Light at the end of the tunnel...

This weekend was a blogger's dream, a completely brand new expericene! I have to say that though this is not very girly, it's defintely share-worthy! I had my first session of acupuncture! A little uneasy but certainly hopeful, I showed up at this one room studio that had a massage table and a eager, rogue, hippie-looking doctor. He asked me to lay down and from there, he proceeded to tell me all my ailments. I thought I was just going in to help my TMJ, but I ended up leaving a new person. Don't fret, there was nothing painful about it. On the contrary, it was probably the most relaxing, enlighning experience i've ever had. Ok, so I know how this sounds....HOOKEY! But I have to be honest with you, buy into the craziness, drink the kool-aid and delve head long into this acupuncture thing! My mother being a nurse, I am a firm believer in western medicine. If you have something wrong, take a pill, do the exercise or change your diet....end of problem. But when all that fails and you are still worse for the wear....this is the light at the end of the tunnel. Pathetically, I sat on the table and cried because I never knew how bad it really was. By "it" I mean my existence...I had been living with so many things that I just accepted as part of myself (headaches, emotionally all over the place, tightness in my back and jaw, completly and totally exhausted). But with just one treatment, I felt a weight lifted (not to mention my jaw unlocked within 10 seconds). Girly or not, this is something we should all, even if just once, experience. And if you don't come out a little brighter, happier and all around better i'd be utterly suprised. Take this as my full and total reccomendation!