In the Chinese culture, San Fu Tian “三伏天” means the optimum growth period during Summer. In this post, discover the best time period to improve your body’s physiological your body’s functions.
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The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year, it is on the June 18th of the western calendar.
The Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is quite interesting:
Chu Yuan was a scholarly government official and was respected by many people. However, his rivals were jealous of him and had him framed which led to the emperor’s court disfavor. Chu Yuan was depressed and he took his own life by jumping into the Mi Lo River.
A lot of people went to ride in their boats to try and find him and at the same time throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the river in order to appease the river dragons.
After this incident, every year people commemorate Chu Yuan with the boat race and by eating rice dumplings.
Quick Tip: this time period has the highest Yang Qi so it would be a good idea to see Dr. Wu so he can bring you good Qi into your body and let the bad Qi out.
Have you ever wondered about the history of how we came to have a “Father’s Day”?
In 1909, Sonora Smart Dodd sat in church to listen the story of Mother’s Day and she wondered how come there was a Mother’s Day but not a Father’s Day. Thus, the following year, she decided to petitioned for the holiday in her city.
On the first Father’s Day, young women honored their fathers by bringing them roses. White and Red Roses are considered the official flowers for Father’s Day. The red roses are for living fathers and the white roses are for deceased fathers.
In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation to honor the fathers.
Finally in 1972, President Richard Nixon signed into law to let the third weekend of June becomes an official holiday. Today, Father’s Day is celebrated in many parts of the world. In the United States, Canada and several countries in Asia, Father’s Day is the third Sunday in June.
In Chinese Astrology, an important kind of calendar is what’s known as the the “24 solar terms”. This indicates changes of weather and different periods of the seasons, guiding farmers in their agricultural production. Common people also follow the calendar to watch out for changes in the weather and live healthier lives.
Part of the twenty-four solar terms embody natural phenomena listed here:
June 6th marks the beginning of “Grain In Ear (芒种)” – which signifies the ripening of crops such as barley and wheat.
What do you need to do?
1. Pay attention to Heatstroke – the temperature will begin to rise significantly during this period.
2. The heat makes it easy to sweat, so clothes should be exchanged frequently. Take frequent baths, but do not shower with cold water..
3. Be careful not to sleep in the open air.
4. Conforming to the seasonal characteristics of the day and night, late to bed and early to rise, enjoy the sunshine but need to prevent heat stroke, to comply with the vigorous Yang, and to be conducive to the operation of Qi and blood.
What to eat?
Diet should be light, mainly vegetables, beans, fruits: pineapple, watermelon, lychee and so on. These foods are rich in vitamins, can improve the body’s resistance to disease, and intake of enough vitamin C, blood vessels have a certain role in maintenance.
And what you should watch out?
After a lot of sweating, don’t drink too much boiled water or sugar water immediately. You can drink some juice or sugar brine to prevent blood potassium from being too low. Proper supplement of potassium is conducive to improving potassium and sodium balance in vivo. Foods that contain more potassium include corn, sweet potatoes, soybeans, bananas, spinach, celery and potatoes.
* You can ask Dr. Wu for individualized dietary items based on his checking your Qi through your pulse.
Daoism and Yijing believe humans came from fish and birds, not monkeys. It actually contradicts Darwin’s Theory. Whether or not you believe in the myths of mermen and mermaids, there is still other things to consider like the similarity of the human embryo to that of a fish and even some fish look like human babies.
In this year’s Qi Gong practice we will learn of the Golden Cocooning – and when we emerge from our cocoon it will be synonymous to the act of descaling a fish; like the silk worm shedding the cocoon to reveal itself as the moth.
In the Taiji philosophy, Yin is a fish and Yang is a bird. The curved line between them symbolizes that the fish and the bird, the ying and the yang, become human.
In this cultivation, the Yang-bird symbolizes how our spirit and soul is going to rise out of us. So from the cocoon, to the emergence out of it, to the transcendence over soul and spirit, only after that can we shed the flesh and transform the bones – the ultimate transformation – after which is us, human.
Daoism requires anyone who practices this cultivation to cyclically train in this every seven years. The same as the practice of putting a crystal ball in the ocean to cleanse.
Benefits of this practice:
Through this cultivation it will enhance your thinking, your soul and your body.
Through this cultivation we need to find ourselves. We need to combine the Bird with the Fish – to press them together to become human. Through this cultivation when you compress the two parts of the taiji it will boost your health, and at the same time you will resdiscover the most innate and natural part of yourself.
Through this cultivation, you can see your future, or rather, you can see some of the correct decisions you will have chosen in the future (because a lot of times not all of our decisions are good ones). Many of our mistakes do not emanate from us, but rather it’s due to many factors, such as the pollution of the earth has clouded us, and the electric fields that surround us that make us lose our sense of direction.
Thus, the supreme goal is the ultimate combination of Heaven, Earth and Human.
The 9 PALACES QI GONG practice represents one of the highest achievements of the ancient Chinese Taoist tradition of Qi Gong. It is an extremely powerful form of breathing, movement and meditation which draws yang energy from the Sun and opens communication with the universe. Qi (chi) is life-force energy, which not only flows through the human body but through all of nature. While practicing
9 PALACES QI GONG, you allow sunlight and Qi in the air to recharge the body like a battery.
9 PALACES QI GONG is a powerful and effective way to increase your energy, manage stress, strengthen the immune system and maintain optimum health. Daily practice brings a calm, relaxed state of well-being and promotes the following:
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