Dear Patient,
Recently we opened up a new shift at one of my clinics. This has been a long time coming. We originally planned to do it months ago, late last summer, but kept getting delayed by circumstances beyond our control, month after month.
Finally, last weekend, we opened the long-awaited shift. It’s a new shift, on a new day, at our new location, with new team members. And so far it’s been full of patients who are new—new to our clinic, new to acupuncture. New, new, new.
As I was chatting with a colleague about all the newness, it hit me—of course these new hours are attracting new patients. It’s spring. It’s the Wood phase in the cycle of seasons, which is all about new beginnings, growth, expansion, and forward momentum after a period of dormancy. The ideal time of year to start something new.
All those months of frustration, wanting to open this new shift and being thwarted by one roadblock after another—I look back now and see not stagnation and setbacks, but a period of gestation. Growing roots to support a new venture.
We humans love to think that time is something we control. We schedule and plan and forecast under the illusion that life’s events will unfold according to our invented timeline. And sometimes they do. Sometimes it all goes according to plan. And sometimes, nature has a better plan.
Love and gratitude,
Your Acupuncturist
And it's a new moon......
I have really enjoyed reading this this morning, Alexa. Thank you for the gift of your words. ---- judy