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What are Best Practices?
Completing my 8th decade of life brings new challenges. I feel a greater need for best practices and consistency in using them. Poor health choices, like a heavy meal close to bedtime, affects my sleep and robs my energy for the next day.
When I was younger, I wanted every day to be a surprise, with more creative flow than structure. I didn’t want to be told what to do, I wanted to discover everything for myself. I once lived in a house where the roof leaked badly. I couldn’t do anything until I got it fixed. I realized that it's the structure that allows creativity to flow freely - in my home, in my life, and in my body. A friend helped me to reconcile these polarities. He suggested that I “Live my life as an art form and study it as a science.”
Developing a Meditation Practice - just for the health of it. Meditation is an ancient art, a rich practice with potential benefits for happiness, health, and sleep. Perhaps you already mediate, perhaps for years, or perhaps, like me you've found it difficult to develop. Over the years, people have suggested that I might benefit from a meditation practice.
What is QIGONG? it's history? it's Process? It's Benefits? Take a simple yet in-depth dive into the practice of QIGONG with this insightful gathering of information about QIGONG - and Finding Center.
What is qigong?
Qi is the Chinese name for universal life force (energy). The concept of qi underlies Traditional Chinese Medicine and martial arts. Gong is translated as committed cultivation and the benefits and skills acquired through dedicated practice.
Qigong is the systematic method of cultivating qi through focused inner awareness and intention while practicing specific postures and movements, including techniques in breathing, self-massage, visualization, and meditation.
Our bodies, like all of nature, are in constant change. How we walk, stand, express and think are the soup of our self-creating process.
My posture photos document the structural changes I’ve accomplished over three decades. But like you, I am a work in process.
Could the secrets of longevity be based in simple truths? Can best practices that have endured culture to culture and through time guide us?
A calm and quiet place lies within us,
a place of clarity,
the counterpoise to the crazy information-driven complexity
swirling around us.
From within that center we ...
exhale, and ask…