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mental clarity and inner peace. In the future, I would like to see Tibetan medical treatments becoming the new standard for all mind-body illnesses.
Anxiety can stem from an imbalance of a particular constitutional body type or from a behavioral activity that is responsible for the disease, such as improper diet or continued overwork. A combination of any of these can cause a body to become imbalanced and start to break down, energetically speaking. In the United States and in other parts of the world, this way of living seems almost the norm. Needless to say, rLung Imbalance is running rampant and existing under the guise of being labeled simply “anxiety,” leaving people to their own devices to figure out what to do for treatments, or not do anything at all.
When I was first being introduced to Tibetan Medicine through working with Dr. Jamling, she said to me: In Tibetan Medicine, two people can come into the clinic with, let’s say, the same red rash on the arm. On the surface of the body, it looks like the same disease, but they may actually have very different underlying imbalances. Upon hearing this, I realized that finding the underlying imbalances is crucial to solving an rLung imbalance successfully. Each underlying pattern of imbalance involves differing amounts of the mind and body’s energies. For example in biomedicine, a person may have what is just called “anxiety.” In Tibetan Medicine, a person may have anxiety with an underlying imbalance of an organ system, or anxiety with an imbalance of one of the Three Humors: Wind (rLung), Bilye (Tipa), or Phlegm (Bad-Gan).
The primary goal of Tibetan Medicine is to help people settle their minds and root themselves in a grounded lifestyle. Their healing advice is rooted in simplicity. In contrast to the actual sophistication of Tibetan medical knowledge, the remedies for mental imbalance, such as anxiety and sadness, or even depression, are simple, earthy,
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