Emotional Qigong: Setting the stage for Mindful Thinking and Talking

In order to bring balance to life and to harmonize the inner and outer worlds, the ancient Chinese practice of Qigong incorporates 3 elements:

1. Body Posture + Movement

2. Breathing Techniques

3. Mental Focus

AWARENESS and NOTICING of the self with respect to: 

• the self (mind and body), 
• other
• the surrounding world 

is the key to maintaining a homeostatic balance between the inner and outer worlds of existence.  Homeostatic balance is important such that you can adjust your "mind and body attire" to that of the environment.  Awareness and noticing allows for power of choice.  If you are aware that it is psychologically raining, you know when to wear a rain coat, bring your own sun and or stay inside. If you don't know that it is psychologically raining, you will just enter the weather as is.

Emotions, life content and cognitive thought themes within our inner and outer worlds of existence are in constant flux, shifting and re-balancing over time.

Not only does awareness = more power, but the more we are in tune with our: 

• soma-holding patterns
• life breath
• thought processes 

 the closer contours we share with life, love and connection.

Being able to notice and make conscious mind and body adjustments paralleling life’s flux, helps to keep our beings function at optimal frequencies.  From an acupuncture perspective, "optimal being frequency" creates healthy functioning organs.  From a psychology perspective, it creates a sound state of mind.  From a social standpoint, loving and caring relationships are built from one's ability to adjust the self and adapt to surrounding changes based on awareness and noticing.

When our minds and bodies are in tune with each other, spiritual entering from the world moves into the being, and expansion from within is shared to the outer world.

We currently operate in such a fast-paced society that people are often not in tune with the micro-changes they need to be making in order to keep their systemic beings in harmony.

The point in time when people notice that changes need to be made is usually at the onset of symptoms, whether they be psychological, relational and/or medical.  If one slows down time and has awareness of subtle energetic shifts in his inner and outer worlds,  ongoing Emotional Qigong micro-shifts and adjustments can be made of 1,2,3 to keep the optimal contours of yin yang in balance such that love and connection is cultivated while decreasing onset of  various symptomology.

Conscious control of 1+2 in “slowed down time of the now,” primes the being for optimal mental focus.  In the space of optimal mental focus, "language of thought" and "language of speaking" can gently be guided and pruned into directions in which you want to grow, and in directions in which you want to cultivate the focus of your relationships.