Mental Emotional Balancing Treatment

Stress and Imbalance

Simple stressors impact everyone. Eventually, among all of the unfinished projects, having an unexpected argument or facing a morning commute could be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Major stressors include sleep disruptions, relationship breakdowns, family problems, and changes to your living situation or job. These stressors can severely influence emotional imbalances and compound, especially when several problems stack up simultaneously in your life.

Whether you are experiencing emotional imbalance due to mental illness, trauma, or everyday stressors, you could undoubtedly benefit from therapeutic attention. So while you might feel inclined to seek medication or bury your emotions further in avoidant behavior, you might consider another option.

Suffering from Stress, Anxiety, or Depression?

When you’re feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed to the point that these feelings overwhelm you and begin to affect your quality of life, you might not imagine that a needling treatment could ever help you feel better. Scientific evidence backs up the effects of acupuncture, however, as more and more patients turn to more natural remedies for relief.

Have you ever felt like your mind and body were playing tug-of-war with one another? Or, perhaps you longed for something or someone who was no good for you? Maybe your cravings were too strong to resist when you knew it would interfere with your goals?

If any of this sounds familiar to you, then you understand how important mental, emotional balance can be. Whether your issue is an impulse control or PTSD related to childhood trauma, Chinese Medicine has much to offer and can make a difference right away.

Emotional imbalance causes your mind and body to struggle.

Emotional imbalance correlates highly with physiological states of being. While you might feel your emotions more acutely in your body, you are aware that the logical and emotional sides of these struggles both occur in your mind as well. By calming the body, we can regulate the mind and vice versa.

However, emotional imbalance often manifests more sharply and potentially more significant than as a brief tug-of-war between the mind and body. A persistent imbalance may indicate that you are experiencing more severe mental difficulty as with debilitating anxiety, major depression, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Emotional imbalance symptoms can include physical and emotional symptoms, such as tense muscles, stomach aches, irritability, and trouble sleeping. Uncontrollable anger, debilitating sadness, or even thoughts of self-harm signal that something needs serious attention, and maybe you’ve already tried everything under the sun.

Chinese Medicine Offers Hope

Maybe that’s why you’ve finally decided to give Chinese Medicine a shot. Perhaps you have heard about how a few fine needles could help your friend eliminate her insomnia. Or maybe you heard how herbs and acupuncture helped reduce someone else’s palpitations?

You see the glimmer of hope in the possibility that if it worked for them, maybe you can experience emotional balance once again too. When you reach a state of emotional balance, you no longer feel an internal struggle. Instead, you find it possible to experience peace and acceptance within your emotions, even with the negative ones.

Emotional Processing and Integration Leads to Stability and Balance.

When you feel painful or difficult emotions without avoidance, including anger and sadness, you begin the process of integrating your reaction to that experience. Emotions inform us about what is important to us and provide vital motivation to our actions. If you ever feel like you have lost the desire to pursue life, that is some real trouble, and you will need help to trigger the emotions again.

In Chinese Medicine, the words to describe mental energy are Shen Qi. When your Shen Qi is balanced and strong, your emotional state remains free-flowing like the clouds in the sky. Both acupuncture and herbal medicines are key strategies used to balance and harmonize Shen Qi when it is weak or disordered.

When your Shen Qi is healthy, any experience or emotion does not overshadow the flexibility of your mental-emotional state. Once you process your feelings about something that happened, you can move forward. By manipulating your body’s physiological state with herbs or needles, we can correct imbalances with your mental state as needed.

Emotional imbalance leads to an unstable mental and physical state.

Any emotional imbalance may derive from one or both of two general causes. In Chinese Medicine, we see these states as either related to Yang imbalance and classify them as Kuang type disorders, or we see their relationship to Yin imbalance and classify the disorder as Dian type.

To illustrate an example, if you allow emotions to consume you, this can lead to excessive risky behavior. Loud and violent actions, acting out in the heat of passion, this sort of disharmony is typical of a Kuang-type disorder. Strategies that calm and soothe your mental-emotional state also calm the body’s physiology and act upon the autonomic nervous system.

On the other hand, we can use strategies that unlock blockage and stimulate emotion too. By blocking a painful or traumatic emotion, that stuck feeling prevents you from feeling pretty much anything else. Without getting the help you need, that blockage can eventually cause the withdrawal of such severe negative impact that it places you more and more at risk of something even more awful happening.

All kinds of mental illness, trauma, or stress can influence this imbalance to take hold, but the good news is that acupuncture and Chinese herbs can reverse this quite easily.

Mental Illness and Emotional Imbalance

If you suffer from PTSD or major depression, then you might be able to relate to situations like these.

In cases of PTSD, you might logically perceive yourself to be free from any physical harm. However, despite this, you may still feel like the trauma you experienced repeats itself over and over again. Feeling helpless to stop it and unable to process the intense emotions that the trauma brings, you might react in a number of unhealthy ways.

In the case of depression, if your negative emotions consume your attention too much, then you might feel that it is impossible to move past such feelings. Even when you may logically believe and affirm that everything is going well, the negative feelings still manage to overwhelm your awareness.

How Trauma Influences Emotional Imbalance

Trauma influences emotional imbalance, even without the diagnosis of PTSD. You may have unresolved trauma that affects you from childhood, or it could be more recent. Some things in life are too difficult to process immediately and may take significant time depending on many factors.

These types of trauma include car accidents, grieving death, childhood or adult abuse, witnessing abuse, being the victim of a crime, or surviving a natural disaster.

If you have major depression, or experienced something traumatic and continue to struggle to find peace, then acupuncture and Chinese Medicine can help even if other attempts have failed. Treating mental-emotional disorders of these types can be challenging without adequately evaluating the mental energy or Shen Qi.

How does Chinese Medicine help with Emotional Imbalance?

Chinese Medicine offers many tools to helps you access and process painful memories as well as better manage your health. The most important of these is the diagnostic method. By carefully noting your complete health history, we can formulate the most effective treatment plan. All you need is to do is schedule your consultation.

Studies continue to show that acupuncture, herbal medicine, talk therapy, and connecting with nature work together to allow patients to see the benefits of integrated treatment much faster. In addition, some people feel better after just one or two sessions. In some cases, effective relief is felt immediately.

By giving your mind and body better tools for processing difficult emotions, you can once again find emotional balance with acupuncture and Chinese herbs.

While you may always feel upset by what happened in the past, you can definitely find ways to move forward in life without the negative effects of mental-emotional imbalance. Let me guide you.

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