Yang-Sheng Honors The Healer Within

by DrJahnke on January 9, 2012

The most recent issue of Yang-Sheng, one of several excellent web based journals, has honored The Healer Within. The Healer Within is, foremost, the natural self-healing capacity of the human system and its inherent ability to produce the most profound medicine for no cost = FREE! This is one of the most under reported miracles in the history of human life. The Healer Within is also my first book on Qigong from Harper-Collins. Qigong, the amazing self-healing and Qi cultivation practice from Chinese pre-history, has powerful contemporary applications. Thank You Yang Sheng for your acknowledgement! May many be empowered!

Have a look at the “Flip Book” version by going to this site, look for the click for the flipbook in the upper right corner of the page:

http://yang-sheng.com/

Yang-Sheng Journal - Nurturing Life

The Healer Within, referencing the natural phenomena of inherent human self-healing capacity, is the solution to every kind of human problem – not just in health care and medicine. 75 -85% of disease is preventable (depending on the source). So mobilizing the healer within should be an international priority. Oddly, policy makers do not discuss this. In addition, when people are well and aware of their inherent power, other problems — drug abuse, family violence, lagging personal initiative, self-esteem — all improve too.

They say there is no panacea. This not true! Mobilizing the healer within creates some level of functional improvement – Spirit-Mind-Body — in every practitioner.

The Healer Within, referencing the Qigong, self-care, wellness practices in the book, is based on a very accessible form of Medical Qigong known as Bu Zhen Qigong. Bu Zhen means — to strengthen (Bu) the most right functioning natural self (Zhen). These practices are also translated to English as Vitality Enhancement Method. The intent is not so much to attack the disease, more it is to maximize the natural functional capacity. This is the natural ability to cultivate wellbeing through sustainable high level functionality. It is the birthright of all humans. Yet, it is a kind of secret that we keep from ourselves.

The Qigong practices in The Healer Within fall very clearly into what we call — in the Instructor/Teacher Training Curriculum of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) — the Four Baskets of Practice:

• Body – movement an posture,
• Breath,
• Self-applied massage,
• Meditation/visualization

The Healer Within is used by wellness and health promotion programs throughout the US and is translated into a number of foreign languages.

Kevin Chen

Rebecca Kali

Yang-Sheng means, in Chinese, Nourishing Life. Yang-Sheng is a body of knowledge, wisdom and practice that includes mind-body practice, nutrition, stress mastery that has descended from Chinese shamanism and China’s traditions of spiritual, psychological, social and personal refinement Daoism (Taoism), Buddhism and Confucianism. Kevin Chen a long time friend of the cultivation arts of Qigong and Tai Chi is the master editor and publisher and the this issue’s editor is Rebecca Kali. The issue is loaded with articles by many of the contemporary luminaries of Qigong and natural healing.

There are a number of other excellent journals that I will reference in coming posts.

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Here Comes Water Dragon

by DrJahnke on January 4, 2012

Chinese Water Dragon

The Chinese New Year, a week of celebration, commences on January 23rd. It is not too soon to turn your attention to this.

It is the Year of the Dragon — Water Dragon.

As with our western world association with the sun and moon, the Chinese revere the system of 12 months, though differently that we — based on stars, planets, sun and moon.

The Chinese view has not only a cycle of 12 – 30 day periods totaling 12 months for the year, they also honor a cycle of 12 years associated with the 12 major constellations thus 2000 was a Dragon Year, now 2012 is a Dragon Year.

Think on this a bit and we will talk about it some more as we approach the Lunar New Year celebration of the Water Dragon. The implications for the year are quite auspicious. The Dragon represents spirit, possibility, mystery, intuition, miracles, transcendence, immortality.

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Teacher Zhong from Wu Dang Mountain Expresses Essential Taiji (Tai Chi) Principles

by DrJahnke on January 2, 2012

INTEGRAL INSIGHTS:
Every approach to Taiji (Tai Chi) is worthy of note – for those who practice with the intent of tapping the essence of Taiji. The deepest principles appear, when practiced by a cultivated, attentive and consistent practitioner, in all the forms, families, schools, lineages and approaches. Integral Tai Chi or Essence Tai Chi (Taiji) is focused much less on a particular form and focused much more on bringing the archetypal principles of the cultivation arts into expression — the embodiment of Taiji.

Master Zhong carried a copy of The Healing Promise of Qi to the Wu Dang Mountain Academy after our meeting.

Check his Taiji Pole. Check his uninterrupted flow. Head on top, shoulders relaxed – very exemplary of the Integral Principles. The sound track is not that soothing, so you may want to launch some soothing music and turn down the YouTube volume.

Teacher Zhong from Wu Dang Mountain Expresses Essential Taiji (Tai Chi) Principles

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New Years – 1 Year Anniversary of this Blog – Calendars

by DrJahnke on December 31, 2011

Willow Jahnke Flying Kung Fu Leap

Happy all kinds of New Year!

Happy New Year – Solar Year – 12/22/11 – Winter Solstice on Shamanic Natural Rhythms Calendar – Innumereable Years – probably 100.000+ years

Happy New Year – Tax Year – 1/1/2012 – Christo-Roman Calendar – 2012 years

Happy New Year – Lunar Year – 1/23/2012 – Calendar of the Yellow Emperor – 4711 years (another estimate – 4709).

In all cases we are transitioning. I am celebrating the one year anniversary of this blog — born 12/31/2010 — and its readership .

Thanks so much for your support and comments.

Lucas Jahnke Flying Crane Kick

May this be the year that peace breaks out all over, the year that people world wide discover that they can heal themselves (that would be socio-spiritual history and about time), the year that all societies realize how much easier and how much less painful it would be to collaborate .

Included are two of my favorite new citizens (Willow and Lucas, my grand kids) celebrating New Years and much more with their 2011 versions of Kung Fu (Gongfu).

The photos are of Willow Jahnke and Lucas Jahnke, my grandchildren.

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The Tai Chi of Life – Cultivation and the Transition from Winter Yin to Spring Rising of Yang

by DrJahnke on December 26, 2011

Just as the weight shifts, In Tai Chi, slowly from the right leg to the left, the seasons shift from fall and winter to spring and summer. Balance — the Tai Chi — is in the middle between the the two – The Equinoxes.

For the sake of this continuing discussion on the Tai Chi of the Seasons, Spring and Fall are when the weight is on both feet, evenly. Winter is shifting the weight onto the back foot. Summer is when the weight is committed forward.

In terms of Tai Chi and Qigong theory, we are in the season when the weight shifts back — in preparation. Later the weight shifts forth — in expression. We are now in the season of preparation, restoration, reflection. No wonder there are so many holidays this time of year. But then — if this is the season of rest, recovery, preparation and reflection, why do most rush around so crazily?

Back Foot - Prepare, Reflect

Front Foot - Deliver, Express

In the Tai Chi of Life, it is the season to lean back, consider, read, write — deepen the breaths of life. Even as I do the work of composing this Blog-thought I am reminded to breath deeply, stop for a moment and count my gratitudes.

Maybe this week, some moments of reflection, a little more Tai Chi, reflection on balancing work and life!

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The Qi and Tai Chi (Taiji) of Christmas – A Personal View

by DrJahnke on December 25, 2011

We celebrate Christmas for two practical reasons:

— every culture, everywhere celebrates the Winter Solstice around this time as the hopeful sign of the end of the cooling seasons (Full Yin) and the beginning of the warming seasons ( Commencing Yang). This season reveals the Tai Chi of our Solar experience.

— Jesus, Son of Nazareth, son of Mary and Joseph, a profoundly advanced master of the energy arts, was born on or near this day.

It is such a blessing of convenience that there is a transnational, transdenominational connection to nature for all societies to celebrate together at this time.

Season of Light

Shamans, Qi Cultivators and Magi from every distant land witnessed that star.

I am personally a Christian with the greatest appreciation for Jesus, his family and the best practices of his lineage – love, compassion, forgiveness. Jesus assuredly had amazing teachers and his father, our father — universal essence — loves and instructs us just as S/He loved and instructed Jesus — through direct revelation. That is, it seems very likely, our practice.

The views of Jesus on the cultivation of our transcendental nature are very pure inspiration.

Two favorite quotes from the Master:

“The light in the body is concentrated in the eye: if therefore thine eye be single (focused on ONEness), thy whole body shall be full of light.“

Matthew 6:22, 23

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the Father. And whatsoever you ask in hallowed sincerity, that will be supported, so that the ONEness (Our Father) may be glorified in the in the Sons and Daughters.“

John 14:12,13

Regarding translation – Jesus spoke in Aramaic and was translated many times and ways under the influence of Hebrew, Byzantine, Greek, Alexandran (Egytian), Roman, and finally European culture, language and politics. It is fair to suspect that any number of alterations were injected in these phrases. Just as the translators felt comfortable finding the words to use, you are invited to consider what words express what you sense Jesus was saying.

Enjoy the influx of Light, may it be enlightening!

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Special Qigong Occurrence

by DrJahnke on December 8, 2011

As a preliminary thrill in the Solstice Energetics – the December Full Moon.

It is auspicious to experience the sun setting and moon rising at almost the same time – Friday evening.
Even better and more coordinated Saturday morning – moonset, sunrise.
Yin Yang Convergence!
These times are for Santa Barbara CA, check you own at:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunrise.html
Full Moon rise is Friday at 4:17 PM, it should come over the mountain by 4:45 PM.
Sunset is at 4:49 PM.
Perfect timing for witnessing both!
THEN, if you are open to an early rise:
Moonset is at 6:58 AM on Saturday Morning.
Sun Rise is at 6:54.
Even more perfect timing!
Potentially 2 doses of very rich Qi!
May the simultanousness of Yin and Yang infuse you with a rush of Universal Energetics!!

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