88% of people have metabolic weakness according a study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Estimates are that between 60-75% actually have insulin resistance.

Here's the paradox: despite abundant sugar in the blood, your body can't utilize it, so it gets stored as fat while you feel tired and hungry.

Why Does this Matter?

Insulin resistance can produce a whole host of problems:

Increases in inflammation is linked to:

The Good News

Insulin resistance can be reversed.

By making changes to the amount and frequency of carbohydrate consumption, getting more sleep, and increasing exercise you can reprogram your insulin production and sensitivity and become metabolically healthy.

Welcome side effects include losing unwanted weight, sleeping better, having more energy, mental clarity, and feeling younger.

The Bad News

There's no instant fix.

Starving yourself with extreme diets further disrupts your metabolism and just makes your more out of balance.

Exercise is important, but trying to exercise all the weight off with copious activity just ages you faster and doesn't fix your metabolism.

The recent fad of taking GLP-1 agonist drugs (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, etc.) for weight loss does help people lose weight, but not in a healthy way. You lose too much muscle mass, digestive problems are common and sometimes permanent. The side effects are more common than advertised and very serious: there are more than 4000 active lawsuits over injuries and deaths from trying to medicate away a long term lifestyle problem.

How Accunect Can Help

Balancing your energy systems helps your body to work more efficiently, and it changes our subconscious mind to be more in alignment with our conscious goals.

The Spleen meridian rules the sense of taste, and we can make changes to our cravings by balancing the Spleen Qi.

The Spleen also rules the pancreas, so we can improve insulin regulation by improving Spleen Qi.

The Kidney meridian generates willpower, so balancing Kidney Qi can help you to actually follow healthier habits around food, sleep, exercise and so on.

The Liver meridian helps us manage our emotions so we don't resort to stress eating so easily.

The Liver meridian also helps us to manage our schedule so eat, sleep and exercise in balanced way.

This is a short list, but Accunect can really help us to make permanent healthy changes to our lifestyle that bring dividends over time.

It's not enough to learn what you should do - we have to change our subconscious thinking so that we make better choices more consistently. And our subconscious mind is ruled by our acupuncture meridians and other energy systems, which is why Accunect can make the difference between good intentions and actually following through on changes.

I've always tended towards being heavy, and spent most of my life going back and forth between being fat and going on unsustainable diet and exercise programs. The weight would come off, then come back. Meanwhile my health was slowly deteriorating and I was feeling older and older.

When I turned 60, I decided I needed to reprogram my thinking to just be healthier all the time rather than looking for a quick fix. So I started doing a weekly healing webinar on addressing all aspects of health, wellness and graceful aging. I give a short lecture for education and then do an Accunect Healing session for the group.

It's worked. My face looks younger now at 67 than when I was 47. And I've lost a bit over 35 pounds (16kg) in the last seven years slow and steady without measuring or counting calories. I just think more like a healthy person so I eat and exercise accordingly.

An Opportunity

I'm running a special weekly healing webinar on improving metabolic health and managing healthy weight loss through.

The series has 4 calls addressing different aspects of healthy tips for dietary changes, exercise and sleep habits.

Each call includes an Accunect Healing session to integrate the changes into your body and energy systems. If you can't make the calls live, they will all be recorded.

There is also a special bonus lecture and healing session specifically on insulin resistance.

If you register now, you can have instant access to the bonus lecture and you will be invited to the live calls in June.

For more information about this series, please click the button below:

The basic principle of Accunect is that the body is always healing itself - unless it gets out of balance due to stress. 

We replace 300 billion cells a day. Our blood cells are replaced about every 4 months - if you watch the video below all the way through, your body will make about 7.2 billion new red blood cells! Our small intestine lining is completely replaced about every 3-4 days. The skin is replaced every 30 days.

Healing is what we do all the time. Unless fear gets the better of us. Then the fight or flight nervous system gets activated and digestion, immune function, and tissue replacement get put on hold, or at least diminished.

In my weekly healing webinar this week, I talked about overcoming fear and embracing our potential for healing. We are fed so much misinformation about how many conditions are "incurable" by the media that most people have a fear response at the mention of "scary" diseases.

And yet Accunect practitioners routinely see miraculous healing in cases that are supposed to be "incurable."

So this Thanksgiving, I'm giving thanks that the body's ability to heal itself is truly remarkable and inspiring.

And the full recording of this week's healing webinar, including the Accunect Healing session that goes with it is below as our gift to you.

Shifting your world view away from fear and towards hope is a process, not an one-off decision. That's why I do the Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar every week.

If you want to join us, here's a Black Friday offer on a six month subscription to the weekly healing session at a massive 35% off the normal monthly subscription price. Education, inspriation, hope and healing for about $14/week.

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My topic for a recent Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar was a poem by the Chinese Zen(Chan) master Wumen Huikai that begins with "Ten thousand flowers in spring."

The full recording of this webinar including the Accunect Healing Session that followed the lecture is below - keep reading for the full video.

My premise is that this poem gives us a practical way to work on connection to inner Oneness and hence health wherever we are.  No special equipment needed, you don't need to schedule a time for meditation/prayer. Just be present to the daily miracles that surround us.

I'll present Wumen's poem and then talk about it.

"Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.

If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life."  - Wumen

What does this have to do with health?

Accunect is a healing system, but we look at the deeper roots of health and disease.

In Chinese medicine, all disease begins because of the perception of separation from the Tao(God/Oneness).

When we feel separate or alone, we experience fear. Fear weakens the Kidney Qi and it causes our nervous system to go into alert/fight-flight mode. The Kidney meridian is where we store our Original Qi / Reserve Life Force, so when we weaken this energy we age. And when our nervous system stays in fight-flight mode too much every system in the body gets distorted: 

• Too much tension in the muscles.
• Blood pressure goes up.
• Digestion weakens and we become malnourished.
• Immune function weakens and we let toxins and infections build up in the body.
• Tissue repair gets put on hold.
• Inflammation increases relentlessly.

Which means that anything we can do to feel connected to Oneness/Tao/God is a good thing for both our physical health and our spiritual/mental health.

What about meditation?

Meditation is great. So is prayer. But these experiences are typically planned and not spontaneous. Both can make you calmer and increase resilience, but they don't reliably produce wonder.

What really helps us appreciate the interconnectedness of all things is an experience of wonder:

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!" - Vicki Corona

If we are truly present, we will notice countless evidence of miracles in everyday life.

Life itself is a miracle - more and more scientists are doing the math and realizing that Darwin's theory of random mutation and natural selaction is fundamentally flawed. Accidental genesis of complex life is mathematically impossible. Life itself is a miracle, and taking it for granted is hazardous to our well-being. If we are present we are able to see  "a World in a grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower" (William Blake) and experience joy and wonder by seeing something fresh, beautiful, and miraculous everyday.

How do I get better at miracle watching?

This is where the Accunect balancing comes in. In order to shift our instinctive reaction to the world, we have to shift the underlying energy state.

An example I often refer to is that the Spleen meridian regulates our relationship with worry. If the Spleen Qi is weak you will worry too much. So I never tell people not to worry. Instead I balance their Spleen Qi and that gives them a chance to worry less - it shifts their habitual, instinctive response away from worry.

This is why the Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar always consists of two parts:

• A mini-lecture on some aspect of creating better health: diet, lifestyle, exercise, and very frequently mindset and beliefs. I try to correlate this information with possible energy imbalances.
• Then an Accunect Healing session to help shift our energy state and hence our instinctive responses to the world. This is what changes our ability to crave healthy foods, make time for exercise, manage our stress, and see more miracles.
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Just show me the video already!

Here's the recording of the webinar. The Accunect healing session follows the lecture. Information on joining this webinar series below the video - we do this every week, because if you want to get your energy in shape it's like going to the gym to get your body strong: once is not enough, you make progress through consistency of working on yourself.

This episode explores the topics above in more detail and then I do an Accunect Healing session to help everyone shift energetically to encourage the ability to be present.

Join Us

If you enjoyed this lecture and healing session, consider joining us.

The Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar takes place every week at 4pm London time (11am Eastern, 8am Pacific, 11pm Singapore/Hong Kong). 

All sessions are recorded and replays stay up for six weeks. That gives you plenty of time to catch up on any calls you aren't able to make live. And for people experiencing difficult health issues, I recommend watching a replay everyday in addition to that week's call. This gives people a way to be proactive about supporting their health on all levels every day.

You can join monthly for $97/month.  That's about $22 per session for a powerful healing session and benefiting from my 35 years of research and practice in Chinese medicine and mind-body healing.

Or you can join for a year for only $749. That's 35% off the monthly price, or only $14/week for education and healing.

The video above is a recording of a recent Accunect Mind Body Healing Webinar. It addresses the themes of this blog post and is worth a watch.

The video also includes the Accunect healing session that followed the lecture. The people on the call found the session really powerful, so watch all the way to the end.

This week for my weekly Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar I invited people to ask for what they wanted to change in their lives out of the Accunect Healing Session.

First, I talked about the health implications of not asking for what you want.

On a purely practical level of life, if you don’t ask for what you want, you’re really unlikely to get it – Don’t Ask, Don’t Get.

That’s not rocket science. If you don’t tell people what you want, you are expecting them to be mind readers. Whether the people in question are family members, friends, or work colleagues, they can’t know what you want unless you tell them.

So why don’t more people act authentically and ask people for what they want?

For many people, they have doubts about their self-worth and whether or not they deserve to have a more fulfilling life with more fulfilling relationships.  Of course they don’t think this out loud. Instead, they say things like:

“I don’t need much.”

“I’m just a shy person – that’s okay.”

“I’m not lucky.”

“You can’t always get what you want.”

The way to address deeply held beliefs is to balance our energy state – which is the same thing as your subconscious mind. That’s one reason why Accunect is so useful – by addressing all the energy states of the body we can shift our instinctive, subconscious reactions to situations and open up more possibilities for expressing our selves fully and having deeper connections with those around us by being more authentic.

But you have to want to change, and you have to understand how it's possible to change to really be able to shift at a deeper level.

Make Me Want It

You can lead a horse to water…

How do you convince people that they are worth asking for what you need?

This is why I chose to talk about the health implications of not asking for what you need.

In fact, the health implications of beliefs and negative expectations are the only reason that I talk about them. I’m an acupuncture physician and energy medicine practitioner, not a psychotherapist.

Chinese medicine, the theory behind acupuncture, has been around for thousands of years – long enough to notice that emotional states affect the acupuncture meridians and their ability to regulate the health of the body.

Emotions are one of the primary causes of disease in this view, and our beliefs or expectations about the world determine our emotional reactions.

Connecting the dots between physical ailments that we don’t know how to fix and emotional states and reactions that we could change leads to empowerment. If we can see how changing our behavior and our reactions can positively affect our health we can claim control over our destiny and heal ourselves.

How It's Connected

The Liver meridian rules the throat and our ability to express our emotions. When we want something, but don’t have it and can’t see how to get it, the underlying emotion is anger or frustration: “Why can’t I have it?”

Strong Liver Qi/Energy helps us to see ourselves moving forward and growing in life, and helps us to practice asking for what we want. With practice, we can become more graceful and diplomatic with how we ask, but we first have to think we are worth it before we can ask for it. And then we have to muster up the courage to speak up. Courage is generated by a combination of strong Liver Qi/Energy and strong Gall Bladder Qi/Energy. Both the Liver and Gall Bladder meridians are part of Wood element and share common aspects of thinking.

So, inability or unwillingness to speak up indicates a weakness in the Liver Qi.

And this means that the Liver is going to start being less efficient at its other jobs. In western medicine, the liver has more than 500 vital functions so this could affect every system of the body.

Rather than talk about the details of the specific physiological functions, which are pretty abstract to anyone but a medical doctor, I focused on the high level functions of the Liver in Chinese medicine, including common physical and psychological symptoms of imbalance.

I just read from the reference handouts for the Liver that I created for the Distance Acupuncture course. I created an extensive set of handouts so that practitioners without my 35 years of study in Chinese medicine could have resources to connect physical ailments to energy imbalance to life choices about how we react to situations. This way, anyone can help empower others to take control of their health on all levels: body, mind, and spirit.

Here's a short list of what I read off for functions:

• Supervising immune function
• Controlling both flexibility and strength of the muscles
• Eye health and vision
• Keeping digestion moving properly
• Regulating menstrual cycle
• Regulating blood volume
• Promoting sleep
• Expressing emotions
• Recognizing the universal Oneness that connect all of creation
• Generating faith and hope
• Seeing your path in life and seeing opportunities
• Planning and organizational ability
• Governing boundaries
• Asking for what you need
• Learning from your mistakes and gaining wisdom
• Encouraging spiritual growth

Then I correlated failure of these functions to common symptoms:

• Headache
• Chest tightness
• Nausea, belching, indigestion, or bloating
• Hiccups
• Neck and shoulder tension
• Lump in throat or difficulty swallowing
• Blurred vision or “floaters”
• Red eyes
• Painful periods
• Breast tenderness
• Numbness of limbs
• Tremors
• Allergies
• Depression
• Moodiness
• Melancholy
• Insomnia
• Disturbing dreams
• Irritability
• Angry shouting
• Perfectionism
• Resentment
• Frustration
• Inability to manage schedule
• Poor boundaries
• Frequent sighing

You’re an exception if you can’t relate to at least one of those issues.

If you have any trouble with any of those issues and if you have any trouble asking for what you need, then balancing your Liver Qi can help with both.

Again, I just read off from the handouts that I give to students of the Distance Acupuncture course so that anyone can help people understand how they can heal and then help them to heal by balancing their energy by using Accunect energy balancing taught in the course.

Tell Me More

Enrollments are currently being accepted for the Distance Acupuncture course.

Visit this link for more information about the course:

Distance Acupuncture Online

If you’re not interested in studying energy healing, but like the idea of having a weekly call to learn about how you can be healthier on all levels and have an Accunect healing session every week for a super affordable price visit this link:

Accunect Mind Body Healing Webinar

It should be more than about helping others – it should be a wisdom path that ends in faith.

When I ask people what attracted them to study healing work, they usually say they want to help others. That’s nice goal, and it’s where I started, so I get it.

I also think that if you shift your focus to making about growth for you that you get more out of it, it’s more sustainable, and as a side benefit you become a much better healer.

I’ve been practicing energy healing in one way another for over three decades. Like many people attracted to doing this kind of work it started with a desire to help a loved one who didn’t seem well served by allopathic medicine. I dove into researching complementary approaches: chiropractic, acupuncture, acupressure, nutrition, herbs, tai chi, and more.

Acupuncture seemed to help the most, so I took a beginner course in Shiatsu-Anma acupressure massage to be able to complement the acupuncture treatments that seemed to be helping.

I practiced on other students in the class, and when people heard I was studying Shiatsu they volunteered to be practice bodies.

I wasn’t looking to change careers at first. I had a degree in computer science with top honors and a very promising career ahead of me. I was working on a NASA subcontract to develop artificial intelligence learning systems for the Space Station. The most sensible thing from a financial planning perspective would have been to keep developing my career in software.

But several things happened that changed my mind:

• I discovered that I enjoyed connecting with people more than I enjoyed working with computers.
• After only a bit of training I started getting results with lots of health conditions with clients: back pain and neck pain I expected but I was also seeing people get better from things like heart arrythmias, digestive problems, infertility, headaches, allergies, menstrual pain and more.
• Even though I didn’t really understand how working on the energy flows in the body through acupressure could have such profound results, I really enjoyed watching what seemed to be miracles.

So, I quit my job as a computer scientist and continued my studies in Shiatsu-Anma. I also studied Chinese medicine, acupuncture, herbology, osteopathic manual therapy, and applied kinesiology. I became a licenced shiatsu massage therapist and licenced acupuncture physician.

I became fascinated by the mind and body connections discovered thousands of years ago and wanted to learn as much as I could.

The more I learned about the bidirectional link between mind and body and how the energy in the acupuncture meridians connected mind and body, the more curious I got.

And the deeper my understanding went, the more I was able to connect to my clients. When I explained that their physical ailments were connected to meridian imbalances, and then further explained that they were associated with certain kinds of emotional stress or challenges they could finally relate to what was a happening. It became something that they might have some power over. In contrast, the medical perspective on their problems usually boils down to: “your body isn’t making enough of this chemical and rather than trying to find out why we’re just going to give you some medication.”

This kind of explanation shows people what they can change to get better. Instead of giving people a diagnosis of something wrong, I was giving them hope of how it can get better.

Growing Wisdom

This rocked my world

The more my understanding and my enthusiasm grew my results just got more powerful and I started seeing “incurable” and “genetic” diseases resolve. This challenged my scientific world view (raised by two PhD chemists, then a degree in computer science).

I started studying epigenetics and I discovered that stress, both emotional and physical, can and does affect how our genetic code operates. And I learned that the way epigenetics works is that the energy field at the surface of the cell can actually change the genetic information in the cell. And the mind controls the electrical field of the whole body and hence the cell.

I also learned that if you could change the energy field of the body for the better, you can undo epigenetic damage and restore health.

The key is working on the energy systems of the body in order to change the mind and change the physical function of the body.

The idea that the mind supervised the nervous system and through the nervous system managed body function made perfect sense to me as a computer scientist.

The hardware in a computer can only actually do a few things:

• Move a number from one location to another.
• Add two numbers together.
• Test a number to see if it’s zero.

Everything else is software. Without layers of software, a computer is just a bunch electrical components assembled together. Almost everything we think that a computer does, it does by being managed by software. Software is like the “mind” of the computer.

And I started to see that balancing the energy of the body was a bit like installing a software patch for a bug or or damage from a computer virus. It's information that runs a computer and information that runs the body. Updating the information or intelligence of the body makes it run more efficiently.

How can the body be so amazing? What intelligence allows this?

The more I learned how to identify and balance every energy system in the body, the more I realized how powerful the underlying intelligence of the body was.

And it made me wonder where this intelligence came from. I grew up going to church and learning that God made everything in seven days. And I also was raised by scientists and raised to believe that Darwin had actually made a convincing argument about evolution and how we got here. I was just used to ignoring the contradiction in these two world views and not thinking about it very clearly.

I was beginning to understand the famous quote from Werner Heisenberg, the father of quantum physics:

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

The more I studied about the incredible complexity and resilience of life, the less I could entertain a mechanistic viewpoint about the creation of life.

I started studying criticism of Darwin’s theories and came to realize that this was another example of a flawed theory that has become dogma to the point where people are ridiculed for questioning it.

But the theory falls apart under examination. For a start, Darwin’s theory cannot explain:

• How a living cell can form out of non-living material. Still no credible theory and zero ability to produce this in a laboratory. If you can’t produce a valid test your theory is not science, it’s wishful thinking.
• The sudden of explosion of new species in the Cambrian era that have no ancestors in the fossil record – no evidence of minor mutations producing a new species from an old one.
• No explanation for how whole complex systems can form all at once from rare and random mutations. Even producing an organism as simple as a worm required the sudden appearance of complex structures that would have required many thousands of mutations to happen all at once in one organism. Statistically this is impossible, the math simply doesn’t work.

It's hard to look at this with open mind and not start wondering if there is some kind of intelligence that is beyond our understanding that has produced the complexity of life.

As I said I was raised going to church, so my first reaction to thinking about some larger intelligence is to think of God. I’m also quite happy with thinking about this larger intelligence field as Universal Consciousness, Collective Consciousness, Oneness, or Tao.

Putting the theory into practice

This idea of believing in an intelligence field is reinforced with how we practice Accunect. We use self-muscle checking to access our intuition. And we get answers that seem to be relevant and seem to be helpful in the sense that they lead to a positive change in both mental and physical health.

Much of the time, we get led to answers that we could not have possibly known consciously because the client has not shared any information that could have led us to know that.

It turns out that our subconscious mind is connected to Universal Consciousness and using muscle checking to access intuition is really getting information from a larger intelligence field, whatever you choose to call it.

Getting answers from beyond your intellect and then having those answers lead to healing results is awesome for your sense of faith. Faith that the body was designed to be incredibly resilient, faith that we can heal, faith that we are not alone, and faith that if you ask the right questions, you will get answers.

What about You?

So far, I’ve been talking about my path. I’m enough of a scientist that I know that if you think you know how something works, the only way to test that theory is to see if you can teach others to do the same thing.

I’ve been teaching energy medicine internationally for over twenty years, and the people I teach also get answers they couldn’t possibly have known, witness amazing healing results, and end up deepening their faith.

One of my students had no healthcare training but left his career as a truck driver to do Accunect full time. Early on, he called me to say: “I don’t really understand what I’m doing, but people are coming to me with cancer and other really scary conditions. All I do is ask questions using the Accunect Health Map, do the balancing, and they’re getting better. What’s happening?” I told him that he was doing it right – Accunect starts from the premise that the body was designed well and all we have to do is ask for answers about what has gotten out of balance and then the body heals itself the way it was supposed to. He continues to watch miracles every day and to feed his family in a way that deepens his faith in his connection to Higher Power/God every single day.

Working on faith makes you a better healer

I’ve taught thousands of students to do energy healing with Accunect. They can all do the work as soon as they finish the course. Over time, we’ve come up with better ways of teaching that allows us to both communicate the knowledge and also give enough practical experience to develop faith in their ability to facilitate healing.

We know that our mind reaches outside the body and influences others from neuroscience research.

When you believe that the body is amazing, healing is possible, and the Universe/God will answer your questions about how to help, your energy field shifts. And that affects others. The more faith you have, the more your mind and energy field affect your client’s mind and energy field. Your client then feels intuitively that they have finally come to the right place. This already starts to take them out of fear and fight or flight nervous system to allow healing before you even start the Accunect session:

Practice, practice, practice

Like anything else, the more you do something the better you get at it. Practicing Accunect gives you the experience that everyone can do healing work, even you.

This is why we include several months of weekly support calls with all our online courses. You can watch the lectures as many times as you want and in your own time. In the support calls you get to give and receive Accunect healing sessions with others.

The lectures give you the knowledge of how to do the work.

The support calls give you lots of experience in feeling connected to Universal Consciousness, feeling connected to others, and increase your faith in what is possible in terms of healing and your ability to facilitate healing.

The results are life changing. Every call results in stories of amazement and gratitude after the practice sessions in breakout rooms.

It’s like a practical course in how to watch miracles. You get enough support and practice time to really experience what’s possible, and then it becomes part of how you see the world. This sets up more positive expectations and that is communicated subconsciously through your energy field to the client and supports the process.

To learn more about what Accunect course might be right for you, book a free consultation to discuss it: https://go.oncehub.com/PreliminaryConsultationBooking