Welcome to MMRE

 

Our Mission

 

 

The MMRE website is a first step in an effort to educate on the topic of traditional indigenous medicines, including Chinese medicine. There are a great many misunderstandings regarding indigenous traditions, even by modern exponents of these same traditions. In order to preserve standards of care, it is essential to clarify what is, and what is not. It is in the spirit of our sacred human experience that this effort is offered.

 

The endeavour of education is important because indigenous medicines hold crucial keys to healthcare. Although these medical systems have been maligned due to supposed scientific deficiencies, a very different picture is emerging from the research which was intended to prove them wrong . The data that is emerging demands attention, and, more to the point, a large number of people are demanding access to, and information on, these indigenous practices. In fact, the main reason for the surge of western scientific research into indigenous medicines has been due to public pressure.

 

Our goal is to provide Context , 3 Dimensional Viewpoints , and, most importantly, Heart-centred Science.

 

What is Chinese Medicine?

 

Chinese Medicine is the systematic theory that maps the vast scope of human life in a fashion that is both rigorous and supple. While we may think of Chinese Medicine as that which brings a treatment for our ills, the great doctors of our profession have lamented that "medicine" was invented for those many of us who have not yet apprehended the true path and instead have wound up entangled in self-injurious behaviour. Medicine, then, is the lower level of this system that is aimed merely at "correcting disharmony". Harmony is just the starting point, then, and CM goes beyond this to the limits of human potential.


However, "correcting disharmony" is a noble task in and of itself for both therapists and patients, and we in our modern culture have become familiar with the various tools used to implement the Chinese Medical theory to these ends: Acupuncture, Cupping, Skin Scraping, Moxabustion, Massage, Bone-setting, Exercise therapy, Herbalism, Energy Cultivation and Meditation, and so on.


As we start on the path back to Harmony, our first and most important tool is awareness. Not an intellectual awareness but rather that experience that is so common when going under the needle for the first time:

 

"I felt, for the first time, connected to my body - I felt fully myself".

 

Without this base awareness of what is, it is difficult indeed to find the deep will and purpose that is so essential to enact change in our lives.


Experiencing the way the tools (Acupuncture for example) are used within this context is liberating. We are not passively receiving a treatment for a symptom, condition or illness, we are refocusing on who we are and how we ended up "here" - always a potentially exciting and rejuvenating experience!


With a true Acupuncturist we enter the clinic because of shoulder pain, or to treat the flare-ups of an auto-immune disease, and we leave feeling a little better put-together and a little better aligned with our own hearts.

 

 

For a detailed discussion of the Chinese Medical system, its tools and its methods, click here.