https://www.stevenboothacupuncture.com.au/journal daily 0.75 2026-09-14 https://www.stevenboothacupuncture.com.au/journal/what-is-a-light-body monthly 0.5 2026-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/26e82734-d84c-42eb-a366-193f8459cdb8/rooms-have-weather-window-light-beam-16x9.jpg Journal - Rooms Have Weather - Make it stand out A room holds weather of its own and is influenced by those who pass through it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/c3ae9bb0-6e46-42fb-ae53-7303b66c3157/rooms-have-weather-four-ways-to-say-here-16x9.png Journal - Rooms Have Weather - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/969745fb-5e37-488e-a35b-43146d69525a/rooms-have-weather-crowd-field-16x9.webp Journal - Rooms Have Weather - In the Washington DC experiments, a thousand meditators from every tradition gathered to meditate on world peace, and the researchers reported a measurable drop in the city's crime rate while they sat. I find it fascinating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/1cc9d958-eed6-4289-82f9-8b0ce49a70ae/rooms-have-weather-weather-room-4x5.webp Journal - Rooms Have Weather - And sometimes what comes through the window astonishes me. More than one cancer patient I've worked with has arrived, entirely in their own time, at gratitude. Not for the suffering; for what the illness forced into the open. What mattered. What didn't. What they wanted the rest of their lives to be. I hold this carefully, because from outside it can sound like a demand that sufferers be thankful, and it is nothing of the kind. Some terrible things are just plainly terrible. Meaning is something a person discovers from the inside; it should never be imposed from the outside. But there is an old saying I have watched come true too many times to dismiss: the biggest dragons hide the most gold. https://www.stevenboothacupuncture.com.au/journal/how-does-acupuncture-work monthly 0.5 2026-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/c130fa7d-3227-4c8f-bce5-df526cfb6ca2/steven-booth-journal-003-staircase-morning-light-hero-16x9.webp Journal - I Couldn’t Climb Stairs. One Acupuncture Session Later, I Touched My Toes. - Make it stand out There is a particular kind of pain that makes a staircase look like a mountain. Keep reading to find out how a staircase changed my life’s path. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/cc9b390c-69fe-4df0-b211-74639fea735f/steven-booth-journal-003-floor-practice-dawn-16x9.jpg Journal - I Couldn’t Climb Stairs. One Acupuncture Session Later, I Touched My Toes. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/fb2244e6-9896-4dee-a5d3-7c15ad4e3ba0/steven-booth-journal-003-fern-spiral-sky-4x5.jpg Journal - I Couldn’t Climb Stairs. One Acupuncture Session Later, I Touched My Toes. - Ask me what Chinese medicine actually is and I'll start, unhelpfully, with patterns. Zoom into the body and the DNA spirals. Zoom out and the galaxy spirals. Between those two scales, everything alive runs on the same waveform: yin flowing into yang and back again, in the swing from night to day, winter to summer, birth to full strength to decline. The medicine is a study of those patterns, and a set of tools for living in harmony with the flow rather than against it. And underneath the philosophy sits something your grandmother would recognise. Are you sleeping? What are you eating? What is the quality of your thoughts through a day? Who is around you, and how do you fit into the world you're in? That, plus what you arrived with: your constitution, your inheritance, and how the two get along. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/4873e9cc-82e9-455a-b1e6-31ffb2d9d542/steven-booth-journal-003-pulse-listening-16x9.jpg Journal - I Couldn’t Climb Stairs. One Acupuncture Session Later, I Touched My Toes. - The experimental end is stranger, and I'll be straight about it. I have run frequency sets through pads on Neiguan, the "inner gate" point on the inner wrist, a point whose whole job, name and all, is to help a person look at what's going on inside. The result was a mild, manageable altered state; nothing like the territory people reach with plant medicine, and I only do that kind of work with people who are interested and fully informed. https://www.stevenboothacupuncture.com.au/journal/transpersonal-acupuncture-cosmic-ip-address monthly 0.5 2026-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/2b7721b8-b0fa-40c1-9f63-839653769934/cosmic-ip-address-the-view-from-altitude-1x1.webp Journal - The Cosmic IP Address - THE COSMIC IP ADDRESS This piece covers what transpersonal acupuncture is, how the body stores emotional patterns as physical tension, what Chinese medicine's concept of shen describes, how altered states arise in treatment and what they are for, and what a person in pain can actually do, starting tomorrow morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/f9ea7a06-2181-4b56-b050-7264376df26e/cosmic-ip-address-the-dune-and-the-wind-4x5.jpg Journal - The Cosmic IP Address - Unless there’s sand in it. The esoteric world (literally "hidden") is the same: you can't see thoughts or ideas, but you can see their effects. A person's beliefs and understandings show up in their behaviour, their actions, and eventually their health, the way wind shows up in a dune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/f96cde57-a960-4807-ac6b-a1731b268a04/cosmic-ip-address-the-inner-gate-1x1.jpg Journal - The Cosmic IP Address - And there is a point on the inner wrist the Chinese called Neiguan (the inner gate), sitting over the median nerve, in a region known clinically for its effects on nausea, autonomic regulation and the felt centre of the chest, with an indirect relationship to the vagus nerve. Watch an anxious person and you'll often see them gripping exactly that spot, without ever having heard of it. The pharmacy sells motion-sickness wristbands that press it; the evidence for that use is solid enough to have been reviewed by Cochrane. In the dim-mak ("death-point striking") arts of Baguazhang and Taijiquan, we strike or grasp this same point to drain or disrupt energy, to set up a stronger follow-up strike, or, again, to reach the centre line indirectly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/e595d176-841f-43c6-8156-4abf08d71613/cosmic-ip-address-the-heart-diamond-4x5.webp Journal - The Cosmic IP Address - Not remembered. Re-entered. That is the raw material. The geometry is how we keep it from evaporating: a structured container. Connect any three points and you have a triangle: a stable shape to hold a resonant frequency. In treatment we build feeling states this way: safety, protection, compassion, recalled from real memories in full sensory detail, then anchored to locations in the body in stable arrangements. [insert heart frequency tuning-in meditation here — build task] Over the back of the neck and shoulder blades, a diamond, filled deliberately with the felt sense of being protected, in precisely the place where the body has spent years rehearsing defence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/94c04cae-9d0f-4dda-a9ad-4481f9529356/cosmic-ip-address-raised-shoulders-4x5.jpg Journal - The Cosmic IP Address - Someone will cut you off in traffic this week. Your shoulders will go up, because that reflex is ancient and correct and not yours to veto. Later, in the quiet, there is the usual question, worth asking with your attention in your body rather than on this page: did they come down? And underneath it, the stranger question this journal entry has been circling the whole time. Can you remember, precisely, in your body, the last time they did? The place, the light, the company, the temperature of the air? Because that moment has an address. And now you know how to dial. https://www.stevenboothacupuncture.com.au/journal/the-sealed-vessel-ticks-alpha-gal monthly 0.5 2026-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/60cf49c8-0215-4b03-9600-7d06a520ed4e/steven-booth-journal-002-tick-on-trail-framed.jpg Journal - Ticks & Alpha-gal Syndrome - Make it stand out A tick waits at the tip of a grass blade as a walker passes, unaware. This is how almost every case begins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/4872df61-23ab-46d8-aa1d-131c1e7fd183/steven-booth-journal-002-tick-macro-portrait.jpg Journal - Ticks & Alpha-gal Syndrome - While I was researching, a friend told me a story from her childhood here. She used to collect paralysis ticks from the bush and take them to the local vet, who paid her about forty cents for every live one. It sounded almost unbelievable. A child earning pocket money by gathering one of Australia's most dangerous parasites. It turns out it was entirely real Researchers needed wild ticks in huge numbers, to study their biology, keep laboratory colonies, and make the antiserum vets used against tick paralysis in dogs. Every tick she brought in fed a much larger effort to understand a uniquely Australian hazard. There's something quietly remarkable in that. We spend our lives trying to avoid ticks, and forget how much work has gone into understanding them. Before today's preventatives, paralysis ticks killed countless pets a year. Behind every vial of antiserum were researchers, clinicians, and the occasional child with a jar. Many of the advances we take for granted were built one tick at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/f00dccd5-867b-4d37-96f5-ef01df0852fd/steven-booth-journal-002-how-alpha-gal-syndrome-develops.jpg Journal - Ticks & Alpha-gal Syndrome - Make it stand out How alpha-gal syndrome develops: a tick bite sensitises the immune system, and a reaction to mammalian food can follow hours later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/169766b7-91c7-426c-9c43-194ccbfc39ad/steven-booth-journal-002-everything-is-uncertain.jpg Journal - Ticks & Alpha-gal Syndrome - Eating is one of our most basic acts of trust in the world. Suddenly it is uncertain. Gatherings get complicated. Travel takes planning. Every meal carries a note of vigilance. Over time that alertness reshapes a person's relationship with safety, nourishment and belonging. The nervous system learns caution. Hypervigilance starts to make sense. So recovery is not only calming immune cells. It often means giving the body back a felt sense of safety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/136bbc36-c2f2-470c-824c-02dacfa6c2d5/steven-booth-journal-002-sealed-vessel-kintsugi-hero.jpg Journal - Ticks & Alpha-gal Syndrome - Make it stand out The sealed vessel. In the Japanese art of kintsugi, what was broken is mended with gold, and the mend becomes part of the whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/5523f94f-77a8-40ba-bea2-ea986aca59e5/steven-booth-journal-002-supporting-the-journey-back-detailed.jpg Journal - Ticks & Alpha-gal Syndrome - Make it stand out Recovery works in layers: easing immune reactivity, calming inflammation, restoring regulation, rebuilding resilience. Some elements shown — frequency medicine, peptides — sit on contested ground, and are offered as clinical exploration, not settled treatment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/52c0a267-bb7d-4b06-ae44-08bbd44ef146/Ticks+Practical+Prevenetion.png Journal - Ticks & Alpha-gal Syndrome - Make it stand out Practical prevention: cover up, use a repellent, check daily, remove promptly, and stay on the trail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/26a63653-9fcd-4b5a-ad52-60addca2619f/steven-booth-journal-002-innate-wisdom-way-home.jpg Journal - Ticks & Alpha-gal Syndrome - Make it stand out The body knows more than we give it credit for. And it has been trying to tell us, all along. https://www.stevenboothacupuncture.com.au/journal/cold-floor-gate-of-vitality monthly 0.5 2026-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/d784a576-a86f-4a42-b8a9-827c7af403eb/steven-booth-journal-001-warm-the-root-morning-ritual-infographic.jpg Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! - Make it stand out Every morning begins with a conversation your body is already having. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/4c49d3b7-933c-410b-9d92-e68bb059108f/steven-booth-journal-001-kitchen-dusk-kettle-steam-photo.jpg Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! - There is a particular hour, usually before anyone else is awake, when you pad out to the kitchen barefoot and the tiles meet your soles like a small electric shock. You wince, you fill the kettle, you carry on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/1782900765195-CJLJI59439Y6DGQ5NNKX/steven-booth-journal-001-carpet-vs-tile-heat-arrows-same-temperature-infographic.jpg Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! - Infographic comparing bare feet on tile versus carpet at the same temperature: tile draws heat away fast and alerts the nervous system, while carpet retains warmth and keeps the body relaxed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/1782900794763-8NNETOPRIZ9W786KC0R6/steven-booth-journal-001-barefoot-cold-tile-kitchen-amber-hero.jpg Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! - Bar chart of thermal effusivity for common flooring, carpet lowest to porcelain tile highest, showing how fast each surface draws heat from bare feet. Source: Engineering Toolbox (2025), ASHRAE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/1785729761303-Z88LQ7A2T5V38BZZF5OX/steven-booth-journal-001-small-rituals-strong-foundation-yang-social-infographic.jpg Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/1785729908481-PGQFKSU8B9OKJCP1J4GD/steven-booth-journal-001-thermal-effusivity-bar-chart-16x9.webp Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/254f1487-825e-4c58-81cf-ec306fb07304/steven-booth-journal-001-kidney-channel-diagram-yongquan-mingmen.jpg Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! - The Kidney channel rises from a point on the sole called Yongquan, Bubbling Spring, where your deepest reserves well up from the earth. Of all the places to leave open to the cold, the underside of the foot is the worst. It opens straight onto the channel that governs your constitutional fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/45febd7b-57cf-43b6-bfd4-1015e6188f63/steven-booth-journal-001-kidney-channel-rear-view-yongquan-mingmen-diagram.jpg Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! - Make it stand out The Kidney channel begins at Yongquan on the sole and ascends to Ming Men, the Gate of Vitality, at the lower back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/3ebf27a8-3018-4e97-8435-0230ed355d04/steven-booth-journal-001-feet-in-bed-socks-study-photo.jpg Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! - I will keep faith with you and not oversell it. Gert Holstege, chairman of the centre for uroneurology there, has been clear that testing this was never the study's aim, the sample was tiny, and "wear socks, climax harder" is really folklore in a lab coat. But look at why it happened, because that part is solid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69eb1a349451326e6524103e/ad845660-72fb-4b37-bf6d-a5f00b3b6031/steven-booth-journal-001-invisible-chain-six-step-infographic.jpg Journal - Get your feet off the cold floor! - Make it stand out Cold feet are never just about your feet. 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