Love is the emotional expression of the heart energy. When emotional response is embodied or somatised, acupuncture treatment in unlocking or relieving the physical symptom can release the stuck emotion. I see my role here as facilitator, acupuncture treatment does not give the person healing. It works well to remind the energy system that it already has what it needs to heal itself. As I gently place the needles in the chosen points, experience has taught me to simply observe, sometimes describe, and often just listen as something long locked away arises and presents itself to the conscious awareness of the patient.
Emotions arise and pass.
I am treating 'M'. Grief wells up from a very deep place, the person experiences it intensely, it is felt and passes, leaving the person feeling that it is not even important to analyse what it was. Something experienced arose, passed through and has left a feeling of healing having taken place. Grown up child 'A' lies on the couch and as I needle a particular point on the liver meridian, the tightness in his facial muscles relaxes, a soft smile drifts across his face. I ask what he is feeling.