Tag: qigong
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Clearing Sinuses and Central Channels
Where the mundane meets the Cosmos Many people experience sinus congestion to different degrees. It appears to be a design flaw in our human species, and is worsening with climate change. Treatments with medications often have complications (sedation), or very low compliance with the overflow effect on sleep apnea (sinus rinsing is a tough sell…
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Using the Pulse in Qigong
Subtle Self-Assessment tools to measure your own progress As an acupuncturist, I use the radial wrist pulse at the start of every assessment. It is like a handshake, an initial move into the energy field of another. Using this type of pulse diagnosis on oneself may help monitor and understand one’s energy dynamics. James Nestor…
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Mental Attitude
‘How you do something is how you do anything’ Before we talk about Qi and even breathing, we need to check our attitude. “Live without expectations: only love,” was a memorable phrase that the Turtle Qigong teacher Wang Zhe-Zhong said at one of his first talks to us, an eager group of foreign students in…
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Strong Roots for Health
What influences health the most? When scientists ponder this, they arrange it in order of importance, based on the amount of time most people typically engage each area for health: We will start at the bottom of this list and work our way up. EXERCISE All of this website is dedicated to a type of…
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What is Qi?
The term Qi–pronounced ‘Chee’–in Qigong, is loosely translated in English as ‘Energy.’ This is sufficient for a general understanding of Qigong. At a deeper level, Energy is a very specific term in Physics. One of its hallmarks is that it diminishes over space. Research was done on long-distance transmission of Qi in the United States…
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Forms and Formlessness
Why do the same form every day? Could we relax into some type of liberation without all that fuss and bother? Answer: The point of doing a Qigong form is to enter a state of formlessness. Hallmarks of this may include losing a sense of time or space, forgetting oneself, or experiencing a wave of…
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