Holiday gift to patients

My post-meditation brainstorm (Thank you!) for a holiday gift is working so well, I thought I'd share it with you all. I went to Ranch 99 store and found these really nice plastic Chinese soup spoons for $.39@, bought a BUNCH of them. Went home and quickly ran off little slips of paper with these instructions (attached) and began presenting them on Monday. I didn't have time to wrap them at all, just put them into a basket lined with gold paper, with a green ribbon tied around the basket handle. Some of the patients had heard me lecture on gua sha and cold prevention, some had had it done on them (by me) just the week before. I told them I didn't want to see them anymore for this condition because we had more important work to do with the needles, so I was giving them the responsibility of staying well during Cold season. They all really, really liked this. I'd been lecturing them about this for ages, but until I put that spoon into their hands, they didn't get it (kinesthetic teaching). What's great is that the gift cost so little, but can do so much for each person, at the same time pulling them into principles of Chinese Medicine.