Don’t tell Eric, but one of the reasons I started blogging in English is the inspiration I got from Deepest Health. And I still am very inspired by Eric and his writing, mainly because I find so much information on his blog that I’ve been looking about CM.

Also, after meeting Heiner Fruehauf in 3 lectures, finding one of his students who provides more about his teachings is like striking gold. That’s a great added bonus.

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May turned out to be a busy month!

We kicked things off with The Seven Emotions, a review about one of my favorite books in CM (if not my most favorite). I think every practitioner and every student of CM can benefit from this book.

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Here we are, another week is gone (time sure flies!), and it’s time to go on with the new category I started last week of the weekly links.
Please remember that if you have any interesting links that you’d like to share, links to your own website or blog with value to people who are practitioners of Chinese Medicine or interested in this field, please send it over via e-mail: yael [at] chinesemedicinenotes [dot] com.

Randy Pausch: I never heard of him until today and I am deeply touched. I am always at awe of people like Randy, who inspire me and obviously others as well. Note it with a yellow marker as he truly is amazing.

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…Or to be more precise- Ian Brown and the Fire Element in Chinese Medicine.

May 31st marks the first ever performance of Ian Brown in Israel.
If you don’t know, Israel is not a place where we get many performances by wonderful artists such as Ian Brown. Security issues are always clouding potential visits from rock gods- even if they are not justified, and when someone finally comes our way- we pray for weeks that performance won’t be canceled in the last minute.

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OK, today I am starting a new category- weekly links.
I will create a weekly list of interesting links I found over the week that are all about Chinese Medicine.
I get so many interesting links over the days but am failing to read them all for lack of time and way too much work. This way I am mixing my blogging with links I think are important for everyone, and though this might create another dead-line for me, I think it is a good thing.

Shaolin monks to treat victims with secret herbs- I thought there was a lot of kindness in this post from Shanghai Daily, talking about the victims of the earthquake in Sichuan. Note it.

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Tong Ze Bu Tong, Bu Tong Ze Tong- so claims an old wise Chinese saying- free flow- no pain; no free flow- pain.
One of the first things on which Chinese Medicine is based upon is the free flow of Qi and Blood in the body.
Gua Sha is a 5,000 year old technique, and by applying it one can move stagnations of Qi and Blood in different areas of the body and encourage free flow to those areas.
Along with cupping, these techniques do not recieve the proper attention during the 4 CM school years in the west. I chose to talk about Gua Sha in this post, as it is a simple enough technique to use, but is very powerful and can help you help your patients a great deal.

Gua- rubbing; Sha- “reddish, elevated, millet-like skin rash, aka petechiae” (1).
Gua Sha is mostly used when we have pain in muscles, but from the name we can understand that we can use this technique when we want to improve the Blood flow in the entire body, in cases of chronic pain, tiredness, cough and more.

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OK, this post is a bit off-topic, but has a lot to do with CMNotes and blogging in general.
As I started blogging (first in Hebrew and CMNotes started on November 2007), I looked for sources of information about blogging. I mean, it’s not all about simply writing things and posting them online. For one thing- how do you get people to visit your blog? Does design really matters? How can I make the most out of Adsense?

I first discovered Dosh Dosh, I found him on August 2007 and got lots of ideas from him.
Then I discovered Chris Garrett. I love his blog- the way it looks, the way he writes- he makes a lot of sense.
Then I discovered Problogger- Darren Rowse. And this is where the ideas started puring in, since Darren makes things a lot more simple than they seem at first, especially when you’re still a new member of the blogsphere.

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I know that May 15 is tomorrow, but I won’t be able to actually go online and write, so I’m posting this a bit earlier.

One of many things I love about the Internet is being able to actually tell the world you are supportive of something that is very important for you.
Human rights is a very big issue, and so many things fall into that category.
I choose to write briefly about the violation of basic human rights where women are concerned.

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The month of May 2008 will be remembered as the month where nature had a thing with the human race.
The cyclone in Myanmar was just about 10 days ago, taking thousands of lives on it’s way, and now the terrible earthquake in China, which happened yesterday, thousands are missing or buried or injured or dead.

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Before the ICCM started, as I knew Julian Scott will be one of the guest speakers, I decided to Google Julian and see what I come up with.
The results were interesting:

Julian Scott- a composer of music for films and such, and even scores music for the Olympic games in Beijing! But the more I look at the website I realize- this is not the Julian Scott I’m looking for.

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