{"id":5937,"date":"2012-06-04T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2018-05-25T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:59:09","slug":"gravity-vs-the-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/2012\/06\/gravity-vs-the-alligator\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity vs. the Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Friends,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/alligator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5947\" title=\"alligator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/alligator-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/alligator-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/alligator.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the difference between Gravity and an Alligator?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> You can measure the alligator.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: large;\"><strong>What?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s post is about what you can and can&#8217;t measure, and though you <strong>can<\/strong> measure an alligator, maybe you really shouldn&#8217;t. Substitute something safer, like maybe a turtle. You can measure a turtle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, stick with me. This is going somewhere. Let me start by telling you about two events that prompted my thinking today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, I was planning to attend a scientific acupuncture conference a couple of years ago and I wanted to participate as a vendor. But the conference organizers prohibited me from doing so because they didn&#8217;t like the tag line we use with AcuGraph, &#8220;See the Chi.&#8221; From the scientific perspective, they felt this was crossing some arbitrary line they had established about what could and couldn&#8217;t be measured. <strong>See the alligator? No problem. See the Chi? Problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, combine that with a recent comment on a web forum from an acupuncturist advising everyone to be cautious about any device that claims to measure &#8220;chi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>These two events have gotten me thinking and it&#8217;s high time I clarified a few things.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the literalists among us\u2014and by &#8220;literalists&#8221; I mean people who don&#8217;t &#8220;turn on a light,&#8221; but rather &#8220;complete a circuit,&#8221; and who instead of a &#8220;glass of water,&#8221; ask for a &#8220;container of liquid-state H2O&#8221; \u2014 I want to tell you first and foremost that you&#8217;re right.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> You can&#8217;t measure Chi.<\/strong><\/span> And this shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to any of us. After all, we can&#8217;t even define what Chi really is!<\/p>\n<p>We all know the theoretical construct: Chi is life force energy. Essence. Life. <strong>But how do you measure that?<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/handxray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5941\" style=\"margin: 20px;\" title=\"handxray\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/handxray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/handxray.jpg 562w, https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/handxray-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like to use the analogy of the X-Ray. When you look at the picture, do you see the bones? <strong>Careful now<\/strong>\u2014if we&#8217;re still being literal, the answer is no. What you are seeing is the shadow produced on a film plate when the hand is subjected to X-rays. The white areas show where the x-rays were blocked by the bones, but in the end it&#8217;s just a shadow. You aren&#8217;t seeing bones.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But is it clinically useful? Of course.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And in the same way, measuring electrical skin resistance, as we do with AcuGraph, doesn&#8217;t directly measure Chi. But it does measure the effects of Chi on the physiology, and it is quite a useful measure to have. If you&#8217;ve used AcuGraph for any length of time, you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>So here&#8217;s the question: Why should this surprise us?<\/strong> <\/span>As with any fundamental force in the universe, the Chi life force is measured by its EFFECTS, rather than measuring directly. There&#8217;s no direct way to measure gravity. No, Really. Something so fundamental, and we can&#8217;t measure it. So instead, we measure the EFFECTS of gravity on a falling object, or by the compression of a spring. To be quite honest, scientists don&#8217;t even know what gravity IS. But they do know how it behaves, and with this understanding, we can use the gravitational force to our advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Chi works just the same way. There&#8217;s a difference between a living person and a corpse, and that difference is the life force energy, or Chi. As much as mainstream medicine attempts to disparage acupuncture by mocking this idea, they&#8217;re wrong. (Unless they don&#8217;t believe in gravity, that is\u2014in which case, they would still be wrong, but at least consistent.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>So what does this mean to you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple. When you can measure the effects of Chi, or &#8220;See the Chi,&#8221; as I like to say, you and your patient both get HUGE benefits. You get <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">better information<\/span> so you can make <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">better decisions<\/span>, ultimately leading to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more effective treatment<\/span>. And your patient gets the added bonus of not only understanding acupuncture better, but also seeing objective proof of what&#8217;s wrong and how you&#8217;re helping.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, you get a more successful practice and a more satisfying career. All this from a 2-minute exam to help you See the Chi. It&#8217;s sure easier than measuring gravity. Or an alligator.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If you don&#8217;t own AcuGraph yet, what are you waiting for? A better future awaits <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">you and your patients.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acugraph.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for more information.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m going to get to work on my next product, AcuGravity. There&#8217;s gotta be an opportunity in there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Friends, Question: What&#8217;s the difference between Gravity and an Alligator? Answer: You can measure the alligator. What? 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