The Pendulum Always Swings: Politics, Nature, and the Momentum of Correction
Preface Before I begin, I want to be clear that I am not a politician, political analyst, or commentator. I am an integrative wellness practitioner specializing in Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine. My practice places me face-to-face every day with the human nervous system — with stress, burnout, anxiety, inflammation, exhaustion, emotional dysregulation, and the physical consequences of prolonged imbalance. What I witness in individuals often mirrors what I see happening collectively in society. In East Asian Medicine, health is not the absence of symptoms, but the presence of balance. When systems remain in prolonged states of excess, deficiency, stagnation, or chaos, the body eventually compensates, adapts, or breaks down in an attempt to restore equilibrium. Nature works this way. The body works this way. Human systems seem to as well. I want to further clarify that this piece is not written from a political agenda, but from an observation of patterns — patter...