self healing

Chunyi Lin  is a certified international qigong master, the founder/creator of Spring Forest Qigong, and coauthor of the #1 Amazon.com bestseller, Born A Healer.

He recently spoke with Jennifer McLean on Healing with the Masters, Series 12. Snippets of his experience follow:

• Qigong helps transform energetic expression (pain to feel good).
• Everyone is born a healer.
• Flow or energy (love) has four basic elements:
• Breathing to connect the heart, mind and body.
• Power of mind.
• Gentle simple movements.
• Sound/vibration of voice to help open energy channels in the body.
• Most of the energy we get each day is from breathing. Take 15 minutes per day to breathe in/out 10 times per minute to this reduce stress and blood pressure.
• Normal breathing only exchanges 60% of air in lungs/body. Take slower deeper breaths to activate the love energy in your heart.
• Qigong is about you; it is not a religion although qigong techniques are used in some religious practices.
• Breathing includes the lungs and the skin.
• The voice is a powerful tool (chanting, singing, humming) because over 80 energy points in the mouth connect all over the body.

Explore his website, Spring Forest Qigong, for an array of guidance through newsletters, daily inspiration, qi-ful eating and one minute love in the Global Healing Room...and much more!

Not sure that qigong can make a difference in your quality of life? Read 46 pages of medical abstracts that summarize the benefits of qigong for chronic pain, lung function, cognition, immunity, etc.

meditation

Here are three links for meditation guidance that will benefit you, even if you do not meditate. Sit on a beach watching the waves roll in. Relax on a reclining chair and notice your breath. Go to any quiet outdoor spot and stretch out on a blanket to watch the clouds. As you focus your attention on the waves, your breath or passing clouds, this is meditation. You release all that stuff of the day. Perhaps Deepak's guidance will further your enjoyment of those relaxing moments!

• Deepak Chopra's Secrets of Meditation, Mindfulness Meditation
• Deepak Chopra explains The Mechanics of Meditation
• Sit with back erect, be comfortable and relaxed, feet on the floor, hands resting in your lap.
• Think, remember or listen to a mantra without too much focus. Force nothing. Or, watch the breath and remember 'I am'. You have to let it happen.
• For 20-30 minutes, mantra and thoughts cancel each other and you reach pure potentiality, the gap where you experience nothing (you are non-local).
• It is a wakefulness that you will experience in waking, dreaming -- it will never leave you.
• Deepak Chopra's Top 8 Meditation Tips
• Morning meditation energizes you.
• Before evening meal is good.
• Find your best time. (Deepak meditates from 4-6 AM)
• Preferably sitting than lying down.
• 'So' in breath and 'hum' on the out breath (mental sounds).
• Sounds of nature or soft music.
• Observe the breath.
• The awareness of a thought is not a thought.
• Visualize your dream before meditation.

 

your true self

Deepak Chopra recently offered a free 14-day online meditation series, Secrets of Meditation (purchase here), that takes about 15 minutes each day. You may keep a daily journal that you can copy paste to a computer file for later reference (highly recommended for those who want to follow their own changes). This series is great for beginning to advanced students!

This series of meditations demonstrates the importance of slowing down the pace of our lives to breathe, pause, listen and become our true selves once more. All we need is within us. Dr. Chopra reminds us how easy and natural it is to access our true selves and experience our interconnection to All That Is.

The 14 day series is as follows:

• Stress reduction (deep breathing with attention on the breath)
• Your inner universe (build a better life and understand your place in the universe)
• Being present (slow down and pay attention)
• A matter of practice (live everyday as if you are whole)
• Introducing mantras (expand non-local consciousness)
• The monkey mind (release external distractions)
• Find your true self (awareness)
• Letting go of your ego (release conditioning)
• Living in Your NOW  (mindfulness)
• I AM (an instrument of thought)
• The Real You (arises from your heart)
• Fight or flight (releasing stress)
• Subtle Action (feel the feelings as if the desired outcome has manifested)
• Shadow Energies (find the switch to turn off negative programming)

The key is to look within for the fulfillment you seek. You are the expert on you! Find a way to make time for you - perhaps a few minutes a day or a hour on the weekend, one lunch break during the week. Walk where nature caresses your senses. Ask your self important questions and allow your feelings to bring forth the answers.

sea grape visualization

The sea grape trees pictured here represent the Tree of Life for humanity. Visualize the trunks and branches as successive generations of people and the leaves as the current people on Earth. The roots beneath the grass are connections to life - the nuturing water, food and experiences. All are interconnected. Step back mentally and observe the tree and its roots as a sphere, a microcosm of Earth.

The little fruits are imminent manifestations - people, effects, inventions - that which draws humanity closer together to conceptually fill the expanding sphere.

Now, look again at the tree. It is now you and each leaf is one of your many lifetimes - a microcosm of a microcosm. It is your DNA field shaped like a tree! Each leaf is connected to you. You can call upon the attributes of the leaves because they are all linked to you. Reach into the Akash through your DNA because it is the doorway to all of you - just as the sea grape tree has DNA informing its expansion.

"I call upon my DNA to bring forth a life of complete health, vitality, the skill of a great speaker and all the other attributes that serve my expansion. Draw on my parallel lives to feed into this life the knowledge, experience, all the attributes needed to raise the vibration of the planet." 

What is required is clear intent that moves to the breath of Oneness.

The sea grape tree is a tree. It is you. It is all humanity on Earth. The sphere each creates is complete, whole, one. Yet, each has the other expressed in it.