Balance Acupuncture and Wellness Center

Stay Vigilant and Stay Healthy!

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. if we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." _____ Haim G. Ginott, Teacher and Child: A Book for Parents and Teachers

Mindful driving techniques. #balancelife

Fire Cider - a DIY immune enhancer. Have you tried it? Answer in the comments and let us know. If you want to find out more, go to Balancelife.health to join our membership and get a DIY video tutorial. You'll also receive a written recipe and a breakdown of the therapeutic properties of the herbal ingredients from both western and eastern perspectives. Thanks for joining us! #balancelife

Tomorrow morning Ric and I will be talking about Fire Cider here on facebook live at 9am. Join us and find out what the buzz is about this herbal culinary blend. #firecider #balancelife

Someone’s upping the game on the Erie Canal kindness rock project! I gotta get my paint brushes out!!! #balancelife

Metal Element Qi Gong #balancelife

Creativity is vital to our well-being. Let’s support the arts in any way we can. As some of you may know, our daughter LiLi is a 2nd year at Berklee College of Music. This is from their parents fb page: I don’t know if the audience side really understands how dire the situation is for millions of hard-working professionals. Broadway is closed until 2021. Cirque du Soleil is filing for bankruptcy and cut 3500+ jobs. Feld Entertainment laid off 90% of its workforce permanent...ly. Live Nation had to lay off a significant amount of employees. Cruise ship entertainers are out of work. Theme park productions have no idea when they will be recalled. There are no concerts, festivals or touring productions scheduled until 2021 and if they don’t happen next year, they may never happen again. No Jazz Fest, no Coachella, no Bonnaroo, no EDC, no ROLLING STONES FINAL TOUR(S), and no SYMPHONIES....all gone. It’s being predicted that 90% of independent music venues may close, the longer this continues. No more 1st Ave, Whiskey-a-GoGo, no more Tipitina’s, no more Red Rocks, all gone. Entertainment Management, Publicity, Live events coordinator, Performing arts organizations of all kinds- choirs, theatres, orchestras, dance companies- all are trying to figure out on a daily basis how to keep going and employ anyone they can in the field. More than 12,000,000 people work entertainment production in the US and produce revenue in the multi billions of dollars, we are not insignificant and this industry cannot reopen until mass gatherings can happen again. This doesn’t include the additional layoff of venue management and bar staff, security and thousands of vendors. Also, we can’t forget about the hundreds of thousands of performers and entertainers that make these careers possible, without them, there is no show. So when you see your entertainment friends begging you to wear masks and stay home, understand that we are helplessly watching our industry crumble before our eyes because the country is doing so poorly at reducing the spread. This IS personal for us, our entire livelihood is dependent on social gathering and we will not accept being labeled nonessential. Music and art are critical to a cheerful, balanced society. Everyone’s career and the whole industry is indefinitely on hold. PLEASE wear your mask (over your mouth AND your nose) and wash your hands. Gratefully copied from a post. Feel free to do the same. #SaveOurStages #SaveTheArts #artseducationmatters