WELLNESS Spotlight
Dr. Michele Zic-Tuccino: Bringing the Interconnection Between Evidence-Based Medicine and Holistic Care to the Greater Meadowlands Area
By Cindy Capitani
Meadowlands Magazine
People turn to acupuncture for many reasons, the most common being chronic pain or difficult-to-treat ailments that haven’t responded to traditional medicine. Back pain and arthritis come to mind, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, stress, anxiety and unidentified maladies following accidents of any kind.
Dr. Michele Zic-Tuccino, MAc., DAc., LAc, founder of Golden Proportion Acupuncture & Wellness in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, is a Doctor of Acupuncture and a Consciousness Guide. She employs acupuncture and what she calls Creative Flow Meditation in a manner that gives patients an unexpected experience and leaves them with benefits beyond what they needed cured.
“Since I was a very young child, I felt drawn to the healing arts and as I began grade school, I knew I wanted to be a doctor, but also knew traditional medicine wasn’t my calling. Having no outlet for this curiosity to bloom, I just suppressed it,” Doctor Michele said, adding this was all pre-internet so “Googling” was not an option throughout this point in her life.
It was at Jersey City State College (JCSC), in the early 1990s, (now New Jersey City University) that she found a Therapeutic Touch class, in the nursing department, discovering a path where her journey in the healing arts had a place to start.
Career path to healing arts
Dr. Michele, a Rutherford resident, is no stranger to the Meadowlands and southern Bergen County. Born in North Arlington, she grew up mostly in Lyndhurst, and then headed back to her original roots for high school at Queen of Peace. Shortly after graduating from her first bachelor’s degree program at JCSC, she embarked on a traditional job route that steered her into both project management and the field of finance. She worked at PSE&G for 15 years before striking out on her own.
She said she always knew her career path would eventually guide her into the healing arts in some capacity but just wasn’t sure the road it would follow. As she continued her dual path of climbing the corporate ladder and studying and practicing within the healing arts, she discovered acupuncture and instinctively knew it was the way.
“I knew acupuncture was my path into the field of medicine because it was the only licensed and board-certified medical profession complete with a doctorate program in the energetic healing arts. As a respected field backed by decade’s of evidence-based medicine, acupuncture became my avenue to help a greater amount of people”
With acupuncture there is a medical artery to combine the energy healing arts with a protocol accepted by Western medicine and endorsed by the World Health Organization. Acupuncture ignited the road to healing that Dr. Michele devotes her life to and what her business, Golden Proportion Acupuncture & Wellness, is based upon.
Creative Flow Meditation
Typical acupuncture involves penetrating the topmost layer of skin at precisely-chosen points with very thin filaments, commonly referred to as needles. The needles are referred to as filaments because of being so thin and solid, they resemble more of a delicate thread than a typical needle encountered during routine blood work. They are so threadlike, patients rarely feel them at all. The filaments are often carefully activated with light pressure, movement or stimulation or they can simply be inserted and left alone to do their job.
Typically, a practitioner will insert the needles at specific points for patients’ expressed conditions and leave the room to treat another client. But that’s not how this doctor operates. The healing begins before, and extends to during, and after the actual procedure. It’s a combination of talk therapy, energy healing, acupuncture and meditation.
In explaining her work as a whole, she said it comes from a culmination of education, practice and whatever natural intuition she always had.
“Yes, I am a highly trained and skilled board-certified doctor of acupuncture with the four years of education and clinical experience that comes along with that title. However, my 30 years of studying many forms of energy healing systems from around the world has cultivated my work into something deeper and more profound,” she said.
“I do this by expanding my base healing method of acupuncture into higher consciousness integration through what I like to call Creative Flow Meditation.”
When considering something abstract like higher consciousness connections, she said to think of how cell phones remotely connect to each other. Critical components of our cell phone connection include cell towers and radio waves.
“We can’t see the radio wave component, but we know it’s there, in what I like to call the invisible realm space,” she said.
The human body acts as a cell tower to transmit and receive thoughts through the invisible realm,” she added, mentioning Dr. Masaru Emoto who demonstrated our connection to the invisible realm in his experiments with water. Dr. Emoto’s experiments showed that the physical shape of water, on a molecular level, changes according to the intention put forth into it.
“When we start to open to our higher consciousness through the invisible realm, we move into the driver’s seat of our realities as we begin to consciously manifest what happens to us,” Dr. Michele said, when explaining why we should care about connecting to the invisible realm.
“If you look at it from a physical perspective the human body is approximately 60% water, now imagine the water in our bodies holding the physical shapes of our thoughts and desires. Our thoughts are very powerful and Dr. Emoto’s work is so important as it shows us how we can actually see the energy of our thoughts manifesting into physical form.
“Additional studies also show that light travels through the invisible realm similar to thought and radio waves. We can tune in to a particular light … studies show this,” she added.
Ongoing therapy treatment
One session with Dr. Michele brings relief — whether it’s from pain, anxiety, stress or all three. She has a calming presence and approach, an ear for listening, and a therapeutic touch accelerated with acupuncture. Her patients find relief but come back anyway, because there is so much more to the therapy than relieving pain or curing an ailment.
“Everyone is unique therefore sometimes the shifts are quick and dramatic and sometimes they are more subtle and take longer to manifest. Sessions build upon each other, and I meet my clients at whatever level of commitment they are ready for. I give homework that can take from just a few seconds a day to however much time one is willing to commit. The important thing to note is that just a few seconds of homework will bring enhanced results.”
Often, people turn to wellness practitioners like Dr. Michele because traditional routes of medical care failed for them and living with pain of any kind — physical or mental — interferes and can even halt everyday life.
“We, as acupuncturists, have answers and solutions that have worked for 5,000 years for things western medicine just can’t explain,” she said, “and I take this concept even one step further guiding my clients to the realization that just as everyone of us has the power to pick up our cell phones and connect to the person of our choice, everyone of us has the power to connect to the reality of our choice as we open up to our higher consciousness through the invisible realm.”
For more information or to schedule a consultation with Dr. Michele either remotely or in her Lyndhurst office, visit http://www.gpacenter.com or call (201) 296-5255.
Dr. Michele Zic-Tuccino is a board-certified doctor of acupuncture that combines scientific evidence-based medicine with the essence of 30 years of deep engagement within many global healing practices. She offers one-on-one and group support combining acupuncture and Chinese medicine theory with higher consciousness integration through what she has cultivated as “Creative Flow Meditation.”
