Finished week 4 yesterday and I’ll be starting week 5 today. Quite enjoyed the Warming the stove and getting to complete the 8 Section Brocade was a good feeling. Starting to feel a bit of sensation both in the tongue/palate and hara. Nice! I’ve also realised that the only way to get this kind of [...]
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Finished off week 2 yesterday. Not too much to report other than sitting and stilling the mind is becoming easier (it’s still far from easy though!!) and I can blaze through the 6 Healing Sounds without getting sleepy/distracted. The more I do them, the more it feels that they should be called the 6 Healing [...]
Looking through the ‘tags’ section of WordPress today I came across this. How To Manipulate Chi – A Secret To Martial Arts (martialartsecrets.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/how-to-manipulate-chi-a-secret-to-martial-arts) Learning to manipulate Chi and have it do what you want, when you want, how you want it, is not something that happens overnight. Many people when they learn that Chi is [...]
http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/BBsOeLcUARw A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. I like this. Makes me remember just how much of nothing there is within us, that we are not a solid as we are in the habit of thinking. As above so below, or the [...]
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Nice one Monabooks!!
Posted: April 11, 2008 in Books, Books you should read, chi kung, Martial Arts, qigong, TCMTags: Books, chi kung, Martial Arts, meditation, qigong
Apparently the Essence of Internal Martial arts books I and II are sold out. I really shouldn’t have to repeat what I said in an earlier post about the necessity of reading these, but I really think that you need them in your life! If you can brave the awful [sorry guys, but it's my [...]
Tai Chi reduces tension headaches apparently!
Posted: February 18, 2008 in 100 Days, 5 Tibetans, chi kung, qigong, TCM, ThoughtsAs part of the study, the researchers conducted a 15-week Tai Chi program and found that participating patients improved on a quality-of-life based measurement called SF-36 and also on a test called HIT-6TM designed to capture the effect of headaches. A 15 week intervention of Tai Chi practice was effective in reducing headaches. The patients [...]
Qigong Improves Concentration in School Children
Posted: February 18, 2008 in 5 Tibetans, chi kung, qigong, ThoughtsClaudia Witt, MD, and associates from the Institute for Social Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Health Economics at the University of Berlin, did a study on 140 students to determine the result of a six-month program of Xianggong (”fragrant qigong”), movement instruction for the students’ health and behaviour. More Here
Another Meditation Article
Posted: February 4, 2008 in chi kung, Martial Arts, qigong, TCM, Thoughts, ZenIn 1985, the meditation team made a video of monks drying cold, wet sheets with body heat. They also documented monks spending a winter night on a rocky ledge 15,000 feet high in the Himalayas. The sleep-out took place in February on the night of the winter full moon when temperatures reached zero degrees F. [...]
Furious Angels – Boondock Video
Posted: December 16, 2007 in 100 Days, 5 Tibetans, Books, Books you should read, chi kung, Martial Arts, qigong, TCM, Thoughts, ZenFurious Angels – Boondock The finest MMA highlight video I have ever seen.Blood, emotion, glory and crushing defeats; it touched me. So much more than the uneducated and ignorant view that ‘it’s just two men fighting’ It may be, and perhaps should be, difficult to accept the notion that a prizefighter’s work merits the same [...]
