Jost Sauer
aka the lifestyle medicine man
Born in 1958 in Germany, Jost has a Bachelor of Health Science (Acupuncture), Diploma in Oriental Massage and Certificates in Structural Balancing and Sports Injury Management. He began working as a therapist in 1991, qualified as a Doctor of Chinese Medicine, and lectured in traditional Chinese medicine for ten years. Jost has founded and operated health centres and has worked internationally with celebrity clients in USA.
Health and fitness has always been his passion and Jost’s background includes competitive skiing (at a national level), body-building and triathlon and ironman training. When he discovered Kung Fu and Tai-chi, he realized that fitness is only part of the equation – and vitality is the other. This led to decades more research into how to live, and into how nutritional supplements, an optimum diet, therapeutic exercise, weight-lifting, martial arts, meditation, tai-chi, and yoga, make you feel good.
Jost then added in the 24 hour movement of chi, a kind of Chinese Medicine version of the bodyclock, that connects day-to-day activities to the natural cycles, and developed his chi-cycle lifestyle. This is the ultimate in lifestyle medicine. It is founded on thousands of years of Chinese medicine, and over 30 years of Jost’s academic research and practical observations from living it. Jost is a dynamic and inspiring speaker, renowned for delivering inventive and entertaining presentations on lifestyle medicine and, as an ex-addict, lifestyle medicine for addiction.
Jost has a high media profile and is a regular contributor to health and lifestyle magazines. He is author of groundbreaking books including Higher and Higher, Drug Repair That Works and The Perfect Day Plan (Allen and Unwin), and The Rebel’s Guide to Recovery and Lovelife (Living Now Media). Jost is happily married to his soulmate and is passionate about electronic music and muscle cars.
The natural rhythm of life
There’s plenty of instructions for everything in life from assembling a bookshelf to learning how to drive, but when it comes to life, people make up their own rules. We skip meals, rush around non-stop, work all hours day or night, get no exercise and eat unhealthy foods. We live randomly.
If this occurred in nature it would be complete chaos. If tides flowed when they felt like it, plants flowered when it suited each individual plant, or rain fell when and where it wanted to, it would be disastrous for all life on earth. But this is exactly what we are doing to ourselves, and as a result the lifestyle diseases are estimated to kill 44 million people by 2020.
Lifestyle medicine and rhythm
Long ago I figured that if lifestyle is the problem, lifestyle is also the solution and a lifestyle rhythm is the key. Everything in the cosmos is interconnected and we are an integral part of this. We need to get aligned with the natural cycles, and follow the rhythm of life.
My simple therapeutic lifestyle, based on the ancient Chinese 24 hour chi cycle puts the rhythm back. It taps into the ‘intelligence’ of every 2 hours, to build chi, or energy, and create vitality, longevity, health and happiness. The Chinese call this way of living ‘aligning with Dao’. Follow the guidelines and your life will change.
Why we need rhythm in life
If you know when to get up, when to work, when to stop work, when and how to eat, sleep, pray, love and so on, everything you do can be beneficial, and can build your health and happiness, rather than creating illness and misery.
Random lifestyles deplete our chi, they make us feel lost, separated and confused. They increase the gap between the external world and your soul. As people drift further and further from themselves the need for medication in order to try and ‘keep everything together’ increases. But this creates a separated and increasingly unhealthy and unhappy society.
My Chi-cycle lifestyle hooks us into the power of the natural forces and offers a life of certainty. It also balances the material world, with an equally rich inner world, to remember that we are all souls having a human experience. In the Chi-cycle lifestyle every 2 hours is like tapping into the source and getting another top-up of purpose and meaning. By the end of each day you’re so in tune with life, you’ll feel supported, connected and you will love your life. This is our destiny, and this is real lifestyle medicine in action.
The benefits of lifestyle medicine
The benefits of lifestyle medicine are endless. Apart from looking younger, feeling fitter, slimming down and living longer, it builds such inner strength that other people’s opinions and beliefs become irrelevant, and you will naturally pursue what you were born to do, not what you think you are supposed to do. Follow the rhythm and live in harmony with the cycles of the powerful natural forces, you’ll naturally become more happy. You can start anytime and all you need is a clock!
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