Get the Point: musings from the Acupuncture Chair, Lynn Mitchell. The Winter season brings us cold weather, crystal clear blue skies and brilliant starlight.  This quality is reflected in the body and manifest in an acupuncture point on the inner canthus of the eye, known as BRIGHT EYES.   This point evokes our ability, when in a healthy and vital state, to see ourselves, our surroundings and our future with Brightness and Clarity.

Bright Eyes is the first point on the Bladder meridian, which is the longest meridian on the body and also corresponds to the Winter season and to flow and movement, especially along the spinal cord.  The meridian starts at the inner eye, moves up and over the head and down along the back, through the hips and back of our knees and exits at the side of the foot.

Therefore in diagnosis and treatment, when an acupuncturist looks for the brightness emanating from the client’s eyes, she is also questioning and looking at deeper levels for the brightness of the flow and movement in all aspects of their life.  If these levels are blocked or “frozen” with the winter cold or the immobilization of chronic illness, she may open up this point with an acupuncture needle to re-establish flow, clarity and brightness to the whole system.

Unblocking this one point may help clear the way for better health and a brighter future.  This is just one example of how utilizing the “spirit” of an acupuncture point during a seasonal treatment, reflective of the beauty and clarity of the nature of the season we are immersed in, can have profound results for our healing.

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Bright blessings from Lynn Mitchell, Acupuncture Chair

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