Spiritual Balancing; What Is Qigong and How Do You Find a Good One?

What Is Qigong and How Do You Find a Good One?

Qigong describes a form of physical exercise that facilitates the flow and the balance of the energy inside the human body to achieve optimal health. Many people in the Chinese American community know that qigong is very beneficial to our physical health. Often, those with chronic illness and suffering from difficult diseases that cannot be cured turn to qigong to find new hope. Nowadays, not only in the overseas Chinese community, but many people in the West today are increasingly practicing qigong to benefit the physical and mental wellness.

So how can qigong help our health?

To understand the therapeutic effects of qigong, we must first have some basic knowledge about traditional Chinese medicine.

The traditional Chinese medicine has a very clear understanding of the human body’s energy system: as long as people are alive, their bodies have biological energy. And it is because of the biological energy that we have vital signs. An electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram can monitor the presence or absence of biological energy, but doctors do not know the true nature of biological energy, as it is invisible.

Traditional Chinese medicine calls this biological energy “qi.” The qi is like air, invisible and intangible, but it is vital to human life activities.

Similar to blood circulation taking place in blood vessels, qi travels via invisible channels. This channel system is very complex, like a network, called is the “meridians” in the traditional Chinese medicine. If the meridians are blocked or run in the opposite direction, it will cause various problems in the body.

In traditional Chinese medicine theory, qi also has a balance issue: there is heat and cold, dampness and dryness, movement and stillness.

For example, the kidney provides “cold” energy to balance the “heat” energy from the heart. In women with menopause, the kidney energy is deficient and can not balance the heat, and thus they will suffer form hot flashes and night sweats.

Qigong can balance the qi like what acupuncture and herbal medicine does. Instead of receiving herbs and needling, one practices qigong with slow and smooth movements and mindful meditation.

So how can one exercise qi? And how do we make make qi, blood, and the meridians more healthy?

From a simple point of view, the role of qigong (energy exercises) is to enable the movement of qi, so as to achieve the following purposes:

  • Promoting the flow of qi and blood and keeping the meridians open;
  • Keeping qi and blood moving in the right direction;
  • Maintaining the energy properties of qi and blood, including the balances between heat and cold, dryness and dampness, and stillness and movement.

How Does Energy Affect Your Health?

As energetic beings, we are extremely sensitive and vulnerable to our environment and people around us.

For instance, if a person wants to attack you physically, he or she has to touch your muscles or bones in order to hurt you.

However, if a person wants to hurt you in terms of energy, he or she doesn’t need to touch you at all. He or she just needs to say a vicious sentence to you, give you an indifferent look, or give you an attitude, all of which can in effect make you feel physically and/or mentally sick.

Then, if one stays in an emotionally unhealthy environment for a long time, it can cause energy blockage and imbalance, consequently physical and mental dysfunction. It is why a person with past trauma can have persistent health issues.

On the other hand, when a person is calm, and the qi and blood both flow very well, the body will be healthy. This is why traditional Chinese medicine practitioners say that peace of mind is the secret to longevity. Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners especially emphasize the need for a peace of mind and the importance of breathing regulation and calmness–the foundation needed for traditional Chinese medicine to produce good results.

However, it is easier said than done, because there are many things in this world that can affect our mind, and it takes practice to achieve a peace of mind.

A person’s emotions are reactions and judgment to what is happening around him or her. If it is something bad, he or she may be angry; if it is something good, he or she will be happy.

So, what determines our judgment? It’s our values. It’s a matter of one’s worldview and beliefs. Therefore, beliefs are very important.

Traditional Chinese medicine also places special emphasis on “virtue,” which is actually a very healthy eternal energy. Since qi is very unstable, it will be constantly consumed; and since qi is very sensitive, it is easily affected by emotions and by external factors. As a result, qi will often move in the wrong direction or lose balance. People say that if there is qi, there are illnesses. Many people have a lifetime of hustle and bustle, and in the end, they end up with only qi. All the emotions are qi, including anger, joy, and many others.

Say I have never paid much attention to my beliefs, emotions, lifestyle, or interpersonal relationships, and I only paid attention to my own body. Now I am locking the stable door after the horse has already been stolen. This is because ultimately, people do not live for their bodies. Even a healthy body will eventually come to an end, and the maintenance of the body alone will eventually make people feel empty and fearful.

However, the essence of human life, or in terms of traditional Chinese medicine, the human soul, can be nourished by virtue and morality. In fact, the Western and Eastern concepts of benevolent thoughts and meditation are the same, and in modern medicine they’re called positive energy psychology.

Virtue is a wonderful type of energy produced when humans act benevolently, and it has an eternal effect on our souls. This virtue is also called gong de.

In other words, besides exercises, gong actually refers to an eternal energy generated when a person cultivates and tempers his or her heart, and this is directly related to the future of one’s soul.

Therefore, true qigong practice is both internal and external: not just moving your body’s energy, but also cultivating your spiritual health.

How to Choose a Better Qigong Practice

We know that the West has many forms of exercise, such as yoga; in Asia, there are also many schools of qigong, some of which require a lot of tuition to learn. In this case, how do we find the right qigong practice for ourselves?

Currently, among yoga practices, meditation methods, and other regimens, many are based on the concepts of earliest traditional cultivation practices. As the later generations didn’t understand the true nature of cultivation practices, they dismembered these systems of practice, took out some of the contents that met their own ideas and needs, thus turning cultivation practices into various methods with newly created terminology. Therefore, all these different types of yoga that we see today have become a kind of therapy for people, and naturally they have to charge for it.

However, the original cultivation practices were free of charge. In the past, Jesus didn’t charge people tuition for teaching his own cultivation practice. He only told people what to do and what not to do. The Buddha and Lao Tzu, the founder of Buddhism and Taoism, respectively, didn’t charge their followers, either.

The purpose of these true traditional cultivation practices is to save people’s souls, and the physical benefits they bring are only a by-product, not the main focus.

Therefore, I personally recommend that you choose an original, authentic, and complete cultivation practice, rather than a modified, improved, and mutated method. This is because the true qigong cultivation practices are free of charge, as their purpose is not to make money off you, nor are they entirely for your health and fitness.

The importance of an excellent cultivation practice system is that it enables you to benefit at all levels, including the biochemical level, energy level, and your soul. It is an integrated, complete, and comprehensive system.

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Jingduan Yang

Jingduan Yang Author, teacher and international expert on acupuncture and Chinese medicine, integrative medicine, and psychiatry. Dr. Yang is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You can find out more about Dr. Yang at his website http://www.YangInstitute.com
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Hidden History and the Flying Saucers

From End Times Productions

History is not as straight forward as it seems to be
Hidden History and Flying Saucers: The Movie is an in-depth look at the UAP / UFO phenomenon, in a way that most people have never heard before. Things are much stranger than they appear to be.

Featuring: Tom Horn, Timothy Alberino, Darrin Geisinger, Justen and Wes Faull, and End Times Productions as himself.

Hidden History and the Flying Saucers

UFO’s; Ancient Travelers and Human History Now Revealed

Jacques Vallee and many other scientist and researchers are coming out and providing L9aHtJUan array of information not normally reported by mainstream media. When it comes to UFO’s, there is usually no middle of the road, you either believe in them or you don’t.

The UFO phenomena has been going on for years. There were over 8000 reported sightings in 2014 and over 3000 last year purportedly world wide.  194 UFO sightings were reported in Washington state last year  according to the National UFO Reporting Center. Around the world, thousands of people reported seeing a train of unidentified bright lights moving steadily in formation across the night sky.

Jacques Vallee, Ufologist, assisted in the advanced idea of interdimensional hypothesis (IDH or IH). The idea was the UFO and other related events involved visitations from other dimensions that coexist separately alongside our own. IDH also holds that UFOs are a modern manifestation of a phenomenon that has occurred throughout recorded human history, which in prior ages were ascribed to mythological ancient-alien-proof-Earth-UFO-drawings-1323391or supernatural creatures.

The late Dr. V. Raghavan, former head of the Sanskrit department of India’s prestigious University of Madras said “Fifty years of researching this ancient works convinces me that there are livings beings on other planets, and that they visited earth as far back as 4,000 B.C. The Book of Enoch depicted UFO’s and there are documented sightings and reports throughout history.

There was a recent event that occurred from 1981 through 1984 that could provide  insight into the UFO phenomena.  In 1981,   L&L Research made contact with an extraterrestrial social memory complex Group name RA.  Jacques Vallee hypothesis  of interdimensional seems to hold true regarding.    This introduction provides information and an overview of the group with pictures of the channeling. RA was from the 6th Dimension.

During the first contact Ra said “We have watched your group. We have been called to your group, for you have a need for the diversity of experiences in channeling which go with a more intensive, or as you might call it, advanced approach to the system of studying the patterns of the illusions of your body, your mind, and your spirit, which you call seeking the truth. We hope to offer you a somewhat different slant upon the information which is always and ever the same.”

Ra was previously known as the sun god of Ancient Egypt. The Egyptians described Ra as the creator of everything. The great sun god of Heliopolis whose cult spread across Egypt 1200-265025-467101435to become the most popular by the Fifth Dynasty (2498-2345 BCE). The pyramids of Giza are associated with Ra as the supreme lord and creator god who ruled over the land of the living and the dead. He drives his sun barge across the heavens by day, showing another aspect of himself with each advance of the sun across the sky, and then dives into the underworld at evening where the barge is threatened by the primordial serpent Apep (Apophis) and must be defended by the other gods and souls of the justified dead. Ra was among the most important and popular gods of Egypt. Even when the god Amun rose in prominence, Ra’s position was undiminished and he merged with Amun to become Amun-Ra, the supreme god.

There are a total of 106 session totally approximately 2360 questions and answers that ee2765fada3b8c5de60ad7682ca5f910were recorded and transcribed and turned into five books, known as, The Law of One, the RA material, the humble messenger of the Law of One. Questions and answers over a remarkable broad scope including Our creator, the universe, UFO’s, dimensions, Egypt, pyramids, our purpose, reincarnation, chakras, Jesus, Moses, Orion, tree of Life energy, meditation and array of other subjects. Its free searchable database is a great research tool seek answers you will not find anywhere else.

The physical and metaphysical worlds are inseparable, thus creating a world that is not as it seems.

Spiritual Healing

As we increase our understanding of our true nature,  we begin to realize there is a  divine-love-quotes-8-17-best-images-about-love-on-pinterestSource,  a Universal Intelligence of pure divine energy, that connects us all. Science may call it a quantum or biofield, described as “a field of energy and information, both putative and subtle, that regulates the homeodynamic function of living organisms and may play a substantial role in understanding and guiding health processes.” Science also tells us that the heart electromagnetic energy  field be detected and measured several feet from the body.

More recently, Dr. Valerie V. Hunt, scientist, author, lecturer and Professor Emeritus of Physiological Science at the University of California confirmed electromagnetic energy is the most plentiful constant energy of our universe. It is a part of all structures living and dead, including the atmosphere. We create hqdefault (4)electromagnetic energies in the atoms of our living cells, which we enhance by the reaction with the atmospheric energy field. We know this expanded energy field as the human aura. Without this biofield life would not exist and there would be only an inner biochemical mix. Dr. Hunt was involved in research that is uncovering the various dimensions involved in the bioenergetic transactions between humans and the environment as they relate to human behaviors, emotions, health, illness, and disease, as well as scientifically quantifying the human aura and the levels of consciousness it contains., all you have to do is realize the power within you.

The Abrahamic religions, Christians, Jews and Islam may refer to this quantum or biofield as the Holy Spirit while while Taoist refer to chi or qi and the Dao or the way. tetragrammaton-ineffable-name-of-godHindu refer to prana and chakras while the Buddha included prana under a different name, one that is also used in yoga. The words is virya, and it means vitality, or life energy.

Consider all the different labels of this divine energy by science and religion the same. When we realize we are co-creators by our thoughts, emotions and actions then the healing process can begin.

We are all subject to three types of diseases that affect the body, mind and Spirit and all are interrelated. Disease normally occurs during 68395567_2628362577247376_4371379888091824128_nrecurring negative thoughts, emotions and actions. We know the Law of Karma, we reap what we sow. The body is affected by bacteria, virus and an array of toxins in our foods and environment. Our bodies suffer from pain that needs physical healing. Our minds are susceptible to infection by fear, worries, anger, greed, selfishness, jealousy just to name of few, which requires mental healing. Our spirit is haunted by the disease of forgetting our true nature which cause man to forget their perfect divine nature and focus on the physical world. Ignorance creates imbalances between body, mind and spirit.

Chakras  are the bodies seven energy centers. The healing process begins with clearing blockages in these energy centers and connect to the quantum field. Energy flows with love. When we love others as we love ourselves; love nature; be of service to others and placeboare mindful of our thoughts, emotions and actions, the healing process will begin. Prayer, meditation, contemplation and gratitude is part of the healing process.

 Jesus   message to us was we all have the ability to heal if we believe his message of love and enlightenment and look within ourselves to find the answers. In  John 14:12 when Jesus said “Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

 

The Ultimate Diet

We have  heard of different fad diets such as south beach, vegan, ketogenic, paleo, and intermittent fasting to name just a few. Fasting has been of   spiritual  importance  in most major religions, including Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and Judaism.  Mahatma Gandhi referred to fasting as the “the truest prayer.” He conducted fasts throughout his life for religious and political reasons.

Interestingly, I discovered a group called the Breatharians. They claim to stop eating and live off prana, a Sanskrit word that translates to “life air” or “life force, ”  also known as qi from the Chinese traditions. It has been reported that two people have proven under scientific scrutiny and video surveillance that they can live without food or water for periods of time defying the laws of physics.  This 8 minute YouTube video about Yogi Prahlad Jani, who has not taken food or water for 70 years, a  phenomena that many find hard to believe.

According to Israeli author Ray Maor, once Breatharians have trained their body to absorb this energy there is no longer any dependency  on food. Many of them continue to taste food for enjoyment, but do not need it for survival.

Like everything today, each has to evaluate and determine the truth for themselves.   Apparently breatharianism is about our life force also known as the source, the field, matrix or God.  Science  identifies the energy as a  electromagnetic energy field.   The sun radiates electromagnetic waves and sunlight is something we cannot live without. Light is the food for all life on earth. The human body, according to the doctrine of chromotherapy, is basically composed of colors.  We believe  insufficient sunlight will result in low Vitamin D deficiencies, leading to the development of prostate and breast cancer, memory loss, and an increased risk for developing dementia and schizophrenia. We have been told to wear sunscreen to protect ourselves but what is really happening?

We are light beings with chakras or energy centers and the energy of the sun has the colors of the rainbow. Every creature and plant on earth is engulfed in light that affects its health conditions. Spiritual healing and our health go hand in hand.

Can we live without food? Personally, I would have a hard time but there may be some that can. I also believe there are no limitations to our abilities once we calm our unruly minds and realize our thoughts, emotions and actions create our reality.   The  world is not as it seems and certainly not what we have been taught.  Our  physical and metaphysical world are inseparable and we all have the ability to tap into the power within.  Believe!!!

Our Essence/Spirit/Soul

Our essence, the spirit and soul, is pure energy, a source from Infinite Intelligence that encompasses the universe that forever has been a mystery for the human race.  Our higher selfessence is much like a baby, trying to learn to see, sit up, crawl,  walk, and talk while developing the 6th sense.  It is drawn to the beauty of nature, the thriving life of seen and unseen worlds. It looks at others and sees itself with feelings of compassion, love and discernment.  It feels sorrow as it sees the world being ravaged, polluted and destroyed; the pain and suffering of the people, plants, animals and mother earth. It understands we are one community with different cultures, ideas, and beliefs, all different, but all spiritually connected.

But our essence is just an infant, beginning to realize the infinite possibilities. Telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance, discernment, remote viewing and psychic abilities are just some beginning to be understood and practiced.  Mankind  even has Global Consciousness project uses binary codes to measure levels of global conscious.   Even ourB135RbXCcAIZp5p thoughts create reality by negative or positive emotions causing action and reaction. Over 7 billion people have unknowingly created our world of today simply by thought.

Our essence  has been elusive of our understanding since the beginning of time. Humanity has been fascinated the concept of spirit/soul through religion and belief systems. Our essence , also known as spirit, soul, rul, chi, prana, chakras, divine spark or consciousness  is in every culture.  Each culture has a belief system, established rituals, rules, explanations and concepts based on their understanding how our essence guides us through this life into the next. We go to churches, synagogues, temples, monasteries, mosques and other places of worship to understand our spirit. Others do not attend organized religion but practice spirituality daily.

Our essence is communicating with us, all we have to do is pay attention.  Daily meditation, contemplation, prayer and thanksgiving brings our essence  closer to the source, our Creator.

Call it mystical and elusive; it has been debated, discussed, and revered, by every Religion and belief system in the world. Science cannot explain or prove the energy exist, encourages those to be non-believers. Description of near death experience excites those who believe. It is free-will, all part of this grand game, we call life.

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