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 Learning Kosho Shorei Ryu Energy Medicine The study of Kosho Shorei Ryu Energy Medicine is a wonderful method of holistic self-developmental wellness, capable of nourishing one's destiny. This page contains information for beginners and serious students alike. Healing- and medical professionals should see the KSREM for Professionals page. Students from LoPriore Sensei's seminars will find resources available here for continuing study as well. Enjoy the process! Kosho Shorei Ryu Energy Medicine is a set of traditional Japanese and Chinese therapies which have their early roots in China, and can be traced back 5,000 years. The art offers fully integrated studies of Oriental medical assessment, diagnosis and treatment theory, Ki-waza & Neigong (exercises to develop, enhance, and balance the energy of the practitioner), Meditation, Acupuncture, Herbology, Anma (advanced massage and energy-based bodywork, gentle stretching, and body manipulation), Tsubo Ryoho (pressure-point therapy), therapeutic sports massage, Ampuku (abdominal therapy), Sotai (bone-setting), emotional, self-developmental, and lifestyle counseling and coaching, diet-therapy, aroma-therapy, audio-therapy, and other modalities. The ancient Chinese classics on medicine have said that the lowest class of medicine is the treatment of pain and other chronic or acute symptoms after the fact. Next highest is the prevention of these issues through appropriate preventative treatments and lifestyle counseling which enlightens patients to causative factors and offers new directions for holistic wellness in the preventative realm. Higher still is that class of treatment which targets the spiritual-emotional holistic development of the patient, offering the opportunity for self-understanding and personal growth able to allow patients to break chronic patterns of spiritual-emotional imbalance which lead to virtually all physical symptoms from aches and pains to cancer. The highest form of medical arts offered help a patient to nourish his personal destiny, improving every aspect of his life, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Kosho Shorei Ryu healing arts, due to our close ties with our ancient traditions, still offer a fully intact healing system capable of benefiting patients on all of these levels. The benefits to the practitioners of this form of healing are infinite as well. To be a capable healer, one must heal himself first. The study of these comprehensive therapeutic methods allow for some of the most powerful and meaningful growth a person can make. Unfortunately, most people in our culture have "learned" to trust their health predominantly to their doctor, who they see once a year for five to ten minutes. And, we have learned to wait until we are sick to think about our health. This sort of backwards thinking puts most patients in situations of dire need before they seek help, and forces practitioners, even quality practitioners of Oriental Medicine, to be reactive and use only the lowest forms of healing methods available to them. Most patients are looking for relief from discomfort or pain, from some lingering problem. Despite the fact that they can be used for so much more, Kosho Shorei Ryu healing arts are capable of very effectively addressing these issues. It is only natural that people cannot reach for higher goals when they are concerned with pain and other immediate problems. These issues must be addressed first. Following is a short list of symptoms patients have shown great improvement with using these therapies: Abdominal Distention, Abdominal Fullness, Abdominal Lumps, Abdominal Pain, Agitation, Allergic Asthma, Allergic Rhinitis, Anger/Angry Outbursts, Anxiety, Appetite Poor, Belching, Bitter Taste, Blood in Stools, Blood in Urine, Blood-shot Eyes, Blurred Vision, Breast Distention, Breathlessness, Catarrh, Chest Heaviness, Chest Pain, Cold Limbs, Cold Prevention in Adults, Cold Prevention in Children, Common Cold, Constipation, Constipation Alternating with Diarrhea, Cough, Depression, Dermatitis, Diabetes (Late Onset), Diarrhea, Poor Digestion, Dizziness, Dream-disturbed Sleep, Dry Eyes, Dry Hair, Dry Lips, Dry Mouth, Dry Skin & Hair, Dry Stools, Dry Vagina, Dysmenorrhea (Painful Menstruation), Ear Infection, Ear Ringing, Eczema, Edema of the Ankles/Legs, Endometriosis, Epigastric Heaviness/Pain, Facial Pain, Fatigue- Chronic or Acute, Feeling of Coldness, Feeling of Heat, Fever, Fibroids, Hay fever, Headaches, Heaviness (Head, Joints, Etc.), Hot Flashes, Hypertension, Hypogastrium Distention, Impotence, Infertility, Influenza (Flu), Insomnia, Irritability, Joint Pain, Knee Ache, Libido Low- Lack of Sex Drive, Limb Weakness, Loose Stools, Lower Backache, Memory Weakness/ Loss, Mental Confusion, Mental Restlessness, Mucus in Stools, Mumps, Muscle Ache, Pain, Muzziness of the Head, Myomas (Fibroids), Nasal Congestion/Blockage, Nausea/Vomiting, Night Sweating, Nosebleeds, Ovarian Cysts, Palpitations (Heart Flutter), Period Blood Clotted, Periods- Heavy, Periods- Irregular, Periods- Scanty, Period- Stopping & Starting, Petechiae (Skin Redness), Phlegm of the Chest, Premature Ejaculation, Premenstrual Tension, PMS, Prostatitis/Prostate Hypertrophy, Purpura (Purple Spot Skin Rash), Runny Nose, Shivering and Fever, Shortness of Breath, Sighing, Sinusitis, Skin Spots, Skin Rash, Smell (Heightening sense of), Sneezing, Sore Throat, Sweating, Excessive, Taste, Bitter/Sticky, Thirst, Excessive, Throat (Feeling of Lump in), Tics ("Nervous"), Tingling Limbs, Tinnitus (Ear Ringing), Tiredness, Tongue Ulcers, Tonsilitis, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Urination- Burning On, Urination- Difficult, Urination- Frequent, Urination- Weak, Urination- Blood in/Cloudy, Urinary Incontinence. Once the patient shows relief from his initial complaint, then the Kosho Shorei Ryu healing arts practitioner can offer help in the preventative, spiritual-emotional-causative, and destiny-nourishing realms. The patient, now confident in his Kosho Shorei Ryu therapist and therapies, can see his way clear to higher development and holistic, preventative healing, despite the cultural handicap he may have had initially in his views on health. This is when the patient's genuine intention to grow holistically as a human being matters most. We see the symptoms a patient complains of as if they were an alarm going off to alert us that something is wrong inside. Masking the symptoms, or "curing" them with a quick fix only leaves patients ignorant of the underlying spiritual-mental-emotional causative factors. Advanced practitioners of KSREM will diagnose the patient's Five-Elemental constitution type, and work with patients on the constitutional level as well as the physical and symptomological level. Making a patient aware of their constitutional coping mechanism stories gives them a chance to see their sub-conscious inner negative mental noise, face their undigested past emotional material, and set themselves free of self-imposed suffering. Symptoms are they key to the initial realization of inner division and imbalance. But it requires a courageous spirit, and often the help of a talented KSREM practitioner, to use them to find an enlightened perspective. |