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Bob Ellal
Bob Ellal is a four-time survivor of bone lymphoma cancer. Initially diagnosed with stage four terminal cancer in 1991, he complemented his chemotherapy treatment by going deeply into the mind/body connection, employing visualization and meditation. The disease relapsed three times over the next five years. He went de…

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Glenys Brown
Glenys Brown is the Founder of the Energy Medicine College which teaches others how they can use original energy medicine for themselves and pass it on to their loved ones as teachers and practitioners. Also a QiGong Master, Glenys produces instructional meditation audios/videos as gives workshops/classes in Australia…

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James Lee
James Lee Has been practiced Tai Chi and Chi Kung for more then thirty years. He believes that there is a more scientific explanation of Chi Kung based on modern science. He is living in between the western and eastern cultures. He sees ideas of Chi Kung which do not coincide within the two cultures due to misconcepti…

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Jeffrey Smoley
Qigong practitioner with 33 years of experience. Master and co-lineage holder of Zhou family Qigong since March of 2008 with Zhou Yifei. Co-founder of Jade Power Qigong (YuLi Qigong) with Zhou Yifei. LMT (MA 52162), RM, CHt. Professional member of the National Qigong Association.Martial Arts practitioner with 49 years…

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Kathy Levac
Kathy Levac RN MS MQT is a respected author and national speaker with over 20 years of experience in health care and helping people improve their lives. She maintains a blog at http://www.relaxedandalert.com/?cat=25/ posting a daily motivational message that includes practical tips and motivational thoughts to help th…

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Kay Hutchinson
Trained at the Longevity Center in a 3 yrs residential program in San Jose, CA, Kay studied under the guidance of Dr. Arnold Tayam, founder of Longevity Center, head qi gong instructor for Stanford's Integrative Med. Dept and IVF program, Professor of Medical Qi Gong at Five Branches, and Dean of Infinichi Qi Gong Pro…

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Kevin Hufford
Academic Background: Dr. Kevin D. Hufford graduated from the State University of New York where he received his B.S. in Biochemistry (1977), M.A. in Chemistry (1981) and Ph. D. in Advanced Technology / Systems Science (1993). He has taught Chemistry and Computer Science at Broome Community College as well as Computer…

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Kim Kubsch
TAI CHI-QI GONG: SAFE MOVEMENTS FOR ALL AGES! Safe movements are anticipated changes in position involving little or no risk of injury. They are comfortable, protective against muscle strains or sprains, and helpful for good posture and improved balance. Kim Kubsch is an independent fitness and fall prevention expert…

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Lama Tantrapa
Lama Somananda Tantrapa is the holder of the lineage of Tibetan Shamanic Qigong, also known as Qi Dao, that has been fostered in his clan for 27 generations since 1224 AD. He has over 30 years of experience in Qi Dao and other internal martial arts. He was primarily trained by his Grandfather who was the last Grandmas…

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Marcus Santer
My name is Marcus Santer (please google me!) and I am the author of the book: 'Shaolin Chi Kung - 18 Exercises To Help You Live A Longer, Healthier and Happier Life'. I am the founder and chief instructor over at Qigong15.com, the home of Qigong goodness on the Internet. On the site you can find over 170+ quality blo…
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Mark Melchiorre
I use QIGONG and a variety of Traditional Asian/Oriental Energetic Medicine methods including acupuncture, electrotherapy, tuina massage, moxibustion, cupping, and herbs, to promote health and to effectively treat and prevent a variety of disorders be they of the MIND, BODY, or SPIRIT.

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Michael Rinaldini
I, Michael Rinaldini have been involved in healing and spirituality for most of my adult life. Currently, I teach qigong locally; nationally through the National Qigong Association; and internationally via my Qigong Certification program. I also have a background in acupressure (CMT) and offer this service locally. F…

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Raven Cohan
Before meeting the founder of the Healing Tao, Master Mantak Chia, in 1981, Raven was a well-trained actress, singer, and dancer of ballet and jazz, who performed with a male partner for a total of twelve years, (from ’68-’80), doing specialty acrobatic-adagio dance in Radio City Music Hall, and other theatres, nightc…
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Rev. Keith Hall
Rev. Keith Hall has studied, practiced, and taught T’ai Chi, Qi Gong (Chi Kung), Tantra, Emotional Release and Transmutation, Kundalini and Chakra Activation, and meditation for over 30 years. He has been a senior student of Tai Chi Master Yung-ko Chou, with permission to teach. Rev. Hall has studied at various Myste…

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Ricardo Serrano
The Qigong Healing Method -- a synthesis of Qi-healing, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT therapy), Pan Gu Shengong, Wuji Qigong, Sheng Zhen Qigong, Zhan Zhuang Qigong with Ba Duan Jin and Qi Dao, Super Brain Yoga, Guru Yoga, Merkaba activation and traditional body and ear acupuncture with Chinese tonic herbs and alkal…
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Roger Jahnke
Roger Jahnke, O.M.D., has dedicated his professional life helping to sharing the powerful ancient healing traditions of China. He is the director and chief instructor of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi, Santa Barbara, Califo ia; and a cofounder and recent chairperson of the board of the National Qigong As…

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Stuart Holloway
After many years doing many things in many locations, my life has finally simplified itself into Energy and Innergy. My 'day job' is in the field of Energy Conservation and Efficiency. My first love and 'life work' is as a student and teacher of Qigong (includes short forms of Tai Chi). The bottom line is that if you…

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Timothy Booth
Timothy Booth has been practicing Qigong for over 15 yrs. and is a member of the National Qigong Association. He currently instructs private and group Qigong classes in Toronto. He has studied with some of the greatest western Masters of Qigong such as Ken Cohen, and Eric Reynolds, direct student of Dr. John Painter.…
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Strength that Comes not from Muscularity, but Tendon Power and Virtue.
An article from Rodale Press which was copied to a Yahoo Group I subscribe to, is available for you to read via the following link: http://www.rodale.com/doing-good-deeds?cm_mmc=DailyNewsNL-_-2010_05_12-_-Top5-_-NA - Please read it and then follow my response about its conclusion. The article draws a conclusion that is based on our society's over-reliance upon muscular strength. It proves to me that there is a real value in educating the public upon a little know Ancient understand that tendons need to be trained to better help us hold up an object than through muscularity.
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Fear of Inheriting or Being Exposed to Disease: How to Find Courage and The Best Healer Within.
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Qigong And Leukemia
Qigong has proven an effective treatment for inhibiting or destroying leukemia cells in mice and certain other types of human cancer cells. The studies here fall into two broad classes: in vitro and in vivo studies. Typically, the in-vitro studies involved randomly dividing the laboratory-prepared cancer cell cultures into different groups, with one group being treated with exte al Qigong, plus one or more control groups that did not receive any Qigong treatment. Sometimes, one group was treated by sham Qigong for the same amount of time as the group receiving authentic Qigong treatment.
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Qigong & Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a rheumatologic disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain that leaves those afflicted with fatigue, painful ‘tender points,’ morning stiffness, and difficulties with sleep and the performance of routine activities of daily life.
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How does Tantric Qigong™ work?
How does Tantric Qigong™ work? It can be said that Qigong works by uniting heavenly and earthly energies. While Western science does not yet have a full explanation of how Qigong does this, it most likely that it works by amplifying your personal Chi (Qi, life force, vitality, Ki) by drawing in earthly and atmospheric / solar ionic energy to supplement your existing vitality.
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Taoist Emission Control and The Seasons
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, a time to die; A time to plant, a time to reap; A time to kill, a time to heal; A time to laugh, a time to weep… A time to build up, a time to break down; A time to dance, a time to mourn… A time you may embrace; A time to refrain from embracing.”rn–Ecclesiastes 3:1-5, adapted by Pete Seger “Everything in the universe is made of Yin and Yang. Yang will settle through Yin, and Yin will expand through Yang. Yin and Yang integrate and move together. So a man will become arouse
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The Art of Being Present
The Art of Being Present The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mou for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. –Buddha What moment do we have other than this? The past is an illusion long gone. The future is not yet made manifest. Each moment of our lives lands as a dew drop upon the lotus. Delicate, unique, irreplaceable. To look upon it with full attention and unfettered gaze reveals its precious and inimitable perfection.
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Presencing™: Growth, Meditation, Manifestation
Presencing™: Growth, Meditation, Manifestation Presencing™ is a method of self-inquiry that scans the body, mind, and emotions for what is Present at that time. What is present is often the tip of the iceberg, a barely recognizable “feeler” put out by your higher self to try and get your attention.
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Being Present
The Art of Being Present The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mou for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. –Buddha What moment do we have other than this? The past is an illusion long gone. The future is not yet made manifest. Each moment of our lives lands as a dew drop upon the lotus. Delicate, unique, irreplaceable. To look upon it with full attention and unfettered gaze reveals its precious and inimitable perfection.
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The 3rd Chakra and the Spiritual Purpose of Power
The 3rd Chakra and the Spiritual Purpose of Power Americans love power. It is our god. Well, ok, money and power. The American Dream is based on a certain level of self-sufficiency and freedom. Empowerment and the liberation of the spirit have been characteristics of many of the original and often iconoclastic immigrants to North America, some of whom emigrated because of spiritual and political oppression. The founding fathers understood that within a context of a certain degree of social cooperation, the American spirit required a high degree of personal freedom.
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Characteristics of the 3rd Chakra
Characteristics of the 3rd Chakra Characteristics of the animal third chakrar As an extension of the reptilian / mammalian fight or flight reaction, the third chakra manifests the energies of control, manipulation, stubbornness, anger, hatred and violence. These can be directed outwardly or inwardly on energetic or physical levels. We can see various mixes of these manifest in the world as intolerance, warfare, social prejudice, manipulative business practices, control agendas in interpersonal relationships of various types, etc.
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Life force and the Anatomy of Power
Storing Life Forcer What makes the third chakra and its emotions and agendas so powerful is, well, power. Power in the sense of the pure life force stored in this area. The third chakra is like a battery; life force is stored as potential. This energy is rarely stored as true potential, in the electrical sense. A battery can sit and store its electricity for a long period of time. People however are dynamic living bioelectrical systems. Human life force is a power that is active; it needs somewhere to flow to, something to do.
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The Third Chakra and The Mystery of the Solar Plexus
The Mystery of the Solar Plexus For many years I have seen various charts and books written on the subject of the chakras. There seems to be some general confusion as to the location and spiritual function of the solar plexus. I have seen some charts put its location as low in the body as the navel, or as high as the heart. Its actual physical center is near the end of the ste um. Like its physical location, the energetic character of the solar plexus also seems a little confusing to many authors and teachers.
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The 3rd Chakra: The Tower of Ego & The Fall
The 3rd Chakra: The Tower of Ego & The Fall The Tower of Egor The over compensation for survival challenges and the perception of lack in the material or emotional realms leads to the quest for dominance. This makes sense on the animal level as the best hunters or providers will ensure their own survival and pass on their genetic material. If you are say, a wolf, this can benefit others in your pack because the alpha male really can only eat so much of a kill; the rest is shared by the pack. In the human realm this is often not so.
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The 3rd Chakra and The Spiritual Function of Yearning
The Spiritual Function of Yearning The first three chakras compose a unit; a triad of our animal drives. At this stage in our evolution, it is easy to observe that, as a species, humans are still controlled by these animal motivations. There are certainly many enlightened buddhas, saints, and prophets that have appeared over the millennia, but the vast majority of people are still centered within their animal heritage, though we can see that humans have certainly invented many complex variations of the basic animal instincts.
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The 3rd Chakra, Romance, Eros, and Agape
The 3rd Chakra, Romance, Eros, and Agape If material acquisition, pleasure, and power cannot fully sate our most secret yearning what can? Romantic love comes closer to assuaging this questing of the soul. It is of a higher vibrational level than the mere competition for survival, status, and advantage inherent in the money and material chase.
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Beat the Flu: Nutrition to Increase Your Immune Response
Nutrition to Increase Your Immune Response Garlicr Fresh garlic contains allicin, a sulfur-bearing substance that acts as a natural antibiotic in addition to being a potent antioxidant. You can use garlic in cooked vegetables, sauces, soups, and stews. The trick is not to cook the garlic, which lessens its potency. Cook your food and then add one or more crushed fresh garlic cloves for maximum effect.
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The 3rd Chakra: The Power, The Key, The Gate
The sense of yearning is a coded message that the soul is sending to our ego. Yearning takes on different characteristics depending on one’s state of evolution, one’s level of consciousness. To the individual awakening to higher consciousness, first the physical necessities must be met. Then desire drives us until the social / emotional domain is filled. Yet a yearning remains. It cannot be satiated by any quantity of money or sex, romance or power. We desire to attain these things, yet when we do we eventually remain unsatisfied.
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Qigong, Immunity, and Influenza
Qigong, Immunity, and Influenza With debate raging over the efficacy and side effects of the H1N1 flu vaccine, which contains mercury (as thimerosal) and may contain other adjuvants, perhaps it is appropriate to consider carefully some natural alte atives to increase one's immune response. It is well known to practitioners of T'ai Chi and Tantric Qigong that these arts demonstrably improve one's overall health and vitality in a gentle, non-stressful manner.
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Is Your Exercise Enabling You to be More Than Just Flexible in Body?
Yoga was and never has been in its history, only hatha stretches. So many of the Ancient Peoples from the all over the world stretched themselves like animals by observing and imitating them. They also sat and looked at the night sky contemplating the stars and moon. Spiritual leaders were more attuned to energy thousands of years ago than we are now. During the daytime these leaders contemplated the energy of the sun. They noted that one type of energy was softer and quieter and the other was strong enough to grow new things.
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Tantric Qigong, Mindfulness, and Flow
Tantric Qigong, Mindfulness, and Flow Mindfulness, which is often thought of as a Buddhist concept, is really about being Present. Presencing is one form of self-inquiry (which can be done as a meditation or as coaching) as is Tantric Qigong. These art forms are about getting out of your head, your mental analysis, comparison and judgment, and becoming present to what really IS. It sounds simple, and it is. However, this is not very easy for most people.
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Tantric Qigong, Taiji, Multiple Sclerosis and the Immune System
Tantric Qigong, Taiji, Multiple Sclerosis and the Immune System Multiple Sclerosis is a condition where one’s immune system dysfunctionally attacks the fatty sheath that insulates nerves. Just like an electrical wire that has been stripped of its insulation, one’s nerves start to short out. The nerve impulses never reach their terminus, which causes those afflicted to begin to lose coordination. There is still no conclusive etiology for Multiple Sclerosis, though statistically the group at greatest risk consists of Caucasian women born in the northern United States.
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What is Qigong?
Qigong (Qi Gong, Chi gong, or Chi Kung, ) is a system of Taoist exercise and meditation developed at least 4000 years ago in China. The word "qigong" perhaps can be best translated as "energy mastery." It is a method of balancing mind, body, emotions, and spirit through a series of exte al and ...
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Qigong for Drug Addiction
Let’s face it, the United States is a drug culture. 14 millio Americans use substances such as marijuana, PCP, and cocaine. 104 millio Americans drink alcohol, and 65.5 million use tobacco.* Almost everyone will be afforded the opportunity to use pharmaceutical drugs, many of which also have addictive or habituative characteristics. The usual therapeutic modalities for treating addiction are the “gradual-reduction” and “symptom-specific” methodologies.** In both of these therapies, pharmaceuticals are used to treat the patient.
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What is Red Tantra and White Tantra?
What is the diffrence betwee Red and White Tantra? The short answer is that Red Tantra is focused on sensuality and sexuality, while White Tantra is more oriented towards a spiritual approach. There is also Black Tantra which is obsessed with power and its permutations, e.g., siddhis, ...
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What is Qigong?
Qigong (Qi Gong, Chi gong, or Chi Kung, ) is a system of Taoist exercise and meditation developed at least 4000 years ago in China. The word "qigong" perhaps can be best translated as "energy mastery." It is a method of balancing mind, body, emotions, and spirit through a series of exte al and ...
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Taoism, Kundalini Yoga, and Tantra
Yoga and Taoist practices share many similar techniques and paradigms while also having both subtle and dramatic differences. Each is a master system for human evolution abundant with complex subtleties that have developed over millennia. To try to concisely compare these practices is difficult ...
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From Ecstasy to Enlightenment
What is it with Americans and sex? We appear to crave it, are fascinated by it and simultaneously fear it with every fiber of our being. We use it in advertising to sell everything from automobiles to zucchini, yet often prohibit our children from learning about it, our teachers from teaching ...
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Physics and Mysticism, Om and Aum
Mantra can be a very powerful tool to align the chakra system through the power of vibration. It puts the power of the body behind the intention of the mind. Om is the universal mantra, often described as the universal sound current. It is a "one size fits all" kind of mantra. Anyone can chant ...
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6 Tips for Surviving an Economic Crisis with your Self Intact
6 Tips for Surviving an Economic Crisis with your Self Intact One Path Will Fragment Your Consciousness, The Other Will Set You Free. The unemployment rate has reached its highest levels in recent memory. Major US and international companies are restructuring, laying off employees, or just going bankrupt. Food prices are up, oil prices continue their slow rise after Obama's election, and the economy is giving itself a chunky swirlie. More importantly, my favorite el-cheapo movie theatre has permanently closed it doors.
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Primordial Wuji Qigong
One of my favorite qigong forms is Primordial Wuji Qigong. The form I practice is technically mine in origins, but the philosophy behind it belongs to a long tradition of qigong cultivation. I became interested in it during the early 2000’s. At that time, I was studying the writings of a variety of qigong teachers: Roger Jahnke, Jerry Alan Johnson, Michael Winn, Daniel Reid, Solala Towler, and Ken Cohen. Several of them had written extensively or produced videos on the Primordial qigong.
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For a Thoughtful Connoisseur of Healing and Developmental Arts
Do you follow the most popular trend of self-development? Do you switch from one popular teacher to another and never commit to one system? Majority religions, healing systems and such always receive more 'press' than those which are more hidden by virtue of their own choice or due to not using great marketing. Even so,why would one system of personal development take off, while another seems less accessible? In my opinion it is a founder’s 'personality' combined with a high level of development, brain power and money-behind-marketing that attracts a large following.
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In The Dark Room With Mantak Chia
Having studied with Mantak Chia since 1981, and being certified by him two years later to teach basics in qigong and going on to receive many more levels of certifications, I am obviously quite enamored with his system of teaching. It is no surprise that I would travel over 24 hours to ...
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Get Ready To Practice Being Healthier
Newcomers to classes are explorers who want to improve and protect their health. They have heard that Tai Chi and Chi Kung can be beneficial. They might or might not know that many of the exercises have been done for thousands of years. The Healing/Universal Tao of Mantak Chia and certified ...
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Come to Class ! No Longer Make Excuses!
By Raven Coha One great belief I share with my students is to come to classes even during times when one isn't at top level. (There certainly are exceptions to this advisory, such as during a total non-ambulatory state, or within some low times during chemo-therapy, and when being anywhere ...
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Positive Qigong Transforms Fears of Inheriting a Disease
An article I saw in a Yoga e-zine Nov. 10th , ‘08 "Why It Can Take a Year to Get a Mammogram in the U.S. " originally located at: http://www.alte et.org/module/printversion/108717 is scary to me in a different way than it is intended to be. Having come to the understandings of ...
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Do You WANT to Lie in Bed and Be Sick?
“We are all human”, says an article I read in a local Yahoo Groups that is about strategies for the, "Sick Season". It basically has positive moments, but it tends to go toward a feeling that humans are trapped in dealing with germs as if they were muggers lurking around every corner. I ...
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Daoist Zuowang Meditation
The following article is a shortened version of my original article on Daoist meditation. Contact me for a free full version of this article. Daoist Zuowang Meditation Just watch out thatr Above the concentrated mindr Everything is free and open and coverless, Beneath the concentrated mindr Everything is wide and spacious and bottomless.
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Cracking The Matrix
Cracking The Matrix Shifu Michael Rinaldini If you know the good visage, do not hold on to exte als. (Your) mind-spirit is your true teacher. The problems and riddles (gong’an, a Chan Buddhist term) posed by men of old should be investigated, (But) your own school (of thinking) must be spread about. Little by little you come to penetrate your past enlightened nature, More and more you show forth your compassion of old. When your compassion and purity are both (re-) established, You will attain sudden enlightenment and absolutely nothing will bind you.
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Qigong to Create Harmony for Yourself and Your Reality
It was a Saturday morning as we began our seven hour drive from Burlington, VT to home after dropping off our daughter for her freshman year of college and because of the weekend event I was thinking that it was extremely important to be able to create harmony within myself and my reality.
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Qigong for the Winter Solstice - Attune your Energy with your Thoughts, Intentions and Dreams
If you have not already done so, this is a perfect day to begin preparing for the winter season and the new year ahead. The December Solstice occurs on either December 20, 21, 22 or 23. It is called Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the shortest day of the year. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is the Summer Solstice and the longest day of the year.
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A series on breathing techniques to help you relax
How Do You Breathe? Put your hand on your chest and a hand on your belly. Take a deep breath. Which hand moves more? The top hand or the bottom hand? When we are born we are belly breathers. Watch a baby breathe and you will see that his whole body moves, butespecially his belly. In kindergarten we are still belly breathers. By fifth grade we have converted almost 100% to upper chest breathers. This learned breathing pattern is an unconsciously modeled for us by our parents and community. We change to match our high stress society. Belly Breathing is our natural way of breathing.
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The 3 Core Skills of Qigong That No Body Knows...
Give me 3 minutes and I'll explain why 98% of Qigong practitioners are wasting their time... Remember, Qigong is the art of deliberately managing your vital energy or Chi/Qi. Vital energy is the 'juice' that keeps you alive and allows you to do everything you do. Qigong is similar to Yoga, but less strenuousr It's like Tai Chi, but easier and quicker to lea It offers proven health benefits and requires zero athleticism. There are 5 main aims that people practicing Chi Kung/Qigong exercises want to achieve: Improve Health and Increase Vitalityr Longevityr
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The ONLY Illness There Is...
The Only Illness There Is By Marcus Santer I’d like you to join me on a journey of understanding. The result of this journey will be a new understanding on what health is, how it works and why in theory there is no such thing as an incurable illness. By the end of the journey you will know that there is only one illness and you will know how to prevent it.
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How does Tai Chi-Qigong help you live to be 100?
Tai Chi-Qigong is practiced around the world by a wide variety of people and ages. Originating as one of the martial arts, Tai Chi and Qigong originated in China centuries ago. Its values include tranquility, harmony and reflection.
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Golden Rules of 3 and Shaolin Qigong
3 Core Skills of high level Chi Kung * Chi kung state of mind * Flowing Breeze Swaying Willows (energy flow) * Standing Meditation There is a big difference betwee Qigong form and Qigong. There are 3 core skills essential for the practise of Chi Kung, regardless of which school ...3 Core Skills of high level Chi Kung * Chi kung state of mind * Flowing Breeze Swaying Willows (energy flow) * Standing Meditation
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Conscious Breathing - The Key to Manifesting Your Reality
It is nearing the end of a week long journey to the beautiful Caribbean island of Trinidad. It was a journey to support a friend and colleague in the martial arts with his work with children and martial arts in the Trinidad primary and secondary schools. I am sitting, just beginning to take breakfast at "Alicia's Palace" a wonderful island hotel that is tucked away, in a deep cut tropical mountain valley, in northern Trinidad. To reach you have to drive three to four kilometers up a very narrow, twisting and winding, switch-backed road, up "Lady Chancellor Hill."
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10 Ultimate Ways to Manifest Happiness, Health and Well-Being in the New Year
Happiness, health and well-being are the “Ultimate Three Aspects of Life” that you need to manifest so that you can experience an awesome life, reality and world. I would like to share with you 10 WAYS, 10 AFFIRMATIONS and 10 MIND POWER QIGONG breathing exercises that I have done and continue to do and that you can use to set yourself on your road to happiness, health and well-being. 1. Make a grateful list 2. Define what happiness means to you 3. Make meaningful goals 4. De-clutter 5. Laugh out loud 6. Mind power qigong 7. Meditate 8. Let more fresh air inr
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Qi Cultivation Part 3 - Simple Exercises To Create Abundant Qi Using Three Sphere Energy Qigong
Spheres, Circles and Spirals are all shapes that appear naturally in nature. They appear because the laws that govern energy and its physical manifestation take these forms. The first basic shape of the sphere can be used in qigong practice to manifest an abundant quantity of Qi within you.
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Xin Huxi Qigong Part 1 - Breathing To Live? Or Living to Breathe?
Why do you breathe? Do you breathe to live? Or do you live to breathe? The masses would say that you must breathe so that you can live. But this is little more than just survival. As you breathe in an unconscious fashion you do nothing more than take in enough air so that the minimum amount of toxins can be removed from your body and the minimum amount of oxygen required is absorbed.
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Xin Huxi Qigong Part 2 - Understanding the Yin and Yang of Qi and Qigong
It will help in your practice of Xin Huxi Qigong or any style of qigong if you have a basic understanding of the underlying Yin and Yang philosophy that is being applied. Xin Huxi Qigong
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Martial Arts - The Beginner's Mind Is a State of Being
Martial Arts is for Everyone! I was thinking about someone beginning the martial arts - karate, kungfu, jujitsu, taichi, qigong, etc. and asked myself where to start? I realized that there is only one place to start and that is in you own mind. That there is only one place to start and that is at the BEGINNING. In Japan they have the phrase "SO SHIN" which means "Beginner's Mind." It was Shunryo Suzuki that said, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind, there are very few."
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Xin Huxi Qigong Part 3 - Chang Bao Qi Center Breathing for Increasing Your Abundance of Qi
Xin Huxi Chang Bao Qi and Other Types of Breathing There are three main goals in the practice of Qigong those of Balance, Abundance and Flow. It is through the regulation of the breath that you Balance your Qi, increase the Abundance of your Qi and create a smooth Flow of Qi through your entire system. Xin Huxi, Center Breathing, is one of many types of breathing that is defined using Chang Bao Qi (long thin breath). Many Types of Breathing have been described throughout the ages. Here are a few examples that show the depth and breadth of breathing concepts:
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Quickly and Easily Balance Your Energy Using Simple Meridian Tapping Qigong
Traditional Chinese Medicine has been developed over a period of 3000 plus years. It is based on the BALANCE, ABUNDANCE, and FLOW of Qi through the meridians and organs of the body. To maintain a smooth flow of Qi and thus vibrant health and abundant energy it is necessary to balance your Qi and in the process remove blockages and stagnation that has occurred due to the excesses and neglect of life and living.
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Xin Huxi Qigong Part 4 - 3 Easy Chang Bao Qi Exercises to Warm the Body and Energize the Spirit
Xin Huxi Qigong has as its central concept that of "Center Breathing." Center Breathing is breathing in a fashion such that the Dan Tian - Elixir Field - is balanced, abundant and flowing with Qi. As with any system of exercise whether it be Qigong, Tai Chi or Kung Fu it is always recommended that you warm-up prior to the major portion of the training or practice. In Xin Huxi Qigong the first and easiest forms to learn are the stationary warm-up exercises.
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Building Respect, Ethics and Morals Into The Cornerstone Of Your Life Through Martial Arts
I was wondering if people actually knew or understood why there are so many rituals and specific practices of etiquette in the martial arts. So, I thought today I might present my viewpoint on this topic.
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3 Easy Qigong Meditations - Every Day You Can Feel Better and Better
What a wonderful weekend and what a beautiful day it is today. Sun, leaves and 60 degrees, an awesome autumn day in the North East of the USA. Stepping outside this morning on my front porch I took a deep breath of the leaf scented fall air and said to myself “This is what feeling better and qigong are all about, the ability and capability to be aware and enjoy the reality we have created for ourselves.”
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Are You Being Held Back? Qigong, Newton's Laws and Getting Rid of Procrastination
Do you ever say to yourself, “I just don't want to!,” “I'm just too tired!,” or “I can do that tomorrow!.” Does PROCRASTINATION creep into your life and you just don't seem to get things accomplished? There was a German philosopher, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, that said “Seize this very minute what you can do or dream you can do, and begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Only engage, and the mind will grow heated. Begin, and the work will be completed.”
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Smiling Qigong - Mind Power To Create Your Health And Desires
Today I want to share with you a quote from Joe Vitale who is a self-help author, speaker and entrepreneur. Joe said, "You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully, and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life." Let's read that again, "You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully, and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life."
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A Strategy for Action - Mind Power Plus Qigong Equals Your Awesome World!
I spent the past weekend in New Hampshire with friends and students organizing, outlining, and planning a joint venture involving training one's mind, body and spirit using Shaolin Kenpo Karate empty hand techniques. These techniques use the mind and the body to develop a strong mental focus and with repetition develops strong mental as well as physical abilities. If you decided to learn and train these you could improve yourself immensely. But, this got me thinking about two questions: How Can You Help Yourself? And if you can help yourself, How Can You Help Others?
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Qigong and Mind Power - You Have The Power to Create Your Health and Your Reality!
Do you know how things happen, how they come about? Do you know how your mind works? Do you realize that you think in pictures? Everything you do starts out in your mind as an idea. As you are reading this you are putting the picture of letters together to form words that you hear and see in your mind.
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Three Easy Qigong Exercises To Help Cope With Holiday Stress
Stress, anxiety and depression can ruin your holiday if you let them get the better of you! But, you already have the tools need to cope. Your mind, your breath and your spirit are all you need along with a few awesome Qigong Exercises to alleviate the stress of the holidays.
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Qi Cultivation Part 1 – How To Become A Qi Magnet And Create Your Awesome Reality
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Qi Cultivation Part 2 – Qigong Tapping To Change Your Paradigm for Calmness of Mind, Joy of Heart and Peace of Spirit
IT IS A BEAUTIFUL SUNNY AND SNOWY DAY HERE! As I look outside I once again realize that my reality manifests from the future infinite field of possibilities through my words, my deeds, and my beliefs. I find increasingly that it only takes a simple positive adjustment of what I believe, what I do and what I say to create my awesome reality. As a being of spirit jou eying through this physical plane I see and experience this manifestation more everyday!
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Want or Don't Want! Are You Good At Manifesting Your Reality?
It was an interesting evening last night. A friend dropped in for a chat about life and things going on and after that my mind kicked into what I call my “pondering mode.” You know that mental mode where you think about something and then you keep having recurring thoughts about whatever it was that you were thinking about.
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Top 7 Tips to Improve Your Health Quickly and Feel Good Using Qigong
Qi is the Chinese word for the “Bio-Electric Energy” that flows to and through you, the Heavens, and the Earth. It is the “Energy of Life.” Every day you can feel and sense the energy of the Universe, the Earth and yourself. Knowing how balance your qi, create an abundance of qi, and maintain a smooth flow of qi are crucial to feeling good and improving your health.
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A Sigh of Relief – How to Reduce Stress Using Qigong Exercise
Qi is the Chinese word for the “Bio-Electric Energy” that flows to and through you, the Heavens, and the Earth. It is the “Energy of Life.” Qigong is the practice of breathing, movement, visualization and Affirmation that you can use to reduce your stress everyday. You can balance your qi, create an abundance of qi, and maintain a smooth flow of qi thus keeping stress at bay and increasing your health.
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7 Breaths of Magic – How to Create Balance, Abundance and Flow Using Qigong
Knowing how to balance, create an abundance and maintain a smooth flow of qi are crucial to feeling good and maintaining your health. In “Traditional Chinese Medicine” you, as a human being, hold a special place in the grand scheme of things. You are an individual and unique manifestation of the one universal energy and you are in between the Heavens and the Earth.
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The Dreaded Cold and Flu Season – Using Qigong for Prevention and Quick Recovery
Qi is the Chinese word for the “Bio-Electric Energy” that flows to and through you, the Heavens, and the Earth. It is the “Energy of Life.” Knowing how maintain your Qi balance, create an abundance of qi, and maintain a smooth flow of qi are crucial to preventing or recovering quickly from a cold or the flu.
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 10 - The Subtle Difference Between Tai Chi and Chi Kung
People with breathing problem should practice with Tai Chi, to start with, is recommended rather than with Chi Kung. Tai Chi is a form of Chi Kung, but Chi Kung is not necessary Tai Chi. However, they both have something in common, the slow movements and deep breathing. Tai Chi has more complicated movements tha Chi Kung. Chi Kung always concentrate on breathing more than the movements.
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The Old Myth About Chi
The Old Myth About Chir The ancients once thought that 'Chi' was the primordial essence that compose all matters of the universe. In traditional Chinese medicine(TCM), 'Chi' was defined as the function of the human body organs. Chi flow was considered that the functional activities of the organs interacting with each other inside the human body. When the organs are malfunction, it was said to be that the Chi was blocked.
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 9 - Optimize Your Immune System With Chi Kung
Nature only allows a maximum number of white blood cells in the Immune system; and this number must be maintained in order to be effective. A strong Immune System is not determined by how active the Immune System is; but by the amount of normal white blood cells present. The maximum number of white blood cells in the Immune System are required to standby as a defensive system against any foreign invaders. If the maximum number has not been reached, it was considered that the system is weak or too weak to fight off any antigens.
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Choosing A Qigong Teacher
Qigong is a lot more than a breathing exercise: "Qigong is the coordinated use of breathing methods, breath control, stances and movements (forms), acupressure, self-massage, visualizations and guided meditations to achieve specific goals: increasing the quantity and quality of Qi in one’s ...
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The Microcosmic Orbit
This is a classic Taoist Qigong Meditation method, with it's roots in India, for circulating and refining Qi via the circuit formed by the 'Governing Channel' from perineum up to head and the Conception Channel from head back down to perineum. Practicing the Microcosmic Orbit is a key step that enables more advanced practices. The Practice of the Microcosmic Orbit. 1. The first steps are to still the body, calm the mind, and regulate the breath. Sit, stand in Zhan Zhuang (Post Standing) or lay on your back, in a quiet place, eyes closed lightly.
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Do It Yourself Weights For A Great Workout.
These are called QiSei. They are actually ancient martial arts exercise devices. Parts needed: 1. 4' hardwood dowel cut in half. It should be between 1 inch and 1.5" in diameter, depending on what is comfortable for your hands. 2. Two 1 pound coffee cans (if you have been really working out 2.5 ...
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Qigong For Cancer
These are the forms used by Guo Lin to treat her own cancer, and used to treat the cancer of many others. If you have cancer, please consult with your primary health care professional before adding this to your treatment plan. The Guo Lin Walking QiGong: Starting position: From a normal ...
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QiSei - Qigong Exercise Tools
Do it yourself QiSei. They are actually ancient martial arts and Qigong tools. Parts needed: 1. 4' hardwood dowel cut in half. It should be between 1 inch and 1.5" in diameter, depending on what is comfortable for your hands. 2. Two 1 pound coffee cans (if you have been really working out two ...
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 1 -- The Human Body
Chi Kung is a mysterious subject to be discussed. Since the Chi Kung has a tremendous biological effect upon the human body, the functions of the human body should be investigated thoroughly for a better understanding about Chi Kung. The human body in good health is in a state of homeostasis. In ...
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 2 -- The Respiratory System
The oxygen in the air are free for all. Oxygen is the basic element provided by Nature to sustain life on earth. Breathing is a vital process mandated by human. Hence, Nature also provided a respiratory system for human in association with the basic element. The function of the respiratory ...
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 3 - The Biochemical-Mechanical Loop
Although there are many styles in Chi Kung, but there is one commonality. If we observed closely, we will see that breathing is in synchronization with the slow body movements. The combination of the breathing and movements is a biochemical-mechanical loop for completing the muscle contraction process. The muscle contraction requires energy. Thus, it raises the question where does the energy come from?
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 4 - Chi Circulation
Chi is a gaseous substance in general. The martial artists always say: “Have-chi-have-strength.” The translation is: “If you have air inside the body, you will have body strength.” Chi Kung involves breathing, so, we breathe the air into our lungs. Chi can be used as a ...
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Taiji (Tai Chi) vs. Qigong
This is an oft-discussed subject, with a lot of misinformation being passed around. First of all, Taijiquan (this is the current official pinyin spelling) is a martial art, developed about 450 years ago by General Chen WanTing of Chen village. Chen village is near the northern Xiaolin temple. ...
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 5 : The Human Heart at Resting
The heart is the major organ of the circulatory system. It is the only interface between the respiratory system and the rest of the body. It pumps blood into the arteries, capillaries, and veins for circulating nutrients and oxygen throughout the body. Without the heart, the rest of the body will not function. Therefore, let's find out some basic facts about the heart at resting. At resting, a healthy heart beats on its own and maintains beating 60 to 80 times a minute. It has a steady cardiac output for maintaining normal blood pressure.
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 6: The Art of Breathing
Chi Kung is an art of breathing. The breathing method, in Chi Kung, is beyond normal by voluntary control. Normal breathing is involuntary controlled by the medulla by nervous regulation and chemical regulation. Voluntary breathing can control the amount of chi(air) and the duration in the ...
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 7: The Slow Movements
Those who do not exercise, the problems they are having are shallow breathing and weak muscles. These conditions can be improved progressively by practicing Tai Chi or Chi Kung. The only difference, between the two, is the amount of movements involved. Tai Chi is more stressful at the beginning and required determination and patience; and Chi Kung is not stressful at all. People with breathing problems can be corrected with both exercises. However, if people want to improve their health and physical being, Tai Chi is the best choice.
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 8 – Have Chi, Will Have Strength
In the eastern martial art society, there is always an old Chinese saying: ”Have chi will have strength.” From these words, there is a distinction between chi and strength. In order to have body strength, chi(air) must be present. Hence, the chi-strength idea coincides with the oxygen-energy theory in the metabolism process, the cell respiration.
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How Does Chi Kung Keeps Us Healthy...???
Our body is made up of body cells. A body cell reproduces itself by divides into two identical cells is necessary for growth of the organism and for the repair of tissues. The cell division process is called mitosis. Mitosis is essential to replace damaged or dead cells. Mitosis takes place ...
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What Are Chi And Chi Kung....???
The first thing that come to the people's mind, Chi is energy and building concepts around energy instead of Chi. Now, the question comes to is "energy" a translation or a definition. However, if Chi is translated as energy, then, the explanation will be based on energy and the true meaning of Chi will be lost in the translation. According to ancient Chinese thought, Chi was the primal substance which constitute the universe; and all matters were produced by the changes and movement of Chi. In modern science, by the above definition, Chi is equivalent to an atom or molecule.
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Chi Kung is most beneficial to the Heart for Chi Flow.
As we are breathing through the lungs, gases are exchange between the body and the outside world. During inhalation, the lungs are filled with air. There are oxygen in the air which the body cells needed for cell respiration. In order to get the maximum volume of oxygen into our lungs, we must ...
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T'ai-Chi Ch'uan for Health and Fitness
T’ai Chi Ch’uan To Promote Good Health Copyright Harvey Kurland, M.Sc., MFS, CSCS, 2003 www.myspace.com/hkurland The latest research shows stress reduction helps to prevent angina in Heart Patients during stressful events. Recently low intensity exercise has been shown to prevent heart attacks and increase life span. A daily regime of t’ai-chi fit the Rx, act a stress reducer and as a low intensity aerobic exercise.
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 12 - The Ambiguity of Qi in the Three Treasures(San Bao).
The character "Qi" is a very mysterious term. Everybody uses it, most of the time, it just come out very loosely without clarity. Even philosophers use it with ambiguity. Its interpretation was up to the readers to define and it was often misinterpreted. Especially, it would be more ambiguous when the interpretation was done through a translation into another language. Let's look at Qi in the "three treasures (shan bao, ä¸å®):" Jing(ç²¾), Qi(æ°£) and Shen(ç¥).
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 13 - Hypoxia, hypertension, and Chi Kung
Hypertension of a normal person may be caused by the abnormality of the arteries. The cause of essential hypertension is multifactorial. Secondary hypertension was caused mainly by hypoxia or a disorder of blood vessel or the kidney. If one understand the function of the kidney and what cause vasoconstriction to increase blood pressure, then, one cannot deny the fact that Chi Kung can prevent secondary hypertension.
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 14 - The Definitions of the Characters æ°(Chi), ç(Chi) and æ°£(Chi) in Chi Kung between the East and the West.
æ°£(chi) , in the west, was only known or translated as energy. Unfortunately, the character was abide by the sole definition restricting to move forward for other explanations. If the character was traced back to its root, then, its multi-definition may be more versatile to be used in other fields. Its usage in the meaning of the character in the Chinese society is not very clear. The most common meaning in an ordinary daily life, it means 'air.' When a TCM practitioner says your chi is low, then, that is where the confusion starts.
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 15 - Taoist Meditation.
There are many ways of meditation for different purposes. Meditation includes concentration, feeling, sensitivity, imagination, thoughts, and insinuation. In the west, meditation is not necessarily part of Chi Kung. However, to a Taoist, meditation is a requirement for Chi Kung in order to bring out the effectiveness of Chi Kung for health benefits. Then, how does a Taoist do meditation? First of all, the highest goal in Chi Kung is to have the breath to reach the bottom of the abdomen, so to speak. This notion was inherited from the ancients.
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 16 -- Glucose, Oxygen, and ATP are the Ingredients of Chi Kung
A Taoist has a will to preserve his body by maintaining a state of homeostasis. A normal body can handle the daily chores with no difficulty. Unless, there is an event which requires a quick response in all the sudden. Hence, the body must be prepared to handle any unexpected adverse situations. It is important to maintain the body in a state of balance, physically and biologically, at all times. Physically, it is the muscles of the arms and legs and other parts of the body for the freedom of movements. Also the arms and legs must have the strength to handle strenuous tasks.
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 17 - The Macroscopic and Microscopic Views of Chi (æ°£)
There are always two sides to a story. It is like a coin with two sides which analogous to the yin and the yang as a unit. LaoTze always suggested to look at the yin side of the story to understand the yang side. In the case with the interpretation of chi, one must look at it from the other side. The people say it is energy. Unfortunately, they did not say exactly what kind of energy. Hence, people start looking for the answer randomly. If people are not sure what Chi is or might not even exist once thought what it might be, then how can the answer be found?
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Scientific Explanation of Chi Kung No. 11 - Why does it work...???
Chi Kung encourages to perform the abdominal breathing with slow movements to bring out its effectiveness in two folds. The abdominal breathing is to increase the volume of air intake; the slow movement is to increase the rate of cell respiration.
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A Brush with Jesus Christ
In 1991 I was diagnosed with Stage Four bone lymphoma and given six months to live. My oncologist proposed a six-month regimen of double doses of CHOP chemotherapy, twice as much normally given for a man my weight. I started meditating and visualizing several times a day to help my immune system fight the disease. I imagined my bones a sandy beach covered with weak jellyfish eggs–cancer cells. When the waves came in and covered the beach, they would remove these weak cells as they receded.
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Vitamins and Herbs--Should You Use Them During Cancer Treatment?
If you have cancer and you’re undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment, you need to keep yourself as strong as possible—as these treatments have debilitating effects, as you may well know. But should you try to build up your immune system with vitamins and herbs? Some researchers believe that mega-doses of vitamins A, C and E—which again, some researchers believe help your immune system stay strong—may actually protect not only normal cells but cancer cells as well.
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Abdominal Breathing: Fire Up Your Immune System
You’re in a convenience store, examining a can of Spam in one of the aisles. Suddenly a hooded man bursts through the door, pulls out a .45, and waves it in the cashier’s face demanding the contents of the cash register. You begin breathing shallowly, from the chest, as fear for you own life pervades you. Thoughts pinball through your mind: Will he shoot the cashier—and then me? Am I to die in a convenience store of all places? Where are the police? The cashier complies; the robber bolts through the door. Your breathing slows and deepens and the thoughts in your mind slow.
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Do We Cause Our Own Diseases?
The idea that we cause our own diseases comes from ancient societies that didn’t have any knowledge of bacteria, viruses, and genetics or of the dangerous effects of chemical and radiation pollution and poor diet. In ancient times, people thought that repressed or negative feelings could cause diseases. Or somehow it was punishment from God. You will come across this idea in New Age books that litter the bookshelves. Louise Hay, who has written many self-help books over the years, claims she had cervical cancer and cured herself with forgiveness.
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Beating Cancer with Qigong: A Success Story
In 1991 I was diagnosed with Stage Four lymphoma cancer and given six months to live. I was 32, and my sons were aged two and six months. I was a writer at Aetna Life & Casualty, Inc, and my wife and I had just built a beautiful house on a lake in eastern Connecticut. I had everything to live ...
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Beating Cancer Four Times
Imagine being sequestered in a bone marrow transplant room for a month while high-dose chemotherapy drugs drip into a catheter in your chest, destroying your bone marrow--your immune system--and hopefully, all the cancer cells in your body. You have a headache which feels like a cheap red wine hangover, you vomit intermittently and have diarrhea continuously. For a month. And once your immune system is destroyed, a common cold caught from a visitor or a nurse could easily kill you.
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Seize the Monkey
Unless he is already doomed, fortune is apt to favor the man who keeps his nerve. The maxim from the ancient Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf reverberated in my skull, over and over again like a mantra, until the words no longer made sense and were simply a collection of sounds. My breathing slowed and deepened; my mind felt calm. I felt far away from the isolation room in the bone marrow transplant ward, even though high-dose chemotherapy drugs dripped through IV tubes into a catheter implanted in my chest.
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Standing Post Meditation
Qigong means "energy study." It's an ancient Chinese art used to bring health to the body, calm to the mind, and power to the martial arts. It's based on the same theory as acupuncture: That there are energy pathways—meridians and channels—that flow throughout the body. When energy, or chi, runs smoothly in these pathways, good health is maintained. When energy becomes blocked or stagnant, illness follows. Through various combinations of breathing, postures and movements, qigong attempts to keep energy pathways open.
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Enlightenment Qigong Forms For Returning To Oneness
The Enlightenment Qigong (Wuji Qigong) forms synthesized and taught by Master Ricardo B. Serrano, R.Ac., a Qi-healer and certified Qigong instructor, are Pan Gu Shengong, Primordial Wuji Qigong, and Sheng Zhen Wuji Yuan Gong supplemented with spontaneous Tibetan Shamanic Qigong, a formless ...
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Qigong Healing Method
The Qigong Healing Method(R) -- a synthesis of Qi-healing, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT therapy), Pan Gu Shengong, Wuji Qigong, Sheng Zhen Qigong, Zhan Zhuang Qigong with Ba Duan Jin, Super Brain Yoga, Guru Yoga, Merkaba activation and traditional body and ear acupuncture with Chinese tonic ...
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Qigong Healing Method
The Qigong Healing Method(R) -- a synthesis of Qi-healing, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT therapy), Pan Gu Shengong, Wuji Qigong, Sheng Zhen Qigong, Zhan Zhuang Qigong with Ba Duan Jin, Super Brain Yoga, Guru Yoga, Merkaba activation and traditional body and ear acupuncture with Chinese tonic ...
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Qigong: Finding Real Peace Inside
published as cover article in Chronogram’s Healthy Living Guide Spring/Summer 2002 When I hear about the stress and distress so many people are experiencing in today’s world, I wish more than ever that everyone knew how simple and effective Qigong and T’ai Chi are for calming ...
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Aging With Grace
Published as “Am-Aging Grace,” cover story in “Mature Lifestyles,” May 2002, supplement to the Woodstock Times and Ulster Publishing’s other weekly newspapers. Since my late twenties, I’ve had a secret hobby. I’ve been storing images in my mind of ...
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The Science of the Mind Body Connection related to the subtle body practice of Qigong!
That which is looked upon by one generation as the apex of human knowledge is often considered an absurdity in the next, and what is regarded as a superstition in one century, may form the basis of science for the following one! Paracelsus, sixteenth-century European Alchemist I have created this article to talk about the latest info about the spectrum of equivalents for Qi in the Western View.
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Is Bio-energy Qi (chi) ?
What causes the heart beat and the flow of blood through the veins and arteries? William Einthoven a dutch physician in and around 1906 discovered that an electrical charge builds up in the heart and discharges - causing heart beat and blood flow one small portion of a very complex internal bio-electric circuitry. Recently Dr. Robert Becker, author of the Body Electric, found a perineural control system corresponding to the acupuncture points in Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture at high conductance areas of the body.
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How is Energy or Qi moved through the Body?
One of the ways is through the CT or connective tissue. The Connective Tissue in the Body is pervasive.This subtle extremely strong tissue which resembles silk sometimes in sheets sometimes like cables and also surrounding the muscles is called the myo-fascial layer and is everywhere in the body. The nerves are surrounded by this in the perinural connective tissue also the blood vessels (perivascular CT), the lymphatic system (perilymphatic CT) as well as the bones (periosteum). It functionally holds everything in place.
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Stress Acupuncture – Favourite Acupoints that Keep You Energized
Use of Acupoints (Acupressure points) is a great way to de-stress, prevent energy blocks, and keep you energized. The Ancient Chinese mapped these points and their use eons ago. With the right equipment these days you can see the meridians/channels which have the hundreds of points you can use on the outside of your body. The meridians also have pathways deep within your body which move energy to allow your body to function.
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How to Stay Energized & Energetic the Natural Way
The 2012 Olympic Games is beginning to be noticed in the media. When we notice this it tweaks our mental or emotional notion of exercise, winners and losers, and where we are personally in our lifestyle and health. The tips this week are for people in sport, who go to gyms, and taking up new exercise practice (I hesitate to say regimes). These tips are mainly for young girls, and women in sport and/or exercise therapies and for men who coach, treat, or train them in these area.
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How to Cure PMS - Pre-Menstrual Syndrome & Tension
Pre-menstrual Syndrome (PMS) has been prominent in women’s magazine articles over the last decade. It is almost as though it is accepted as a usual part of female hormonal function. The onset of PMS can range from mild to the horrific. There are of course a number of aspects that are particular to each individual.
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Using Subtle Body Energy to Lift Your Day
Would you like to be able to easily fit more healthy practices into your day? Would you like to use practices which make your body feel better and ‘lift your spirits’? You can do this with your own subtle energy. Your energy is more subtle than your physical energy. You use some form of subtle energy constantly. You may be less aware of its effects and how potent it is for your immediate and long term health and life quality. When you increase the use of your subtle energy you are healthier and stronger. When you do not use it often or well your energy is weaker.
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Setting the Stage For Love - Inte et Relationships Part Two
Originality, timeliness, depth and authenticity with early stages of of online communications play a role in developing the potential for love through online dating experiences. Let us take a closer look at these factors. Originality, Timeliness and Depth Counts If you want to create an ...
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On Meditation
I often define meditation as an experience of being in a state of mind that does not require any thinking to be aware of the experience. In most cases, if you think that you are meditating, by default, you are not really meditating, because your mind is busy thinking. On the other hand, ...
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Inte et Relationships - Build Chemistry With Sparkling Conversationi
Create a Space for Deep Listening and Sharing Email and online chat provides opportunities to discover communication styles and determine if there is enough chemistry to have a phone conversation or meet in person. In surveying my life coach clients about online dating, they report that they ...
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Inte et Relationships: Build Chemistry With Sparkling Conversation
Create a Space for Deep Listening and Sharing Email and online chat provides opportunities to discover communication styles and determine if there is enough chemistry to have a phone conversation or meet in person. In surveying my life coach clients about online dating, they report that they ...
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Holistic vs. Traditional Western Medicine: Which is Right for You?
When it comes to acute conditions such as broken bones, raging infections, stroke, heart attack, or trauma injury, traditional western medicine has a great advantage over holistic medicine in terms of addressing the conditions quickly, thoroughly and in ways that are just not possible with ...
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Holistic Medicine Vs Traditional Western Medicine - Which Is Right For You?
When it comes to acute conditions such as broken bones, raging infections, stroke, heart attack, or trauma injury, traditional western medicine has a great advantage over holistic medicine in terms of addressing the conditions quickly, thoroughly and in ways that are just not possible with ...
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Beat the Heat with Qi Gong
Heat comes in many forms, not just the weather. It can represent struggle, inflammation and illness (particularly cancer). Visualize a large ice cube at the top of your head melting downward and washing away all tension, stress, pain and struggle as the coolness flows to your toes. Use this visualization every hour for one to three minutes today and notice what happens to your energy and perceptions. Often times, the conscious choice to shift our energetic states creates deeper states of peacefulness and acceptance in our lives.
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Let Go of Ego and Heal More Deeply
This week, I took my three-years-old niece to the Zilker Botanical gardens for some relaxing play amid koi ponds filled with guppies. We walked under bamboo groves, swaying in hot summer breezes and delighted at feeding turtles at Mozart’s cafe as river waves splashed onto the deck unexpectedly. Ahh! Summer bliss. The lack of self consciousness and the authenticity of just being, trusting and engaging life deeply, is amazing in young children.
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Ascend Your Energy By Breathing and Stepping Out of Comfort Zones
Blue mountain irises danced in the wind on summer days at my cozy cottage in the Santa Cruz mountains. What a treat each day to be greeted by their gentle beauty. Yet, here in the parched landscape of central Texas, beauty also unfolds each day in more subtle ways. A small cricket makes its way towards that elusive source of water, the collection pot holding the overflow of moisture from the air conditioner overflow valve. The cricket pauses and sings for a moment. That sound, almost imperceptible, is as soothing and sweet as the energy of the blue iris.
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Sitting in the Quiet Spaces of Life
Sometimes the waves of life come quickly and overwhelm, yet if you take a deep breath, it’s amazing what strength exists in the spaces between the rising wave and its crash upon the shore.
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Qi Gong (Chinese Yoga) Sunset Meditation
Sunsets are a wonderful opportunity to linger over all the moments in your day for which you are grateful, and prepare to embrace the yinness (softness, darkness) of the night. If you usually exercise in the morning, try switching to the evening time to perform Chinese yoga (qi gong), tai chi or other forms of energy healing exercises. As you gaze upon the setting sun, inhale slowly and raise the arms slowly to the sides with palms up as you reach above the head to grab an imaginary ball of warm, sunset energy.
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Qi Gong (Chinese Yoga) Clears Dampness and Stuck Energy
Chinese yoga or qi gong (pronounced chi kung), is a powerful way to release the dampness and heat that summer time brings. Dampness and heat are states that can lead to health issues such as excessive weight, chronic fatigue, aggravation of inflammatory conditions, depression, anxiety, and digestive challenges. What causes dampness and heat? Cold and iced beverages stagnates the energy of the spleen, creating dampness.
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Qi Gong (Chinese Yoga) Clears the Lymphatic System
Often times, the stress of life and exposure to toxins in the environment can stress our lymphatic system. In Chinese medicine, the lymphatic is most closely associated with the triple heaters or triple burners, which can be thought of as an irrigation system of energy that disperses qi to the inte al organs. When this irrigation system is clear and free flowing, disease does not exist. When the triple heaters are obstructed, we see challenges manifesting as swollen lymph glands, low energy, and low immunity.
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Discovering Your Soul Lessons
n many spiritual traditions, there is the belief that our souls have lessons to learn by living in this human form in the earth plane. The lessons that are specific to a soul are called curricula, and like curricula in a school, these lessons involve a series of theme based experiences that deepen growth, skills and the levels of refinement that one brings to this glorious dance of life. What is your soul’s curricula? How do you know what themes are present in your life as soul lessons?
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Co-Create Positive Experiences
What is your pattern of approaching new life experiences? Do you welcome them with open arms and a smile and embrace the support and love in your life? Or do you hesitate and look for obstacles and reasons for why something new will not work for you or hesitate to work with others to bring a new experience to a fruitful place? All of us have comfort zones, but researchers find that stretching past comfortable zones trains us to: 1. Trust more fully and develop deeper levels of faith in ourselves and others.
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One-Sided Love Relationships: How to Spot and Exit Them
You begin a process of dating and discover the wonders of another person. You find yourself excited and happy to take that risk to allow yourself to trust being vulnerable and open. You find yourself selflessly creating more and more space in your life for the person and doing more to demonstrate a growing admiration and love for this person.
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Organic Gardening Heals Profoundly and Encourages Using Food as Medicine
What do Chinese medicine and eco-friendly gardening have in common? Chinese medicine emphasizes the idea that our bodies are a microcosm of nature. Thus, when we embrace organic and sustainable gardening methods as a way of growing foods that can be used as medicine to balance the body, we reconnect profoundly with nature and empower ourselves with a way to improve both diet and health, by bringing balance to the natural flows of energy in our bodies.
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Disolve Denial and Awaken the Potential of an Authentic Life
Many of you are expressing that this start of the year of the snake has been a very important time for soul searching and experiencing breakthroughs of profound awakenings, and alongwith this comes recognizing the depth of resistant patterns that have been sabotaging your abilities to manifest your spiritual potentials in previous years.
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Improve Anxiety, ADD and Boost Your Brain Power with Qi Gong
Did you know that qi gong is a powerful tool for increasing circulation to the brain and changing brain chemistry to reduce states of anxiety or challenges with attention? Researchers at the University of CA at Irvine found that when subjects with attention deficit disorder received qi ...
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Meditations that Reduce Stress in Less than Five Minutes
In our busy lives, few of us have time for a stand-alone block of time devoted to meditation. Yet, meditation is key to reducing stress and promoting balanced health on physical, mental and spiritual levels. The solution is to develop the habit of taking 3-5 minutes every hour to take a ...
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Boost Your Entrepreneurial Brain Power
Researcher Saras D. Saravasthy at the University of Virginia’s graduate school of business discovered that the type of entrepreneurial mind-set that leads to high levels of success involves the ability to:nn(1) Develop intuitive and insightful vision of the future that is flexible and not ...
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Toxic Relationships: How To Let Go And Build Abundant Love In Your Life
The relationships we engage have a strong impact on our physical, mental and spiritual health. When relationships are balanced:nn(1) We have a release of dopamine that naturally elevates our mood (a chemical which researchers have identified as partly responsible for that elated feeling we get ...
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Heal Grief and Sadness Naturally: Three Powerful and Practical Strategies
We all face tragedies in our lives, evoking grief, sadness and despair. This is a natural part of life. How we nurture ourselves and process feelings greatly impacts our physical and mental wellness. These three strategies can help you find balance during moments of loss or grief.nn(1) Support ...
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Lowering Cholesterol Naturally - The Truth About Natural Statins and Plant Sterols
Many people today are conce ed about the impact of cholesterol-lowering drugs that contain statins, linked in some cases to possible liver damage in certain people. This article will explore natural statins and plant sterols as tools to lower cholestrol. Statins In addition to synthetic forms ...
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Attract Love: Five Key Secrets To Manifesting Love
You may have read life coaching books on dating that give rules or techniques increasing the interest of the opposite gender. I suggest putting intricate rules aside and focusing on self development as way to attract love and create deep, meaningful relationships. Self Knowledge There is ...
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Holistic Medicine - Five Critical Questions To Know If A Practitioner Is Right For You
These five key questions can help you to assess if a specific holistic practitioner is right for you.nn(1) What credentials and experience does the practitioner hold? Effective holistic practitioners have either a state license or have certification from a residential training program of a ...
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Build Muscle Mass Naturally With Qi Gong And Tai Chi
When we have a greater muscle mass, our bodies burn calories more efficiently even when resting. Qi gong and tai chi are Chinese healing exercises that allow you to build muscle naturally while increasing energy and the health of the inte al organs. How do qi gong and tai chi build muscle ...
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Five Critical Questions to See if A Holistic Practitioner is Right for You
These five key questions can help you to assess if a specific holistic practitioner is right for you.nn(1) What credentials and experience does the practitioner hold? Effective holistic practitioners have either a state license or have certification from a residential training program of a ...
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Three Stress Relief Strategies that take Less Than Five Minutes
Aromatherapy Scents such a lavender and sweet marjoram can help calm the mind and body. Aiki Healing’s Relaxation Blend is an especially powerful combination of essential oils that many clients use during the day to evoke calmness when faced with stress. Simply inhale the scent ...
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Qi Gong Stress Relief for Everyday Life
Qi gong can be a powerful tool to integrate into daily life to reduce stress, increase energy and improve health. Qi gong consists of three components: 1. Healing movements. 2. Breath work and meditations. 3. Clinical or medical qi gong which is a form of energy bodywork and healing, ...
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Relieve Insomnia Naturally with Qi Gong
You’re laying awake in bed at 3 am and cannot sleep. You’ve tried a wide variety of solutions from pharmaceutical sleep aids to dietary supplements such as melatonin, yet find yourself consistently awake in the early hours of the morning. In the Chinese medicine system, the pattern ...
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Heal Depression by Processing Feelings
Denying feelings can create stagnation emotionally and lead to states of depression. Use this handy checklist to assess if you are processing experiences in a way to avoid stagnation and depression. Checklist for Healthy Processing Are you acknowledging both the positive and negative aspects ...
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Three Stress Relief Strategies that take Less Than Five Minutes
Aromatherapy Scents such a lavender and sweet marjoram can help calm the mind and body. As a Chinese aromatherapist, I create proprietary blends that many clients use during the day to evoke a sense of calmness and detoxify stress hormones. To use scents while in the work place, simply ...
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Improve Insomnia Naturally with Dietary Changes: A Chinese Medicine Approach
Often times the a root cause of insomnia is a liver energy imbalance which can be corrected with proper diet. Foods that balance the liver to promote deep sleep include:nn * Dark green leafy vegetables, particularly dandelion greens.nn * Burdock root and other deep root vegetables ...
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Free Yourself from Depression by Changing Thought Patterns
Depression and anxiety can be overwhelming but there are solutions. Today, I’d like to share some cognitive strategies that can help you break the cycle of depressive and anxious thought patterns. The first step to banishing negative thoughts is to become aware how often you are having ...
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Lower Cholesterol Naturally
Lower Cholesterol: Eliminate Unhealthy Fats To maintain healthy cholesterol levels, limit saturated fats found in red meat, butter and other animal products.Replace these fats with canola oil, olive oil, and small amount of nuts such as walnuts or almonds. Also, eliminate trans-fatty acids ...
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Balance Hormones Naturally
With the increase of environmental pollutants, stress, and poor diets, both men and women can face hormonal balances that can lead to health challenges. Some of these challenges may include:nn * Infertility and lack of virility or sex drive.n * Perimenopausal, menopausal, and post ...
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Heal Chronic Pain Naturally: Five Effective Solutions
I see many individuals in my practice who have been impacted by chronic pain and have a tried western medical solutions to manage their pain with varying results. Some of these solutions are successful but few address the root causes of pain or offer a more holistic approach to healing. To ...
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Healing Colds, Flu And Infection With Energy Healing Methods
In the Chinese system, colds and other viral infections or bacterial infections are viewed as pathogens that penetrate various layers of our energy. The outer most layer of our energy is the wei qi, associated most closely with our immunity system. Once a pathogen breaks through the outer ...
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Qi Gong Tree Meditation
This tree meditation can help calm the energy of the liver, lower blood pressure and promote restful sleep. The next time you are visiting a park or out in nature, you can perform this simple tree meditation. Breathe in deeply for a count of five. Exhale deeply for a count of five. Stand in ...
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Qi Gong: Anti-Aging Tool
Qi gong is one of the most powerful tools for staying young and nourishing longevity. How does it work? Builds Inte al Strength and Suppleness Unlike other forms of traditional western exercise, qi gong trains the energy of the body to invigorate inte al organs to promote balanced health and ...
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Waterfall Qi Gong Visualization
This cooling qi gong visualization helps the body to achieve balance and promote healing of:nn*Issues involving struggle and resistance in our lives, said to create emotional heat in the Chinese medicine system. n*Health conditions that have a hot or inflammatory nature such as cancer, arthritis ...
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Setting The Stage For Love - Inte et Relationships Part One
Is it possible to find the love of your life on the inte et? Certainly. You can increase your odds of finding love by being mindful of the following tips. Create Mutuality Mutuality involves creating an exchange of like energy. Often times, the skills that people have with expressing ...
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Heal Chronic Sinus Issues Naturally
The pain and discomfort of sinus pain, congestion and infection can feel miserable. Here are some natural solutions to healing these issues and preventing further occurrences. For sinus infections, two classical Chinese formulations, "pe men kan wan" (also known as "te xiao bi min gan wan") and ...
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Liver Release Qi Gong
In the Chinese medicine system, the liver is associated with conditions involving hypertension, anemia, headaches at the top of the head, and the emotions of anger or compassion. This simple qi gong liver release will empower you to begin cultivating an inte al calmness within the liver ...
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Practical Meditation
The true art of meditating is integrating practices into everyday life so that you are empowered transform how you are moving through life. Breath work is a meditative technique that can be performed at any time, while sitting in your car during traffic, walking around a grocery store, or ...
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Heal Cancer Naturally: Focused Visualization
Detoxify, Decrease Stress and Relax The mind has a large role in influencing our immunity system and empowering us to recover from cancer. Understanding the energetics of cancer can help us target visualization activities for greater effectiveness in increasing our immunity strength and ...
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Qi Gong For Cancer Healing
One of the most powerful forms of cancer-prevention and cancer management exercises is qi gong, a gentle form of healing exercises from China that is similar to Tai Chi. Qi gong movements not only help us to increase our levels of oxygen to detoxify the body but also specifically impact ...
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Heal Allergies Naturally
Note with any herbal remedy, please consult your medical physicians and a trained herbalist as to the appropriateness of using herbs. Natural Antihistamines Custom Chinese herbal formulations can be one of the most effective ways to relieve allergies with long lasting results. A trained ...
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Achieve Ideal Weight And Increase Energy Naturally
These three powerful strategies can help you to achieve your ideal weight and improve your overall health and vitality. 1. Boost the Energy of Your Spleen to Raise Metabolism In summer, we tend to drink and eat cold foods. Yet, cold foods and drinks can suppress the energy of the spleen to ...
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Qi Gong: Activating The Kidneys, Water Element
This qi gong can help to relieve lower back pain, strengthen the kidneys and reproductive organs, and help to release the emotion of fear and build will. Start this qi gong session in either a sitting or standing position. Place hands on the lower back with palms facing the lower back. Step ...
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Manifest Love And Harmony In Your Relationships
The skill of crafting harmonious relationships can increase productive business collaborations, loving personal relationships, and help you to achieve greater growth in the areas of health and spirituality. People who are prosperous with relationships have developed the skill of creating ...
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Qi Gong: Illuminate Your Heart Energy
This qi gong color visualization helps you to strengthen the energy of the pericardium and heart. The pericardium energy is associated spiritually with our intimate relationships. Thus, when our pericardium energy is low, we find ourselves more challenged to engage intimate relationships ...
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Acceptance Enhances Relationships and Empowers you to Transform Conflict into Connectedness
Acceptance plays a critical role in developing healthy relationships, which we know plays a role in impacting our health. Like health, relationships evolve and change too. Only that with health, we may get some physical indicators that things are off balance–but in relationships the “off track” qualities may be more subtle.
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Acceptance of Health Challenges Empowers you Transform Chronic Health Issues
One of the frequent things I see in my practice is the beauty of transformation when clients accept change in their lives. Acceptance doesn’t mean giving up or compromising. Acceptance means living one’s life in accordance with the realities that experience is presenting.
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Essential Oils and Qi Gong Elevate the Spirit and Body
Did you ever a meet a person who is engaged and actively living his or her soul purpose? Such a person radiates calmness, grounded energy and a natural joy about life even when difficult circumstances arise. How can you cultivate and root your spiritual self such that you also manifest this kind of bright elevated energy? Essential oils can be very helpful in changing the vibration of energy.
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Reduce Stress with Qi Gong, Gratitude and Perception Shifts
Have you ever had days where one stressor seems to pile upon another? Before you know it, you lose your connection to the things in your life that you value most, and feel overwhelmedrn. How do you regain your balance and reconnect during stressful times? Assess the True Level of the Stressor Often times, we snowball our stressors in our minds, allowing them to become much bigger than they really are. Our perception of stress and how we choose to approach it makes a difference in how stress impacts us.r
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Reduce Stress with Healthy Dietary Practices and Energy Building Styles of Exercise
During stressful times, it is important to: Eat in a balanced way. To gain most energy, one should eat within 30 minutes to an hour of rising. That first meal should be a high protein meal with healthy carbs that digest slowly as opposed to a high sugar meal with low protein and lots of caffeine. Examples of this kind of meal is a bowl of lentils with a lean source of protein such as chicken, scrambled egg whites, and fresh vegetables.
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Rebirth in the New Year
As many of you know, I am taking a brief break from the healing work with others to rest and recover my voice. As the gray clouds hovered over the past few says, I reflected on the sweetness of this time of the year. The change of the calendar year brings new resolutions and hope, with energy to build in new directions. At the same time, the change of the energy year still awaits us on Feb. 3, 2011. So, it is a time to take care of loose ends, cleanse, renew and prepare for a new energy in our bodies, minds and spirits.
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Detox the Liver with Qi Gong Massage, Meditation and Herbs
During the spring time, the organ of the liver can manifest imbalances more profoundly. The liver is associated with the wood element and spring time on an energy level. Imbalances of the liver include: Challenges with the eyes including foggy vision, high pressure, tumors or other eye irregularities. Headaches in a band pattern or at the top of the head. Dizziness. Migraines. High blood pressure. Joint, tendon and ligament pain. Insomnia. Increased anger or frustration. Challenges with finding compassion.
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Cleanse and Balance Moods and Emotions with Chinese Yoga (Qi Gong)
Chinese Yoga (Qi Gong) Balances Moods and Purges Negative Emotions We all have moments in life where we are immersed in shadow feelings of sadness, despair, heartache, disappointment or anger. Yet, many people stuff these feelings deep inside and ignore them, without realizing that the vibration or energy of these feelings can impact mental, physical and spiritual health.
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Invest in Your Body, Mind and Spirit Connection for Success in Business and at Home
In these times of economic challenge, people often wonder about how to effectively invest their financial resources. Yet, people often overlook the value of investing in their body, mind and spirit integration as a way of building prosperity. When we nourish and integrate these three integral parts of self, body, mind and spirit, it magnifies our ability to align ourselves with God’s blessings and abundance. These three strategies can help you invest in yourself each hour of the day. Body
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The Secret of Self Care for Lawyers
Do you ever have the feeling that the world is out to get you? Have you ever experienced a time in your life when nothing seems to go right and even the mundane tasks seem to be a struggle? You’re not alone. Peter was just such a person. One day he was on his way to work and things just seem to ...
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What would you ask a Qigong master?
As I am interviewing the top Qigong experts in North America for my Radio talk show The Secrets of Qigong Masters, I would love to be able to ask them the questions that you would ask them if you had a chance to. The caliber of the recent guests on the show is very high: Michael Winn, Jim ...
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Qigong State and the State of Your Health
Most health professionals agree that patients heal when they are ready to heal. An energy healing modality promoting facilitating self-healing deserves some serious attention at this day and age. Thousands of years ago, Qigong formed the foundation of Oriental medicine and needs to be regarded ...
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Dream Being - the missing link between The Secret and The Power of Now
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last year or so, you must have heart about two fenomenally popular, yet quite different, books on the subjects related to our art. Following up on some of the discussions during our previous teleseminars, let me share a bit of my understanding of ...
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The Flow Of The Dao
Welcome to my world of Qi Dao, the ancient energy art of Tibetan Shamanic Qigong. My spiritual tradition, named Qi Dao (or Ch’i Tao if you like this spelling), which literally means “the path of energy,” or “the flow of life force,” is a style of Qigong (also ...
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The Magic of Being Natural
Being natural requires paying attention to the inner nature of all things rather than their forms. When most people think of Qigong, they usually think of “doing forms” – sets of choreographed movements practiced repetitively. I do not believe that the sages of antiquity, who ...
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No Good, No Evil
Before I share an excerpt from my recent book The Art of Being in the Flow, I would like to point out that my opinions are not official reflections of the Buddhist teachings. Although I am a lama, I consider myself a free spirit, rather than a proponent of any organized religion. I believe that ...
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What Is Enlightenment?
I would like to share a little about my views on the nature of enlightenment. Let me offer an alternative perspective on this subject as well as welcome any suggestions, opinions and questions. If you consider a possibility that all you know about your life is based on the memories containing ...
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Qi Dao And Other Qigong Styles
Many Qigong enthusiasts have been curious about the similarities and distinctions between my family style called Qi Dao and other Qigong styles. First of all, I want to invite you to consider this thought: “We wage wars by stressing differences; we wage peace by stressing ...
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Life Coaching with a Qigong Master
Life Coaching is generally based on an empowering and enlightening personal relationship that encourages you to find harmony with the flow of your life in this constantly changing world. It can enhance your awareness enabling you to be totally present, which translates into being in the flow. ...
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Natural Stance
Natural Stance, as the name implies, is the simplest way to standrnnaturally. A naturally balanced human body responds to the challenge ofrngravity by bringing itself to a stable position using its bone structure tornsupport its weight and prevent falling. The vertical alignment of the spinernallows the body to spend the least amount of energy to maintain a stable, upright stance. If you are one of the many people leading a sedentary lifestyle you mayrnnot know how to keep your body naturally balanced and aligned.
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The Fundamentals of the Harmonious Culture of Movement
I would like to share with you some of the foundational principles of Harmonious Culture of Movement specific to Qi Dao. Although many great masters of Taiji, Qigong and other similar arts can be seen exhibiting this culture of movement, it is never seems to be taught as such. It is considered ...
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Yin & Yang in the Qi Dao Movement Practices
When learning the basic Qi Dao movements, you will learn to use both hands, one performing the primary movement and the other performing the secondary movement. Qi Dao respects the philosophical principles of Yin and Yang common in Oriental schools of thought, which oppose as well as complement ...
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