MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'cultivation'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:55:15 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3946591&cid=t_226578_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fdeepesthealth%2FBMCc%2F%7E3%2FzSEivdcpd6o%2F There’s this message board that I spend a lot of time on. It’s a board dedicated to helping players of a particular Real-time Strategy Game (aka an RTS) get better. On it a very high ranked player has the following quote as part of his signature: “On your PC, the units seem to perform quite poorly. I think there might be something nearby the PC that is causing this problem for you. You may need a mirror to find out what it is.” In my practice I have an intake form that I use given to me by my friend and elder brother in Chinese Medicine, Ross Rosen. On it there are a group of questions that you won’t find in your typical SOAP notes. One question is particularly poignant: “How are you a problem to yourself/others?” The more time I spend trying to wo... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3946591 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:15:43 +0100 3946591 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3868829&cid=t_226578_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fdeepesthealth%2FBMCc%2F%7E3%2FlpBqFLl65zw%2F This is my first weekly YODA update. It was a tumultuous week, there’s no doubt about it.  I’ll be talking about the details on my personal blog and the Deepest Health forums, so won’t prattle on here.  However, I will provide a summary and the most important insights that have come from my work during this initial phase of the project.  Remember – the whole point of this thing is to see whether devoting myself to a rigorous program of study and self cultivation will result in my becoming a more effective practitioner of Chinese medicine. There’s no doubt that my clinical practice changed for the better this week.  The reality is that the process was a long and winding road.  What I’ve noticed is that as I focus on really living up to the oath I too... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3868829 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:34:07 +0100 3868829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3505023&cid=t_226578_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fdeepesthealth%2FBMCc%2F%7E3%2FFKEGy5-U48M%2F Conclusions It would appear that there was no convergence of experience with my second baseline when testing either the Sweet and Sour combination herbs or the Sweet and Pungent herbs. However, the combination of the two calibration herbs seemed to lend itself to the stated experience in the Neijing. I can therefore make a preliminary statement that Sweet and Salty settle the Shen for a meditative experience. Whereas Sweet and Bitter may have something do with cleaning and settling the blood. I am concerned that I may have misinterpreted the Tang Ye Jing flavors assignments, where I switched Salty and Bitter columns. This may not be a big error other than flipping the converged experience of calibration herbs from Sweet and Salty to Sweet and Bitter. But I would like to either confirm this... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3505023 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:00:36 +0100 3505023 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3454044&cid=t_226578_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fdeepesthealth%2FBMCc%2F%7E3%2FVRJ2r4QWC-4%2F Today, I would like to present the first part of a three-part series about flavor combinations in Chinese herbal medicine. You may remember that the issue of flavors is one of the things I’ve been discussing with my students at NCNM. The question of what the symbol of flavor actually means and how it can best be used by practitioners is one of considerable importance, in my opinion. I tend to become suspicious of any piece of information that is said over and over again, yet never described in much detail. Flavor fits that description, in my experience. In my class, I ask students to conceive and complete a project on a topic of interest in the realm of herbal medicine. Most students decide to dive deeply into exploring a single herb, using research, art, poetry, dance, horticulture,... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3454044 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:56:17 +0100 3454044 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2958984&cid=t_226578_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fdeepesthealth%2FBMCc%2F%7E3%2FwYtxQ25lvgI%2F Today, on a walk I was taught an important lesson by some late migrating geese. In the late summer and autumn, we get a whole lot of geese flying overhead in my neighborhood. We live pretty close to a couple of wildlife refuges, one being specifically devoted to waterfowl. In general, in Portland, the autumn is always accompanied by the resonant, melodic sound of Canadian geese fleeing Canada. It’s one of those things that is commonplace, yet never seems to lose its magic. I’ve noticed a lot of things in Autumn are like that – the leaves turning, the miracle of the harvest, the start of formal schooling and so on. Anyway, today I had one of those magic moments – fog bank just rolled in, walking on a hill in clear view of the setting full moon and the rising sun refl... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2958984 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:51:45 +0100 2958984 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2823676&cid=t_226578_77_f&fid=37259&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.horizonpress.com%2Fblogger%2F2009%2F09%2Fsoil-microbiology.html Until fairly recently, the living soil has been considered as a functional black box that is intrinsically too difficult to be unravelled into its core components. However, this concept has changed with the advent of the modern methodologies. The intricacies of microbial life in soil has been impacted by the advanced, mainly molecular-based, approaches that have been unleashed on the soil habitat in recent years. The application of molecular and other advanced methods (cultivation-independent analyses) has provided exciting new insights into microbial life in soil. Soil is an extremely diverse and complex habitat containing many microsites and gradients that form a range of different biogeochemical interfaces. Depending on the proportion of sand, silt and clay, the surface area in soil can... Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2823676 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:02:00 +0100 2823676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2712232&cid=t_226578_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fdeepesthealth%2FBMCc%2F%7E3%2FnwsiM9j1eyc%2F I want to try something new. Many of my readers have asked me to do more discussion of the Classical texts. I have been hesitant because my command of Chinese is not great and the available translations are mostly disappointing (if my teachers are to be believed). However, my need to dive into them continuously and do whatever I am able to with them is becoming more important. My thought is that the web of readers (some of you being accomplished translators) will catch any egregious errors… hopefully… Actually, therein lies the articulation of a problem. I have been taught about Classical texts using two main methods. The first method is more rigorously scholarly and does demand an ever developing Chinese language ability. This method is very useful for getting practical inform... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2712232 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:00:45 +0100 2712232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469750&cid=t_226578_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fdeepesthealth%2FBMCc%2F%7E3%2Ft1Tr27TY1Tw%2F Since the arrival of my friend Brandt Stickley, I have been unfortunately unable to devote the amount of time I would like to living out our wild Portland-area Awareness Project dreams.  We had so many late night chat and Skype conversations, whipping one another into a sleepless frenzy about the power and possibility in symbolism. The symbolism of the Classical texts of Chinese medicine, the symbolism of the body, of acupuncture points and herbal formulas, of ancient poetry and contemporary culture - but most of all - the symbolism living all around us in lived experience. Well, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.  I can TASTE the completion of this degree.  I can FEEL the reality of my impending licensure.  Our clinic is already running.  We have meetings every week.  I&#... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469750 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:11:23 +0100 2469750 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2259390&cid=t_226578_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F0bxU3lcEAoE%2F Today we continue the conversation with Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. You can read part 1 here. Q - In your Harvard Management Update interview, you said that "When what we pay attention to is driven by the last email we received, the trivial and the crucial occupy the same plane." As well, it seems to be that a problem is our culture's over-idealization of "always on" and "road warrior" habits, which distract from the importance of executive functions such as paying attention to one's environment, setting up goals and plans, executing on them, measuring results, and internalizing learning. How can companies better equip their employees for future success? Can you offer some examples of companies who ha... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2259390 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:18:30 +0100 2259390 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2236544&cid=t_226578_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeepesthealth.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F03%2Fjohnsoncreekflooding.mp3 So, you may remember all this talk about the Awareness project.  The idea was (and is, though evolved now) that we wanted to bring all of our senses to bear IN THE WORLD as people nourished by particular types of practices to really live what the Classics tell us about.  This in turn would be productive of particular kinds of character traits that would, in turn, inform our medical practice and so on.  A kind of evolutionary development watered at the deepest level by taking seriously the Classical literature - particularly that of our spiritual traditions and our medical traditions. Something like that. Anyway - you might have thought we forgot.  We didn’t.  It just needed some time to come to maturity.  It’s still doing that… coming to maturity.  It takes time. ... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2236544 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:03:01 +0100 2236544 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2192793&cid=t_226578_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fdeepesthealth%2FBMCc%2F%7E3%2FtCNZUzIJNAE%2F It’s a cardinal rule in blogging that one shouldn’t write too many “sorry I’ve been away” posts. They tend to convey weakness, over-involvement in one’s own process and generally turn readers off - particularly first-time readers.  If you’re a first time reader, may I suggest that you hunt through the Articles page or look to the archives and calendar in the right hand columns (scroll down!) for some of the great content that has been pumped out here at Deepest Health. All that to say, this is sort of a “sorry I’ve been away” post.  :) But - with a twist!  Content will be deftly woven throughout - perhaps particularly useful for my peers across the country and around the world who are in their final year of Chinese medicine sch... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2192793 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:13:41 +0100 2192793