When you are traveling and moving al lot, you may encounter periods of spontaneous rest: It can be brief, brief, brief. But maybe long enough for you to breathe and stay calm and for solutions to come.

The Gongfu Tea Ceremony means making tea with skill. This means slowing down and bringing awareness to the water, the tea, and the people.

On a personal and human level signs of scattered energy include feelings of losing power or feelings of impatience, overwhelm, anger and frustration, or anxiety and helplessness. The eyes can feel glazed over, and the body can feel weak while the mind may complain. The remedy is to gather the scattered energy back, what I call reinstalling yourself.

The sense of vision is energetically connected to attention and understanding. It is a matter of what you see and how you see. In Chinese Medicine, the energy channels are information networks in the body, and almost all of them have branches that go to or through the eyes. Our personal energy can be expressed through the eyes, and what we do with the eyes, where we look and how the eyes change in shape and appearance when we experience emotions. …There is a lot of life in the eyes.

Thanks to mind-body training, I have become an optimist.… So, optimism really is a way of seeing things that also helps you make your way toward a possible future that you actively take part in. It is a looking forward rather than back, and it can organize your energy so that you know what to do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.