week 13 assignments

1. Would you support the development of a "bionic" person?

I think we are some parts of bionic people when we drive car, when we are using computer or when using the machines. Machine and human have been very close together since long time ago. If look around now, some people using cell phone or sending e-mail look like a half of man and a half of machine. Bionic person is more advanced version than machine using person.


2. How would you rate "the control of artificial limbs by thought alone"?

In medical, the robot limbs are already good for distant operations with less scar and more accurate results. I think it's really fascinating creature if used for good intentions especially for paralysed people.
Several years ago, we can imagine while we see the movie like "The 600 million guy" or "Terminator".
The dream comes true.

week 11 assignments

Acupuncture as effective energy medicine

Acupuncture is effective to body energy as well as body systemic energy.
For example, bleeding acupuncture method is used for reducing high fever and several points is used for reducing temperature in blood level like UB40, LI11 etc.
Actually, it works very well.
Following the myofascial trigger pain theory, muscle pain usually comes from lack of blood supply and the points are malfunctioning for ATP generation.
If acupuncture treatments are used into those points, the symptoms are resolved.
And, involving the neural system, acupuncture can stimulate the segmented neural system which can be changed sympathetic to parasympathetic nervous system.
That means acupuncture can control body metabolism, energy and temperature somehow.


What conclusions can you draw from Kirlian photography?

It is very interesting method which can be proved living energy in nature.


Human intent as it affects health

I believe that intentions are the most important to treat or take care of someone.
Great minds are more powerful than great knowledge in clinic.
I saw lots of miraculous incidents which the novice interns show the dramatic changes from severe patients, or medical qi gong practitioners treat patients successfully.

week10 assignments

Biophysics and Oriental Medicine

Oriental medicine is the one part of ancient sciences. It has been originated from physics, earth science, biology, psychology even anatomy and physiology.
Some people who don't understand about TCM fully think that tcm is more like holistic, vague, witch's medicine or placebo effects. If you had an acupuncture treatment, but it did not work anything. I would say the acupuncturist are not appropriate to be a master of science.
In the first day of TCM class, we have learned about yin and yang, 5 elements theory and 8 principles. That's a part of explanation which TCM is based on science.
I believe that we choose a different door each other but open to enter toward the exactly same room. Just with different languages, we are telling the same objects.


I'm a Living System.

Yes, I'm a living system to be or not to be.
When I am in active living situation, I feel more living cognition.
When I am in passive living organism, dead body, I am still involving a part of processing living things for micro organism.
For example, mercury contamination in food chain can be shown us how dead things manifested after being eaten and remained as an another formation and participate on.

week9 assignments

My E-Prime Day

Followed by weather caster, Showers and slight chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce small hail. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 10 to 20 mph. on Tuesday.
As usual, I drove the freeway 24 for 45 minutes and arrived at school right before 9:00 A.M.
Wandering a kitchen to seek a cup of nice fragrant tea, I felt more thirst and warmer in class to my skin thermostatic sense than usual.
After learning about E-prime, I feel like to change the sentences of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
To exist or not to exist,I ask this question.


Can I synthesize East and West?

I think that people living in USA are already synthesizing East and West more over North and South.
Food, drink, music, clothing, medicine, even the president of USA, all aspects of society are shown to us the proof of mixing culture.
While I am staying here and learning TCM, I will be busy to acquire and synthesize them.
When I was in college in Korea, I had learn about Western medicinal theory as a health educator.
Based on western knowledge, I can add TCM theory and educate people with both beneficial facts.

week 8 assignments

Newton's 3 laws and me

Newton's the first law: I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
In my case, I would like to stay at my bed in the morning keeping my sweet dream as well as reluctantly mind to go to bed at night watching T.V. or surfing the Internet.

Newton's the second law: II. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.
I have learned how to cure the disease which is the kind of visitor not predator from Korean experienced doctor.
For curing the patients, we need to understand about the Newton's 2 law which is similar to act to push the evil qi out of body. Slowly started then push hard, mild cure then strong medicine.

Newton's the third law: III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
We seem to be well understood about that law in bacterial reaction when we use antibacterial medicine.


Our "Energy Efficient" culture

Just 200 years ago, people are very happy and thank to Westerns industrial revolution. But, now we are starting to be longed for the life before too much industrialized society.
We go to market with reusable bag instead of using plastic bag by walk or bicycle instead of driving 4 by 4 giant car. It is just realized on the countries post experienced wasting energy, but the developing countries are still requested to be more industrial and comfortable life using more and more energy.


Descartes has a lot to answer for!

I think, therefore I am.
If I don't think, then I am not? ... you are?
His answer is very clear and quick even before others do not get to the point. His idea and his answer are not hesitant.

cool experiments

http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/onlineexperiments/Auditory_Illusion.html

I did Auditory Illusion experiments.
It was fun with an instruction. However, if I tried to play a song, it was not amazing experience at all.
Knowlege makes me bored.

week 7 assignments

"Ordered chaos"- does this sound familiar?

Yes.
I think ordered chaos is the periods right before finding the order which we had been ignored or not be known.
We had been searched pathophysiology for helping the patients and saved the life finding the pattern of diseases.
Before fully understanding the disease paths, we were so chaos and panic with the idiopathtic illness.
Knowledge is the order, ignorance is the ordered chaos.

Fractals as patterns of complex system.

There is no surprising the fractals as patterns of complex system. We were already a part of fractals from our mom and dad moreover ancestors.
Just finding a kind of fractals in our body, there are several fractals including ear as a body side shape and hands as a body. With those fractals, we treat acupuncture distal points, ear, or hand acupuncture.
In tcm herbs, for example, ren shen is the similar shape of human body. We had believed that ren shen had qi tonifying function strongly.


Consciousness out of chaos?

I am wondering whether consciousness is out of ordered chaos or unconsciousness is out of chaos. It's not explained just brain functioning in western view.
In TCM theory, 5 organs have each mind and spirit; shen, hun, po, yi, and zhi.
Each spirit has a opinion and talks to their mind constantly, even hun is wandering busily at night time.
Followed by dominating organ, person's behavior could be shown at right times.

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week 6 assignments

Are all vibrations "good"?

As long as we are using it, feeling good or not connected with harmfulness to us, they are be good.
Before we judge whether good or not, it looks like constantly moving reaction between Yin and Yang.
Moving, energy, moreover surviving without vibrations can not be considered to be existed.
In steps, left leg and right leg's vibration, on bicycles or cars, 2 axial motions being vibrated, in our body, heart locomotion, peristalsis......


Resonance in my world

Resonance is very familiar with acupuncturists especially. Beacuse we are taking the patients' pulse every single intaking before treatments.
Deficient weak pulse shows me to treat with tonification, and strong excess pulse means that I need to expel or dispel the pathogenic factors to patient's body.
Wiry pulse means that string is too tight, so it needs to relieve or smooth qi moving.
Slippery pulse usually shows that there is damp, water retention or phlegm inside like mud in earth.
Some brilliant good experts for pulse diagnosis find the complicated disease without modern technology.
The other resonance in my world is the methods of acupuncture; sedating, tonifying or neutral.
We stimulates needle after needling depends on patient's condition with 3 kinds of skills above.


Connections I can make between Energy and Qi.

Source of energy is food, source of motion is qi.
If food is the kind of yin taking, qi is the yang using for getting yin food.
I want to connect those realtionship in 5 elements.
Fire takes wood for his energy and then the qi moves to earth. The earth takes enegy from fire and then goes to water; mineral. Water takes the enegy from earth and nourishes the wood.
Wood takes the energy from water and then tends to spread out toward sky where the fire, sunlight energy comes from.

week 5 assignments

My Asymmetrical world

I am using this concept whenever I treat patients with acupuncture in clinic.
Patients are usually shown me to asymmetrical symptoms rather than symmetrical with other normal people.
Sometimes they have a pain in right side, discomfort of left side, or overusing legs or arms..etc.
Treatment principles are always on the focus of normal range with symmetrical view.


Just what does this CP violation really mean?

It explains why the universe, we, or I am being in reality. If Yin and Yang are existing together, or + and - are existing together, every matter has symmetrical matter must be presented somewhere.
If those mentions are true, where is symmetrical matter each natural existance?
But, it is vanishing matter, 0, equals + and - together and then some + or some - matters are remained after balancing disapperence. The existing things are now remained as a mass.


Are there connections between Sacred Geometry and Physics?

Yes it has a connection with 2 parts. Sacred Geometry is in Physics.
One theory which explains a perpect mathmatical balance, then next theory will explain these old one's contravirsiable contradictions. This happening will be over again in further.
If we look into those debates of theories for researching in Physics on the far away sight, we can find there are shapes and motions in the wheel of yin and yang.

week 4 assignments

How has e=mc2 affected you?

In my experience, caffeine in the coffee makes me boost to get speed up in my nerve system.
After drinking a cup of coffee in the morning, I feel like to be filled up energy enough to spend a busy day.
My small size multiplies caffeine square equals the energy for one day.



How would you compare the four “forces”?

1. Strong nuclear force: unchangeable or hard to change in shape, character, and mass
If it breaks up, it might be another big bang.

2. Weak nuclear force: expressive, tasty, interactive in quality or quantity.

3. Electromagnetic forces: yin and yang, man and woman, small and big, cold and hot
the tendency of balancing methods

4. Gravity: the reason of we are together, the repetition of day and night, aging, no limit, safety.

What is the function of gravity?

I can say that the function of gravity is same as earth's qi in five elements in TCM.
After Big bang was born with Kidney essence power and energy, universe has been staying with middle jiao power, gravity. As long as universe wants to survive, the gravity is kept by its regular active motion.

Based on what you know, how would you explain connectivity?

On time connection, I can understand of incidents from my ancestors imagining their life through my characteristic orientation. Prospectively, my descendent will connect to me in the future.
In space connection, my house, my neighbor, school, country and earth are all connective to me at present. If I move to somewhere, the space connection (like Korea to USA, MA to CA, or Berkeley to Moraga) follows to my footmarks.
With energy connection, I am living with people, animal, plants and environment sharing energy flows. Taking and giving energy each other is the evidence that I am alive.

What evidence can you find for synchronicity.

About 28 years ago when my kids were born in 1999, I and my husband were born same county in Korea. After 10 years later, he and me lived in same town in Seoul. Then he and me studied in S.F. area. Since then, we had never met and know each other ever though we have sharing aquaintances.
Finally we met in Boston in 1997 and married in 1998.
And, my twin boys were born in 1999.

We have been in same space in synchronicity for getting one family.

Is the Universe weird?

Not at all.
In some ways, nothing can be more honest than universe.
If seed in the feild with corn, next year we can earn the corn from the earth.
If remember the constellation on night sky, next same season we can see the stars.
That's why we believe the nature and protect the environment.

Causality

I think that causality is the one of most important theory to health practitioners.
Researching the origin of disease can help to treat patients more efficient and effective, specially endemic disease.
Some diseases have the causality on their name expression.
In clinic, I always think about causality from patients' assessments.

Reflections on uncertainty

Above classic physics, quantum physics can make close connection between Eastern and Western concepts the way of approaching the nature.
We live in uncertain probability anyway.
But, several things are very certainly happened, like "Tomorrow will be another day., Sun rising and Sun set on specific time., Birth, growing, aging and die. etc"
Uncertainty in certainty, certainty in uncertainty, uncertainty in uncertainty, certainty in certainty....
It still goes round and round on my brain.

Reflections on this week

Time.

Time,

Time.........................................

I already spent over 30 seconds of my precious time in my life.

My husband makes money hourly charged from clients.
His time is based on every hour, minutes even second. It's very important time is money.
However to me presently, I'm focusing on time for 1 year that I have a licensing test next January.
I think time is remained by me not anyone, it goes fast or slow. It's just up to me.

Week One Assignments

What attracts me to Chinese Medicine?
; I've never attract to Chinese medicine when I was in Korea. Old Han dynasty medicine, Chinese medicine, seemed like old fashioned and I was already attracted to Western Medicine.
Since I had studied Health Education in BU, I felt that only Western theories and science were not enough to give a good education of preventing disease, managing and promoting health.
I think that knowledgement of both Eastern and Western medicine can make up for the weak points.

What do I honestly think of Physics, really?
;Everything in our life is related with Physics. But I did not recognize the reality as a part of physics natural phenomenon usually. I started to think of Physics when I had the first class in AIMC. What a surprise! TCM theory was just from Physics. Yin and Yang, Qi movement ...etc
I am really exciting having this class finally.

Now that I think about it, have I ever experienced time "slowing down" or "speeding up"?
Yes, specially in my body changing, yonger than 35 years old mekes me little slowing down feeling of going up, up, up in energy level. Later on, I feel speeding up to go down on downhill.
For my sence, whenever I am doing my favorite things, the time is speeding up.
That means all my energy can be indulged into the favorite things like dropping down "Black hole". On the other hand, boring stuffs always make slowing down on my time.