If you are in chronic pain, you probably feel alone and frightened. You may feel helpless. You might even feel as if life's no longer worth living. I understand completely . You have the worst medical problem a person can have.
Chronic pain is the most devastating physical malady that exists.
It's even more overwhelming than having a terminal illness, according to patients of mine who have suffered from both conditions. For well over fifteen years, during which time I learned to read Classical Chinese, I immersed myself in researching everything from Taoist philosophy to the first acupuncture texts written 150 years before Christ to hundreds of books and articles by Western Asian scholars about the old culture that produced these healing systems and how the highest levels of body, mind, spirit integration could be accessed. Healing in the Winter Season with Acupuncture by Dennis Willmont, Lic. The winter season is upon us with unique challenges and opportunities. In the West we usually think of the winter solstice as the beginning of winter.