On Wednesday August 30th, we will be blessed with the second full moon of the month, a blue Moon in Pisces.  The Pisces Full Moon is an invitation to dive deep into your healing. It’s a reminder to look beyond the superficial and embrace the unknown. This special time of year can be a powerful catalyst to create a space for self-reflection, spiritual transformation, and personal growth.  The veil is thin between our conscious and unconscious thought patterns at this time as the Pisces full moon specifically illuminates our unconscious patterns, so we take the first step in changing these negative patterns and ultimately evolving our consciousness.

Acupuncture point Yin Tang is an excellent tool for this. Named “Hall of Impressions” this point calms the spirit, eases anxiety and most importantly opens the door to our intuition.  By simply applying pressure to this point or anointing it with an oil that moves qi we can open our third eye/intuition, resulting in new perspectives, emotions and ideas.

Another point I like to utilize during this Pisces full moon is Liver 3.  Liver 3 is called “Happy Calm” and the point does just that! This deeply nourishing point is excellent at processing anger or suppressed emotions which can often come up with new levels of awareness.

While awareness is the first step to evolution, no matter how aware I am of some of my own negative patterns….. its hard to change!  I’ve also observed that most patients I work with don’t change until they have reached the limit of pain they can tolerate around a pattern.  To change before reaching that threshold pain point requires quite a bit of self-control and self awareness.  It often requires the individual to have a deeper understanding that by changing today, they are actually alleviating the future self from pain.  It’s actually the ultimate act of self-love.  An example of this would be eating a clean diet now, in an effort to reduce the odds of high blood pressure, cancer and diabetes in the future.  While that is challenging for most, it does require an aspect of awareness, control and ultimately love for your future self.

Besides pain, I believe there is one more aspect besides pain that inspires us to change and that is love.  Love inspires, it heals, and it provides hope.  Love is the highest vibration there is and the Zen Den Team has always strived to hold love as the driving force in our value system. Every treatment, every herb we sell, ever interaction with have with our patients is infused with the intention of love to facilitate change for the better in our patients.

Speaking of change, we have many changes on the horizon at Zen Den: New Massage Therapists, Front Desk Staff and Acupuncturists are joining our team, we are growing and expanding in ways I never dreamed of.  While I am so sad to see dear Naomi go, I trust her path is taking her where it needs to and I know she will always be in our hearts, in some way. I’m forever grateful for the positive impact she has had on many members of our community overt he years,  including the strength and support she has provided me with over the years. I appreciate her so much.

Forever Grateful for your Continued Support,

Dr. Michelle Hamilton