Qi-News
Oct 16, 2024
Autumn Pear Tea
MASTER LIN’S AUTUMN PEAR TEA
This tea is good for your kidneys, your pancreas, and for moving energy, when we transition to the winter season. It’s important to pay more attention to kidney energy at this time of the year and this dish is great for your kidney energy.
Makes 3 Servings
INGREDIENTS:
• 5 cups of Spring Water
• 3 medium size organic pears, cut, core and
· chop in 1 inch pieces
• 2 TBS dried Goji Berries
• 1 TBS Rock Sugar (traditional Chinese) or
· Raw honey to taste
PREPARATION:
1. Bring water to a boil.
2. Add chopped pears, goji berries, rock sugar or raw honey
3. Simmer on low heat for 35-40 minutes.
4. Take off the fire. Cool for a minute, then strain and enjoy!
Oct 15, 2024
Healing Water & Contentment
Hello Healing Communi-Qi,
We worked with the Yin Ener-Qi of Autumn. The active yang energy is moving away to allow room for the more gentle, inward YIN energy.
I shared that focusing on Contentment is an excellent exercise for this season. We shared how qi can make us more sensitive to sounds, sights and our intuitive feelings.
Here are some auditory sounds of fall that might make you feel CONTENT.
Quiet
Crackle of a woodwork flame
Snore of a sleepy dog
Creak of familiar wood floors
Crackle of old book's binding
Pour of coffee into foam
Rustle of leaves on beaches
Choose your moment. Put on a smile, relax your shoulders and breathe deeply for a few minutes. Hello Healing Communi-Qi,
We worked with the Yin Ener-Qi of Autumn. The active yang energy is moving away to allow room for the more gentle, inward YIN energy.
I shared that focusing on Contentment is an excellent exercise for this season. We shared how qi can make us more sensitive to sounds, sights and our intuitive feelings.
Here are some auditory sounds of fall that might make you feel CONTENT.
Quiet
Crackle of a woodwork flame
Snore of a sleepy dog
Creak of familiar wood floors
Crackle of old book's binding
Pour of coffee into foam
Rustle of leaves on beaches
Choose your moment. Put on a smile, relax your shoulders and breathe deeply for a few minutes. This helps relax you, bring more oxygen to your blood and
Increase your vibrational energy at the time. Puts you into more relaxed state and excellent short break in your day.
You can also drink more Yin-Yang Water (Taoist medicine water) which helps keep moisture in your lungs. Yin-Yang Water plus honey is a very good cleansing water. Honey is an herbal medicine in China.
Benefits: It helps balance energy in the body. It is especially good for the digestive system. It helps both diarrhea and constipation.
How to Make: Take a half glass of spring water or healthy water, and a half glass of boiled water and mix them together. If you like honey or lemon, add some and drink it while warm.
Do not ice or refrigerate.
Just a moment in time but so helpful for feeling more uplifted. This helps to relax you, and bring more oxygen to your blood and
increase your vibrational energy at the time. Puts you into more relaxed state and excellent short break in your day.
You can also drink more Yin-Yang Water (Taoist medicine water) which helps keep moisture in your lungs. Yin-Yang Water plus honey is a very good cleansing water. Honey is an herbal medicine in China.
Benefits: It helps balance energy in the body. It is especially good for the digestive system. It helps both diarrhea and constipation.
How to Make: Take a half glass of spring water or healthy water, and a half glass of boiled water and mix them together. If you like honey or lemon, add some and drink it while warm.
Do not ice or refrigerate.
Just a moment in time but so helpful for feeling more uplifted.
Sept 10, 2024
The Five Elements Overview
We focused on the overview of the Five Elements from Spring Forest Qigong. Knowing what is happening is helpful for healing. Just by moving your hands in the way of Moving of Yin and Yang, you can help strengthen the front energy channel. If you visualize the image of column of light inside in the middle of torso at the same time, you can balance the connections of all the internal organs. This movement helps to activate the healing energy of yin and yang moving together in perfect harmony and balance. It helps heal the internal organs, opens the heart and aligns the spine. I’ve discovered that by moving your hands to the sides as in Breathing of the Universe you can strengthen or heal the lungs even faster. I’ve also discovered that by moving your hands above your head as you do in the Connecting with Heaven & Earth movement you can open up the Triple Heaters channel, which is very important to heal and strengthen the gland and lymph systems. This movement heals the lungs and skin and balances the energy inside and outside of the body. The movement of your hands combined with the breathing technique helps to open blockages in the whole body, especially the lungs. By connecting your fingertips together and holding a heart shape in front of your naval for a certain length of time as you do in Connecting with your Body’s Energy you can activate the channels connecting to your heart and lungs. In addition, it will strengthen the muscles and channels in the chest, spine, shoulders, and diaphragm. I’ve also discovered that if you move your body from side to side gently while holding the heart shape with your fingers in front of the naval you can help increase the balance of your brain energy as well as your physical body. You are strengthening. your hips and knees. By repeatedly bending your back slightly forward slowly and then straightening it as in Connecting with your Heart’s Energy, I’ve discovered you can strengthen your spine and back muscles, while opening or keeping your back energy channel open. You help your kidneys, ears, bladder, female breasts, brain bones, bone marrow, reproductive organs and anus. Emotionally, It teaches us that happiness can heal the liver energy system; joy can heal the heart energy system; peaceFULNESS can heal YOUR STOMACH, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM…spleen energy system; contentment can heal the lung, BREAST energy system, and thankfulness AND GRATITUDE can heal the kidney energy system - REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, BONE MARROW.
Aug 6, 2024
Feng Shui Tips
Hello Healing Communi-Qi,
We worked with calming the fast-moving energy and did a recap of what we learned in the Spring Forest Qigong 3 day chanting.
Also, with mid-summer here I will share some feng shui tips for your home for 2024, which include putting a gallon of water with seven pennies by front door; purple crystal ball in southwest; jade for women and crystal for men and children; red in middle of living space. And, always practice unconditional love in your heart. Practise this feeling each day.
Healing Heart and Blood Pressure Exercise
A simple exercise for your heart including muscle and menstrual cramps; high blood pressure and high cholestorol. Remember, you need to do this for up to two minutes on each hand.
Please share with anyone with these challenges and remind them to try it for each day and then go for medical check up. Amazing what our own self-healing can do for our healing.
Jul 22, 2024
Balancing Emotions
Hello Healing Communi-Qi,
Lots of transition energy in the air. Many are feeling a little vulnerable. Vulnerability is okay if you tend to your heart’s needs.
Listen inwardly. This is what we do in qigong.
Last night, I shared qigong outside which always makes me happy. Let me remind you of the power of the five elements to balance your emotions and how it helps:
You feel worried - bring in peace
You feel fear - bring in appreciation
You feel sad - bring in contentment
You feel anger - bring in happiness
You feel hatred - bring in joy
Yes, many have stress in their lives and worry about the world but we don’t want to stay in that space. It doesn’t help you or the situation. Try to shift a challenging emotion into a positive one each day. It takes practice like anything else in life. Your focus on what is good matters to both your body and your mind.
Here is Master Lin sharing why it’s important to take the time to focus on positive emotions: https://youtu.be/TKz2tapnUYA
I am also doing my own semi-silent retreat later in the long weekend. Tending to my heart and re-setting my ener-qi. May you find some time to give to your heart this upcoming weekend. YOU are worth it.