Why I Love What I Do:
- Claire Skinner
- Aug 28
- 3 min read
Connecting the Dots and Looking at the Patterns
Meraki Acupuncture | September 2025 Blog
Currently, in the Northern Hemisphere, and in Chinese Medicine terms, High Summer | Earth Element has entered our fields.
I’m sitting outside, contained and still, listening to the wind, catching the scent of the air, and noticing the cackle of a raven perched in the oak tree, heavy with acorns.
When I step back into this kind of stillness-with-awareness, I notice more. It’s a moment when nature speaks clearly, through sound, smell, colour, and detail. The way a leaf curls at the edge. The sudden accent of colour in a late-blooming flower. The subtle shift in the green of the trees, from the deep, lush verdancy of high summer toward a more muted, softened tone.
Patterns are everywhere. Nature signals the transition from the expansive Yang of Summer into that liminal space before Autumn. And, as always, it mirrors the internal nature of our own being.
During this Earth-bound time of year, the season is about ripening and transformation. What was gathered in the peak of summer is now digested and assimilated. The focus turns to stability and centring.
It is the time of the Spleen and Stomach, of nourishment, sweetness, and abundance.
And so, as I too savour and assimilate all that is around me, I reflect on why I love what I do.
Central to my work both clinically and in my way of being, is connecting the dots, observing the patterns, and listening deeply.
I notice how nature shifts, and I reflect on how my body, mind, and emotions shift with it. How each response is a mirror of the harmonic field of the season.
What am I noticing?
🍲 A heightened appetite, not only for food, but for life. Craving sweetness, craving learning, craving connection.
🌱 An appetite for understanding, observing the behaviour of others, not with judgment, but with curiosity.💭 A subtle emotional tone, a light thread of worry, perhaps the Spleen in its effort to transform raw input into usable energy.
🌀 A desire for more routine, a stabilising rhythm, a fundamental shift toward centre.
I notice how friends and family respond: how they move, how the lines of their faces tell stories, how the tone and depth of their voice reveals what is resourced or what is depleted.
I notice the sparkle or the absence of sparkle in someone’s eyes.
And it reminds me: this is why I love what I do.
I am connected to the patterns of my patients, and through them, to the patterns of humankind.
This brings humility. It allows me to enter their field of awareness, to listen not only to words, but to the quiet spaces in between. To feel why someone has come, sometimes spoken, often unspoken.
Often, I am invited into the place where someone has lost touch with their own nature. Where the nuances of vibrancy and wholeness have dimmed. Where the body, mind, and spirit feel scattered, overwhelmed, or out of rhythm.
My work is not about fixing. It is about reawakening what is already there. Unlocking patterns that have drifted out of synchronicity.
Each of us carries an innate geometry, a pattern that, when in harmony, connects us back to our centre, our soul, our true self.
What I love most is guiding you back to that balance.
By a gentle nudge, a subtle shift, or the quiet placement of a needle, your body remembers.
What awakens is yours alone, the foundation of your healing space. Together, we work symbiotically, finding the right vectors to guide you into realignment.
So for now, I invite you to, lie on the floor, place your hand on your centre, your belly, the core of your Earth, lie there and listen. Let the words land in your body, not just in your mind. Let the hum be felt without the words.
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