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Innocence: Beginner’s Mind and Heart
This innocent and primordial state is something we are born with, and I believe is always there. Even having a sense of losing or forgetting your innocence happens innocently.
Slow movement and pain
The slow mindbody exercises (MBEs) of Tai Chi, Qigong, and Yoga help alleviate pain. This article describes the features of slow movement and how that helps in creating health and so helping a pain situation.
Watching the Sky
Back in the day when there was no Internet, AI, or cloudburst computing, watching the sky used to be the entertainment. Looking up at the sky in wonder is exhilarating and sometimes awe-inspiring and refreshing. I am a sky watcher of sorts, but I have to admit that things can get so intense and busy in my ordinary human life that I don’t look up from what I am doing to notice things like the sky sometimes. It can happen to anyone. If you keep up the intensity and busyness, you might miss important occasions like birthdays, anniversaries or celestial events.
Come out and play
Did you know that people who do Tai Chi or Qigong are called players? You play Tai Chi the way you play a musical instrument and thus perhaps gain mastery over time. Learning to play a musical instrument or learning to play Tai Chi can be enjoyable, or the learning can be stressful if the attitude of play is missing. Enjoying any activity is the idea of being playful. Being playful is a healthy state of mind where enjoyment of an activity reflects on a person’s capacity for joy.
This Spring: Do the Opposite
“Doing the opposite” is a powerful practice that can remind you of this superpower humans have to change and tweak things. I consider the “do the opposite” technique to be an awareness tool that helps you interrupt unbalanced or extreme patterns of energy that have taken hold. This way, you can use the tool to restore health and balance.
Starting a Personal Practice (a personal story)
Practice anything regularly, and it changes your life. Here are the three things that pushed me to pursue mindbody arts with a passion that led to a sense of ease and freedom.
Eight Ways Tai Chi Can Help
With its characteristic slow and strong movements combined with an intentional mind focus, Tai Chi can transform you. Tai Chi works on you on many levels, mind and body….Here are the ways Tai Chi helps you….
Tapping Qigong
Massaging acupuncture points by simply tapping them with your fingers while maintaining an awareness of breath and mind is a powerful way to practice mind-body healing. This article describes three kinds of Qigong Tapping.
Whole New Level of Attraction
The heart naturally recognizes many things in life that are life-giving and good, and the energy of attraction expresses this. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the heart energy can regulate all your energy (brain energy and the energy of all your organs), so it is important to take care of your heart energy by listening to it and getting to know it. … Understanding what you find attractive and whom you are attracted to is a useful way to listen to your heart.
Enter the Dragon
The Wood Dragon year is a great year to build a solid foundation for your future as a noble being who lives well, loves well, and shares value with others and the world.
Only human
Embracing this part of being human is a way to orient around freedom, spaciousness, and that magnificent part of being alive and part of life. The Dao de Jing, Chapter 25, speaks about the mystery of being and how humanity, being part of this mystery, reveals that there is a greatness to it all.
A Starting Place for Qigong
During the Waidan exercises, you use your muscles to make gestures and intentional movements that follow the natural movement of a human body. which usually means moving the spine in its possible directions (forward, back, left, right, and twisting right and left) and also moving joints and muscles in their natural range of movement. You use and move your bones and muscles as you sense and guide your effort and attention, thus engaging your mind and body together.
Brains not required…
“Being alive is a cognitive state” is a phrase that cognitive scientists use to describe basal cognition or the science of how biological cells do their work. The concept describes the relationship between body and mind.
Yes and No
The practice of compassionate communication is mind-body practice. Do you use the word yes more than the word no? From an evolutionary standpoint, humans have a preference.
Let it Roll
Cinnamon rolls taught me about life and understanding what resolutions are. It’s all about intention! Image by Sofia Lyu on Unsplash.
Adding, Subtracting, and Letting Go
If time were an empty jar, what do you put in first, and what do you leave out?
