Ancient Chinese Secret 5000 years old

That's what my Eastern Medicine Voodoo lady told me earlier this week. It was comical, out of a movie almost. (I say that with love.)

I was telling her about all my mom's health problems and her lung issues and she said "I can cure her."

I said "Sure you can. She's been in and out of the hospital since December, but you're gonna rub an herb on her and she's all better?"

She looked me dead in the eye and said "Ancient Chinese Medicine 5000 years old. Western medicine, not so much...and you. I make you believer."

Ok, ok!!!!

P.S. I'm a believer. Although she did bruise the shit out of my arm,

I forgive her. Because in the past week of seeing her, I've lost 5 lbs, I'm sleeping better, and I generally feel happier.
She's teaching me a lot about how my organs function, how they function together, and how the energy in your body is really important.

Additionally, each organ in your body is associated with a feeling. For example, your liver is associated with anger, the heart is associated with joy, the spleen with worry, the lung with grief, and the kidney with fear. As you work on these organs, you work on the feelings and the energy behind them...and trust me...lately, I've had a lot to work on in many of those departments. The past few months have been filled with all of those emotions and filled to the top.

I'm curious what today's session will bring because she always blows my mind!!!

In other news, it's concert season!!! I love fall because that's usually when my favorite bands show up and I don't have to worry about the crowds and grossness that is Summerfest. Tonight I'm seeing OKGO, who are legit geniuses. Tuesday I'm seeing Delta Spirit, and the following Monday, the ALMIGHTY PEARL JAM!!!!! This will be my second time seeing PJ. I've met Mike McCready and he is probably my favorite guitarist. He plays that guitar like it is part of his body. (And we all know I have a thing for guitarists...I did marry one!!!)

Happy weekend to everyone! We made it through the week!!!

Liver is associated with Anger
Heart is associated with Joy
Spleen is associated with Worry
Lung is associated with Grief
Kidney is associated with Fear
- See more at: http://www.tcmworld.org/what-is-tcm/tcm-healing-modali

Liver is associated with Anger
Heart is associated with Joy
Spleen is associated with Worry
Lung is associated with Grief
Kidney is associated with Fear
- See more at: http://www.tcmworld.org/what-is-tcm/tcm-healing-modalities/#sthash.JWWtd6Co.dpuf

Liver is associated with Anger
Heart is associated with Joy
Spleen is associated with Worry
Lung is associated with Grief
Kidney is associated with Fear
- See more at: http://www.tcmworld.org/what-is-tcm/tcm-healing-modalities/#sthash.JWWtd6Co.dpuf

Smile

I hope this blog post turns out better than the last one. I've been having problems with the look of my blog...posts crawling over one another and looking generally unpleasant.
Can't seem to find a help section either.
Anyways, that's not what this is about.

I'm sure you've heard the sayings about smiling. It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile. Peace begins with a smile. Smiling burns calories. All people smile in the same language.

I mean, I'm the first to admit that I don't always walk around with a smile on my face. Let's be honest, if we did that people would probably think we escaped from the nearest mental institution.
One of my friends posted something on facebook the other day and it generated a lot of buzz.

"When is the last time someone told you to smile? How often does it happen?"
There was a lot of responses like:
-I hate when people do that. If I wanted to be smiling I would be.  
-Men consider us ornaments that should be smiling at all times 
-My knee jerk reaction would be to give them the middle finger

Really, people? I again go back to wondering how our society would be different if we weren't all so angry and jaded people. 
 
I've had people tell me to smile. I didn't immediately want to grab them by the throat and murder them. Nor did I ever think a male was telling me to hop on up and make him a sammich and do it with a smile on my face for his pleasure.

My response was:
"So what? Maybe I'd like to see you smile to brighten my day. Maybe I think you're having a bad day and I think a smile would help you. Maybe it's just so you know someone is thinking of you and your feelings. I don't know why we have to turn everything into a women's lib argument or an I can't believe someone would have the gall. Take it for what it's worth and it's probably a nice gesture. Not everyone in the world is out to get you."


Modern society is cynical and jaded and it appears even telling someone to smile is a no-no these days. What happened to the days of saying hello to your neighbor? Opening the door for someone? Offering to carry a bag or two? Some people suggest TV and the violence we are exposed to numbs us to these things. Is that true? If it is, what's the fix? When we cut ourselves off from that aspect of the world do we grow up with a unrealistic view, forcing us into a different quandry of not being prepared for the pains the world will throw at us? Or would the pains of the world go away?

I guess I don't have all the answers. I think, though, my advice is going to once again try to think of the days before when you could borrow a cup of sugar without getting a door slammed in your face. A softer, gentler society. And maybe next time when someone tells you to smile, maybe next time you smile. And maybe next time you smile, it fixes what ails you or at least lifts your spirits.