I've been teaching my short course in Chinese Medicine for almost seven years now. First as Chinese Medicine for Bodytalk Practitioners, and then redesigned for everyone as Accunect Ancient Wisdom.  With the redesign, the material is even simpler to apply in practice. More importantly, I made much more practice time so that people could experience a balancing  on each meridian by the end of the course - we end up balancing everything from head to toes during the course.  This makes it more transformational than before.

I originally thought of it as a really powerful tool for practitioners - you gain enough understanding in three days to be able to use the extensive handout pages using muscle checking. The results are pretty cool - I get tons of feedback from students with no prior training in Chinese Medicine that their clients really relate to the balancings that come up. And I get professional acupuncturists taking the course who tell me that it helps them to think outside the box and adds ease and power to their sessions.

I'm pretty proud of how well the course works as a professional development tool. But it's not the most important aspect of the course.

The most important reason I teach the course is that it brings hope. Once you have a basic understanding of Chinese Medicine a lot of things seem more possible. Lots of conditions that are considered difficult or incurable in western medicine are simple energy imbalances in Chinese Medicine.

For example, asthma is a difficult condition in western medicine, relatively simple in Chinese Medicine. In fact, to get acupuncture needles as medical devices, the acupuncture association decided to pick asthma as a test case - because asthma is easy: you can get much better results with asthma using Chinese Medicine than with western medicine.

Atrial fibrillation is a difficult heart condition with no good treatment in western medicine.  In Chinese Medicine it isn't a heart condition - rather it is an imbalance between the Kidney meridian and the Heart meridian. This shift in perspective makes it treatable.

For practitioners, having a deeper understanding of what is possible increases confidence and enthusiasm, which is then shared with the client energetically, thereby increasing results. For everyone, gaining insight into what is possible helps give hope - for yourself or for a family member or loved one. This is invaluable.

The course also really helps to explain the mind-body-spirit connections in a very tangible way.  And experiencing those connections during the practice sessions during the course makes it a felt experience.

I hope you can join me sometime for this weekend of transformation, inspiration, with a lot of effortless learning and balancing thrown in for good measure.

Welcome to the Accunect Blog!

It's been a crazy year.  I had a lot of personal challenges this year that took up way too much of my time.

Plus, I've been trying to develop the new website, the practitioner directory, a new certification course, and preparing the Connect instructor training program.  Bottom line is something had to give in that whole process and it ended up being the email newsletter that I used to send out.

I could moan about how busy I am, and that it's not fair, but that's life.There's probably at least one of you who has too much to do as well. The trick to a healthy, balanced life is being able to adapt. That's what I teach anyways. Accunect helps a person recover from stress and come back into their "adaptive range." When we are in a place where our body is able to adapt to stress, we stay healthy. Sometimes you end up teaching what you have to learn.

A lot of people have written to ask us to please make sure we have their email correct as they haven't received a newsletter. It's nice to know that people find what I write interesting and want to stay connected.

So I'm adapting by changing my strategy: we're discontinuing the old newsletter format in favor of more frequent blog posts - you'll get more frequent, shorter emails with a link to the latest blog post, plus a little additional info about upcoming courses and other news. The old newsletter was daunting to prepare, and many people said they didn't have time to read such a lengthy email. So this will be a win-win for everyone.

Perfect is the enemy of good. Voltaire said something close to that, and I repeat it often. Now I'm listening. I think of something interesting to say at least once a week, and I'm just going to say it when I think it - instead of waiting for it to fit into the next newsletter, or my next book.

DKP

Hey! Check out our new website

Lots of people have asked why isn't there a website called Accunect? It would be easier for people to find Accunect on the web if the website was called Accunect.

You asked, we listened. We'll be in the process of editing the new site for the next few weeks, and it will take that long for us to move all the content over from the Future Medicine Today website. If you can't find something on the new site, the go look for it on Future Medicine Today.  For the moment all e-courses will still be through the old site.

The new website is built on a more modern platform and will allow us to grow with Accunect. It also supports mobile browsers - you should be able to access it on smartphones and tablets just fine.

We're adding more information on what Accunect is from a client perspective to make the website a resource for clients. There is a new practitioner listing page to help you get found and to recognize you for your training - we'll be adding people to the listing as they qualify - look for details very soon.  The practitioner listing is up and live, and I am starting to the SHARE program people who are already pre-qualified. Some countries are getting listed twice, that will be fixed soon.

There will be a new member area as well. One login password will give you access to everything you have signed up for. All Accunect students will still be able to download Health Maps and other resources as part of their free membership. If you have purchased an e-course, access to that will be under the same login. Give me a couple of weeks to get it all working without bugs. Until then, Future Medicine Today will still have everything available for now.

We'll also be able to support having additional instructors - we begin training of Accunect Connect instructors in June! As in this month!

Enjoy!

DKP