Acupuncture is not a one time quick fix. It gets your body to work for you, with you. The first treatment aims your body in the direction towards healthier, and the subsequent treatments build on each other. It brings your body back towards homeostasis, or your most efficient functioning. Since your body does the work, a series of a few acupuncture treatments close together creates a good dominoes effect and the results are often lasting or permanent.
To put a realistic perspective on it ~
Would you eat an apple and expect to lose 5 lbs?
Would you exercise 1x in a week and expect the same result as if you had exercised 3 times in a week?
Are either of those examples a fair investment in YOU?
Even physical therapy or radiation therapy requires weeks of often daily subsequent treatments.
Healing is a process. And how many months, years or decades have you had the issues you'd like to address?
A few acupuncture treatments close together, create a truss structure foundation for your body to build on and to heal. The truss structure is the most stable shape in math and engineering. It's what you want for your Legos foundation ;) Both in your house AND in your body!
Or for your body's functional stability to be healthy: A stable immune system can fight off bacteria and viruses and maintain efficient functioning. Treatments can be the catalyst to course correct autoimmune diseases, endocrine function, and digestive issues. Acupuncture calms your fight, flight or freeze a.k.a. Resetting your sympathetic nervous system. Including: The Vagus nerve which is the master of your parasympathetic nervous system - how your organs function together.
And we all know that team work makes the dream work!
The diminishing of symptoms or decrease in frequency and intensity of (pain, insomnia, anxiety...) moving toward the absence of the issue/s for a greater period of time, is healing. When pain , for example, is gone for a duration of 9-13 days in a row, that is when you've 'graduated'.
Every person is different and everyone heals at their own pace. Every decision you make can move you toward healthier, or not.
Is it that much harder to park at the grocery store and grab their cooked rotisserie (a bit healthier), than to cruise through the fast food drive thru?
Would you hare an employee that would work against you or for you? Same applies to the food you choose to eat: Make it work for you.
What are your most valuable assets? Your house and $?
Can you enjoy or savor them without these 2 assets - your health and your time?
How can you balance and invest in, what is your 'true wealth' from this point forward?