It is a very common thing where a person brings on a symptom or a pain without even understanding that they have caused it. Someone who feels weak because they fail to eat or sleep; someone who hurts because they carry too many things or push themselves too hard; someone who feels tired all the time because they rely on energy drinks and never rest.
Sometimes the biggest things that we acupuncturists can do are to wake our patients up to what they are doing to themselves and show them that there are other ways of being, ways that do not invite symptoms.
What’s amazing is that the state-sanctioned medical practitioners (Doctors) do NOT do this so much of the time…