Tony Brown @ August 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Today sees the start of the Beijing games and the coming together of the world’s greatest athletes. Over the coming weeks we all hope to be thrilled by great performances these sports men and women will produce after all years of training. No doubt much of that training has been guided by the best sport […]
Tony Brown @ October 16, 2007 # 3 Comments
A little moment of fame! I have become the object of some amusement over at the RationalWiki for trying to understand the scientific concept of Falsifiability.
It is the first time I have been attacked for being interested in shiatsu and Chinese medicine and it is an interesting experience. When I discovered the link […]
Tony Brown @ September 12, 2007 # One Comment
When Spider-man first appeared in 1962 he got his powers after being bitten by an irradiated spider. But when Spider-man gained his powers in the 2002 film the spider had become genetically modified. The source of Peter Parker’s powers changes because each generation develops its own cultural mythology for the prominent technology of […]
Tony Brown @ September 11, 2007 # 9 Comments
The discussion to Tracy’s post Response to: What is alternative medicine anyway? ended with me saying
[Qi theory] is no woo but a fascinating philosophy that pervades Chinese thought, art, martial arts, flower arranging and medicine.
and PalMD replying
It is beautiful and interesting…just not correct. You cannot use it to measure or predict anything. It cannot […]
Tony Brown @ September 7, 2007 # 3 Comments
Tracy provoked an interesting discussion on her post Response to: What is alternative medicine anyway?. It is worth reading and it is interesting how some people view the concept of Ki.
I want to expand on my own contributions to that thread and develop the theme into what I suppose is my own view of […]
Tony Brown @ September 6, 2007 # One Comment
My Wife was ill earlier this week. I would like to say that I was able to help her with shiatsu and applying the principles of Chinese medicine but I cannot. I have reached that stage of training where I can spot certain patterns but just don’t have that depth of knowledge where […]
Tony Brown @ August 29, 2007 # One Comment
I did not notice this until the weekend but last week I wrote about strength of presence and a need to be flexible. Without any grand plan I was writing about two apparently opposite natures required of a shiatsu practitioner: The ability to move and react without judgement but at the same time remain […]
Tony Brown @ August 15, 2007 # 4 Comments
All through this blog I talk about Ki. Ki is the Japanese word for that energy that is known in Chinese as Qi or Chi. Shiatsu is a Japanese art so tends to favour Ki but no matter what word is used the concept is the same.
This is the Chinese character for Ki, […]
Tony Brown @ April 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Recently I have been discussing some important changes in my life from the point of view of needs and fear. As this started with a post about following the heart I thought I would finish off by reviewing the subject from its point of view too.
In traditional Chinese texts the organs are likened to […]
Tony Brown @ April 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
DragonPhoenix has recently been writing about epigenetics and this weekend I was reading about the same subject in Food Is Better Medicine Than Drugs. It is obviously a subject that feels it needs to be written about!
Basic genetics is about how we pass information from one generation to another. It is usually thought that […]