Even seasoned health practitioners discover new pathways for healing through Auricular Medicine training. Cooperation with the German Academy of Acupuncture (Deutsche Akademie für Akupunktur | DAA), which has graduated over 30,000 medical doctors in Auricular Medicine, informs the practical clinical approach of the CIAM program endorsed by the Director of Education for the DAA:

“[CIAM] has developed a comprehensive training program in German Auricular Medicine. With this training, practitioners will learn current developments in auricular acupuncture, and the approach taught in Germany — a system that will bring profound results through clearing blockages to healing and stubborn symptoms. Beyond delivering the only systematic training of the DAA program in the English language offered worldwide, the CIAM team is highly professional and caring.”

How can we leverage commonalities for greater opportunities in learning, understanding, and collaboration? How can clinical protocols in auricular medicine be presented without the assumption that practitioners take on a complete new line of practice? What approaches of our training open the door for practical applications across a broad range of healthcare and wellness modalities? These questions define the unique educational and collaborative culture of the Canadian Institute of Auricular Medicine.

The fact that the same universal principles apply to both science and every modality of healthcare and wellness suggests that we can explore their commonalities. We believe that finding commonalities supports inclusion and diversity of insight. German Auricular Medicine (because of its use of measurable frequencies and autonomic nervous system response) is ideally suited to deepen and broaden resonance-, energy-, and neuroscience-based concepts of practice found within many of today’s healthcare and wellness modalities [1]:

Acupuncture
Auricular
Biofeedback
Chiropractic (i.e. Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique/BEST, Bio-Geometric Integration/BGI)
Dentistry (holistic)
Dermatology
Energy work (i.e. Reiki, RISE/polarity work, etc)
Herbalism
Homeopathy
Laser
Massage therapy
Naturopathy
Osteopathy
Physical therapy
Posturology
Psychology
Quantum medicine (i.e. bio resonance, Oberon-related therapies, quantum bio-photon diagnostics & therapies)
Sound healing
Sports medicine (alternative approaches)
Veterinary (acupuncture and laser)

A Culture of Supporting Your Practice

The more we learn, the more we understand the relationship between all things. The same in medicine. Advances in scientific research continue to bring conventional and alternative modalities of medicine closer together. In particular, neuroscience and quantum physics provide insights for a framework of commonality between conventional and alternative approaches — a framework which considers that everything is energy.

Energy affects the way in which we exist in our environment (at peace or in disharmony), our physiological state (in balance or out of balance), and our consciousness or perception of reality (regulation of learning, memory and cognitive processes). Conventional medicine has shifted from a view of the human body as a machine with disparate moving parts (in which disease is isolated from overall health) to a view of the human body as an electro-chemically regulated entity (whose well being is considered holistically to include environment and state of mind). Our biology relies on the exchange of ions across our cellular membranes to sustain all life processes. Because everything is energy, we can affect our physiology and psychology with everything from nutrition, to pharmaceuticals, to acupuncture, to yoga, or even spiritual practice. All to support our dynamic state of energetic equilibrium for the optimal function of our body (energy homeostasis).

Auricular Medicine provides a window to the brain [2]. The central nervous system is at the core of the regulation of energy homeostasis [3]. Since everything is energy, everything also has a frequency, and this is why German Auricular Medicine, in particular, is able to support so many modalities with diagnostic and treatment insights. The use of frequencies to test substances for resonance against a patient’s Somatotopy (the point-for-point correspondence of an area of the body to a specific point on the central nervous system) enables neurological insight. Practitioners of auricular medicine use the somatotopic mapping of the body on the ear, and the palpation of the autonomic nervous system response to stimuli/change (for a binary response “positive/negative”) for diagnosis and treatment.