Compared to working with a single style or with a synthesis of styles, both of which are closed systems, meta-practice is open both to the present and the future. It assumes that the human mind is wonderfully flexible and able to think in and translate between different styles of practice and ways of doing things just as it does when one is able to speak a variety of different languages. Meta-practice is a technology for working effectively with different styles of practice. Develop a meta-practice that allows you to work effectively with different styles.Synthesise different styles into a single new style.They have proposed three basic solutions: This problematic is, of course, not new but has vexed practitioners of Chinese medicine for centuries. So, what should we do? Study all of them? Some of them? Which ones? And why those and not others? In herbal medicine popular styles include various types of jingfang or ‘classical formula’ practice, TCM (which really is a type of shifang or ‘modern formula’ practice), Korean constitutional therapy and many more. In acupuncture, for instance, there are the Tung style, the Tan style, the various styles of Japanese meridian therapy, Worsley five element acupuncture, stems and branches acupuncture, Korean hand acupuncture, TCM acupuncture, and various types of scalp acupuncture to name just a few. If we once thought it was a single system of medicine, we now know that Chinese medicine is a family of many different styles of practice.
Over the last fifty years, our understanding of what Chinese medicine is and how it should be studied and practiced has fundamentally changed.
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