We are part of nature and its cycles. If we go against natural cycles sickness results, so it is in our best interest to follow the way of nature. This is the meaning of Tao. This is an excellent video discourse and demonstration overviewing principles of Qi, Tao, Qigong, acupuncture and Chinese herbs. Cultivating understanding and practice in the way Qi flows, and knowing how to regulate it correctly, one should be able to live a healthy, long life.
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The Arts of Internal Cultivation
✍️Wᴇɴᴅʏ Bʀᴏᴡɴ, Lic. Ac.
MIRCOCOSMIC ORBIT
SIX HEALING SOUNDS
To understand the Tao, people of antiquity lived lives in accordance with the interplay of yin and yang. Eating and acting moderately, they refrained from dissipating strength through unseemly behavior, and thus, conserved Jing essence and lived out their years. This same timeless path unfolds today.
The Six Healing Sounds is an inner art that transforms subtle energy accumulated in and around the organs. Practicing the ‘Six healing sounds and Inner smile’ daily can dissipate static energy in the form of lingering heat around the organs that diminishes vitality and weighs on mental-emotional disposition. Transformed and liberated into vital Qi, the energy may further be circulated throughout the body, guided intentionally through other forms such as the microcosmic orbit.
Microcosmic orbit is a Taoist inner-cultivation practice. Through breathing to circulate Qi, Qi passes through the points/energy centers linking the Ren [front-midline] and Du [back-midline] channels. On inhalation, yang waxes and yin wanes; on exhalation, yin waxes and yang wanes, and the heavenly circle flows.