“Rather than avoiding what is bad for you, focus on what is good for you!”
“The future of health is about moving from a ‘disease-intervention’ reactive medicine, to ‘wellness-orientated’ preventive medicine”
Alex provides a unique blend of ancient wisdom and modern science. He has learned from some of the best practitioners in Australia and China. He believes the true treasures of TCM lie in its greater focus on preventative health, wellness and lifestyle practices. In his own practice Alex promotes modern health care approaches where the practitioner and client form a partnership to maintain health and focus on positive interventions.
“Learn to look more internally, rather than externally, for answers”
“Symptoms are seen as signs of systemic imbalance in the body and we need to be looking at strategies to re-balance, harmonize or regulate the whole body in order for those symptoms to disappear. Health is about assisting the body to find balance. We achieve this by providing the best possible environment for our body to be healthy, supporting it to recover from or avoid imbalance and disease. This preventative style of medicine is not simply treating the results of imbalance, rather the study of how to find balance. It is, by comparison, low-tech and low-cost.”
“In life, often what seems easy is hard and what seems hard is, in fact, easy!”
“I am a strong believer in the wellness-orientated approach and think that both western and Chinese Medicine are way too illness-orientated these days. In the ancient texts it often states how ‘preventive’ health should take priority over ‘reactive’, clinical, medicine. There is too much reliance on, ‘I’m the doctor and I’ll fix you’. But I never underestimate the power of people to heal them-selves. There have always been people who want to make money by treating disease, yet I’ve always believed the true treasures of Chinese Medicine are found in preventative health. It’s that old saying: “Give a person a fish and they will eat for a day; Teach a person to fish and they will eat for life…” – It is my aim to provide people with the skills and resources so that they can restore and maintain their own health, their own balance.”
‘It is very difficult to control parts of a self-regulating living system, much better to raise the efficiency of the existing activities that produce or regulate qi and blood’
‘The less one thinks about the theory of Eastern ideas and simply follows, the more soundly one sleeps’
‘When health is absent, Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot become manifest, Strength cannot be exerted, Wealth is useless, and Reason is powerless’ (Herophilies – 300BCE)
‘The difference between an average life and an enlightened life may be found within a few small and surprisingly simple behavioral adjustments that a person can choose to make’
