The Members of the Michigan Medical Acupuncture Association Endorse the SEATTLE STATEMENT   as follows:

We believe that acupuncture and oriental medicine best serves society when practiced according to the following principles:

• Respect the broad diversity of acupuncture and oriental medicine.
• Encourage collaboration between acupuncture and oriental medicine and other individuals and groups within and outside of organized health care systems.
• Honor the legacy of acupuncture and oriental medicine, its masters, artisans, and others who created and nurtured that legacy, and contemporary colleagues, collaborators and peers who carry on the legacy.
• Recognize the energetic basis and respect the dynamic, evolving nature of acupuncture and oriental medicine.
• Place the healing relationship and the well being of the individual consumer at the center of acupuncture and oriental medicine practice.
• Recognize that the social, cultural and physical environment, including race, gender, age, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation, affect the health and healing of the individual.
• Provide tools and guidance for individuals to reach their own capacity for informed choice, self-healing and living fully, in the presence of health, illness or in the process of dying.
• Maintain independence of practice based on appropriate standards of education, certification, and care.
• Recognize that maximum accessibility to health care is essential to individual and social well being.
• Promote public awareness of the facets and traditions of acupuncture and oriental medicine and their integration into personal, social, and cultural life.
• Recognize the need for continual expansion of human understanding through research, analysis, and practical experience focused on the interactions among body, mind, spirit, emotions, and faith of the individual, society and nature as a whole.