Practicing regularly Tai Chi 8 form taught by Master Helen Liang enables me to experience Qi flow easily. – Sifu Ricardo B Serrano
According to my Tai Chi 8 form teacher Master Helen Liang, have you had a hard time calming your “monkey mind” — a Buddhist term used to describe restless, unsettled thoughts?
On any given day, if we’re not stressed about the pandemic, we’re consumed by the “what ifs” swirling around our unpredictable world. It’s no wonder we’re exhausted, burned out, and feeling completely out of sorts.
Many people have turned to meditation to calm and center themselves, but for those of us who can’t easily quiet the busyness of our minds, what can we do?
The answer lies in the ancient Chinese martial art of Tai Chi.
Tai Chi is a beautifully choreographed slow-motion, low-impact practice renowned for calming the mind while reducing stress and clearing negative energies. It’s often described as “meditation in motion” because it engages both your mind and body — whereas exercise and meditation primarily engage one or the other.
Tai Chi has been shown for calming your mind, while dynamically strengthening your body and bringing balance back into your life. Using full circular movements, energy is circulated throughout the body, feeding and revitalizing it, allowing you to stay grounded in the moment.
Tai Chi’s purpose is to move your Qi, your life-force energy, throughout your body while also balancing your yin and yang — forces that are opposite but complementary to one another — to bring your whole being into harmony.
When practicing Tai Chi, the goal is to make the moves flow together — circular gestures that are not forced. There’s no difficult exertion — the muscles remain relaxed, your joints aren’t extended, and your connective tissue is flexible and pliable. Each pose requires a change in breathing, concentration, balance, and inner peace.
Although its movements are slow and gentle, Tai Chi also addresses the key components of fitness — it builds muscle strength, flexibility, balance, and to a lesser degree, some aerobic conditioning.
Soul Healing is not similar to Qigong healing. Qigong is energy healing. We go beyond energy. It’s Divine Healing Hands or Divine Soul Healing. We can do one-to-one healing, group healing, and distance healing. There are all kinds of sickness in the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. To heal and transform humanity, we must remove Jing qi shen blockages. Jing qi shen blockages are the biggest pollution. – page 7, Return to Oneness with the Tao
The Pan Gu Shen Gong is the key to balancing Yin and Yang energies in the body, and an easier and simpler complementary Qigong practice to learn with other advanced meditative practices.
It is the Qi of the acupuncturist, not the needles alone,
that is most powerfully healing. — Ricardo B. Serrano, R.Ac.
Acupuncture, the ancient Chinese art of healing using fine disposable sterile needles to stimulate invisible lines of Qi energy running beneath the surface of the skin, has become a new primary health care profession in B.C. last June 21, 1999.
Generally, people say that treatments are not painful or cause only minimal discomfort when needles, which are ultra fine, are first inserted. Slowly, but surely, it is being absorbed into the mainstream of modern allopathic medicine, even though its philosophy could be bewildering to the modern Western trained physician. It is simple, safe, effective and cost-effective.
Traditional acupuncture has become synonymous with Chinese medicine, but in fact is only a small part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The first evidence of this system goes back 5,000 years, and the first classic extant treatise on TCM and acupuncture dates back to 300 BC – the Huangdi Neijing or The Yellow Emperor’s Classic on Internal Medicine. TCM which I practice is a superstructure of herbal therapy, acupuncture, moxibustion (application of heat from the burning of moxa wool over acupuncture points), cupping, acupressure, manipulation, diet, vital energy therapy (Qigong), breathing exercises, light therapy, psychotherapy and other approaches such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) – all applied primarily in a preventative manner. See Qi-healing by intranasal light therapy, Acupuncture is helping coronavirus patients and Three ways to stimulate the vagus nerve
Whether acupuncture and other TCM therapies are effective is no longer a question. The only question is “How does acupuncture and other TCM therapies work?”
A more traditional explanation is that the body contains vital energy or Qi or prana which, when flowing smoothly over channels or meridians or energy centers (chakras) that run throughout the body, is expressed as health. Each of the 14 meridians pertains to a particular organ, such as the stomach, heart or large intestine. When the Qi or pranic energy is stagnant or blocked in the meridians or energy centers from physical, mental, emotional or spiritual causes of disharmony, or when there is an imbalance in the yin (female) and yang (male) forms of energy, then symptoms of ill health or disease are expressed. Acupuncture, moxibustion, herbs and vital energy therapy or Qigong (passing energy from the practitioner’s hand to a patient’s body with or without touching) with meditation and solution focused counselling clears up the blocked energy and rebalances, reintegrates, and reconnects the yin and yang to restore health. This explanation of how acupuncture and other TCM therapies effect change is perhaps weird or strange to Western ears but is closer to what actually happens.
Conditions that respond successfully in my over forty years of practice in acupuncture, acupressure, herbs and vital energy therapy (Qigong) include pain syndromes such as migraine headaches, low back and neck pain, neuralgias such as sciatica, trigeminal neuralgia, chronic arthritis and general anesthesia.
Other less obvious conditions that respond favorably to acupuncture and other TCM therapies in my practice are asthma and allergies, sexual dysfunction such as female infertility and impotence, digestive problems, emotional troubles such as anxiety and depression, insomnia, weight control (by decreasing appetite and increasing body’s metabolism), and elimination of addictions to food (which produces eating disorders), nicotine, alcohol, antidepressants and even harder drugs. See Auricular Therapy for Substance Abuse
Some modern day ailments that show promising outcomes under acupuncture and other TCM therapies include HIV+/AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus (CEBV), hepatitis and other immune deficiency syndromes, as Cancer therapy or as an adjunct to chemotherapy or radiation for cancer patients, and repetitive strain injuries which can result from working on computers or assembly lines. See A doctor’s quotes on modern medicine
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“This is how I quiet my monkey mind – I become aware of my breath and my monkey mind quiets down. Where awareness goes, energy flows. Where energy flows, awareness follows.”
– Acharya Ricardo B Serrano
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