August 2026

acupuncture (16)·Carl Jung (1)·de qi (2)·Destined Path (1)·meditation (2)·mindfulness (3)·Predictive Processing (2)·Preventive Health (1)·Somatic Awareness (1)·Stress Management (1)

For many people navigating modern life, stress is not an abstract concept—it is a daily reality. Between managing family logistics, navigating complex relationships, juggling heavy professional workloads, coping with personal health issues, or caring for aging loved ones, the burden is relentless. This ongoing pressure manifests across every dimension of our well-being: mental exhaustion, emotional… Continue reading Somatic Awareness and the Winds of Fate: How Acupuncture Mirrors Meditation

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Against my better judgment in some sense, but because of pure curiosity as to what others will think, I am posting a chat with Gemini here, as a blog article. This is another in the series of articles on how Active Inference, and Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle can frame theoretical concepts found in meditation,… Continue reading And now for something completely different.

Active Inference (1)·Acupuncture Neuroscience (1)·Bayesian Brain (1)·de qi (2)·Neurophilosophy (2)·Predictive Processing (2)·Qi Zhi (1)

The integration of modern cognitive science with classical East Asian medicine has reached a fascinating threshold. A recent paper published in MDPI’s Brain Sciences presents a pioneer attempt to frame the therapeutic mechanisms of acupuncture through the lenses of Predictive Processing (PP) and Active Inference under Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle (FEP) [1]. At the… Continue reading Active Inference, De Qi, and the Neurobiology of Acupuncture: A Critical Response