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Anyone who is fearful about change and hatefully blames it on some "bad guys", should take a long look in the mirror and then simply relax and be silent. Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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"Intellectualism is a common cover-up for fear of direct experience." - Carl Jung
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Masakatsu agatsu (正勝吾勝) - True victory is victory over oneself
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Start with yourself
‘We are as a collective coming out of a consciousness cycle that was based on power-over/power-under control systems. Meaning certain groups positioned as authority, created a reality that enslaved people’s mindset and behavior through pre-emptive subconscious programming. This subconscious programming is pre-emptive because it requires massive amounts of life force, creative fuel in order to manifest the future reality that the control groups want to see happen. In other words, your energy unknowingly creates the new timeline. It’s pre-emptive because the ideas are fed to you subconsciously through movies, news, media, in a way that makes you think about this new reality before it happens, so that your thoughts bring it to life. The whole time you’re just thinking you’re watching a movie about robots. Focus your energy. It’s a powerful tool that has been siphoned for so long. Learn how to direct your thoughts, ideas, emotions and creative energy on outcomes that support the highest and best for all concerned. Time to be in your sovereignty.’ – Maryam Hasnaa
(quote found via bambalouni) #Mindful #Health #Philosophy
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What Happens When Zen Monks Take Mushrooms? The film “Descending the Mountain”, shows a five day meditation retreat where half of the participants were given psilocybin pills.
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All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. - Ming-Dao Deng
A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon
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Secret Tai Chi Training - by Earthbalance Taichi
A lot of Tai Chi and Qigong students practice secretly out in the wild. What is this secret training and how can you add it to your practice? It's being outside of your training space or studio, it could be somewhere in public or somewhere non Tai Chi related, in everyday clothes, doing every routines and sneaking some Tai Chi and Qigong practice into what you are doing. Examples:
- Standing in a supermarket queue and doing a variation of standing practice.
- Driving a car, paying attention to how you are using your shoulders, their alignment through movement, and being aware of unnecessary physical holding or tension.
- Standing in a queue, in a modified forwards bow stance, shifting weight subtly from 30-70% on each leg, switch legs.
- Walking somewhere, and being mindful with your posture e.g. lengthening the spine whilst rooting the hips (ding).
- Standing at the post office and modifying (shortening) the lower body silk reeling stance, going through a short training session.
- Sitting at your computer, paying attention to your posture, replicating as much as possible the correct Tai Chi and Qigong alignment.
- When gardening, use the strength of my waist, kua, core and lower body instead of my arms and shoulders.
- Practicing breathing colour into one of the yin organs the inner smile waiting in a queue.
- Attending a yoga class and adapting the movements to be more qigong based than yoga.
- Waiting in line, practicing empty stance leg and right. This is great single leg strength and conditioning training.
- Walking in the woods and practicing deep physical relaxation, either focusing on a specific body part as you move and observing and adjusting as you walk, or with an overall sense of physical release and ease.
- Standing at a bus stop and practicing connecting the pressure going into the ground with equal force in the opposite shoulder, switching from left to right (ground path, rooting with opposing force).
- Lying down in bed, aligning the body into a modified standing practice pose, using dantian breathing to fall off to sleep.
- Standing on a tube whilst it is travelling and taking a stable lower body stance e.g. a modified forwards bow stance, lowering your centre of gravity and maintaining stability through softening.
- Waiting in a queue and practicing expanding and compressing the joints in my shoulders, elbows, wrists and fingers, over a small range of motion.
- Picking something up off the floor by performing a full squat or a low stance (not out in public for this one!).
I have done all of these, and still do regularly. There's plenty you can do without anyone being the wiser. Queues are a firm favourite place! All you need is a single point of focus, and you can adapt most standing, sitting, lying down and walking activities. This is part of a life long practice.
