Flowing Zen

Valentine’s day is a day meant for love. But typically, the love is projected outward rather than inward. What if, instead of focusing so much love outward, you focused some of it inward? Would that be wrong?

Stop kidding yourself. You’re not ready to quit. And that’s okay. The sooner you admit that you’re not ready, the sooner you’ll be able to quit once and for all.

It’s that time of the year again: Time break your New Year’s resolutions! Okay, maybe not yet. Maybe you’ll last a few more days, or even weeks. But chances are, you’re not going to keep those resolutions. And you probably know it.

What if there was a technique with the power to dramatically increase your overall happiness in 2013? What if, by practicing this one technique, you could also strengthen all of your New Year’s resolutions? And what if the technique was not only simple, but enjoyable. Would you be interested?

It can help to think of Qigong as medicine. If you aren’t getting the results that you want, then the first place to look is at the dosage of that medication. Are you taking enough medicine? Do you even know what the proper dosage is?

More and more often, people think that there’s no need to learn face-to-face from a master. They think it can all be learned from books and videos. They are wrong.

Why do my students get such amazing results? One of the biggest secrets is in how we practice. We don’t, for example, practice for hours at a time. Instead, we practice for just 15 minutes. The crazy thing is that we get better results in 15 minutes than most people do in an hour!

I’m a lot like most Americans. I live in the suburbs. I work 60-70 hours per week. I have student loans and credit card bills. I empty the dishwasher and walk the dog. But unlike most Americans, I live a stress-free life.

Early on in my training with Grandmaster Wong, I noticed that some students accomplished in 10 months what it took other students took 10 years to accomplish. I’ve always been fascinated by efficiency, so I wanted to find out how they did it. Of course, I also wanted to be one of them.

You had a wonderful experience with Qigong and Tai Chi in the beginning. But then life got in the way, and you stopped practicing. Maybe it’s been a few months since you practiced regularly. Maybe even years. Of course, you’ve tried to start practicing again, but there’s never enough momentum to keep things going. You know you should take care of yourself, but maybe this stuff just isn’t for you…