I don’t believe in the whole Chi thing either, especially coming from someone who didn’t grow learning eastern philosophy. However… I rarely get my Chi out of joint when this comes up.
Let someone Feng Shui your office… I don’t think the energy flows any better, but it looks good.
Let someone manipulate your Chi. It’s a great message.
Hell, let’s go to kosher deli. There’s some great food as long as you aren’t in the mood for cheese.
All of these concepts, and many more, are examples of someone dogmatizing a means to an end. You don’t have to buy the dogmatic reasoning, but it’s hard ato rgue that these things don’t get the job done.
Once those kids with their hippity-hoppity music started disrespecting our national pastime by wearing their chi backwards, I knew this country was headed to hell in a handbasket.
Hey! You kids! Get off my karesansui! :mad:
I don’t know about getting a degree, but there are schools where you can receive your certificate in MT that base their teachings purely from a medical standpoint. There’s one not far from where I live.
I think I love you.
I originally went to that spa just for waxing and some skin treatment. Seeing as I was half-naked there anyways she convinced me to try their one-hour back massage. That meant I could stay *another *hour there and away from home. *
And just to finish convincing me (she didn’t knew I was in it for it already), she told me that crap about realigning my chi and opening my spirit. It sounded phony, like a used-car salesman telling you at the end of his spiel “by the way, we are throwing in this rear-mirror pine refresher as part of the deal”. What the heck?
Anyways, it was a good massage, and I went home with my chi as twisted as it was before. The tires still need rotating too.
*Hubby plays golf 3 days a week, so all is fair.
What exactly does re-aligning your chi entail? I don’t want it re-aligned. I want to learn how to throw spitballs of it around, like Ryu does in Street Fighter. That’d be pretty awesome.
I think they throw all that pseudo-mystical crap because, for people who go for it, it makes it seem as though you’re doing something necessary and beneficial and not just indulging yourself frivously.
Just a massage = a self-indulgent treat.
Realign your chi = preventative medicine and therefore justified.
I’d wager the believers outnumber the non-believers by a fairly wide margin.
I tried looking up a good massage therapist through a site that sponsors our local NPR station - I think there may have been one or two that didn’t list themselves as Reiki practitioners. weeps
I just go to my physical therapist, who bases his practice on training including several semesters of gross anatomy, actual science, and you know, reality.
All this “alternative medicine” woo shit is really pissing me off lately. “Oh, what does it matter?” people say. I tell you, not only is it a waste of money and brain cells, but it also makes me seriously question the ability of the alleged expert who’s supposed to be providing me, again, reality-based services.
One of the midwives at my birthing center suggested cranio-sacral therapy for my impending baby, if we have nursing difficulties. I’m only continuing to go there because a.) she readily admitted it has no basis in science; and b.) the only other option is OB/GYNs and hospitals, which are even more faith-based than the birthing center’s occasional flirtation with newage.
A simple chi-realignment? Why, for just a small investment and a temporary suspension of incredulity, you can experience the fourth dimension, 5-D sound, and the wonders of energized oxygen.
Some may scoff, but I think “High Chi LLC” is a cool corporate name.
What actually happens when you tune your fat cells, do you think? Would walking around be like wearing corduroy pants all the time, making little rip rip rip sounds in upper C?
Yeah, I could really see that. Buy one of these tuning forks, and you could well find your picture gracing the “law of unintended consequences” entry in the dictionary.
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