HEALTH
And each one of us may have these qualities sitting
in our bodies as stagnations, as dark clouds of energy sitting in our liver as anger or resentment, or
stagnate energies sitting in our kidneys as fear and
insecurities. When each one of us can bring light,
bring awareness within ourselves to release these
old stagnations, the earth as a whole becomes
lighter and brighter. We are all in this together, as a
union. What is within each of us, the internal landscapes, is a small universe that mirrors the outer
universe. The Taoist practitioners have always
known that. And when we have stayed in our mind
for too long, we are only manifesting peripheral
creations that can serve either energies, going up
or going down. The real change must come from
the body, which is connected to nature through energies. The body does not lie.”
Janai: Can you explain two different practices
for readers to have a sampling of the power and
potential of practicing this discipline such as
Big Tree and perhaps one of the breathing techniques?
Claire: Big tree is one of the fundamental practices in ZY Qigong. Ten movement forms cannot
equal one standing form. There is a place for the
movement forms. They are to resolve the courser
blockages on the physical level and enable energy
to start to flow in the body. Standing meditation
is where once the energy is flowing, then we can
accumulate cosmic energy and continue to open
up finer blockages energetically. And as we move
from standing meditation into sitting meditation,
once we have accumulated