Introduction

A patient came to see me with a tight neck, which had developed over the past few months. I started by asking him if it was ok to settle himself in his chair and to feel his way into the tightness. Then i asked him where exactly he felt it. And his finger drew a line down the left side of his neck, along the pathway of the gal bladder channel. So next i asked, and is there anything else about this tightness? We'd like to share a story to illustrate that. The language you use with your patience can be as powerful a way of influencing that she as anything you might be doing with your needles or hands.