Happy Holidays from Jade River Healing Arts Center

Wishing you and yours a very

Happy and Healthy Holiday Season.

From the Jade River Practitioners.

Jade River Has a New Home!

I am happy to announce:  Jade River has a new home!
 
In January, 2014, we will be moving to our new location, at 7303 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Highway, Portland, OR, 97225, where Jade River will have a permanent home in our own building.



Front of property, with existing sign

Our new home is directly across the street from the Raleigh Hills New Seasons, on the north side of Beaverton Hillsdale Highway.  I recently purchased this building, a 1946 brick home converted to commercial use.  You might recognize it as the property where Joel B Shaw, CPA, has had his offices for the past 17 years.
In consultation with Gwynne Allyn Warner, Feng Shui expert and owner of 10,000 Blessings Feng Shui, we determined that this property had all of the attributes for being the ideal location to establish a new home for Jade River as a true "healing sanctuary" for the benefit of our patients (and as a wholesome place for us to practice!).

Grassy area at rear of building

The building sits on 3/4 of an acre, set back and up, from the street.  Our parking lot is behind the building.  Beginning in November, we will be undertaking renovations and upgrades, including the addition of ADA parking and ramp, new bathrooms, a new pharmacy, tea bar in the waiting room, a full kitchen for staff and for teaching cooking and nutrition classes, private and beautiful treatment rooms (two of which have fireplaces!) a large room for group activities such as classes, yoga, and our upcoming special events we're calling "Fridays by the Fire."

Front of the building, before painting and landscaping

The building is quiet and comfortable and surrounded by beautiful fir trees, with grassy areas to sit, or practice Qi Gong.  There are charming old stone retaining walls, flowering shrubs and many native dogwoods.

Some preliminary pictures are with this post.  I will be updating our blog on a regular basis.  Stay tuned for more developments and to watch the transformation begin!

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Wishing you a beautiful Fall season.

Dawn-Starr Crowther, L.Ac., owner, Jade River Healing Arts Center

Acupuncture Superior to Standard Medical Care for Chronic Pain

Your Aching Back Really IS Helped with Acupuncture...17,922 patients proved it!

According to a new study released September 10, 2012, Acupuncture is superior to both standard medical care and sham acupuncture, suggesting strongly that the effect of acupuncture is much more than a placebo effect, as nay-sayers have said.

In a meta-analysis of 29 randomized, controlled trials, comprising 17,922 patients with markers for significant pain in back, neck, headache, or osteoarthritis pain, acupuncture was superior to control in all analyses.

"In other words, 20% of patients were feeling better because they had acupuncture; about one third of those would only feel better if the right needles were put in the right points to the right depth, and two thirds of them would feel better getting any kind of acupuncture," lead study author Andrew J. Vickers, DPhil, attending research methodologist, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, told Medscape Medical News.

Read the whole article here, and share with your doctor!

Acupuncture Superior to Standard Medical Care for Pain

Words to live by; living by my words.

Last year, I was asked to participate on a panel of Licensed Acupuncturists who were speaking to students about to graduate from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. As panelists, we were asked to speak about how we practice, the guiding principles we have used to acheive success in our acupuncture practices, and to offer words of encouragement and guidance for those who were about to embark on their new careers.

I found the quote by William Menninger below, and it was a great jumping off point to explore those things I find most true and dear to my heart in my own practice and life. I've found over this past year that my writing on these qualities has become a good reminder to myself of where to focus when I get blurry around the edges, or feel overwhelmed by frustration, anger or fear. They've become even more important as we've moved into this difficult Fall and early Winter, and the swirling fear and anxiety that have accompanied the recent economic downturn.

Remembering to return to myself, my core beliefs, and that calm center of compassionate presence for others (and myself!) has helped me find and hold healing space for desperately ill patients, find deeper satisfaction in my work, and greater joy in working with my patients and colleagues.

I hope that these words will inspire you to investigate your own inner truths, find your own calm center of presence, and be a springboard to greater personal and professional growth.

Six essential qualities that are the key to success:
Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
--William Menninger

Sincerity:
Know what it is you believe in.
Your principles will then guide your actions.
Do what you believe in.
Do it whole-heartedly and with passion.
Don't hold back.
If you don't believe in it, don't do it.

Personal integrity:
If you say you'll do it: do it.
If you make a mistake: own it, and apologize.
Listen to your own inner voice,
so that all you do is in alignment with it.
When you recognize you are out of integrity,
gently take yourself back to it.
Only you know when you are or aren't in integrity.

Humility:
If you don't know, say so.
Realize that you don't know everything, and never will.
Every patient you will treat will know something more than you:
who they really are.
Realize and respect the honor and gift of being
a privileged witness to the wonder of another human being.

Courtesy:
Be kind to all. Even when it's tough.
Even when you don't "want" to.
Be kind to yourself: cut yourself some slack.
Treat your colleagues, your patients,
your employees, and your competitors
as though they were your most valued relation.
They are.

Wisdom:
You have your own gift, your own way of being in the world.
Trust that.
Your patients will teach you more than you will ever teach them
(see Humility).
Know your strengths and weaknesses.
Honor both.

Charity:
Give every patient more than they expected to receive.
Give freely of your time, your attention, and your energy.
Others will notice and respond.
Freely refer to other colleagues who have more experience than you:
they will refer back to you, as you develop your own expertise.
There is no shortage of sickness, suffering and pain in this world,
and not nearly enough healers.
Therefore, operate from a sense of abundance and not scarcity.
There are enough patients to go around.

And, Compassion:
Remember the best healer(s) that ever treated you:
how you felt seen and understood,
happier, lighter, more hopeful,
and less burdened by your illness or pain.
Be that.

We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
--William Churchill