007 Using the Extraordinary Meridians to Treat Emotional Issues • Yvonne Farrell

Oriental medicine draws distinctions between various aspects of mind, body and spirit, but unlike Western culture, it never severed the connections between these aspects of being. We know both from our experience in clinic and writings of Chinese medicine through the ages that emotional and mental processes can effect physiology and the body can deeply influence the mind. We see an entangled system of mutual influence where Western medicine sees a hierarchy and disconnection between mind an