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Muscles are medicine for body, mind and spirit

Weight training should be cool, because it is essential and medicinal. Daily resistance training improves mental outlook and all bodily functions. Muscles got some bad press in the 80s, meaning most of my clients associate weights with bulking-up, steroids and the oiled-up gym-junkies of the 80. As soon as…

Sovreignty and how to find your guidance within

Your organ clock (body clock) holds the secrets to sovereignty and spiritual self-guidance. Gurus and spiritual leaders introduced millions of people to meditation, self-awareness and spiritual practices, exactly what is needed to break free from the old and self-guide to the new. But according to those who are now…

How to navigate an emotional minefield

If you’re unable to say what you really think or feel on a daily basis, it’s like you’re living in an emotional minefield. This is basically a situation in which interacting with people could, at any moment, trigger intense emotional reactivity. It could be them, it could be you. …

Alcohol, Alchemy and Addiction

Alcohol, Alchemy and Addiction I did a post this week on alcohol, how in Chinese medicine wine can be therapeutic, and then got heaps of blowback such as ‘it’s ethanol and it shrinks your brain’, or ‘it’s toxic and you must never drink’. Since this is a drinking…

How to use chi to forgive and forget

If you often say “I’ll never forgive myself for…” or “I’ll never forgive… (fill in person, politician, organisation etc) for..”, you could be creating a mental health issue for yourself. Being unable to forgive creates stress, obsessive thought patterns, grudges or those re-running angry internal dialogues. This prevents inner peace, and…

How to get up early and get celestial

I use the word ‘cosmic’ a lot and people think: hippies, flares, flower-power. But it’s origins are ancient. In Daoist texts there are references to cosmic connection and cosmic chi as well as finding the cosmic self. It’s deeply spiritual but not religious. Cosmic chi is said to shower…