The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine discusses the way of acupuncture and often makes a distinction between adjusting the spirit and adjusting the form, and clearly states that “the rough guard the form, the upper guard the spirit”. This means that a highly skilled acupuncturist focuses on adjusting the patient’s spirit, while an ordinary acupuncturist focuses on adjusting the patient’s form. This criterion, which was recognized in the days of the Nei Jing, is no longer known to many people today, two thousand years later, for its exact meaning. Even if you ask a professional acupuncturist today, I am afraid that only a few can answer the question “What is acupuncture to regulate the spirit”, not to mention “Can acupuncture regulate the spirit”, “How can acupuncture regulate the spirit”, and so on. And so on, these subsequent questions. For the sake of illustration, let us look at the following case. The family of a cancer patient approached the hypnotist Erickson and asked him to relieve the patient’s pain. “Erikson calmly asked in return: “If I put you and a lion in the same cage, what do you think you would most like to do?” The man did not hesitate to answer: “I just want to run out quickly. “Erickson asked:” in that moment you will still feel physical pain? The man thought for a moment and said, “No, I don’t feel any pain.” In fact, from the first question Erickson asked, the patient had temporarily forgotten about his pain. In this classic case of hypnosis, Erickson did not bother with the physical symptoms of the patient, but with a few words, cleverly changed the patient’s mental state and thus obtained the healing effect, which is a typical kind of mind-tuning therapy. The essence of Chinese medicine is that the human body is always seen as a unity of spirit and body, and the two affect each other and are unbreakable and indivisible. Therefore, a symptom or symptoms that appear in one state of mind may be significantly reduced or even cease to exist in another state of mind! The moment a tiny silver needle is inserted into the skin, the patient’s spirit and form change simultaneously (that is, the patient’s body and mind react at the same time) is the moment to test the acupuncturist’s ability to adjust the patient’s mental state. I would like to ask every acupuncturist to ask themselves one question: Is milli-needle an effective means of conditioning the body? It is precisely because it is not, that the needles and acupuncture methods are constantly changing, from coarse needles, mansard needles, water needles, buried threads to the development of acupuncture knives, these “rough shape” acupuncturists hate to be surgeons. However, in terms of the transfer of the spirit, the milli-needle can be used by the acupuncturist who is “on the guard of the spirit” to a great extent, knowing that Erikson can use only the verbal induction. Lastly, I would like to share a recent case of an aunt who was almost 60 years old, with pain and weakness in both lower limbs, unable to walk for more than an hour, and unable to stand up after squatting. After briefly checking the condition of both legs and knee joints, the pulse was not weak and the eyes were clear. I gently punctured the head, back and lower limbs with milli needles, neither piercing the skin nor leaving the needles in place, nor deliberately choosing meridian points, aiming at toning the mind. After three treatments, the patient was able to squat and walk freely, and the symptoms did not recur after two months of follow-up. This kind of healing effect is simply not understood and accepted by the “rough shape” practitioners (please note: this basically includes all modern Western medicine except psychiatrists), which is the modern version of “the lower man heard the Tao and laughed out loud”. I hope that TCM practitioners, especially acupuncturists, will not forget this path to work, and that everyone with wisdom will recognize the great energy of their own spirit, respect it, discover it, and use it.