by lracu on June 10, 2010
Thanks for visiting Living Room Acupuncture!
Our goal is to create a comfortable community space where you can rest easy and be well. We are the first clinic to specialize in offering low-cost, high-quality acupuncture to patients in San Jose and the San Francisco South Bay Area.
Enjoy the ability to access affordable, effective and natural healthcare. Please browse through our website for more info. If you’re ready, feel free to check our schedule and book an appointment. The many benefits of acupuncture include helping you to:
- Relieve tension, pain, arthritis
- Lower stress, anxiety, depression
- Increase energy and vitality
- Improve digestive function
- Control high blood pressure
- Reduce allergies and asthma
- Boost reproductive fertility
- Maximize overall well-being
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by Paul Wang on February 1, 2012
An optimist laughs to forget,
but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
— Tom Bodett
A lot of folks seem to have caught a cold lately. Perhaps a stressful January ran us down? Actually, one reason whether you get sick or not is what researchers call “dispositional optimism”. This is a tendency to expect a positive outlook, even in the face of negative stress.
There’s a field called psychoneuroimmunology. As the name implies, it’s an interdisciplinary study of psychology, neurology and immunology. How are they connected? Basically, the theory is that your mind and emotions affect your immune system via your nervous system and hormones.
A study split 59 men into four groups. One was given immune stimulation (typhoid vaccine Typhim-Vi) and acute psychological stress (vaccine/stress). Another had the vaccine but was allowed to rest (vaccine/rest). A third got a placebo but was stressed (placebo/stress). The last received the placebo and rest (placebo/rest). [click to continue…]
by Paul Wang on January 27, 2012
Tame this Dragon.
January 23, 2012 commenced a Water Dragon Year. Dragon Years are interesting because they are powerfully unpredictable. They can be seen as a potent alchemy of celestial elements wrought down from the heavens or brought out from our psyches — where universal forces microcosmically dwell and internally influence us from.
Dragons combine the best features of diverse animals such as the tiger, eagle, snake and fish, which lends them the flexibility to soar in the sky, roam upon the earth and swim under the water. Their multifaceted nature also translates into wide-ranging vision and broad-minded insight. (Hint: the mentally-calming and stress-clearing benefits of acupuncture will help you relax into that space.)
Thus, the next twelve months in the twelve year zodiac cycle could be a period heralding the vital descent of sovereign wisdom or the fierce ascent of sudden change (both core Dragon attributes). Accordingly, this excites us who seek a new shift or scares those who want the status quo, either in the world or ourselves. [click to continue…]
