by Claire | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
We have been building our residential teaching and healing center in Inner Mongolia for the past five months. After much intensive effort, with thirty some workers working together at times, the ground work is finally done. And the place is feeling more and more wonderful each day! We will continue to finish building the infrastructures next spring. And we will build a website to share our progress and vision with you soon!
by Claire | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Practice of the Day: Choose to be in love, in this moment.
Let our heart fall wide open, crack open if we must,
And notice.
Notice what we are doing, and let our heart open to the moment, and love with abandon.
Notice what is surroundings us, and let our heart fall open, love with all of our might.
Notice the ones with us, love them entirely.
Notice, inside, who we are, and love, love, and love some more.
Let the tears fall, tears of joy.
Tears of gratitude.
Tears of love.
In this moment, right here, fall in love with life, with myself.
by Claire | Nov 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
A short talk by Jerigtu at the OKC Unity Church
We’ll talk about illness. What is an ill patient and what is illness? They are completely different concepts. What is illness and what is wellness? Also very different concept. When someone has passed the physical exams, we don’t say this person is healthy. Mongolians say when someone’s mind and consciousness is healthy also, one is truly healthy.
When one is in a happy circumstance, one does not feel joyous, or when one is in a sad situation, but does not feel much grief, one is ill. If one sees another person slip and fall, and want to laugh, this person is ill. This person is not bad. His or her character is not bad. He and she is ill.
The majority of clients come to me are females. Does it mean women have more illness? No. It’s because they are more tuned into their senses, and their limbic brain is more connected to the frontal lobe, so they know when something is not right, that they need to ask for help. Whereas men have as many illnesses, but their senses were more suppressed, so when they are ill, they may also suppress the sensations or the cry for help. Women feel sadness much more readily and respond by crying, thus allowing the body to release the energy/emotion. This is a sign of connection. That’s why women have longer life span than men.
Explosive crimes are caused by these beings who systemically suppress their emotions and senses, so the illness becomes more and more severe, until it causes social disturbances. And this is also why more men are involved in crime because their emotions and senses have been suppressed more early on. Illness is accumulative.
For example, if we often think, “I don’t have enough money, and only if the money in the banks would come into my account…” If we keep on thinking these thoughts, thoughts eventually accumulate into things, or actions, such as robbing a bank on a spur of moment, or even with planning. This is illness accumulating. If a man looks at a woman and think of sex, enough times this man will have kidney deficiency, kidneys functioning will slowly go down. Each time a thought activate the kidneys and drain them little by little. A Mongolian saying goes, “Thoughts of sex shortens life.” This person is not bad. This person is ill and needs help.
When more females are in power, it signals that our society in large is getting more and more connected with our senses and emotions, and empathy. And it signals there will be peace prevailing in the world. An open heart is at the center of peace.
15% of the population may be well. 15% may have illnesses that can be seen in examinations. The rest 70% are ill but cannot be seen in the exam results. Earliest Mongolian healing do not separate into parts of body, but rather in three categories: qi or energy, soul or spirit, and imbalance.
Human beings relate to different realms or systems, within our body it is a system, humans relating to our environment is a system, relating to nature is a system, relating to society is a system, relating to the universe is yet another system. Therefore when we are ill, we must find out in which system the illness is caused. When we find the cause, we come into healing by activating the natural healing mechanism of each organ system.
For example when we suddenly enter into an air conditioned room from the heat, our pores stand up like goose bumps. This is because our body feels the change, and the pores are closing so the sudden cold do not enter into the skin. But if the skin does not respond in this way, it means we have lost our natural healing mechanism. Even if we get rid of the cold through medicine, because we don’t have this natural protective mechanism, we will catch cold again and again. True healing is to re-activate the natural healing mechanisms of organ systems and the body.
by Claire | Jun 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
Taking a lunch break from the Yi Jin Jing workshop, I stared at the TV in the restaurant for a moment and felt my mind zoned out. Sudden the realization entered that this is why so many of us watch TV or surf the web at times, while feeling like we are wasting our life doing so. This is because the TV and web actually alleviated our busy mind, so that we could zone out for brief moments.
Our body needs these zoned out moments to recuperate. Kids zone out for no apparent reason all the time. It’s a crucial but forgotten part of life. We used to chat amongst friends and family, and in between talk, we naturally zoned out. The villagers in Inner Mongolia where Jerigtu is from still do that, and that’s one of many reasons why I enjoy being amongst them so much.
Now that our days are packed full of activities, of actively doing, we are lacking these moments of zoning out. Our modern city lives place too much importance in doing, and not in undoing. Our lives tend to be too yang and not supported by yin activities, such as resting, letting go, surrendering the mind and the body, zoning out, observing and meditating inwardly.
There is a saying that the muscle is only as strong as it is flexible, which means the muscle’s ability to engage depends on its ability to relax and lengthen. To broaden this concept into our lives, this means our actions are only as powerful as our capability to relax and regenerate.
Through years of teaching and healing, I notice that almost all of us, myself included, don’t know how tight we are until the moment we are able to release. So we are unaware of how much our own power is restricted, and how much our life is limited until we begin to explore into our capacity to relax.
So if you feel a little more relaxed from the busy day after watching TV or surfing the web, can you imagine the capacity of relaxation would happen while your whole being is intending on that one purpose only, to relax. The main goal of Level One ZY Qigong is relaxation. All the exercises and meditations help us release and surrender fuller into our capacity to relax. >When our physical body and mind relax enough, energy naturally begins to flow and accumulate.
If you feel chronically lack of energy, lack of focus, clarity or the ability to persevere, you may consider joining us for the weekend June 10-13. If you are working on healing a chronic illness, this practice would serve you well. If you would like an overall shift in your productivity or creative energy, this practice could be the jump start for the change.
by Claire | Jun 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
I like to write and to create. For me I know that when I feel exhausted, it’s impossible for me to be creative. This is because life uses the same energy, same life force for all conditions. Life shares this same source of energy for all the vital organs, as it does for our sexual energy, our well power, and it does for our creative energy as well.
So when feeling exhausted, first I must revitalize myself. And the most effective way is through qigong practice. When I meditate and tap into the energetic state, it is much more effective than sleep, or just resting. Sometimes five to twenty minutes would do it, and then my energy feel full and my creative juice feels vibrant again.
I found at times when I am exhausted, but I don’t go right into practice. The reason is that somehow I feel bad about being exhausted, and I cannot accept that is my current state. So feeling bad about being exhausted makes me putter around doing nothing much, or numb out by surfing the web. In another word, not dealing with what’s happening now.
In order to address the issue at hand, I first must accept my current state, that it’s okay that I am feeling exhausted. I am not bad because I feel exhausted or not well. It’s normal that all of us feel exhausted or not so well at times, and not have the energy I think I “should” have to deal with tasks at hand. And this accepting means literally opening my heart to me, to me right here right now. When my heart feels my current condition and feels compassion for it, I release the bad feelings and the need to do, to accomplish, and I take care of myself by going into practice.
Then I feel the energy flowing and I return to the natural flow of life. I can flow more easily and effortlessly in life. Our external flow, the flow of life reflects our internal flow. It’s a direct extension or manifestation of how we are flowing energetically within. So pay attention to me, to my bodily sensations, right here right now.
I invite you to two upcoming qigong workshops. The Yi Jin Jing practice is one of the most effective movement practice I have found to date. It activates flow in all areas of our body, brings flow into our blind spots. The practice builds strength that not only empowers our body but our lives.
Through my own practice, the way I lead the ZY Qigong workshop changes. This year seem to be an ending of a cycle in my self-development, and this will manifest directly into how I teach this workshop. I hope to share this joy and grounding with all of you.
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