The name small influences comes from the ninth hexagram of the I-Ching, which is called “taming”. The Chinese characters associated with this hexagram 小畜 can be translated as little beast. The trigrams that combine to create the hexagram depict the wind in the heavens that coral the clouds to form rain. It is by small actions practiced consistently that an animal is trained. So to is our own cultivation. 

Acupuncture often can have an immediate reduction in pain or other symptoms in the first treatment, but the effect usually at first lasts only a day or two. With consistent effort however, the pattern of disease that we have been living in begins to shift so that symptoms take longer to return and are diminished in severity. We find at the end of the taming process that not only is the beast transformed, but we are too.