People are advised to self quarantine (that means “stay at home”) if they exhibit any of the following symptoms. Apprised of these symptoms, your doctor may advise that you receive coronavirus testing.
According to the Center for Disease Control:
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Rolling with the changes of COVID19 has been a challenge this year. The best way to get through this time is to wear a face covering. Face coverings project your exhallation back at you (the one exhaling). This limits the risk of contagion by 80% with physical distancing. Face coverings are a kindness and a responsibility of yours for others.
The best way to take care of your health is to limit your exposure to others with physical distancing of 6 feet, sterilize doors and surfaces, and wash your hands often (and thoroughly, especially before touching your face.) And require that others around you wear face coverings as well.
When it comes to mental health during this time of pandemic: Knowledge of what can help to limit your exposure and following through with compliance in those items should greatly reduce your concern. Knowledge is power and the follow through on taking all steps for precaution should set your mind at ease.
Continuing with: physical exercise, stretching, eating healthy well balanced meals with proper portion sizes, and keeping up with therapies such as acupuncture, chiropractic, and others is the best way to keep your immune system optimal. Optimizing your immune system is a proactive defense against any contagion.
Here are a couple of our favorite relaxing albums in the acupuncture clinic:
Chad Lawson: Chopin Variations
Moby: Long Ambients 1 calm. sleep. (free to download!)
Try acupressure on these 4 points on your left and right side. Then when you’re ready, add the three points on the left and right foot as well for a total of 7.
Pictures below show these 4 points: 3 on the face and near the ankle. It’s a great approach for self care with sinus congestion! For the full article, click on the pictures below.
Source:
Healing With Whole Foods
by: Paul Pitchford
What we’re actually doing as acupuncturists is giving your system a tune up. There are different levels of energetic balance within your system:
- Constitutional Balance: genetically, where does your system need enhancement.
- Meridian Balance: Which of the 14 main meridians or 8 divergent meridians are out of tune?
- Symptom Relief: symptoms are either caused by at least one of these items:
- constitutional imbalance
- meridian imbalance
- injury/trauma
- exterior pathogens
Understanding these levels of intricacy, your acupuncturist brings together a network of points that will charge up your system in all the right places and move the qi (energy) where it is stuck. This doesn’t take a great number of needles to achieve. Actually, less is more with perfectly selected points. I like to test my patients energetically to make sure the selected points will benefit their unique systems in the optimal way.
With each session, the patient’s system will become optimized, humming nicely in energetic balance. Symptoms are diminished in intensity and frequency.
It is also important what your condition is like when you arrive for acupuncture and how you treat yourself afterward.
To borrow an analogy from my master…
I’m a tune up mechanic. 
The condition of the car you bring in to me has significance! Is it beat up? 
Have you run it through the gauntlet? Or was it just under daily wear and tear?
Maybe it has been on a lift in your garage like a prized trophy?
Also, after your “tune up session” are you going to put sand in the gas tank? 
Are you going to go 4 wheeling in it? Or are you going to stay in the lane and ease on an off the gas?
A tune up can do a great deal of good and regular maintenance is essential! It’s also incredibly important that you make healthy and balanced choices as you are away from the clinic.
Treat yourself well, make great choices!
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