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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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?

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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."

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

Qi Cultivation Part 1 – How To Become A Qi Magnet And Create Your Awesome Reality

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Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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:

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.”

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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!

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.”

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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."

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

2,885 views

By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

2,717 views

By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

2,563 views

By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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."

Primary topic: Qigong

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By Kevin HuffordRecently published1 topic

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.

Primary topic: Qigong

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