Funnily enough, my journey into acupuncture started reluctantly! I went to see a friend that I hadn’t seen for a while and was told that I didn’t seem my usual self. He recommended that I go and see someone, who later became my regular practitioner and started my interest in all things Chinese Medicine.
While I had been for acupuncture before, this was 5 Element acupuncture and it quite literally changed my life. Without realising, I had been stuck in a rut, having been in a job that wasn’t making me happy for some time. I was dissatisfied with my working and living conditions and had got to a stage whereby I was existing rather than living. After a few months of having acupuncture, this all started to change. Like a domino effect, I changed jobs, moved house and gradually started ironing out all the ‘creases’ in my life, and the areas in which I wasn’t happy.
I began to wonder about the power of acupuncture. How much of these changes had been attributed to my having acupuncture? The more I read up on the subject, the more fascinated I became. I learned about 5E, its origins into the UK by J.R.Worsley, and how it was believed to put you back in touch with your ‘Dao’ or path.
The seed had been sown, and with the encouragement of my practitioner, I started to look into ways of studying this fascinating subject. Before long I had signed up for a course at the renowned College of Integrated Chinese Medicine and the rest is history…!