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About Aaron Slape, Acupuncturist in Adelaide

Qualifications and Experience

Aaron Slape has an Advanced Diploma in Health Science, majoring in Acupuncture, from The Australian College of Natural Medicine.

I have been working as a Natural Therapist and Acupuncturist since 1999.

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I am passionate about natural health. I’m an avid practitioner of Chi Kung, ( Qi Gong ), which complements my use of Acupuncture and natural health techniques. I don’t just work with this stuff – I live it.

Because of this, you know that you are getting someone who really, passionately devotes himself to this form of health and healing.

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I was born and raised here in Adelaide and happily married with two boys.

I strive to be healthy, active, full of vitality and young at heart, to be a good father to my kids, husband to my wife and to foster lasting and meaningful relationships with family and friends.

To be a good healer, you must be surrounded with love and joy and be constantly giving out love and joy as part of Who You Are.

My life is blessed with the opportunity to live this way daily.

I hope to achieve balance in all areas of my life and never stop learning. To enjoy spending time with my family, especially with some time spent at the beach or out in the bush. I enjoy fishing, camping, hanging out with friends, and my veggie patch! I am passionate about health and providing my patients with positive changes in their lives.

History

The knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) came into my life by chance and struck an accord in me that inspired me to understand in greater depth my health, my spirit and the relationship of these to my life experience.

Learning about TCM, Acupuncture and Naturopathic medicine has been a blessing in my life. TCM, in particular, made so much sense to me.

I believe it is founded on common sense and a truly holistic approach to health. For me, it filled in the missing gaps to an inadequate Western medicine understanding, which often could only tell me how something was wrong but not why. It seemed clear to me that in order to prevent a repeat of health concerns, it can be important to have insight into how it arose. TCM provided the framework for that insight.

Understanding Naturopathic Medicine as well as TCM, Acupuncture has enabled me to see the similarities between these two and enabled me to more easily explain TCM, Acupuncture to a western mind.

Present and Future

Natural Medicine has and continues to be the vehicle for change and growth in my life.

Working as a Natural therapist has fulfilled my life by providing me with the opportunity to help others.

I love working with people to be helpful. I like listening and learning from people, I love solving problems, working with my hands and working for myself.

It is greatly rewarding to help others enjoy a better quality of lifestyle, rejuvenation or spiritual connection.

My goal is to facilitate a resolution of a health concern. I also hope to empower people so they discover for themselves the influences of things in their lives that have created the health issue of the present and so empowering change through awareness in order to prevent the issue from re-occurring.

My Healing Philosophy

When looking at the big picture, we can find that many things can contribute to ill health.

For example:

We are emotional beings. When we are happy, every cell in our body is happy. Emotions have physiological effects on physical function. Unresolved negative emotional states can lead to illness and disease.

What we believe and how we feel and behave can have dramatic physiological outcomes.

Chronic disease is a manifestation of unresolved or incomplete healing.

The environment we are exposed to can have a drastic effect on our health. Spending too much time in an environment where we feel nervous, tense, anxious or afraid can have a dramatic effect on our health.

Furthermore, our modern world has been increasing detached from nature as we seek convenience and comfort. We live in environments where we are exposed to a cocktail of toxicity whose effects are not tested and barely understood. The incidence of cancer is growing at an alarming rate.

Chemical, physical and psychological irritations create functional imbalances in your body, which, if not corrected, often lead to disease.

Responsibility for My Life

In taking responsibility for my life, I find that symptoms are the expression of an issue that I have been ignoring, denying or repressing. The effects of such issues are often expressed through diet, exercise, lifestyle, social responsibility & relationships.

Much of this must be taken into consideration for the restoration of optimum wellbeing.

Disease is not something that happens to us, but something that we create.

The choices we make every day. Illness is a message giving us a chance to look at our behaviour and the patterns in our lives.

Holistic wellbeing is not just about being “well” in the physical body but also about living in harmony with ourselves and the world we experience at all levels, body, mind, and spirit.

This is the realisation of our human potential as total beings and our desire to live fulfilling and satisfying lives.

The choices we make create the life that we experience. Life is our mirror, our opportunity to learn and grow. Are we paying attention?

Wellbeing is essential for a life full of living