O. M. is Oriental Medicine
Oriental Medicine is an umbrella term covering many modalities which are used to balance the energies within a person, strengthen & nourish where there is depletion, or drain off pathological/ excess accumulations, & dissolve blockages to get free flowing circulation from head to toe
This medicine began
thousands of years ago
through devine spiritual
insights given to mankind.
The age of Scholars took this foundational canon and rigorously tested it over a hundred generations then systematized it for future generations.
The Concepts Behind It
O. M. as it is practiced today comes from the Tao (pronounced dow), which is a philosophical understanding thousands of years old of Heaven, Man, and Earth and how They interact and comingle with one another.
Some of the ways They interact are the manifestation of the Seasons, the cyclical dance between the Sun and the Moon, the annual pattern of daylight hours vs hours of darkness, and how these things make Man feel when he pays attention to them and when he does not pay attention to them.
O. M. uses concepts like Yin (rhymes with bin) and Yang (rhymes with kong), stating that everything is made up of some combination of Yin and Yang and that Yin and Yang have cycles where Each grows, peaks, fades, then transforms into the Other.
​O. M. concerns itself with the 5 elements of Fire, Water, Metal, Earth, Wood, which comprise everything including you! O.M. assists those elements to nurture and control each other in their proper, natural order. It encourages those elements to be balanced within you and to interact harmoniously with each other. O. M. also concerns itself with assisting you to keep your equilibrium as you interact with the outer world: The Inside harmonious within itself; simultaneously, the Inside is harmonious with the Outside. From a state of equilibrium, balance, poise - we experience what Life offers, neither grasping nor rejecting, allowing ourselves to grow and enhance ourselves.
The more often and the longer lasting our periods of equilibrium, the better we know & like ourselves, the better we get at keeping what is useful, discarding what is not. We find our relationships with others become more meaningful and satisfying. We develop a better sense of when we are on our life's path or straying.
