Table of Contents:

1. Pay It Forward
2. SAR Conference Announcement
3. Information on SAR 2007 Conference
4. SAR Young Investigator Awards
5. Giovanni Maciocia Seminar
6. Tai Sophia Institute Workshop: "Redefining Health"
7. NCCAOM Moving to New Headquarters
8. AMA/CPRC Issues Meeting
9. AAOM Holiday Greeting Card

Greetings OM Members and Colleagues:

Welcome to the Qi-Unity Report – December 2006!

It is difficult to believe that the end of the year is now only days away. The rush of Christmas is behind us, and we stand with excitement at the threshold of another New Year before us!

A Christmas gift to my husband this year was a DVD of a movie that deeply touched me: Pay It Forward, staring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hung and Haley Joel Osment. The movie tagline says it all… “Just imagine. You do a favor that really helps someone and tell him or her not to pay it back, but to pay it forward to three other people who, in turn, each pay forward to three more and on and on into a global outpouring of kindness and decency. Impossible?” The movie adaptation is from a novel written by Catherine Ryan Hyde and demonstrates “how much impact one heartfelt idea can have!”

As we look to the New Year, it is always beautiful to interpersonally ponder one’s life and the fresh new changes we choose to make to better ourselves, but this year, if each of us were to expand our resolve beyond ourselves to “pay it forward” to three people in our lives, our ability to alter our reality is truly open-ended. If we “pay it forward to three people and these three in turn “pay it forward” to another three people - we have already impacted nine lives in total. When these nine people “pay it forward”, 27 lives are changed… some way… some how, and from there 81 hearts have been touched!

As we stand at the threshold of 2007, let us bless the bounty of life we have and “pay it forward” to another, and through these random acts of kindness our world shall change!

SAR Conference Announcement
Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 1997 NIH Consensus Conference with the Society for Acupuncture Research. Review the past decade and learn future plans in acupuncture and Oriental medicine.

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/06/12/sar_conf_2007.pdf (PDF)

Information on SAR 2007 Conference
Further details about attending the SAR Conference.

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/06/12/02.html

SAR Young Investigator Awards- information
The Society for Acupuncture Research is offering cash awards for the best three presentations by a student or post-doctoral fellow in acupuncture or Oriental medicine. Read more about the details of this program.

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/06/12/03.html

Giovanni Maciocia to lead seminar in Midwest-information
Study with a Master! Giovanni Maciocia is giving a seminar entitled "The Extraordinary Vessels and the Treatment of Male Disorders" in Chicago in February. Read more about this; register early!

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/06/12/maciocia_ilaaom_ad.pdf (PDF)

Tai Sophia Institute Workshop: "Redefining Health"-information
The Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, MD, is giving a 2 day workshop where participants will learn as many as 20 practical skills for making positive life changes in their lives.

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/06/12/05.html

NCCAOM Moving to New Headquarters
National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is moving their headquarters to Florida.

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/06/12/06.html

AMA Issues Meeting
Minutes from the Coalition for Patient's Rights Collaborative latest meeting.

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/06/12/07.html

AAOM Holiday Greeting Card
AAOM wishes all of you happy and healthy holidays and a prosperous and fulfilling 2007.

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/06/12/08.html

Blessings and Love to All…

Rebekah Christensen
Executive Director, AAOM