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Fire

October 6, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor Leave a Comment

In Chinese Medicine, the way the life source courses through our body is divided into a circuit through five ‘elements’:  earth, fire, water, metal, and wood.  Each of these elements has some responsibility for specific internal workings of the body, a part of the spirit we contain, and has a special relationship with actual organs…  Continue Reading →

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Changing

September 14, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor Leave a Comment

I am coming off of a full weekend of seminars by Jeffery Yuen.  Jeffery Yuen is the guru of sorts for my school.  I don’t mean guru in the mascot sense, but in the foundational sense.  He is an 88th generation Doaist monk who is also a clinician of medicine.  He lectures for hours without…  Continue Reading →

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First Things First

August 27, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor 1 Comment

I have completed my first week of Chinese Medicine.  I am reflecting on some of the points of parallel and the points of divergence to my first Masters degree which was boldly called ‘Divinity’. There is room for what I call magical thinking in Chinese Medical school when studied from the Classical tradition.  As we…  Continue Reading →

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10 things I am reminded I missed and spirited lines

August 26, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor Leave a Comment

Here is a list of 10 things I forgot to miss while we were out west: 1. the smell of freshly cut grass2. the luxury of a well lit large enough bathtub3. how HUGELY tall trees are where we come from4. bright green moss growing on damp rocks5. the mixed colors of people I have…  Continue Reading →

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Changes

August 24, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor Leave a Comment

This is my final blog post for my Desert Adventures.  Here is the promised photo of me, a ‘Certified Massage Therapist intending to be Licensed’ (we practiced announcing this in our final class time together in the room with the green carpet and the anatomy charts curling on the wall) I was surprised on this…  Continue Reading →

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fast backward

June 17, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor Leave a Comment

I have let this wait far too long.  So, readers, I must bounce about a bit.  In one hour, I will drive the Senator Highway to Goldwater Lake to receive the evidence that I am a certified massage therapist.  This will take place at a picnic and will be much photographed by Allen and I…  Continue Reading →

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Be Still and Know….

May 12, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor Leave a Comment

This is the work of what I am currently learning in school.  I might more accurately say this is what I am currently learning in life, which is nothing new.  It happens to also be a quotation from the Psalms and the words my biodynamic cranial sacral therapy teacher said in class yesterday. Being still…  Continue Reading →

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Elegance

April 17, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor Leave a Comment

I am sitting on our sofa in the midst of backpacks, changes of clothes, sleeping bags, thermarests.  Allen is an elegant packer.  He has plotted out a menu of that includes eggs, bacon, chicken with peppers, dried mango with figs.  We are going to feast on this after our backpacking hike to the basin of…  Continue Reading →

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Rocking Utah

April 2, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor Leave a Comment

This holy week I am pondering a new understanding of witness.  We have been studying Ayurvedic practice and massage all week.  It is a messy business.  Lots of oil (specifically sesame oil) and cooking it with rose petals and indian powders with medicinal qualities.  In ayurvedic tradition, all food is medicine.  Meat is eaten, but…  Continue Reading →

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faith, needles, planes and plans

March 22, 2010 by Caroline Craig Proctor Leave a Comment

The above picture is a tease of blogs to come.  It is the first photo we took in Utah over Spring Break.  I need a few days to let the rock dust settle a bit before I can figure out how to raise the experience to words and get it from head to hands. In…  Continue Reading →

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Earth

May 5, 2020 by Caroline Craig Proctor

I’ve been reflecting recently on what it was like for me to learn Chinese Medicine in midlife years.  I recall wanting so desperately to understand the concepts, to make them fit in the scaffolding of my views of and beliefs about the world.  Some of them did, and many of them did not.  Chinese Medical philosophy has some…  Continue Reading →

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