Nyon Acupuncture | Traditional Chinese Medicine

TCM: Acupuncture, Massage, and Herbal Medicine in Nyon, since 2004.

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August 11, 2026

Somatic Awareness and the Winds of Fate: How Acupuncture Mirrors Meditation

For many people navigating modern life, stress is not an abstract concept—it is a daily reality. Between managing family logistics, navigating complex relationships, juggling heavy professional workloads, coping with personal health issues, or caring for aging loved ones, the burden is relentless. This ongoing pressure manifests across every dimension of our well-being: mental exhaustion, emotional… Continue reading Somatic Awareness and the Winds of Fate: How Acupuncture Mirrors Meditation

August 5, 2026

And now for something completely different.

Against my better judgment in some sense, but because of pure curiosity as to what others will think, I am posting a chat with Gemini here, as a blog article. This is another in the series of articles on how Active Inference, and Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle can frame theoretical concepts found in meditation,… Continue reading And now for something completely different.

August 1, 2026

Active Inference, De Qi, and the Neurobiology of Acupuncture: A Critical Response

The integration of modern cognitive science with classical East Asian medicine has reached a fascinating threshold. A recent paper published in MDPI’s Brain Sciences presents a pioneer attempt to frame the therapeutic mechanisms of acupuncture through the lenses of Predictive Processing (PP) and Active Inference under Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle (FEP) [1]. At the… Continue reading Active Inference, De Qi, and the Neurobiology of Acupuncture: A Critical Response

July 29, 2026

Qi Ball

Please check out my new substack feed, subscribe and share if you would…. Here is a post on Substack that features a few paragraphs from the introduction of my upcoming book Neurophilosophy, Qi, and the Science of Consciousness. Substack Article

July 27, 2026

Inflammation: From Classical Signs to Modern Neuro-Immunology

Inflammation is one of the most fundamental defensive mechanisms in human biology. Long before modern immunology identified the cytokines and cellular cascades that govern immune responses, classical observers recognized its outward physical manifestations. In the first century AD, Roman physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus codified the cardinal signs of acute inflammation: Rubor (redness), Calor (heat), Dolor… Continue reading Inflammation: From Classical Signs to Modern Neuro-Immunology