What is smiling Qigong?

“Qigong has been shown to be effective in helping resolve digestive problems, asthma, arthritis, insomnia, pain, depression, and anxiety, as well as helping cancer, coronary heart disease, and cases of HIV/AIDS”. ~ Wong Chongxing, M.D., Director of Research a the Rel Jin Hospital in Shanghai, China Today I present an article on a simple form [...]

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Is Qigong healing?

“Traditional Chinese Medicine holds that qigong stimulates and nourishes the body’s internal organs by circulating qi. Qigong can break down energy blocks and facilitate the free flow of energy throughout the body, promoting blood and lymph flow and the even flow of nerve impulses necessary for proper health maintenance. ‘ The overall benefit of qigong [...]

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How do I start to meditate?

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” ~ Swami Sivananda We end the week with 3 types of meditations that are easy and can be fun. Answers to How to Do Meditation – 3 Simple Meditation Methods Anyone Can Use By [...]

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How is you focus when you meditate?

“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit” ~ Jeremy Taylor Here are some tips on how to begin to meditate with emphasis on focus. Meditation Tips – 5 Factors of Focus By Benjamin Langley It is important for all students of meditation to get on the path of ever [...]

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How do you handle stress?

“Give your stress wings and let it fly away.” ~ Carin Hartness When I told a friend the story below he said to me that I should make a blog post about it. He told me that many people go through what I went through and could use information on how to deal with it. [...]

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Was your weekend stressful?

“The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.” ~Elbert Hubbard Stress is the number one cause of illness and disease. Stress prevents the life [...]

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How do you relax?

“This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.” ~ Captain J. A. Hadfield You can be relaxed in all that you do. All it takes is practice. Your Recommended Daily Allowance for Relaxation Stress [...]

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Do you have arthritis?

“Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.” ~Cher The rest of this week will be devoted to fitness and how it relates to some common complaints. We start with arthritis. Exercise and Arthritis Your bones hang out in a lot of joints. Knee joints. Hip joints. The joints [...]

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How do you do cardio?

“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.” ~Carol Welch We talked about resistance training. Today I will expand on Cardio training. Benefits of Cardio Interval Training In a long-term study of the health of the people of in the United States, the U.S. Public Health Service documented [...]

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How do you relax?

“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.” ~ Bertrand Russell ~ Stress is the main cause of illness and disease. The more you relax the less stress. Meditation is very useful in controlling stress. Here are some other techniques. [...]

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