On Pins and Needles

Had my acupuncture experience today. It was about what I expected, both the procedure and the guy who did it. He was kind of hippy, dippy, trippy but very nice and I think he knows his stuff. It wasn't really painful, just very mild discomfort at first. Had one needle between the eyes, one in each ear, one on the underside of each wrist, one in the middle of my lower belly and two on the shin area of each leg. Not sure what the significance of the locations is, but the acupuncturist told me the method is meant to relieve stress by getting the blood flowing and to release "energy"...whatever that means. I will say it is totally relaxing. I felt very sleepy afterward. He said most clients fall asleep. You are left alone in a dark room with needles stuck out of your body for about half an hour. Hard to say if it is the procedure itself or just being quiet and still for a half hour that makes you sleepy. Either way, today's procedure was free so I'll go ahead and give it at least one more try as a paying customer. He said today it was just an introduction to acupuncture and the next time when I have an actual treatment he would put a lot more "points" in me. I'm kind of looking forward to it actually. I'm getting more and more curious about if it will work all the time.