Acupuncture that Heals You from the Root
Healing the Emotional Roots of Physical and Mental Health
As a trauma-informed practitioner, Natanel (Nir) understands that challenging emotional events and unresolved emotional trauma can leave deep imprints on the body and nervous system. To address this, he offers a unique integration of Acupuncture and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), guiding his clients through a meaningful and transformative healing journey.
Long-term emotional struggles can significantly wear down the body’s natural healing capacity. Consider the recovery from a physical injury like whiplash: while two people may experience the same physical event, the individual carrying past trauma often faces a much longer healing journey. While not every physical pain is purely emotional, our chronic internal state plays a decisive role in our resilience and our ability to bounce back when we face life's challenges.
The Blueprint of Resilience
Our early childhood experiences form the blueprint for our future well-being. Because these events occur while our identity and sense of security are still developing, they have a huge impact on our adult lives. Investigating these early roots is a vital step toward reclaiming both mental and physical vitality.
Witnessing and Reframing Trauma
It is often said that "trauma wants to be witnessed." This process is most effective when guided by specialized tools—such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)—which allows individuals to revisit past emotional events from a place of safety. By reframing these experiences while remaining grounded, we can resolve the "stuck" emotional patterns that deplete our physical energy and can inhibit healing.
The Nervous System and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
When an emotional injury remains unresolved, it creates a state of chronic stress. In the language of Traditional Chinese Medicine, these states act as "Internal Pathogens" impeding the energy of the internal organs and disrupting the healthy flow of Qi.
To address these deep-seated imbalances, Natanel integrates Acupuncture (TCM, Japanese, and 5-Phase styles)
with NLP methods to heal and balance the emotions and the nervous system:
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Acupuncture: To ground, balance, regulate and strengthen the Chinese Meridian System, Internal Organs and the Nervous System.
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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP):Helps rewrite the subconscious "programs" that keep the body in a state of stress or emotional reactivity.
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Guided Imagery: To create a safe container to access subconscious emotional information so it can be reframed and healed.
Accessing Your Internal Resources
By combining these approaches, together we are able to help symptoms but also to address the emotional root cause that is affecting the capacity of the person to heal.
Addressing Root Causes can support healing from chronic health issues that were previously non responsive to therapy.
When you come for a session, Acupuncture can be practiced as an effective stand alone modality to help you with stress, pain, and nervous system dysregulation or to help manage a chronic health condition.
If you are aware of an emotional trauma from your past or curious if a chronic health condition is related to an emotional injury, we can together explore these aspect of your healing journey using NLP methods.
"He who treats the body without treating the soul is like a man who repairs a house but ignores the fire burning within."
– Attributed to Traditional Wisdom
Acupuncture is exceptionally effective at resolving conditions rooted in stress, emotional imbalance, and nervous system dysregulation.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) teaches us that an illness can have an emotional root cause, this emotional root cause can have a role in keeping the illness from healing.
By accessing, witnessing and healing our emotions we can free up healing resources for the body to use in order achieve more effective and long lasting healing.
Emotions as root causes for illness
While external factors like wind, cold, or dampness can affect us, TCM identifies the Seven Emotions as the primary drivers of internal disease. When emotions—such as anger, grief, or fear—become intense, chronic, or suppressed, they cease to be natural expressions and instead become "Internal pathogens."
Emotions Vs. Internal Organ Energetics
Each emotion resonates with a specific organ system. When an emotional state becomes a chronic it can disrupt the flow of Qi (vital energy) into an organ system, which eventually will cause physical symptoms to the corresponding organ system or on the path of the meridian that relates to the organ / or on the tissue layer that this organ nourished.
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Anger & Frustration injure the Liver / Gall Bladder ( side of body, joints)
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Overstimulation & over joy, injure the Heart ( Cardiac, dizziness, emotional disregulation)
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Worry & Pensiveness injure the Spleen. (digestion, fatigue, sugar metabolism, muscles)
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Sadness & Grief injure the Lungs. (skin, constipation, asthma)
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Fear & Fright injure the Kidneys. ( lower back pain, bone pain, adrenal fatigue)
From Emotional Injury to Physical Symptoms
Strong emotional events can leave a lasting imprint on nervous system in this in turn both can affect the energetic function of our internal organ and also create tension and pathology in our musculoskeletal system.
When the body is not able to release emotional information that is stored in the tissue / Brain / nervous system, it uses its own resource to keep that information 'repressed' in the body. This holding - stagnation , can impede the flow of QI in chronic way that might lead to physical symptoms and might lead to illness.
Examples for such holding patterns that can be related to emotional events
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Chronic neck and shoulder tension or any chronic tension that appeared after an intense emotional event
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Tension headaches and migraines
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Persistent lower back pain
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Digestive distress and "nervous" stomach, acid reflux
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Chronic fatigue and depleted vitality
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Chronic issues with sleep
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Feeling constantly emotionally dysregulated, brain fog, reactive, easily triggered
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Numbness, tingling, bad circulation, chronic pain with no apparnt reason.
Resolving what holds you back from healing
To truly heal requires looking beyond surface-level symptoms to address the underlying root cause. When painful emotional information is suppressed, it consumes internal resources that would otherwise be dedicated to recovery.
These unresolved emotions create a 'holding pattern' within the nervous system that can stall both physical and psychological progress. In cases of chronic pain or persistent illness, acupuncture alone may not be enough if the subconscious mind remains in a state of stress; lasting relief often requires accessing, pacifying, and reframing that stored information.
Are you ready for
some positive shifts?
Using a few styles of body Acupuncture to help you feel better in your body and change the baseline of your nervous system, so you can feel more at ease.
Clearing blockages from the nervous system can help the body resolve persistent symptoms that did not respond to other therapies so far.
Using the acupuncture styles of 'Five Elements' Acupuncture we can clear emotional toxins and using the 'Japanese Style' of Acupuncture we can strengthen your body's resources and resolve chronic pain and structural conditions.
Treatment Modalities
Body Acupuncture
Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine principles and the capacity to 'read the qi' we can discern which are the most active points in relation to you main concerns.
Combining a few styles of body acupuncture according to the needs of the patient.
To achieve a lasting change in the way we inhabit our bodies to creates a sense of greater well being.
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723 Cassiar place
(Dilworth mountain area)
Kelowna.
Tel: 778.594.1066