Qigong Articles

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Non-Doing. It's a Daoist thing. And often mistranslated and misunderstood, non-doing sounds pretty lazy! Daoism is actually the science of how the universe works (and us included, since we are part of it). We're starting to learn that Daoism dates back to before there are written records in China, which makes it 7000+ years old. It's believed that Daoism is really just the way people lived back in the day - not made into a formal thing until civilization started to grow and

The Chinese have studied ways of creating and maintaining healthful longevity for thousands of years. One of the jewels coming out of this quest for everlasting youth is the gentle, life-enhancing exercise practice of Qigong (pronounced chee-GUNG). Commonly known as Chinese yoga and Feng Shui for the body, Qigong is an ancient form of Chinese medicine exercise that retards the aging process by cultivating and strengthening the vital energy (Qi) in the body. It is an easy-to-p

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."

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since qigong/chi kung was first developed five thousand years ago in ancient China, practitioners have known how to treat and prevent hypertension, a condition that afflicts billions of people today.nnIf you are one of these numbers that suffer from this condition, know that there are several qigong/chi kung practices you can implement to treat and prevent high blood pressure without having to rely on western pharmaceutical drugs.nnIf you are already taking medication for you

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.

Qigong is a 5000-year-old martial art that also doubles as a mind-body-spirit regime, targeting both mental and physical well-being. It encompasses the use of slow movements geared at improving focus and posture among other facets of human functioning. Here is how you stand to benefit from it. 1. Strong Immunity Ongoing research has brought to light that it can actually bolster the immune system. Studies reveal that it catalyzes the accelerated production of two white blood c

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.

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

For many reasons, you may have stopped using some opioids that were prescribed to you. Probably because you didn’t have symptoms of the ailment anymore. These unused opioids remain in our drug cabinet for a very long time, and they can be dangerous to your family.rn What are opioids? Opioids are commonly prescribed as drugs for pain relief. They are manufactured and sold in pharmacies as pills, dermal patches or syrups. Some of the popular opioids prescribed for pain and ac

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.

Practitioners who make qigong a part of their everyday routine seldom get backpain if at all, because qigong and back problems are a contradiction in terms! nnIf you suffer back spasms or other back problems, just one month of daily qigong practice will alleviate most of the pain. Six months of practice will eliminate most if not all of the problem, and 20 minutes of daily practice will keep backpain away.nnQigong, (a.k.a. chi kung) is a 5000-year-old Chinese meditative yoga

How do you know that you are ready for the next qigong lesson on eliminating backpain and maintaining a strong healthy back?nnYou know when you can assume the first position automatically whenever you sit down, and when your back spasms ease and you find that you experience less frequent pain due to back problems than before.nnThen you are ready to assume correct posture standing up. Most people think that just by standing up straight, they are assuming the correct posture. U

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Qigong is the art of exploring and transforming the celestial and inner sound vibrations which create our life and world. It is both healing movements and non touch vibratory and spiritual healing techniques which can be used to guide oneself and others along healing pathways. One can be guided vibrationally at any distance with Qigong Energy Medicine. The Qigong movements I teach my students to take responsibility for the ongoing improvement of their well being and to cont

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.