From the monthly archives:

January 2008

Chinese medicine and professional development

31 January 2008 Personal Development

I have been thinking quite a bit about my February Year of Sagely Living goal. Before I reveal what I’d like to do this month, I want to look at the symbolism of this month in a little more detail. Let’s revisit the original explanation in the inagural post of this project.
February – [...]

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Why does Classical Chinese Medicine seem so complicated?

30 January 2008 Classical Texts (general)

This is the first part of a two part guest article by my friend and peer, Michael Givens. Michael is also a third year student of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR. He shares my fervor for the medicine and has been an inspiration to me [...]

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Fellow sages-in-training

29 January 2008 Blogging

I just realized that I forgot to add the links of my fellow YSLers to the last post – sorry! Please visit these sites and consider adding yourself to the ranks!
Abdallah B. Stickely from Even Unto China
Kimberly Ann from Helfgott Blog
Brandon Brown
G. Michael Reynolds at Life Giving Sword
Ross Rosen
Julie [...]

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Reviewing one’s progress in the realm of self cultivation

29 January 2008 Cultivation

There is something inherently fishy about “evaluating” myself when it comes to a program of personal development. While goal setting is an important activity, and awareness of my strengths and weaknesses is essential to many things, there seems to be some way in which self cultivation stands exempt from my every attempt to measure [...]

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New features of Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine

22 January 2008 Blogging

I can’t overlook an opportunity to put my entire blog title in a post title, sorry. :) I just wanted to quickly point out that I’ve made a few changes to the site.
1. In order to increase community interaction, I’ve added recent comment and trackback sections to the far right sidebar. [...]

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