"In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which is the most widely used healing system in the world, the body is viewed from a different perspective than in conventional Western medicine. This has resulted in different thoughts and beliefs. Chinese medicine operates very much at an energy level with Chi, Blood, Jing, and Shen.  Its idea of striving for the balance of energy [Chi] uses a different vocabulary to describe what is considered the dynamic energy of the body. Because of cultural restraints rather than the development and use of the vocabulary of Western science, Chinese medicine has used the vocabulary of the poet. Traditional Chinese Medicine strives to balance Chi by using a variety of techniques. Chinese medicine includes acupuncture, herbal medicine, diet, meditation, physiotherapy (Tui Na), exercise (Dao In, Tai Chi Chuan, and Eight Treasurers), the energy movement therapy of Chi Gong, and shamanic psychotherapy. Acupuncture is developed on the Taoist model of Chi, or energy, and its state of movement within the channels or meridians of the body. It is applied when the Chi is impeded in its proper flow--the cause of illness--in order to restore flow and health. It is important to remember that Chinese medicine theory does not move in a linear way from one theory, idea, or hypothesis to another. Instead, the whole is always present; the Yin and Yang can only be refined, never abandoned. Traditional Chinese Medicine proceeds from the assumption that each person is a universe in miniature--the same forces that shape the macrocosm are within each of us. Chinese thinking is holographic: by observing the world we gain knowledge of a single being; each aspect of the body is reflective of the whole of which it is a part; and all the parts are connected and in constant interaction with one another. The human being is formed by the intermingling of psyche and soma, known as Shen and Essence. To understand TCM requires expanding your current Western thought process to include broader concepts and other ways of thinking about the mind and body, health, and illness. The easiest way to illustrate this is to make a comparison of concepts."

Traditional Chinese Medicine Simplified

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ko Tan

Exercise & Fitness

Anewpress

Casey sat on the floor in Indian style and closed her eyes. At first, she couldn't sense anything. She calmed her breathing by taking slow breaths and started again. This time she felt his presence and then sensed his fear and pain. A voice popped in her head, it was Michael, 'I can feel you Casey. Alexis has taken me and brought me back to the bar. Xander won't let her hurt me anymore than her guys already have and he's taken a couple hits because of it. She's using me as bait to get to you. I know I can't stop you so please, be careful. As quick as the voice popped in her head it was gone. Casey's eyes popped open and she said, "I know where he is."

Motives: Second Book of the Casey Rickman Series

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lewis, KC

Fantasy

"Yama the Llama is shepherding sheep in the Andes Mountains when an angel choir flies overhead. The next thing he knows, he has wings and is flying with the angels. They are singing, but he doesn't have a voice, so he wonders why he is flying with the angel choir. He continues to fly along, trusting that this is what he is supposed to do. He looks down as they fly over the stable where Jesus has just been born. He wants to stop, but an angel tells him that he has something else to do. Again, he flies along in trust. He lands in a field of sheep and shepherds and overhears the angel telling them about the baby Jesus in the stable. Then he hears the shepherds discuss the many different stables around Bethlehem and their confusion about which is the right stable. Yama steps forward, opens his mouth, and discovers that he can talk. He tells the shepherds to follow him and he leads them to the stable where they all worship Jesus, the newborn King of kings! "Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God." Matt 5:8"

Yama the Llama--Off to Bethlehem

Children's Books

Lowe-Phelps, Karla

Literature & Fiction

"Yama the Llama carries a load of bread for his friend, Micah. There is a large gathering of people sitting on a hillside outside the city listening to Jesus preach. Micah's father tells him to go there to sell the bread and, if he sells all 16 loaves, he can buy a treat for himself and Yama. They are looking forward to a sweet fig that they will share. But, as they walk along the streets of the city and out through the gates, they meet hungry people. Instead of selling the bread, they give it away. By the time they get to the hillside, there are only 5 loaves left. Jesus' disciple, Andrew, asks Micah to give him the 5 loaves, so that the crowd can have something to eat. Micah gives Andrew the bread and 2 dried fish that he was going to eat for his lunch. Andrew takes the bread and fish to Jesus. After Jesus blesses the bread and fish, there is enough to feed all 5000 people. Just as Yama and Micah are leaving, Andrew chases them down and gives them 2 figs. "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." Matt 5:7"

Yama the Llama--Off to Bethsaida

"Yama the Llama carries balsam for his friend, Samuel. He is excited to go to Jericho where they will sell the balsam and visit his cousin, Suri the Alpaca. Suri works for the tax collector, Zacchaeus, who treats him badly, over-charges people, and keeps the extra money for himself. While Yama and Samuel are in town, a crowd gathers to hear Jesus speak. Jesus see Zacchaeus sitting up in a tree watching all the activity. Jesus invites him to come down from the tree and then talks with him about what he has done and how cheating people hurts them and the cheater. Zacchaeus understands that he is has done wrong, confesses, asks forgiveness, and repays the people 4 times what he took from them. He apologizes to Suri and promises to be kind and honest from then on. "Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven." Matt 5:3"

Yama the Llama: Off to Jericho

If there was never religion, what would you think life experience is about? Is this it? Is life just about working at a job, being a law-abiding citizen, having sex and kids, a social life, hearing about or watching each other die and paying taxes? Even though the experience of it is short-lived, is life about being happy and its pursuit? Why are we here, why are we alive? Why is there something rather than nothing? Why is there motion as opposed to stillness? Why is life like this, why is it the peculiar way that it is? What is really going on here? Why are we forced to live on this sphere that is tumbling through the darkness, with no idea of where we are going? Even if it makes sense that all the other creatures are here, why are we here, the sole creature capable of all the engineering feats that we have accomplished? Why do we share some similarities to the other creatures, yet are so distinct in capability? Why are some of our bodily functions involuntary, how come they are not all voluntary and since we do not control our brains, nor our hearts, does that not mean that fundamentally, our bodies control us more than we do them? Why does being alive feel like a twisted joke, at times? Are there aliens? Does life have meaning or purpose, is there something deeper going on? Why is there death? What happens to us after we die, is there an afterlife? Is there a G0d? Though many of these questions and more have tormented the minds of human beings since our emergence so many centuries ago, especially since the appearance of homo sapiens, in this work, we take a practical approach in an earnest attempt to bring them to ultimate resolution.

W.I.L.D.: What Is Life Definitively

Politics & Social Sciences

Radical, A

Philosophy

"Being My Mom's Mom" invites readers on my personal journey before and after the onset of my Mom's dementia. Personal vignettes highlight the heartache and humor in this life-changing disease. I offer strategies from real experience for building the best care team for loved ones, increasing one's capacity for patience, and making the most of every day. I confirm the difficulty of acknowledging when it's time to become the "parent of a parent". I also offer hope that loving relationships with dementia sufferers can continue, even in the realization that the past is forgotten, and the future is the present.

Being My Mom's Mom: A Journey Through Dementia from a Daughter's Perspective

Veney, Loretta Anne Woodward

Mental Health

Refreshment for the Caregiver's Spirit

Loretta Woodward Veney

Product Description Originally written as the Salvadoran civil war ended in the early 1990s, Las Palomitas, like a fine wine, has reached its prime as the 21st century unfolds with new challenges. Ostensibly the story of an out-of-place American who has found his own slice of paradise in a fishing hamlet in El Salvador, Las Palomitas operates on numerous levels, from the simplicity of village life to the complicated echelons of government and high society. A tale of a disillusioned American college student who stumbled onto a peaceful life of fishing on a Salvadoran beach, life gets complicated when he falls in love with a recently-returned young village woman with a past most byzantine and deadly than his own. Together, they provide inspiration and comfort to one another, a state of affairs that neither can maintain. As the Salvadoran civil war begins and their worlds collide, they struggle to save one another and others whom they love in the village of Las Palomitas, The Little Doves. About the Author Laura L. Valenti has been a freelance writer for magazines and newspapers for nearly 40 years and a novelist for the past decade. A former resident of El Salvador, she has been a volunteer mission worker in several Latin American countries and in and out of the region since childhood. While Las Palomitas is a work of fiction, it is one borne of her passion for the people of El Salvador and the Latin culture that has permeated her entire life. Always interested in Latin America, she has spent the past four decades in another small paradise, living, learning and writing about the people of the Ozarks, including seven popular regional novels. She has held a variety of jobs over the years including horse wrangler and trail guide, bi-lingual clerk and office administrator, law enforcement office manager, county jail administrator, and working board member and off site manager of a women's Christian half-way house as well as novelist and local writer. She and her husband, Warren raised four children and have several grandsons in Missouri and Texas. They remain sequestered in the Ozark hills, another picturesque fishing sanctuary, far from much of the madness that is the modern world.

Las Palomitas (The Little Doves): A Story of El Salvador

Laura L. Valenti

A short, comically illustrated book about perimenopause; light, accessible, honest, inclusive and humorous. Why? Half the global population - that is one billion humans - suffers a hormonal upheaval starting in the late 30s or earlier for medical reasons, yet the subject is taboo! And 75% of them will experience life affecting symptoms, while carrying adult responsibilities. Almost no information exists to support ladies with disabilities. The choices made during this time can have a big impact on health and well-being both short and long term, making it essential to break this taboo. This book is intended as a helpful place to start. At least it's a place to get some laughter to ease through the uncomfortable bits.

What's Happening to Me NOW?!: The Facts of Life, As a Woman In Your 40s. (Straight Talk About Perimenopause.)

WRIGHT, HEATHER

Women's Health

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