Center

i was thinking about waiting til next month to write a new blog so i could make this a monthly thing, but i just felt like typing out some of what I've been thinking about this past week. In one of my classes last week we watched this movie about Chinese medicine and how it differs from Western medicine. Western philosophy seems to be if you have a problem, get rid of it, cut it out, cure it now, fix the problem and make me normal again. The Chinese approach it very differently. It's more of a calm acceptance and experience. Sure they use certain aspects of Western medicine, but not as much as i thought. The part that really grabbed my attention was all the work they did with "chi" or "vital life force." In this hospital there were patients dealing with the same life threatening diseases that we deal with, but there were entire wings where these patients were sitting and meditating and practicing finding their chi and moving it. Or doctors using their own chi to manipulate the chi of their patients. One of the doctors said, "When you have a disease, don't try to cure it. Find your center." That sentence made sense to me. I don't know if it made enough sense to me to try it if i am ever diagnosed with cancer, but...This last fast Sunday was filled with some heavy testimonies. Not that it's bad, but they were just kinda heavy. We all have our trials and our hard times, and it seems to me that when we focus on them and try to overcome them and rid our lives of them, we throw our lives even more out of balance. I think there is truth in that when we are struggling, physically , emotionally, socially, or whatever it may be, we would do well, to not try to cure it, but to find our center instead, who is Jesus Christ, the center of all things. I don't know. Take it for what it's worth. It's easier said than done. Oh, and they also use packages of herbs to put in soups as prescriptions.