Yuuki Hirano Acupuncture & Wellness

04/26/2021

Meditation is like exercise for your mental/emotional health. The tricky thing is that it's hard to notice the benefits while you are doing it. I have often felt like "meh, sure I'll meditate but I still sometimes feel grumpy, irritable, and at times down right angry"

However, what I have noticed in the past few months when I haven't meditated is that OH, I feel even more off balance when I don't take the time to meditate.

So there is value in setting aside time and meditating even if it doesn't SEEM like it's doing anything.

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What does my meditation usually consist of?

- Sitting
- Breathing.
- Noticing that I have stopped paying attention to my breath.
- Trying to focus on breathing again.
- Wondering what to eat later
- Breathing again

DING. Timer goes off, and I move on.

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04/23/2021

Frustrated with your pain? -

I know exactly how you feel. All too often we buy into the idea that relief should be immediate and lasting. Well, I hate to be bearer of bad news but that is unfortunately not how healing works. We think that our journey of well-being is linear, that there should be a consistent upward trend to rec...

03/10/2021

COVID vaccine and the immune system -

I am excited to announce that I have completed the full round of the COVID vaccine. I understand that there can be some hesitations around receiving the vaccine and if I am being honest I did as well. However, after some research and educating myself I felt that this was the right decision.

02/11/2021

Health and wellbeing is LOVE -

Chocolates, flowers, a fancy dinner are all nice but giving to the people you care about and love the opportunity to be pain free, to sleep better, and ultimately, to be able to enjoy each other’s company I think is the best gift.

01/06/2021

Happy New Year! -

The start of the New Year is full of potential and possibilities. Just a few weeks ago we celebrated the winter solstice. In Chinese Medicine this is considered the most Yin time of the year which means that it reflects the characteristic of Yin to the greatest sense out of the whole year. It’s wh...

10/06/2020

Back to School? -

09/18/2020

A friendly reminder to get out of your head sometimes.

But also get your paws off my head too.

09/16/2020

It's so simple.

Step 1. Go outside
Step 2. Find nature
Step 3. Breathe and ground yourself

I am lucky to have access to nature near me. It gives me strength, it rejuvenates me. It's so simple yet I also forget about it just as easily when I am caught up in the digital grind. I make excuses and say that I am too busy, I don't have time in my schedule. Well, maybe if I stopped mindless scrolling I might be able to make the time.

This is just me ranting to say, I enjoy nature and maybe you do too.

09/14/2020

Teaching yoga 10+ years now I see a lot of moving bodies. Mindful movement can be an incredible effective way in keeping ourselves healthy and maintaining our range of motion.

However, I have also seen many students who come in, have upper back, lower back, shoulder, wrist, hip pain and feel better after class but week after week mentioning the same condition.

I thought there has to be a better way.

I am grateful for the opportunity to teach but I am even more appreciative of how much I can help people in pain, with injuries, physical and emotional trauma with the magic of acupuncture.

When my patients notice the effects and see it working it is so exciting to me. It lights me up.

What motivates you day in and day out?

09/11/2020

He is definitely feeling the post massage bliss.

One of the ways I try to take care of myself are by using these rubber balls to massage my back and neck. The connective tissue in our body can sometimes get stuck and rigid so it helps to go in there and roll it out. It's also helpful since anyone can do it at home.

Self care is super important and can look differently to different people but I would say that the it is necessary to schedule it into our lives.

09/09/2020

"Every session has had a marked impact on my issues and helped me manage pain in a way that was impossible previously. I expect to be going here as long as I am able as the results are outstanding. Yuuki is a consummate professional and puts you at ease from the first minute."

I'm amazed every time I get to help someone. Each person responds a little differently to the acupuncture treatments but when it works and the patient feels better, well, that's what keeps me going.
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09/07/2020

I decided this year to make it a habit to meditate every morning. With a few exceptions I have been pretty diligent about this.