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I was asked to explain the reason for people with the best intentions nearly always falling back to the same habits, smoking, alcohol, weight problems etc.
All problems that individuals cant control normally have an emotional cause, In reality our body stores all memories, both emotional and physical trauma at the cellular level. Continue reading
The problem of high blood pressure or Hypertension is that it some times creeps up on people with out them knowing. This is now one of the major problems in society particularly Western society. The big advantage now is that Doctors regularly measure patients blood pressure at surgery meetings. I have had some considerable success in reducing Hypertension for people using Qigong movements some of which I will now describe,
If you have high blood pressure it is essential that you consult your doctor. I must stress that the following movements are for high blood pressure reduction. If you have Hypo-tension (low blood pressure) you must not do this particular movement. If people would like a movement for Hypo-tension please let me know.
Hypertension movement for reduction of high blood pressure
Stand in the Wuji position as follows;
1. Drop the hips
2. Knees slightly bent
3. Arms slightly out to the sides
4. Arms slightly bent at the elbows
5. Hands open and facing forward and down to the earth
6. Breath in and lift the arms out to the sides
7. The palms must be facing the earth(this is key critical for this movement)
8. Bring the hands up and over the head still with palms facing down
9. Bring the hands together and touch the middle fingers.
10. Commence breathing out as you lower the hands down your body
11. Bring the hands with fingers touching and palms down the front of the body to the lower Dantian (lower stomach)
12. Separate the fingers and return to the Wuji position
Breathe in and start again do this 9 times.
You can do this exercise several times during the day. Intuitively you will know when to do this.
The parts 1 to 5 in Bold are the Wuji position; the parts 6 to 12 are the movement and instructions
The key critical bit is that you keep your palms down, you do not want to raise the heart energy so keep your palms facing downwards; the middle fingers touching are the Pericardium channel (heart protector channel).
Last year September 2010, (doesn’t time fly!) I was asked to produce a brief paper on Bras and breast health for an organisation in the UK which promotes breast health for Woman. I was recently asked why it wasn’t on my blog. so here it is in its entirety. Continue reading
Its all in the mind
I am glad to say we are approaching a quantum leap (nothing to do with the TV series) in psychological and physical health care. Main stream health care are now beginning to embrace new approaches to psychology that take the sting out of negative thoughts and improve emotional well-being.
Eastern philosophies have provided the basis for a number of these new approaches, including the well- regarded mindfulness and the more controversial energy psychology techniques(they are only controversial because they don’t know how they work) 150 years ago they would not believe in TVs Computers etc, again because they didn’t know how they worked either.
In recent years mindfulness has become part of the mainstream self-help literature but there is now good research to show it as a proven stand-alone treatment for anxiety, depression, stress and pain. Many different schools of psychology have now integrated mindfulness into their protocols. However, thought field therapy (TFT) and its close cousins emotional freedom techniques (EFT) and simple energy techniques (SET), which belong to the new field of energy psychology, remain somewhat more controversial.(again go back to the technological unbelievers) These therapies involve patients tapping on energy points around their upper body and, while it may sound strange, it does work.
Similar approaches such as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) – which involves inducing rapid eye movements during treatment to help them overcome trauma-induced psychological disorders, negative thoughts and stress – have been shown to be effective, through research conducted at Murdoch University. Bangor University in Wales are running courses to train people in EMDR.
Cognitive behaviour therapy remains the gold-standard psychological treatment for most conditions(UK NICE Guidelines). But even this has evolved in the past 10 years.
Clinical psychologist Bob Montgomery, a former Australian Psychological Society president, said it was about helping change people’s thoughts, not to be more positive but to be more helpful. Below is an extract from his talk.
“The basic question I ask my patients is that when you think like that do you feel the way you want to feel? Do you behave the way you want to behave? Are you getting out of life what you want to get out of life? Because if the answer is no then that is a compellingly good reason to change how you are thinking,” Professor Montgomery said.
Using coping statements and consciously challenging your thoughts were good strategies to help you think better, act constructively and consequently feel better.
“How you are thinking certainly determines how you feel, how strong it is, how long it lasts – so if you are ever feeling worse than you want to for longer than you want to and it is interfering with your life then changing some of your thoughts is a very effective way of tackling that. the (method has) had a lot of success but it’s not the panacea.”
Professor Montgomery said a new approach, which had emerged in the past decade and was known as the second cognitive revolution, recognised that underlying patterns of thinking shaped in childhood could have an impact that was more difficult to shift than with simple coping statements. “Self talk tends to reflect not just how you think in this situation but how you might think in all sorts of similar situations and if your basic ideas, the underlying patterns, are faulty then change at the upper level won’t be sufficient, you need to dig down and get to those lower levels as well.”
It is interesting that he mentions energetic patterns, this has been a key factor in Qigong healing of both mind and body for thousands of years, are we playing technological catch up? This adverse patterns set up can occur any time in life, not just in early lifetime (childhood). Early childhood patterns can be shifted as easily as later life patterns. What you see or feel is the symptom not the cause find the cause, remove it and the symptoms disappear.
Sorry if this was a bit drawn out, but it nearly got me exited.
The Mantra is an ancient method of acquiring peace and happiness, the word comes from the Sanskrit, Man meaning to think and Tra meaning instrument of thought. Words are powerful they can heal and also hurt. in Qigong there are several sounds used for healing, these sounds are used to set up a resonance in the body that cures the problem. One of the reasons I am writing this note is because I had recently treated a client (67 years of age) whose toes had contracted upwards (it looked like his toes were hooked) this was causing him great pain, and he had problems wearing shoes. Over a period of several years he had physio therapy three times a week with no effect. After 10 minutes of making the healing sound his toes had straitened and the problem has not come back.
The real reason I am writing this is because when out for a walk yesterday (walking is good meditation) and I heard a sound chocolate,chocolate, chocolate, suddenly from around a corner appeared a young girl probably aged about nine. scooting along (in the UK we have toys called scooters). with every push of her leg she called out chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, she had the biggest happiest smile I have ever seen, on spotting me the smile increased as did the chocolate, chocolate, chocolate.
Children have the gift we have some times lost; her Mantra was a Mantra of pure happiness chocolate. We can all learn from little children, watch listen and learn.
I recently had a client who wanted to lose weight, he wanted to reduce his weight to 19 stone from 28 stone, he was 6ft 6 inches in height; so 19 stone was probably about right for him. What was needed for him was a form of help that didn’t need will power for him to succeed.
A form of hypnosis and relaxation was the key to success and he has now achieved his goal after 6 months with no will power needed. This method of helping people was devised by French man called Emile Coue`; thanks Emile it still works a treat.
Emile Coue` (1857-1926) was a chemist who became a hypnotist. He was not satisfied with hetero-hypnosis. and so he evolved his method of conscious auto-suggestion as a simpler and more usable method of treatment. He treated thousands of people over a period of thirty years in his free clinic in Nancy.
Coue deduced the following laws from his experiments:
1. When the will and the imagination (unconscious) are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without exception.
2. In the conflict between the will and the imagination, the force of the imagination is in direct ratio to the square of the will.
3. When the will and the imagination are in agreement, one does not add to the other, but one is multiplied by the other.
4. The imagination can be directed.
These 4 simple rules are the key to removing all problems both large and small, I have used them time and time again; and touch wood never had a failure.
There is an old saying “laugh and be happy”.
This is really sound advice in this present age of high pressure, both at work and at home. The uncertainty of the times of course adds to your overall stress. May I suggest that you take time out to have a really good laugh, watch a daft movie, go to a comedy show, read a joke book (or look at the politicians on TV).
Below are 11 really good reasons for bringing laughter into your life now. if you can find any more please let me know. Continue reading
If you are afraid to stand up and speak to an an audience, you are not alone.
When surveyed 49% of people rated the fear of Public Speaking as there main fear, only 19% of people rated the fear of dying as their main fear. Does this mean that the person delivering the eulogy at a funeral would rather be in the coffin?
A very simple and effective way of taking away this fear (it does work) is to massage the little finger between the nail and the first knuckle joint. In Chinese Medicine the little finger can trap fear as it is the end of the meridian that controls fear.
So next time you are asked to do a presentation or talk remember this technique and you will be totally relaxed.
A Qigong exercise for the Lungs incorporates hand movements and sounds, the sound is designed to resonate with the organ and to break up any energy blockages.
The sound is Szzzzz, hard to describe this in writing so think of it as Buzz only with an S at the beginning. The sound should be prolonged and steady, proceed by breathing in (does help) and imagining a divine white light coming in to the top of your head and filling your Lungs with clear healing light (this uses the mind) on breathing out you make the prolonged sound of Szzzz and feel your lungs vibrating. Do this exercise 9 times three times a day it has been known to clear Lung problems quickly.
I recently had a request from a young woman who had warts on her hands and one on her upper eyelid. This was particularly distressing to her because of her job as a trainer.
A very simple solution for this is to rub Castor oil directly on the warts. I first used this some 37 years ago when a friend of mine (we played in the same football team) asked me what he could do about his hands, he was a joiner by trade and was constantly in an atmosphere containing sawdust.. Both his hands and all of his fingers were covered with warts.This was an extremely bad and painful case of warts on both hands. He was sceptical but said he would give it a try as nothing had worked so far.
All the warts disappeared and did not come back. Try it. It does work and it is as effective today as it was all those years ago.
