Thank You for Snoring
Dear Patient,
Some version of this exchange happens to me on a daily basis:
Patient: I’m sorry, I fell asleep during my treatment and snored.
Me: Don’t worry, I taking snoring as a compliment.
My dear patient, I love it when you sleep, snore, twitch and flail during your acupuncture treatment. This means you are letting go; you are losing your self-consciousness. You are being vulnerable, allowing yourself to surrender to the liberation of rest and all the weird noises and movements and sensations that go along with it.
This means you trust me, you trust the space, you trust the process, which is essential to your healing, because healing is not a hero’s journey. Healing happens with the help of others.
So thank you for snoring. It is a beautiful sound to my ears.
Love and gratitude,
Your Acupuncturist