A setpoint refers to a homeostatic control mechanism. When you set the thermostat in your house, you are saying I want this room to be this temperature; if the temperature falls below that setpoint then turn on the heating, if it rises above that setpoint then turn on the air conditioning.

There are many setpoints within the bodymind, but they are not under conscious control. To change them, we need to change the subconscious mind.

Here's the good news: Accunect changes the subconscious mind by changing the energy systems that make up the subconscious mind. This is where we need to work - on the programmed responses that keep us stuck in a negative pattern.

No one consciously decides "I think I'll mess up my metabolism so that I develop high blood sugar and diabetes."

No one consciously decides "I think I'll put my body into constant stress mode so that I need to take blood pressure medication"

No one consciously decides "I think I'll get angry super easy so that I'm always stressed and that I push people away from me."

We can address the subconsious response patterns that produce these negative patterns by shifting the energy state of the body with Accunect.

I did a talk on this concept as part of my weekly healing webinar recently. Keep reading for the video and a special offer on joining the weekly healing call at an incredible discount.

This concept has been applied to many processes in the body:

• Weight control
• Blood sugar levels
• Temperature
• Blood pressure
• and more

The same theory has been applied to our psychological experiences as well:

• Happiness
• Abundance
• Success
• Emotional regulation
• and more

How can Accunect energy balancing help with these things?

Our ability to receive is governed by the Spleen and Lung meridians. Ancient text books talk about how these meridians govern our ability to "reach out and take from the world that which is rightfully ours." This can affect our internal programs about how much success and abundance we think we deserve.

On a physical level, the Spleen's ability to receive governs our digestive strength. And the Spleen also regulates immune function. The Spleen also rules the sense of taste and balancing it can help us be drawn to food that is kinder to our metabolism.

The Liver meridian governs our response to anger: do we use it as clue to look in a different direction for a solution, or do we just explode in anger?

Long bottled up anger is a precursor to cardiovascular disease and heart attacks in Chinese medicine, so there are physical health benefits to changing our response to it.

The Liver meridian also controls our vision. This includes physical eye health as well as seeing our path in life and being able to pursue our destiny.

This is only scratching the surface of how balancing the energy systems can change our responses. I could go on, but I'll share a story instead to illustrate the power of this.

In the video below I share something from my life story from many years ago. I was an acupuncture physician with lots of training in shiatsu and manual therapy. But I was hiding in a resort spa wearing a massage therapist's uniform. A visiting teacher who became a mentor for me recognized my gifts and basically said "WTF! Why are you hiding here?"

He wasn't the first to say something like that to me. Whenever someone showed up at the spa with a more serious health issue the front desk would always book them in with me because of my training. I'd explain their issues from both a western and Chinese medicine perspective, give them some advice, and then do some energy work on them to help them. At least once a week a guest would stare at me and say "OMG, you're doctor! And you've helped me more than my regular doctor quickly. Why are you hiding in a spa?

So my ears and my conscious mind had heard this before - repeatedly. But nothing changed.

What changed things was that my teacher then proceeded to do a very powerful energy balancing so that my subconscious mind could get the message. I can't remember everything that he worked with, but I do remember that he balanced my Liver meridian several times so that I could see my path and my destiny.

And then things changed.

Within a year I was teaching energy healing courses internationally. I eventually ending up teaching in 13 different countries.

And then I co-founded the Accunect healing system with my partner, Sarah Simonis, and we've taught that system to thousands of people around the world.

But it wasn't advice alone that launched me out of hiding. It was changing my subconscious mind about what my setpoint should be for success in sharing my healing knowledge through an energy balancing.

Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar

Every week I run a healing call. I give a short talk about some aspect of physical or mental health and I try to reframe these issues as energy imbalances.

Reframing it as an imbalance is empowering. It takes us out of resignation to a problem that doctors can only manage with medication but never cure. And it gives us understanding and hope that this is just a temporary energy imbalance that can be addressed to get us out of being stuck in a negative pattern.

We can look at every challenge as an inappropriate setpoint. Accunect gives us the tools to change those setpoints and move closer to optimum health.

The video below is my short lecture on setpoints. For subscribers, it was followed by an Accunect Healing session.

I'm offering a special price on this healing series right now.

Normally it's $97/month, which works out to just a little over $22/week which is a great value already.

But I'm offering a year of this series for only $597. That's just over $11/week. 

I'm offering this low price to get people to commit to long term healing. If you want to get in shape you don't go to the gym once, you make it a regular habit.

This lowest ever price will only last until Sunday, September 6th 2026 so act now.

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