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Do you believe you see the world as it truly is? Do you think you know why you feel happy or angry? For centuries, we’ve operated under the assumption that our senses are clear windows to the world and our emotions are primal, universal reactions. But modern neuroscience is dismantling these fundamental beliefs, revealing a… Continue reading Your Brain is Inventing You: 4 Scientific Truths That Redefine Reality

acupuncture (14)·chinese medicine (5)·interoception (3)·mindfulness (2)·neuroscience (6)·qi (3)

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the concept of Qi (氣) represents far more than a mystical life force. It is a language of continuity—a way to describe how breath, emotion, food, and the natural world move through and connect all living things. Recent neuroscience, meanwhile, is beginning to rediscover this internal awareness under a new… Continue reading Qi and the Science of Interoception: Ancient Pathways to Modern Awareness

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This wonderful article recounts some of the important evolutions and modifications of Chinese Medicical theory around the turn of the 19th century (incorporating the recent revelation that was the publication of Grey’s Anatomy in China, and the universal desire to incorporate understanding of the new laws of thermodynamics)…relating the ‘revolutionary’ technology of the steam engine… Continue reading Qi-Transformation and the Steam Engine