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The Acupuncture Wow Factor – Lorne Brown

 

 

And so the Wow factor that I’m talking about is for your patients to have a shift on your table and experience a shift so that they are able to relax and therefore have the trust and confidence to follow your treatment plan.

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Again, thanking the American Acupuncture Council for this opportunity to share with you my colleagues. My name’s Lorne Brown. I’m a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. I’m a clinical hypnotherapist. I’m also a C P A. I’m a certified professional accountant, and I wanted to talk about the acupuncture Wow factor.

And I’m gonna set my intention that this will be simple and yet powerful and effective. That comes from the Einstein quote that make things as simple as possible but not simpler. Meaning let’s make it simple so we, it’s easier to implement, but we don’t make it so simple that it loses its effectiveness.

And also my intention is to do a small sound bite here. So you can just take one concept or one idea and run with this in your practice. I have found that sometimes the things that. Help practitioners be the most successful, are the most obvious, but yet they’re not obvious until somebody brings it to your attention, to your awareness that you’re like, oh yes, I want to intentionally do this.

And so the wow factor that I’m talking about is for your patients to have a shift on your table and experience a shift so that they are able to relax. and therefore have the trust and confidence to follow your treatment plan. Now I’m gonna unpack this for us, and I’m gonna talk about this from, I guess materialistic and quantum level here.

So when we have resistance, then we block flow and receptivity things that happen for us in life. And you’ve probably experienced this, where sometimes you just have flown receptivity, synchronicities are happening and things just seem. Easier. They just happen and flow for you as if there’s these invisible hands coming down from the heavens and opening up doors you did not know existed.

You’re probably also aware where you’re putting effort and more effort and the more effort you do, it just seems the higher things get and things just aren’t easy and there is no flow. And on a quantum or spiritual level, when we have resistance, we are blocking. This receptivity and flow, we have a beautiful term for this in Chinese medicine is called cheese stagnation.

In conscious work, I often hear it call as resistance or friction. And this ties into our patient’s ability to heal because the body has this beautiful, innate ability to heal. And I see my role as a practitioner, as a facilitator, I’m not healing, I. The person in front of me. We are learning more and more through really cool research.

Again, quantum physics level research, that it seems to be that it’s the patient’s need that determines the healing. And we as practitioners have to be that clean vessel. But we are the facilitator and even our nervous systems, our parasympathetic nervous systems, our subconsciouses. They’re syncing up.

They’re doing this through FMR, F M R studies where they can see that the nervous systems are syncing up beyond our conscious awareness, and there’s a healing, an exchange of information that happens. And we use our needles sometimes to do that exchange for information. So the wow factor for us now, I want to unpack this and go back into this patient’s innate ability to heal.

That if they have resistance, they’re not sure if you can help them. They’re not sure if it’s worth their money. There’s that trust issue. Do I really believe this? Does acupuncture work? Work? You know what the skeptics are saying, what conventional medicine’s saying? , all this can get into their psyche and disrupt their ability to receive and have flow.

So disrupt that innate ability to heal because that placebo impact, which has such a bad rap placebo, is not inert. We know this in 30% of Western trials, sorry, in Western. Random controlled trials. Sometimes it’s common that 30% and up to 90%, but it’s common 30% they attribute to placebo. From a Chinese medicine perspective, or at least from my perspective, what we are doing is engaging the individual’s capacity to heal.

They have this innate ability to heal. It’s amazing how we try to dismiss this, but I guess from our materialistic perspective, from conventional medicine, we have that ego that we’re doing the healing , but really it’s the individual. They take the medicine and through that medicine, they incorporate it in heal or through our needle or through our communication.

The healing process starts the acupuncture wow factor to allow the resistance to be lowered. So the patient is in that state of receptivity and flow to really accelerate and accentuate the innate ability, heal. That healing process comes from them feeling an a, an experience, a shift on the table. And so I’m gonna give you at least two examples here, and I’m thinking of recent lectures on healthy seminars.com, where I hosted in one week, both Pony Chung and David Uler.

It’s actually pronounced Oiler, but spelled Uler . David Uler, you probably know him if you read his name, but David Oiler and Pony Chung and their style of acupuncture gives the patient this incredible shift. On the table that even if they don’t have resolution on the table in that one treatment, which is, let’s be honest, it’s we don’t get that resolution for chronic conditions in one treatment.

But because they experience that shift, they now have that ability to have trust and confidence to follow your treatment plan. And it’s been my experience in my own clinical practice using their style of treatment and also call my colleagues that. Patients then leave the treatment room and book their 12 to 15 treatments in that two to three month period because of the experience they had on the table.

So when I talk about shift, let’s bring up David Jeweler first as a concept, and then I actually have a video demonstration that I have with Pony Chong that I’ll share with you with David Yuler. He does palpation based acupuncture. He study with Kiko, Matsumoto and her teacher, and it’s a really cool style of somatic acupuncture where you’re palpating tender spots on the body and based on those tender spots, those are called reflex zones, you needle other areas to release the tender spot.

And by doing so, that experience for the patient is an aha moment. So I’m gonna share a story with you, for example, and I’m gonna do the David Oiler idea of palpation, how this works in the treatment room. But here’s one of my. Own clinical stories and I’m gonna share one about Shen disturbance that David shared recently in his lecture.

This woman came to me after two, two months post C-section delivery of her baby, and she had poor quality of life because of the incredible lower abdominal pain that she had since the birth of her child. And she went to back to the surgeon, the gynecologist. They ruled out any infection they ruled out.

anything left inside and they just said, there’s nothing going on there. There’s nothing they can do. Obviously, she didn’t want to take high dose or pain meds because she’s breastfeeding. She had saw massage. They had referred her for some physio for post-surgical to help. Nothing had helped over those.

Two, two months. She came to my practice. She knew of me because I actually was the practitioner that helped her with her infertility, and I guess we have branded ourselves so well at fertility that because she wasn’t trying to get pregnant, she didn’t think to come back to my clinic until later say, do you think you can help me with this?

It didn’t even dawn on her that maybe this is something we can help. . And so she came into my practice with her lower abdominal pain and right away I thought about the tsu. And for those that are not familiar with that term, it’s basically a reflex zone for blood stasis. And when you have this, it can wreak havoc in the body.

Cause remember, it’s a system and we have a serious stagnation. It inf it interferes with the flow and receptivity. And I press down on her tsu and she’s oh. Like incredible pain. And so after pressing in on the tsu, I go to the distal points that are used to relieve that. It’s just two acupuncture points.

And I hold my little device, just the tube of the needle actually. And I try different angles on liver four and asking her as I palpate, does this reduce this pressure? Pain? And she goes, oh, you’re not pressing as hard. So she thought I was trying to fake her out because. She went from like a 10, outta 10 to two outta 10, and I said, I’m pressing the same.

How about you press so you take my hand and you push down? So she took my hand and pushed down while I used the handle of the tube. No pain. So I go ahead and I needle those points. I also noticed that her immune reflex was really sensitive, so I did the immune points and a week later I did follow up with her and she was immediately at that treatment.

90% relief. So she had 90% relief immediately after that treatment, and one week following, she still had 90% relief from that treatment. That’s where somebody like that now refers anybody and everybody to the practice and any plan that I would have for her. She is more relaxed, as in con, has the confidence trust in me.

One is she had relief in her symptoms, but I’ll share with you that even if the symptoms aren’t relieved, when they experience the fact that I can palpate an area, a reflex zone and then needles somewhere else, and then that zone is gone, they see that it’s doing something and it gives, it inspires them to now follow your plan.

In his course also, he talked about the reflex zone and the sternum for anxiety and shen disturbance. And there’s points that we do on the back for this. And there’s points that we do distally for firepoint on the pericardium and heart channel. We test the fire points to see if they’re tender as well.

And then we use metal and water points. To relieve that. And again, when patients come in and they’re really anxious, so the difficult trusting cuz they’re sympathetic. They’re sympathetic, is on high alert, that means can’t trust, right? They’re rarely cautious, paranoid, almost really feeling worried and anxious, palpating the sternum and it’s tender for them.

And then going and touching reflex zones on the back. And then if that relieves it, great. If not, then I go to the fire points on the palm and then I check the acupuncture points. And if that relieves it, you can just see the melt on the table. So that’s my example as a shift on the table. And so learning styles by like David Yuler is a way to really grow your practice.

Now, I was trained as what I call a barefoot doctor or Zg Fu acupuncturist, which I think many of you have been trained as well, meaning like if you have blood deficiency, it’s stomach 36, it’s red 12, it’s spleen six, bladder 17. Really? These are my herbalist, acupuncture herbalist from China teaching me acupuncture and.

Because I host healthy seminars. I’ve had the privilege and the opportunity to witness different styles of acupuncture and realizing that there is a really deep history and style of acupuncture more than how we were trained in TCM schools, where you can get really good results. and also there’s that impact on the table.

And so David Oiler is one of those examples of studying with him and being able to just palpate some points, relieve them right there, that first treatment in 20 to 30 minutes with that treatment, and then they continue on for their condition because they’ve seen such an experience of that. Plus, they also are getting resolution for what they’ve come in for.

Let’s talk about Pony Chong. Another style of acupuncture and where they’re in common is he shows a shift on the table. And in the video that we’re gonna bring up is from a lecture he did recently in our community library. And what he’s demonstrating is he’s doing a, an acupuncture point, spleen 12, and he talks about.

In the Canon and the classics, just where it travels on the Sinu channel and how it impacts what muscles, what ligaments went tendons basically in modern day. So he can treat certain conditions in the lower extremities and he’s going to needle the point. And then he tests the point with a pointer plus, and he does this because of two reasons.

One is when you. Test it. It lets you know you’re in the right place, cuz I’ll share that sometimes we always have the right intention. This is where I think SPLEEN 12 is on this individual based on landmarks. But Pony has shown through his style of acupuncture that it’s reproducible, that you can be really precise based on reading the description of what this acupuncture point does on a muscle skeletal level.

And seeing that muscle shift or move or fsic. When you touch it with a pointer Plus from the patient’s perspective, it is a wow factor because they know where their pain is in whatever their leg, and when you put a needle in and it co and they feel that sensation going down, that whole muscle, they now have the confidence that you are in the right spot.

The second reason it’s so important that I went on a quick tangent there about the patient’s experience is sometimes we have the right intention of where we think the point is, but points actually drift. They’re not. The same based on the book location on every individual, there’s a little bit of drifting and pony style of acupuncture.

Teaching shows you that you can actually get exact and know that you’re in the right spot by testing the needle. And I have to share when I use this in my practice, sometimes I have to reinsert the needle two or five times to get it. But now you get better results because originally my intention was this is the right spot for this point, but I can test and show whether I’m really in that spot or not.

This is also gonna be important for research to make research reproducible. Now we know we’ve given them the right acupuncture point for where it is in their body, and so this wow pa factor is crucial in having patients relax. So lowering the resistance, having confidence and trust to follow your treatment plan because they experience a shift, that first treatment, not let’s treat you for the next.

10 or 12 treatments and see if there’s a shift, and then we’ll reassess they believe after that first treatment. So let’s bring up the video. I’ll share with you the first five seconds, the volume’s low or 10 seconds, and then it kicks in. And this is just a discussion that I was having with Pony in one of his community lectures while he was demonstrating this idea of testing a point and how the patient experiences this.

So please bring up that video now.

And pony, this is what I mentioned in our introduction. If you could just go back to that video for a moment. Okay. That when patient experience a shift on the table and in this case when needle, when pony needles, the point and then he stimulates it with his pointer plus the structure of the leg. The muscles watch the leg move in the bottom left eyes, watch the leg move.

Confirming he’s in the right location cuz it wouldn’t move he was in, if he was in the correct. Two things happen. One is he has now accurate needle location because we have good intention and we say we’re putting it in SEN 12. We put the intention, but PONY is showing that there’s an actual real spleen 12 for each individual, and it can drift a bit from how it’s described in the book and based on the person.

And he’s confirming that he has reached spleen 12 based on what he’s seen in the leg. So a for effectiveness preciseness. Two is the patient is seeing what’s happening, she’s late leg and it just her leg gives them the confidence and trust to then pretends machine on the needle lake move. And that’s why I invite you to check out PONIES courses in the library and then really do a deep dive and he has those courses on demand so you can learn how to do this in your practice.

Thanks. No problem. Yeah. Thank you for Lorne. Thank you for mentioning the way intentioned to, that’s something I emphasize a lot when I teach the course is that we taught that, okay, you have to have good intention, right? And then, and your intent drives the cheat. Okay? And so drives the, your cheap, but also to the needle.

You drive the patients cheat. But that’s pretty much the end of the education. I got an intention, it just. But extreme attention’s the same. But the way I see it now, based on my experience in all my research, is that there’s a different intent for each specific point, and now you can predict and agree on that intention if you understand anatomy.

So for example, here, screen 12, the anatomy is the femoral neurovascular bundle. So the intention that we, when I have, when I come to Neil’s point, is that I want. This to activate the quadricep muscle, and if I apply electricity to that, it’ll activate all the quadrant muscle in the new extent. Okay? So it could be a sensory nerve in, in which case we know what that nerve travels, the duchess sensor should be felt to that area.

It’s not a guess word. You should know exactly what that intent for that specific point should be. and know if you got it or not, based on whether it moves what it should, ghost by sensation where it is. So then your intent is actually very clear and precise and it’s not just assuming that intents the same, it’s not just all heavy achy sensation e everywhere, anywhere.

Okay. But also coming back to, to like the buy-in the wow factor, patients are gonna remember. The times that you don’t succeed. But when you, if you tell them, okay, I’m needling this, I’m checking this. I’m, they don’t know what’s what they’re supposed to see, right? Only you know that. But you tell them that I’m, the reason I’m doing this, I’m checking to make sure I’m precise, but you stimulate it.

You tell them, you may feel a sensation going down the top of your quadricep. You might feel a little contraction in your muscles and quadricep. And if you say that and you try it, and if it’s one of those, one of those times that you succeed, they feel that’s instant. Because that’s pro, that’s in a way prophecy, prophesize what’s gonna happen.

And then it actually happened. More average mortal human beings don’t have the ability to prophesize. So that makes you different, that you can do something and make it happen. Exactly what you said, it’s gonna happen. They’re not gonna remember if it doesn’t happen, but they damn remember it when it does.

And that is the wow factor that Lorne is talking about before their. You’re even done treating them. It’s the first treatment. They haven’t solved the result yet. They’re already asking, do you treat this for my brother? Do you treat this with that? Okay, this is from my personal experience.

So I like his term, the prophecy. So you’re prophesizing for the patient and then they experience it. And that is a wow factor. And like he said, can you treat this? Can you treat this for my family members? Because you’re able to predict what they’re going to experience. And so from a practitioner with integrity intention, you’ve got the accurate point.

So you, you want the results, so you know you have the accurate location and then. From the patient’s perspective, they’ve experienced this prophecy on the table, which gives you that guru status and why some practitioners are constantly looking to fill their practice. And like others, like my practice, I usually have a two to three month wait list because of that Wow.

Factor on the table. And then when you learn from like a David Oiler, Or Red Yuler, but pronounce Oiler or Pony Chung. They give you language too to help with the prophecy. So going back to David’s talk where I mentioned he, for anxiety, he’ll palpate the typical area on the sternum. And when I go and palpate these reflex zones and they’re tender, and then I needle elsewhere, and then those reflex zones go away.

That’s the prophecy, cuz I’m telling them that if we can remove the blockages in the body that are preventing the innate ability to heal, if we can lower the resistance and bring back chief flowing, your body will start to heal regardless of the Western diagnosis. I just gotta remove some of these disturbances in your biofield and that is why I think.

To my colleagues that studying with Pony and David or having that wow factor where a patient experiences your prophecy in the treatment room cuz they experience the shift is important. And the last thing I wanna share for a wow factor, or just what I have found in my 20 plus years, sometimes complicated cases come in.

And I have to remind myself that it’s not my job to fix the patient, and if all I do is listen, really listen and let them know I hear them, then the healing process starts as well. Remember that there is something, and we’re this is being studied, that we know that there’s communication through our facial expression, our eyes, pheromones, and even biophotons light and packets of energy that are.

Transmitting between us that we now know that there’s information being exchanged. And what we’re noticing is that when somebody feels really seen and heard, that lowers their resistance as well. They start to relax, the flow starts to come back, and the healing response is engaged. And so really taking time to listen to your patients.

Let it Showing compassion that you understand and get what they’re going through with is really important as part of the healing process. So really making that time to hear them feel, understand, they feel understood. That lowers the resistance, and again, on a unconscious level, not something that you’re doing or they’re aware of, something is happening between the two of you.

Something has been triggered and there is an exchange of information. Add onto it when you do your treatment and you can prophesize that. When I palpate here. Anywhere there’s certain, there’s points all over the body and they’re tender. And I needle elsewhere, and that tenderness goes away. Then we have lowered the disturbance, the resistance in the body, which will support its healing.

I will share that when I was at the Society of Acupuncture Research Conference, one of the presenters there shared her research where they have. Shown a, what’s the word? They have shown that when there’s organ issues that down distally in the fascia that there’s disturbances. So tender points or even nodules or gunness happens.

So they’re sharing that this is happening. And when I heard this research, it made me think of David Oilers palpation based acupuncture style, because that’s their style is going along the channel and palpating these points. And if they’re. Tender. Then there’s other points to needle, to reli to relieve that tenderness.

And what I suspect is happening is we’re lowering the disturbance in the body, the resistance, and therefore the channel flow becomes free. And then the organs become healthy and the organism us become healthier, and so I just wanted to share that with you. Lectures by both Pony and David are available on healthy seminars in the community library.

They also have C E U proof courses on healthy seminars.com in that area as well. and a good way to just find out what I’m up to. If you like this Quantum idea and biophysics, do check out just my website, Lorne brown.com. Then you can see information about my practice management book. You can hear about my Conscious Fertility podcast, things that are doing at Healthy Seminars.

I created that website cuz I like to do a lot of things. And I decided to create that website so you can find everything in one place. So Lorne brown.com is to just go where everything is, aggravate is collected, and then healthy seminars.com is where the continued education, the community library, the mentorship, and the online learning is for healthy seminars.

So I hope what I shared with you is simple. For you and you’ll find it powerful and effective. It’s been my experience, my colleagues, and for the patients. They have found it powerful and effective. And I wish you the best of luck in your practice. I do believe we need more prosperous acupuncturists because we need more of people like you working in the C communities to help heal our community.

Cuz the world needs lots of healing and this starts with healing ourselves. Obviously. I want to thank the American Acupuncture Council again for this opportunity. To share some of my clinical and business pearls with you.