people that you're missing.

4) Take a look at the blog,  A Holistic Approach to the Holidays,  that I send out each year.  

5) It is a season of gift giving.  I'm offering these holiday packages so that you can give the gift of health to someone you love.

Most of all, remember that you're going to get through this.  Be a little kinder to yourself and those around you.  We're all feeling the specific challenge of a very unusual time.  My holiday blog talks about the gift of imperfection.  This is an imperfect year.

Strive on. Find joy. Be well.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Bonnie

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Chinese vs. Japanese Acupuncture: What is the Difference?

2/21/2020

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People often think that there is just one type of acupuncture. They are surprised to find out that Japanese acupuncture is a unique style that can elevate your sense of wellness and well-being.

Acupuncture originated in China over 3,000 years ago and in acupuncture school, we begin by studying the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine.  Both styles use the same theory of the five-element organ system -- kidney/water, liver/wood, heart/fire, spleen/earth, and lungs/metal. Both methods also use the same acupuncture points along the same energetic pathways or meridians.  However, the way we practice is slightly different.

This is because before the 6th century Buddhist Monks brought acupuncture to Japan.  Over time, acupuncture became one of the few career paths for people who were blind. It may seem a little unusual to think of blind people inserting needles, but let me explain.  

When people can't see, their other senses become more enhanced.  Blind acupuncturists became extremely skilled at feeling the pulse and areas of restriction in the body.  Fortunately, they were able to pass this knowledge onto current day acupuncturists, including me. This kinesthetic sense helps Japanese acupuncturists treat more gently.  

A few major Japanese acupuncture benefits include:
  • Needles that are thinner than those used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
  • A more gentle style than TCM
  • Gathering information on how the body actually feels
  • Avoiding needling into areas of pain

They say that Chinese acupuncturists treat from the brain and Japanese acupuncturists treat from the belly.  Chinese practitioners come up with a diagnosis and a set of points. Japanese practitioners feel the body and use points that release restrictions while the patient is on the table, looking for reduction in pain and changes in the pulse as we treat. 
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If you have tried Chinese Acupuncture and felt it wasn't quite right for you, you might want to get in touch with me to find out how Japanese Acupuncture can help you.
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Back Pain and Visceral Manipulation

4/21/2019

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About 80% of adults experience back pain at some point in their lives, and I've had a lot of experience treating it in the 20 years that I've been practicing acupuncture.  I've always been curious about what contributes to the pain. Is it a pulled muscle or ligament, a weak immune system, osteoarthritis, a bulging disc, tight muscles or some combination of these? Read more about this.

Over the past few years, I've been studying a manual therapy called Visceral Manipulation that offers an additional explanation for pain and restriction. Jean-Pierre Barral, a French Osteopath, teaches that restrictions in the connective tissue around and between the body's organs cause pain, particularly chronic pain that is difficult to treat.  

Releasing these restrictions can be done by first feeling the actual pull of tissue in the body, testing to see which organ is causing the primary restriction and then gently treating the organ to restore its natural rhythm.
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My work has always been based on releasing restrictions. Now in addition to feeling blockages in the acupuncture meridians, restrictions and pain in the muscles, bones and ligaments, I've  been looking for restrictions in tissue around each organ. Also, I've been  making sure each  organ has its own intrinsic  healthy rhythm.
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It's been an amazing  journey for me and has enhanced the work that I do. It's another component of helping my patients can get lasting pain relief and a body that truly functions at an optimal level.
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The Miracle Breakfast

2/25/2019

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Get Fiber and Nutrients at Breakfast
I'm truly on a mission to help you live healthier.  I keep sharing things that have worked in my own life.  Some of you know how jazzed I've been about my "miracle breakfast." I started eating this when I realized that I wasn't getting enough fiber in my diet, even with eating whole grains and lots of veggies. (We should be getting between 30 to 50 grams of fiber a day. Average Americans only get 8-15 grams.)

I knew I had to make some changes.  I realized that I was often leaving the house with a Kashi bar and not eating a full breakfast.  So I switched to a really healthy bowl of oatmeal with lots of yummy stuff.

Why oatmeal? From a Chinese medicine perspective it's a food that strengthens the digestive and nervous systems, removes cholesterol from the body, and renews bone and connective tissue. From a sense of ease perspective, it's something that can be prepared in minutes and available wherever you are. (Just be sure that it's the kind with no added sugar.) I often bring packages of instant oatmeal and a mix of almonds, flaxseed and fiber when I'm traveling.
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Here's my miracle breakfast with amounts of fiber.
                                1 package instant organic oatmeal                            4 grams
                                1/4 cup almonds                                                            3 grams
                                4 TBS ground flaxseed                                                  6 grams
                                1/3 cup Trader Joes Frozen Berry Medley                3 grams
                                1 TBS Great Shape Natural Fiber Supplement*       5 grams
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                                                                                                                             24 grams
                                *You might want to add this slowly to avoid gas and bloating.
 
If I still haven't convinced you, take the challenge. Try starting everyday for 3 weeks with my miracle breakfast. Let me know how you feel.

Interested in learning more about how to live a healthy life with ease?  Find out about my Roadmap to Health 6 Week Class.
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Wishing you health and well-being,
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Bonnie

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The History of Ear Acupuncture

10/27/2018

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Ear Acupuncture treats the whole body
​Ear acupuncture is a little different from full body acupuncture in that the ear is considered a microsystem of the body.  Although some ear points were mentioned in Chinese texts as far back as 500 BC, auriculotherapy as we know it today was developed by Dr. Paul Nogier, a French physician, in 1957.
 
Dr. Nogier noticed a scar on the upper ear of some of his patients. He found that all of them had been treated for sciatica pain by a local lay practitioner. This woman had cauterized a specific area of the external ear in order to relieve their low back pain. Dr. Nogier conducted a similar procedure on his own sciatica patients and found that their back pain was also reduced.
 
He then tried other means of stimulating this "sciatica point," including the use of acupuncture needles, and found that they too were effective in alleviating sciatica pain. Dr. Nogier theorized that if an area of the upper external ear is effective in treating low back pain, maybe other parts of the ear could treat other parts of the body. Nogier theorized that the ear represents an inverted fetus and points in the ear correspond to parts of the body.  Points for hands and feet can be found at the top of the ear, while the face is represented on the bottom of the ear.  What’s interesting is that a similar map of the body, called the homunculus, exists in neurons on the cerebral cortex (outermost sheet of neural tissues in cerebrum and some vertebrae), in the thalamus and in the brain stem.  This model was first presented to naturopathic practitioners in France in 1957, then spread to acupuncturists in Germany, and finally was translated into Chinese around 1958.
 
 During 1958 a large study on the effectiveness of this acupuncture technique was conducted by the Nanking Army Ear Acupuncture Research Team using over 2,000 patients. Dr. Nogier's theory of an inverted fetus was accepted as clinically accurate, and during the cultural revolution so called 'barefoot doctors' were trained in the simple techniques of ear acupuncture In 1990, the World National Organization conducted an international meeting and standardized auricular anatomical names for the points that had been used in Chinese and French auricular acupuncture for many years. By 1995, the World Health Organization, in tandem with the Chinese Government, defined the location of 91 specific ear acupuncture points.
 
Nogier acknowledged that Chinese traditional medicine had been using ear points for acupuncture prior to his discovery, but these had been considered empirical points for particular treatments and were not associated with representation of the homunculus in the ear.  This new discovery allowed for greater treatment possibilities.
 
In the US, Terry Oleson who has a PhD in pychobiology  published a paper on his research findings.  He had 40 patients examined to find areas of their body with musculoskeletal pain.  The patients were draped and doctors examined the patients' ears for elevated skin conductivity or tenderness with no knowledge of their medical conditions.  The correspondence between the medical diagnosis and the auricular diagnoses was 75.2%.  In addition, MRIs show  that there is a correspondence between points in the ear, sections of the brain, and areas of the body.
 

Ear acupuncture is a type of treatment that has not only been verified by science, but also leads to clinical success when used to the patients in my office. It works particularly well for pain, addiction and stress!

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Acupuncture's 3,000 Year Old History

7/22/2018

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Acupuncture is 3,000 Years Old
​Chinese medicine dates back over three thousand years. The oldest book on Chinese medical theory, The Nei Jing, was written between 300 and 100 BC. It describes the theory and application of yin and yang and the five organ, element system. It teaches the causes of disease, explains how to diagnose illness, and tells how energy flows through the body. It still serves as the theoretical basis of acupuncture which today is one of the most widely used forms of medicine in the world.
 
Although acupuncture is ancient, it has only been practiced in this country for about 50 years. In 1972, a New York Times reporter, James Reston, accompanied Henry Kissinger to China. While there he had emergency appendectomy surgery and was so impressed by the post-surgery acupuncture he received, he wrote about his experience. This created interest in the modality in the US.  In 1974, the first acupuncture school in this country, the New England School of the Acupuncture (NESA), was opened. I studied there, graduating and receiving my license in 1998.
 
Most folks don’t know this, but there are several different styles of acupuncture. These styles that evolved as Chinese medicine spread to different countries. Acupuncture arrived in Japan in 562 AD. Schools were established during the 8th century. Acupuncture was considered an appropriate vocation for the blind, and as a result, acupuncturists in Japan developed extremely sensitive kinesthetic skills. They learned to get information by feeling the pulse and palpating the abdomen. In Japan, acupuncturists apprenticed with masters and learned by observing their work.
 
At NESA, after the first year of training, students have to choose to study  between a Chinese or Japanese acupuncture track. I chose Japanese and began studying the style of a well-known acupuncturist from Japan, Kiiko Matsumoto. Kiiko, to this day, studies with the masters in Japan and brings their teachings to the US, carrying on a several thousand year old tradition.
 
I continue to study with her and feel honored to be a part of this ancient way of healing.

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New Orleans and the Importance of Connection

3/7/2018

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Joy and the Importance of Connection

​I traveled to New Orleans a few weeks ago. I knew I had truly arrived when our Lyft driver said "How ya doing, Miss Bonnie?" I had made a lunch reservation and when we arrived I was greeted with "Welcome, Miss Bonnie." On a shuttle bus to Mardi Gras World the driver asked if this was my first time in New Orleans. When I said it was my second, he replied "Welcome Home."
 
New Orleans is a great place to travel to. The food, music, warm weather, welcoming people make it so special. Being there feels like getting a big hug.
 
But I want to tap into something deeper. The importance of social connection. Not just because it makes us feel good -- although this is important.  But because it makes us healthier.
 
Here's what the experts have to say:

  • In the personal health section of the New York Times, Jane Brody has been reporting on research that loneliness can have a negative impact on health "by raising levels of stress hormones and inflammation, which in turn can increase the risk of heart disease, arthritis, Type 2 diabetes and dementia."
 
  • Dr. Dhruv Khullar, a physician and researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York writes "A wave of new research suggests social separation is bad for us. Individuals with less social connection have disrupted sleep patterns, altered immune systems, more inflammation and higher levels of stress hormones."
 
  • And research presented at the 2017 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association shows that "Loneliness and social isolation may represent a greater public health hazard than obesity, and their impact has been growing and will continue to grow."
 
Here is "Miss Bonnie's" take on all this:

  • Know that no matter what, you are not alone. Just take a minute and breathe that in. Say it to yourself. Write it in your journal. Breathe it in with each breath.
 
  • Reach out. I mean this truly. I am here for you. Send me an email. Schedule an appointment. Acupuncture can help you connect more fully with yourself. I do think it can be an antidote to loneliness. And I will be with you, listen to you, open my heart.
 
  • If I'm not the right person to help you, reach out to someone who is. I know there is someone out there who will be there for you. In all the ups and downs of my life (and there have been many), there was always someone. Sometimes it was a friend, sometimes a medical professional. Sometimes it was a favorite singer/song writer, a favorite author. A movie that moved me to tears.
 
  • Be expansive in your outreach. We don't always know when/where/who what we need will come from. And sometimes it arrives from unexpected quarters. Just trust that it will be there.
 
  • Practice making connections when you are out in the world. Take the extra moment to say hello to your mail carrier, the wait staff at your favorite coffee shop or restaurant, the neighbor walking their dog.
 
  • Join a community of like-minded folks. Take a yoga or Qi Gong class. If it's your thing, go to a house of worship. Whether you are a believer or not, the spirit is always there for you.
 
One of the reasons that I love Eastern Medicine is because of its emphasis on connection. In the 5 element/5 organ system that we use no one organ/element exists on its own. The energy of the liver feeds the heart, the heart energy feeds the spleen, the spleen energy feeds the lungs, the lung energy feeds the kidneys, the kidney energy feeds the liver. The cycle is completed and begins again.
 
As people we may feel isolated, but we never exist in true isolation.
 
With you in spirit…
 
Bonnie

​Sources:
www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/well/mind/how-loneliness-affects-our-health.html
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/shaking-off-loneliness/
www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/08/lonely-die.aspx
www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/upshot/how-social-isolation-is-killing-us.html


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247 Northampton Street, #27
​Easthampton, MA 01027

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