The Vagus Nerve returns in this article
a good read and remember 4 things to do, to turn on the Vaga Nerve and the Enteric Nerve connection (brain stem to gut)
1. Cough (gag reflex)
2. Gargle
3. Sing Loudly (which will make you laugh)
4. Coffee enemas (works from the bottom up!)
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Yang (Green Dragon) Tonifying Forms
Notes from Master Zhenzan Dao:
The Yang Tonifying forms can be done any time the Yang energy is weak or deficient. It is usually practiced at the beginning of spring through summer. And in the Zenith of the Yin time middle to end of January. It is important to practice the Yin Tonifying forms during this time as well.
One's sudden need for daring, for travel, inward or outward - these are spiritual callings. The old medicine called the characters of the organs "humors", and their management is not through control but with understanding and love. The Qigong form feeds the essence of the Yang "humor" on both a medical and spiritual level.
Begin with Maximum Yang Stance
Flapping
1. Wood/Liver: Repression Form
2. Fire/Heart: Warrior
3. Earth/Spleen: Serving the Plate
4. Metal/Lung: The Crane
5. Water/Kidney: Straddling the River
Maximum Yang Stance (briefly)
Flapping
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Yin (White Tiger) Tonifying Forms
We begin to focus now into the deepest Yin of each of the organs, to nourish through the winter.
The Yin is the most important because it is the source and the return. It is the source of all manifestation and the destination of the return. The Yin field is the body, the Yang field is the clothes. The Yin field is the mind, and the Yang field is the works of expression produced by the mind. The Yin field is the soul, and the Yang field is the spirit. The Yin field is love, and the Yang field is feeling and emotion.
Each organ/element has Yin aspects, functions and needs, therefor we practice all of the elemental Yin forms beginning with Wood (liver) Wiping the Pond. Its spiritual purpose is growth and hope, nourishing original vision and retrieval of original (childhood) gifts. Yin aspect is Nurturance.
The second form is Fire (heart) Flame Shaping. Expressions, passion, power, fruition - full potential, The Yin aspect is Form (memory).
The third form is Earth (spleen) Walking the Bear. Balance (management of opposing forces), stability, association-connecting, friendship. The Yin aspect is Profundity.
The fourth form is Metal (lungs)Eternal Wings. Discernment, warriorship, wisdom. The Yin aspect is Transparency.
The fifth form is Water (kidney) Effortless Rowing. Nurturing, life and death and birth, eternity. The Yin aspect is Understanding.
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Warm-up Exercises:
- Finger Stretches, 1 breath each finger
- Rowing
- Back traction - standing, sitting, lying down
- Sitting Twists
- Kippalabatti breathing "fire in the belly"
- Uddiyana breaths - frees fascia for intuitive body
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Qigong 2 - Fri
Zang-Fu Forms
Morning Medical
(12 meridians direct to organs) to optimize health
The spiritual significance of the forms, realize the archetypes found in nature, in our psycho-spiritual nature to be the same. The center is the human need for unity, balance and love. Qigong is the action to finding, the prayer of ancient Daoism, some call the Original Soul. This soul is the medicine, the body movement its application through nature for healing. Qigong has been one of pillars of Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousands of years. These archetypal forms can be found in life, in the nautilus, in the pyramids, in the simplicity of the circle, it becomes something we feel, sense and connect with. Beyond words it is present in the practice.
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