For the first qigong gathering in this new year, our muse point is FLOW, which is key ingredient in attaining and sustaining health and optimism, physically & mentally. These practices will cultivate a vibrational fitness that will turn on the lights of your mitochondrial integrity, & mainline vitality and life-force all the way down to your smallest baseline. Be a student of flow and lift your frequency into transparency. Lauch, Repair, Rejuvenate, & Accelerate, as you Floss through the fascia, chainlink the qi, and connect everything within you, to everything. This fluid form of movement poises us perfectly to free fall into the present moment, in the same way that we fall asleep, or fall in love, we can free fall into the flow. All of life is about frequency. It governs how you catch and apply the opportunities and revelations that show up in your life. If there is any presence of resistance in the body or in the mind, it will effect your frequency, & reduce the way in which flow can inform your life. The good news is, that as our bodies mature, through the aging process, and as our essence ripens through practice, we rarely become more rigid, almost always we get softer, and thereby more powerful, because of our competency in navigating the flow. Many of the subconscious, collective, and epigenetic patterns that keep us feeling stuck begin to dissolve, as we flow and grow. When we offer our bones to the flow, we get to the original genius underneath the mantel of distractions, we can take refuge in our authenticity, & we can re-create ourselves, at all kinds of levels, that feel relevant and right. There are some stellar one liners, extracted from centuries old Chinese medical teachings, that illustrate the necessity for this flow. Lines like: “The reason the teeth are falling out, but the tongue is not falling out, is due to lack of movement and movement.” The teeth, which don’t move, are prone to decay and loss, however, the tongue, which is our primary muscle of communication, is always moving, and therefore, doesn’t decay and fall out. Another old pointer goes: ” You will never find a worm in the hinge of a door, but still water cultivates poison.” Both of these teaching simply put, are telling us, that if our aim is longevity and vitality, we must stay dynamic. Where there is an absence of flow, there is a greater likelihood for pain, where there is flow, there is less likelihood for pain. Use this flow to oxygenate and focalize the pre-frontal cortex of your brain, the part of your brain that gives you agency, and rehabilitates negative impulses. Flow is a state of simultaneity, wherein you feel comfortable enough to be in the rest and digest part of your nervous system, activated enough to clear the waste, and challenged enough to experience the transformation. Be patient, like the bamboo. When a bamboo plant is put into the earth, it can look at great length, like nothing is happening, so much so, that it might look like the plant is stunted– until one day, when the conditions that have been cultivated, are just so, the bamboo will begin a quick ascent upward in its growth. and the same thing happens with us. Much like the bamboo plant, when we practice with committed repetition, at a certain point the magic begins to arise, and we find an internal fusion that helps us live strong, live long, and love life, abundantly. The Upanishads say that the butter is hidden in the milk, likewise, awareness resides in every being, and to discover that, we need to constantly churn the mind toward clarity.
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