“I’d figured there wasn’t anything explicit that it could help me with, since I wasn’t in pain, but [my practitioner] told me that pain was actually a relatively small part of what acupuncture can treat”
Photo: Getty Images When I arrived for my acupuncture appointment with practitioner Jasmine Stine, she was wearing a loose-fitting all-white outfit, with a red beaded necklace, and her office was soothing and peaceful.
I’d thought that acupuncture was used mostly for pain, but Stine told me that acupuncture has traditionally been used as a preventive measure, something that people would get “once a season” or so, to help themselves remain or get back in balance. I’d figured there wasn’t anything explicit that it could help me with, since I wasn’t in pain, but she told me that pain was a relatively small part of what acupuncture can treat.
While I lay facedown on Stine’s acupuncture table — we were waiting for the “toxic energy” to drain out of my back, which would be signaled by the redness around the needles subsiding — I thought about all the weird stuff I’d told her , but I also kind of maybe dozed off, I am not actually sure. It was peaceful and time went by at a strange pace. It was fast and then it was slow, and I felt completely at peace but also sad, in a state of submission.
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