3Băo Healing / Qigong, Tai chi, and Reiki

Nashville’s HaLe Integrative Health Center is looking for a licensed acupuncturist/herbologist. I’ve worked with this team for just over a year and can say that it has been a truly rewarding and meaningful experience to join forces with this incredible team. If you are, or know someone who would meet these qualifications, contact HaLe at the web address below.

Meditative practices are the root of many of the world's ancient spiritual traditions. They are now recognized by western science and modern traditions as beneficial to health and longevity. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism each have huge stores of physical and mental exercises that have been developed all with one purpose: to make it easier to meditate and achieve deep internal stillness. Taiji, Yoga, Qigong, chanting mantras....
(read article at our website: www.qi-journal.com/meditation-basics )

okay, so I cant resist this one....

In the Comments Thread, there are links to the Free Will Astrology horoscopes and newsletter. Enjoy.

Now excuse me while I vent:

• I’m totally opposed to all duality!

So if you’re one of the 50% of the population that divides everything into Us Versus Them, please stop.

• It’s bad luck to be superstitious!

So please refrain from turning logic into just another form of magical thinking.

• I am happy to say that I am feeling very positive about my pessimism lately.

• But I really can’t stand it when people complain!

• And if you don’t stop berating yourself, I’m going to have to complain to you about you.

• So please either start expressing unconditional love or else GODDAMN YOU!

• And another thing: CALM THE F**K DOWN!!!!

Using your ability to daydream and imagine is a powerful tool in healing and wellness practice. Just for today, revel well in reverie, friend!

Hello, my dear friends,

Visualization is a gift that we received when we were born.

As children, we tapped into our imagination constantly as we played with our imaginary friends, drew pictures with our crayons, or built sand castles in the sand.

Unfortunately for many of us, this gift became buried under a mountain of “reality,” and we stopped accessing this beautiful treasure.

Now, as a adults we need to work a little more and dig a little deeper to allow our imagination to come to the surface.

Visualization allows our body to bring focused energy to those areas where you want to receive healing or want to rebuild your energy system.

Visualization directs the energy inside of you, to go where it can best serve you

Visualization also connects your heart, mind, spirit, and physical body together, so you can experience “Oneness,” that state where true power is unleashed, and true healing begins.

Many Blessings,
Chunyi Lin

IN memory of JMichael Wood, DMQ. As novice healers, he taught us that, "The first protocol is breath." Now he is breathing with the universe, which I can only imagine makes him very happy. We will so miss you.

Undoing the Spring Forward Muddle I am sad to announce the recent passing of one of my dear Qigong teachers, Dr. JMichael Wood, DMQ. July 30, 1945- March 17, 2022 At a time when I would love to be able to tell you all the things this person meant to me, my words fail. His teachings deepened my life; his sense of humor , approachable...

New Medical Qigong Practitioner cohort starting soon- register to start learning how to use Qigong for personal health and wellness, as well as to become a certified Medical Qigong healer. Authentic curriculum and training at the beginning level, starting in June this year.

Introduction To Medical Qigong Practitioner Class Starting 6/22/22 Medical Qigong Practitioner Training Class In Nashville Beginning June 22, 2022 INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL QIGONG THERAPY will be taught on Wednesday Night from 6:30 PM to 8:45 PM beginning June 22, 2022 for 16 weeks and taught by Dr. J. Michael Wood, DMQ. The cost for this course is $500.00. Class Loc...

Seminar in Nashville 5-21. Registration is now open for this one day, highly recommended workshop!

Introductory Chinese Medical Qigong Seminar May 21, 2022 Introductory Chinese Medical Qigong Seminar in Nashville May 21, 2022 LOCATION: 500 Castlegate Drive, Nashville,TN 37217 TIME: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. TUITION: $120.00 cash or check, make checks payable to: J. Michael Wood RESERVATIONS: 615-366-8940 or [email protected] (mailto:jmichaelwood@comcast....

More from Sarah, who is also a Feng Shui master- 2022 aspects for home, land, and office harmony/balance

Feng Shui for 2022 Health, happiness, prosperity are important to everyone. The art of Feng Shui was developed to help people understand their surroundings and maximize the good parts while minimizing the bad. Flying Star Feng Shui is a guide to helping determine those energies in your environment and how best to deal...

Here are some thoughts on 2022, year of the water Tiger, from abbess Sarah Cherry at Temple of the Tranquil Earth! Happy new year to you! May we all thrive with compassion, peace, prosperity, health, friendship, and every beneficial thing!

Year of Yang Water Tiger The Chinese Lunar calendar marks the passage of time from three perspectives: Heavenly, Earthly and Human. These three aspects are called Stems, Branches, and Hidden Stems. The aspects are as changeable as the seasons and the rotation of the moon around the earth and the earth around the Sun. Each y...

IN honor of Thich Nhat Hanh- may his new journey be as blessed as he helped us to be. https://youtu.be/F1ZwaEzMtJw

The Great Bell Chant (The End Of Suffering) Read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem.The creators of this audio track were Gary Malkin, the composer/arranger, producer, and collaborator Mi...

What is usefulness, anyway?
"...Zhuangzi offers an essential antidote to this pernicious means-ends way of thinking. He demonstrates that you can improve your life if you let go of the anxiety of wanting to serve a purpose. To be sure, Zhuangzi doesn’t altogether spurn usefulness. Rather, he argues that usefulness itself should not be life’s bottom line."

How to be useless | Psyche Guides Follow the Daoist way – reclaim your life and happiness by letting go of the need to produce, strive or serve a purpose

Welcome to the new year! Without going beyond, or falling short, being able to let go when it's done or when we're not ready, may the year unfolding in 2022 flow in just the right way.

We made it! Let's do more! (or not, your choice),
https://www.3baohealing.com//post/do-you-really-need-a-big-destiny

Do You Really Need a Big Destiny? I mean, one other than the one you suspect you have. Will it fit in the doorway? Match the décor? Can you feed it well? Are you even doing the so called, “right stuff”? Do you even have it or know what it is? Is this line of questioning making you nervous? Have you made your resolutions yet? Ha...

Thanks to a personal friend for summing this up. Be safe out there; we may be in for a rough ride moving into 2022 and these new guidelines will make things a bit less dangerous. Thanks, Amanda-
"New isolation (tested positive) and quarantine (exposed only) guidelines by CDC (there's a nice summary at the end of the link):
Positive and no symptoms may shorten to 5 days BUT MUST STILL WEAR A MASK FOR ANOTHER 5 DAYS, EVEN AROUND HOUSEHOLD CONTACTS (this is already not being stressed enough on the news).
Positive but have symptoms, continue to isolate until symptoms resolve, then STILL MASK FOR 5 DAYS.
Quarantine may be skipped ONLY if boosted (or fully vaccinated and not yet due for booster) STILL MASK FOR 10 DAYS.
Quarantine for 5 days only if remain asymptomatic, THEN WEAR A MASK AROUND OTHERS FOR 5 MORE DAYS. This applies to unvaccinated, partial vaccinated, or past the booster timeline for your brand.
Testing recommended on day 5 for anyone exposed."

CDC Newsroom Press releases, advisories, telebriefings, transcripts and archives.

In Daoist tradition, the winter solstice is the time when yin has reached its peak and will recede so yang, still delicate, but certain, can emerge. Welcoming the light back to the world; honoring the natural turn of seasons, is a traditional response to this time of year all around the world. It’s reflected and symbolized in every human spiritual tradition practiced to this day. Even though we’ve got quite a while left of cold weather, now is the time to begin planting seeds for the spring. It’s a good time to set aside some quiet space amidst the celebrating to meditate, seeking in the still dark hour that tiny portal of light that is your connection, your spark to life and belonging.

In honor of my ancestors, the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh, and Italians and who knows where else, the Americans, too; also the Chinese and Japanese sages and those from India who shared their wisdom with others so that it came on its way to me, I am grateful. To those who came before me who lived their multiple faiths, as true to the bone as they could- Pagan, Christian, Daoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Celtic, or Indigenous- and who lived so that I could live, I offer this post in hopes to inspire anyone who may need it. We are all One; this year, my heart is lit up large with the idea of this.

May the end of this year be like a collection of blessings for you to carry into the new year for your health, prosperity, and happiness.

Blessed be. Amen. So be it and so it is.

Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, Season's Greetings, Have a Cool Yule, and all that jazz!
Cyndi

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the ears are what opens those windows to the sound of its voice. Five element theory views our sense of self, destiny, belonging in this world and being connected within it, being rooted in confident self-awareness as related to the harmony of elements in the kidney organ system, which opens to the ears. In the wintertime, it’s good to focus on getting to know yourself deeply, cultivating the water element qi that replenishes your mind, body and soul. Your ear health- both the physical ears and the way you hear the world are a crucial piece to knowing and trusting your own wisdom. Here are three practices that can help you exercise your ears:
https://www.3baohealing.com/post/3-practices-to-develop-your-ears-to-hear

Enjoy the full moon today!

May the true spirit of Thanksgiving be upon your hearts this holiday.

Qigong for the Wise Struggle "The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks, we give ourselves." David Steindl Rast A thankful heart sees itself brightly, reflected upon the clear, deep water of our shared destiny, weathering the turbulence and the bliss along t...

How about an I Ching Journal? Less messy than a bunch of post it notes and the backs of open envelopes 🙂
If you are an I Ching enthusiast or are curious about learning to read the I Ching, I hope you will consider buying one of these journals.
These books give a place to organize your readings so that you can refer to them and review them over time, track developments, and journal your own intuitions, observations, and insights from the messages you receive in response to the question posed to the oracle. When designing the pages, I wanted to make it easy for a novice reader to use, as well as useful and interesting for those who are experienced at casting the I Ching, so there are places to track the moon phases, solar terms, themes, Chinese/English words, inverse, opposites, and more...
5 versions, available on Amazon- sample pages in post!
(um, could be nice gifts)
2022 Hardcover with prefilled calendars for each month of 2022; pages to record weekly readings, with monthly summaries, + journaling pages for insights, ideas, and/or additional readings [8.25 x 11-page size] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KN4HBWP...
Blank Hardcover- same format as 2022, but with blank calendars to customize for a year of weekly readings [8.25 x 11-page size] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KN65FFW...
Paperback Large (8 ½ x 11)- pages to record weekly readings and monthly summaries
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B4GPF3F...
Paperback Regular Journal Size (6 x 9)- weekly readings/monthly summaries in a smaller sized journal
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099BWT8HF...
Coming soon (in review):
Readings notes only - enough pages for 30 readings, no calendars, available in hardcover or paperback. [Paper- 8.5 x 11, Hardcover- 8.25 x 11]

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And while you're here, how about a little course?

Move like Qigong- a short introduction to Qigong basics that can be useful for any style of Qigong practice you might want to explore- how to help Qi circulate by posture, breathing, and focus, plus two single form exercises- one that trains how to work with Qi through gentle movements, and the other using mental focus to move and build Qi. Each part is a practice on its own; I put the three together in a “mini” flow that can be done in about 15-20 minutes a day. Though short, this course is not a quick link or a trendy hack. It is a peek at time-honored methods for health, and to start practice so you, too, can meet your challenges with flow and grace.

Online Qigong mini course:
https://movelikeqigong.samcart.com/.../move-like-qigong...
Optional workbook for course:
https://www.amazon.com/Workbook.../dp/B09BF9GLKY/ref=sr_1_1?

With practice, we can see that our wounded child is not only us. Our wounded child may represent several generations. Our mother may have suffered throughout her life.
Our father may have suffered. Perhaps our parents weren’t able to look after the wounded child in themselves.
So when we’re embracing the wounded child in us, we are embracing all the wounded children in our past generations. This practice is not a practice for ourselves alone, but for numberless generations of ancestors and descendants.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Art: Anna Lee

"There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky..."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Free Fall The week ahead under the influence of a full harvest moon and the Fall Equinox. In ancient days, the shamans in China described the Sun as a traveler through four celestial gates that marked the seasons of the year. The journey has travelled through Spring Equinox, (the first Golden Gate), then thro...

I concur! Please be careful out there with the misinformation being offered for profit.

I have had great success drawing on healing support from many types of alternative medicine. (A list is below.) These modalities have been crucial to my self-care for decades.

That's why it's devastating to see so much of the Wellness Community preach unsafe practices during the covid pandemic. Many practitioners oppose vaccination and mask-wearing. They've contributed to prolonging the pandemic and influenced many people to engage in practices detrimental to their health and to the health of those they come into contact with.

My resolve is to continue to seek treatment from practitioners of Integrative Medicine who have taken sane and smart positions about the pandemic. There are many of them. In fact, I think they are the majority.

But as for those practitioners who have undermined our ability to get past the pandemic, I rebuke them and their ignorance. I will not seek treatment with them.

Here are the types of Integrative Medicine I have benefitted from: naturopathy, acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Somatic Experiencing therapy, cranial-sacral therapy, homeopathy, chiropractic, herbal treatment, massage therapy, osteopathy, visualization exercises, anthroposophical medicine, and Vitamin C IV therapy.

Illustration by Woody Harrington

I have always loved this poem.

“Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. ”
― Alice Walker

Breathe in, breathe out...

I've passed by this video several times as it's rolled through my feed. Finally stopped to take a look and I'm glad I did. This is so interesting and gives me some encouragement. I hope it does you, too.

The tiny balls of fat that could revolutionize medicine What if you were holding life-saving medicine ... but had no way to administer it? Zoom down to the nano level with engineer Kathryn A. Whitehead as she gives a breakdown of the little fatty balls (called lipid nanoparticles) perfectly designed to ferry cutting-edge medicines into your body's cells....

Yeah-

🖤🌱

In honor of the full moon, a healing meditation-

Grandmother Moon / Full Moon Blessings

“In the quiet stillness of your heart you can hear your Grandmother's voice. Listen. Her wisdom shines in the light of the stars." —Grace Alvarez Sesma

Sharing this gentle moonlight limpia with you as it is a beautiful practice to do either by yourself, in a group, or with your family. While it is preferable to do this moonlight cleansing meditation outdoors, weather permitting, it also works if you're indoors and can be done standing or sitting.

After you have offered your initial prayers and made your offerings stand beneath Grandmother Moon so that her moonlight touches your body from head to toe. Ask that her high spiritual light flow through you and around you, removing all inner and outer obstacles to your good health, clear mind, healthy and loving relationships, and stable prosperity. Use your own words in describing your needs and if children are with you make sure to include their needs too or even better have them say them — even if it’s one word (eg, love, grateful, healing). Express gratitude for blessings received and those yet to come. This is a good time to mentally or out loud ask that clear guidance be given to you in a way that you will understand, regarding personal, work, family, or spiritual matters.

Afterwards sit quietly with a receptive and listening mind-heart. Once you’re done share a meal with whoever joined you (if in a group, potlucks are always a good way to complete the ceremony).

May our prayers unfold and manifest with ease, gentleness, and grace for our benefit and the benefit of Mother Earth and All Our Relations.

Con bendiciones,
Grace Sesma
Curanderismo, the Healing Art of Mexico

Edit: Mexican-Indigenous costumbres encourage pregnant relatives to stay indoors on the full moon.

Instructions for the Full Moon Bath here,
https://www.curanderismo.org/post/full-moon-herbal-bath-limpia

Painting by Alejandra H. Lauria.

Not a bad way to live come to think of it. If you did this what would you do?

'We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.'
~ Wendell Berry

There is some promising research on intermittent fasting- within reason, your pattern of eating may be equally, if not more, important than what you eat. Interesting...

The science behind intermittent fasting — and how you can make it work for you When it comes to weight loss, intermittent fasting has been called “transformative” and “life-changing”. Here, leading researcher Satchin Panda explains how it works and wha…