At the Heart of Acupuncture: Professional Version, Bu Ming, Nourishing Destiny

Bruno Braeckman’s book on Bu Ming Acupuncture, finally published in English. “At the Heart of Acupuncture” - Bu Ming Acupuncture, (to nurture one's destiny) - Professional version (2025) A clear and structured acupuncture strategy to address the root of illnesses: - Emotions - and to reconnect the Human with Earth and Heaven, recovering his original balance, Printed version, paperback, hardcover, 260 p, with new schemes and tables, in French, Dutch and English (originally written in the three languages by the author). Find it on Amazon: Bruno Braeckman, "At the Heart of Acupuncture" "Au Coeur de l'Acupuncture" "Het Hart van de Acupunctuur" “At the Heart of Acupuncture” aims to root the acupuncture back into the original purpose of the Chinese medicine: to restore in Man the creative Heaven - Earth connection . Shen, the consciousness arising from this connection, animates and organises all vital functions of all creatures. This foundation, 'forgotten' by actual TCM, regains its central place in this Bu Ming method, refreshing the basic concepts such as Dao, Tai Ji, Yin-Yang, Shen, Wu Xing, making clear how Shen masters the human energetic physiology. Diagnosis, therapeutic principle, point selection, still follow the TCM rules, but are mainly focused on the principal cause of diseases: emotions disturbing the Shen. Excessive Qing emotions and deficient Zhi feelings can only be dealt with if they have been accurately differentiated. Uncertain interpretation of complaints is giving way to trustworthy diagnosis techniques such as simple pulse and abdomen palpation. This provides a reliable diagnosis and a logical and structured treatment strategy. Point selection thus is logic and needle techniques soft and easy, for often astonishing results; An important chapter deals with Gui, Ghosts. Like Post Traumatic Stress, Gui are a major cause of recalcitrant ailments. They need to be recognized, but also differentiated as acquired or innate, to be effectively treated with the appropriate acupuncture technique. The innate Gui, emotional load inherited from previous generations, has actually never been addressed that way, and its treatment opens important new therapeutic perspectives, fully in accordance with the Chinese medicine’s foundations, but also with actual epigenetic science. Once the Heart is “empty”, freed from emotional disturbances, the ultimate step can be taken, “Bu Ming”, to nourish one’s destiny. The needle restores the receptivity of the Jing (Earth) structures, so that they can fully receive the virtues of Heaven, the universal creative forces, awakening the Benshen, roots of human’s conscious mind, liberating his full potential to realise effortless his destiny, witnessed by vitality and joy of life. Bu Ming acupuncture is a simple, gentle, subtle, but effective and profound method, that fills an important gap in TCM acupuncture. Destelbergen, August, 2025 Bruno Braeckman (1946) studied Chinese medicine and acupuncture in 1976 (Paris, Beijing, Nanchang). He isl practicing acupuncture in Ghent (Belgium) since 1982. Co-founder of the acupuncture schools Jing Ming and Yin Tang, teaching acupuncture since 1986. Currently he only teaches specialized Bu Ming acupuncture at the Belgian institutes ICZO in Antwerp (Dutch) and ETTC in Namur (French). Author of several public and professional publications, his masterpiece is this professional version of “At the Heart of Acupuncture”.