For this month’s regular open-audience, open-discussion “Ask Us Anything” — continuing discussions about meditation and related topics — Denny and I address present day popular topics of interest related to, and expanding upon, last month’s AUA on Qigong and Daoyin.
First and foremost, as our presentation states, this is not medical advice. We share information and knowledge from our own study, practice and experiences. Please consult a health care professional while considering any new treatments and/or changing your current professional medical care.
Denny starts by sharing statistics on CV and some of the correlations with high blood pressure. We then move into approaching hypertension from various angles, including the power of the mind, but most notably, the importance and interrelationship of high blood pressure with Qi from a place of common sense as well as some of the intricacies. We wrap up by quickly listing my follow up questions to our previous presentation on Qi (since we ran out of time.)
Here are our original notes not in linear order to how our talk unfolded:
(From Josh)
- Lots of information and suggestions here. Can always go back and listen again. Don’t take my word for this, use it as a starting point for your own research.
- Western medicine can be divided into two: Allopathic and Naturopathic. It’s said with Allopathy folks often die from the cure while with Naturopathy folks die from the ailment.
- Western medicine is not an enemy. For immediate stuff like broken bones, accidents and heart attacks ER medicine is highly effective. It would be daunting to go up against trillions of dollars in doctors, pills, treatments, biotech and the power to lock down the planet pretty much overnight. Fighting something rarely helps change it. As the fifth verse of the Dhammapadda says, “Hatred is, indeed, never appeased by hatred in this world. It is appeased only by loving-kindness. This is an ancient law.” I won’t advocate nor discourage lawsuits and protests but recommend other options, mostly from an individual level, especially starting off:
- Must do your own research to be prepared if/when interacting with healthcare professionals. Without doing so it is perhaps like walking around telling everybody you can find out all kinds of stuff because you have access to a search engine, but you’d rather talk about this instead of actually using it for research. Research can lead to encouragement, empowerment and self-responsibility too.
- Can then respectfully ask questions and present what you’ve learned to health care professionals and from a place of care and not concern. Care comes from thoughtfulness. Concern is derived from fear. It is possible to care without being concerned. And our attitude determines our attitude. Doctors are unlikely to be receptive if approached with a lack of respect and an agenda to denigrate and invalidate their industry and profession.
- Suggested topics to research for anyone regularly involved with healthcare professionals for self and others:
- HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
- Informed Consent
- Living Wills and Advanced Directives
- Health Care/Medical Power of Attorney
- Patient Bill of Rights
- Putting a call into whatever medical board oversees the healthcare area one is involved with
- Medical License Lookup
- (Free) Medical Terminology Course(s)
- Other suggestions:
- Western medicine is perhaps seeing the writing on the wall and increasingly adopting the idea of holistic medicine. Even if this is just lip service, if they have it in writing, even if it is vague, and you are informed about true holistic healthcare, you can hold them to it.
- What we focus on we give energy to. So more time and focus on preventive care. And once issues are known, direct more time and energy on positive treatments and solutions without expectations and attachments to particular outcomes.
- Five daily reflections — sickness, old-age, death, separation and self-responsibility — not as a bummer, but to align with the truth of how things are in reality currently. Aligning with truth supports happiness. Also help realize the value and preciousness of every moment.
- Integrating Presence’s long linked list of Healing Modalities and Resources
1. I am of the nature to grow old.
2. I am of the nature to have ill health.
3. I am of the nature to die.
4. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.
5. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. Actions are the womb from which I have sprung.
- Misc mentions:
- An advanced microcosmic orbit may be to have the attention following up and down at the same time starting from both the head and the bottom instead of just one point going up and going down again. And maybe an even more advanced have this same thing going at the same time but in the opposite direction. Unsure what kind of effect such a reversal could/would have though
- High blood pressure also from some pharmaceuticals and the White Coat Syndrome. Placebo and Nocebo Effects can maybe also play a role.
- There’s also the central nervous system which I guess is more like the headquarters and there’s the peripheral nervous system which I’ve heard can sometimes be involved in sensing (more subtle) energies
Follow up questions we ran out of time for:
- How do the mind, exercises, therapy, substances, cosmic energy and original essences interrelate?
- Are there any (mythological) stories surrounding how various knowledges about Qi were discovered?
- Did any of the spiritual qigong teachings survive in texts, traditions, and/or societies?
- Does experimental vs. experiential have to be a dialectic or dichotomy?
- How exactly did Shifu Ji Ru develop the five breathing exercises?
- Denny address these follow up questions (somewhat) in some newer posts:
(From Denny)
- FACT: lots of people died from COVID-19
- As of February, about 498,000 deaths in United States (1.5% of total population, currently 3rd most likely cause of death after heart attacks and cancer)
- FACT: not everyone who tested positive had a severe reaction to COVID
- About 27.8M infected so far (about 8.5% of total population)
- About 1 in 6 becomes seriously ill (i.e., 17% of infected has to be hospitalized)
- Death rate is about 1.8% of total infected or about 10% of the hospitalized
- FACT: those who became seriously ill and even death had a history of high blood pressure and related heart diseases
- Report on data from China and US shows 30 to 50% of patients who had died from COVID have high BP
- another report from Europe shows 76%
- yet another report shows 99% have at least one of these conditions (high BP or heart-related, cancer, diabetes, or lung disease)
- FACT: In the United States, we have reasonably good health systems, but one-third of our population (more than 100 million) have high BP. Most of those with high BP are seniors which are covered under Medicare so they are sufficiently medicated such that their BP is typically under control (but not cured!!!!)
- Commonly known causes for high blood pressure
- High salt intake
- Low ambient temperature
- Smoker
- High stress
- “Flight or Fight”
- Sympathetic autonomic nerve system activated
- Cortisol in blood stream increasing heart rate
- Adrenaline fatigue
- Not sufficient circulation, i.e., lack of blood and oxygen supply to vital organs causing heart rate to increase in order to compensate
- FACT: western medicine often fix symptoms but not disease
- Qi is Blood & Qi 血氣, blood is oxygen, Qi 氣 which is 气 + 米, i.e., air and rice, so what we call Qi is in fact the vitality of our 12 major organs, which are divided into three groupings.
- Above the diaphragm: including our heart and lung which are responsible for supplying blood and oxygen through the entire body
- Between the diaphragm and our belly button: including stomach+spleen and liver+gallbladder, which are responsible for digestion, nutrients extraction and storage, and detoxification of our blood stream
- Below the belly button: including our small and large intestines and kidney+bladder, responsible for digestion (fermentation), waste management and hormonal activation
- High blood pressure is not a sickness but a warning signal of deeper physical and mental problems (blockage of Qi means one or two of our vital organs are crying for help)
- Treating high BP by eliminating only the symptoms is akin to manslaughter by dereliction of duty
- In the United States, our “Health Care” system is in fact “Sick Care”.
- More on Qi and the practice of Qi (addressing the addendum)
- The 12 meridians corresponding to the 12 vital organs
- 6 originating in the fingers and 6 in the toes
- Out of each set of 6, 3 are yin (receptive or the moon) and 3 are yang (active or the sun)
- Two of the eight extraordinary meridians
- The Conception vessel which is related to the 6 yin organs (pre natal)
- The Governing vessel which is related to the 6 yang organs (post natal)
- Science behind microcosmic orbit and abdominal breathing
- Science between “patting” of meridians
- The 12 meridians corresponding to the 12 vital organs
3/2/21 UPDATE: Denny published the following related article on his Patreon, reposted here by permission:
High Blood Pressure is a Warning, not a Sickness (by Denny K Miu)
America is the wealthiest country in the world. Our health care system might not be the best but it is still considered world class, an envy for much of the rest of the world.
This is true especially if you are over 65 and covered by Medicare or if you work full-time for a major corporation and covered by their health insurance plan.
Furthermore, for the last six years with ObamaCare, even those who are self-employed or under-employed, or even living below the poverty line, could have some kind of basic health care protection.
But yet one-third of our citizens, over 100 million of them, whether they are wealthy or poor, have high-blood pressure.
High BP is easy to diagnose and easy to care for with prescription medicines which are almost always free or highly subsidized.
But high blood pressure is not a sickness and cannot be cured by just treating the symptoms. It is in fact a warning for some much deeper underlying physical and mental health issues.
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A few days ago, the United States have just passed an important milestone. Half of a million of our fellow Americans have died from Covid-19.
Not all who were infected had severe enough reaction that they had to be hospitalized, only one out of six.
And not all who were hospitalized had to die, only one out of ten.
But among those who died, more than half of them had high blood pressure.
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Covid-19 is an indictment on our health care system and the pharmaceutical industrial complex.
Number one: our health care system is sickness care. No one cares about your health, they care only about subscribing drugs to cure the sickness.
Number Two: high blood pressure is not a sickness. But it is treated like one. High blood pressure prescription drugs deal only with the symptoms. No one bother to treat the cause.
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Covid-19 is the great equalizer.
If you have high blood pressure and you are infected with Covid, you will die.
You die because someone have committed manslaughter by their dereliction of duty.
Those who are in charged of your care have eliminated the symptoms of your high blood pressure, purposely silencing your only material witness and your cry for help.
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In this recent video, Josh and I talked about the two primary causes for high blood pressure: high stress and bad circulation, and how you could take charge of your own health and the health of your aging parents by exercising, deep breathing and by reversing adrenal disorders.
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The raw unedited YouTube transcription of this podcast:
evening welcome to another episode of aua ask us anything
and today again once again we have josh and denny and we’re going to call them the yin and
yang now of buddha dharma
they’re the same you can’t have one without the other right yeah so so um so we have an interesting
um topic today um kind of why don’t you kind of give us the kind of the background on that why why
did we kind of gravitated gravitated towards this guy well
today’s show start with the title here um um corona 19 hypertension and key now
notice i didn’t say the the the mainstream word for it because um it it attracts algorithms you know
which can be good or bad but the the main point today that we’re going to mention about the
the cv is just enough to to move on to um solutions and prevention right so
that’s not going to be the big part of the show just enough to to move into how we can overall switch
our focused uh solutions and prevention um but the the title came from uh last show we did a thing on uh
um chi uh basically life force energy right so if there’s any if there’s any time at
the end there’s so there’s an addendum with other questions i have we might be able to pick up with that um but what
so yeah like i said the intention for this is not to get any reactions but it’s to switch
once we know what’s wrong or what’s what we uh what the thing is then we can focus on prevention and
and solutions because hardly anybody can argue with that even if they’re just paying lip service to those things
you know uh pretty much everybody’s on board unless you’re like a nihilist or something so you know i actually have plenty of
questions on uh the corona but it’s beyond the scope of this show and uh it wouldn’t be really helpful
here either um and then one important point to point out though a
lot of this um that we’re experiencing now with this is it’s it comes it seems to be boiled down uh on a deep
level to fear of sickness and death um so that’s not what our focus is gonna
be on so much today it’s how how we can respond to that um
because you know what we what we put our energy on um what we put our attention and focus
on is what we give energy to so so instead of focusing on the the horrors and what’s wrong and how
bad it is so we just get the the you know the general facts uh that
we’re gonna put out here briefly and then we’re focused on uh what we can do about it right what the uh
what the solutions are and then i’ll go denny’s got a uh presentation prepared and i’ll interject here and there with some other
notes i have prepared so uh with that uh if there’s anything else you’d like to add to the intro otherwise take it away denny
okay thank you josh so so um as it turns out i just just right before
the show right before josh came on um i got an email from google that one of my video that i put on my personal
channel not not the not the not the official um does i record channel which was
really a repose of another video that was done in cantonese that talks about the
the corona and it was taken down because um it was considered medical advice and
it wasn’t even mine it wasn’t mine thank you for that yeah so so so i i am i am very grateful for josh
to keep reminding me that not only for our own uh protection that we don’t want to talk
about um we don’t want to be giving away medical advice um but that there’s there’s almost 100
chance that google would take it down if you do give medical advice and thank you for reminding that too that should have been the first thing i
remembered so we’re here to help remind each other and practice mindfulness together right so yes these
are this is not medical advice this is um things we found online and
and things we found helpful in our own practice for prevention and uh and general
health health in general um but now this is not considered medical advice so before you do anything that might be
suggested here do you know do your own research and ask a health care uh professional before you um engage in
any and the topics i hear here too especially if you have a health condition right so yeah yeah yeah so just another you know just
kind of put it in in a in a in a human way just think of the the nail the hammer okay we only got one
hammer which is which is mindfulness and and the you know practice of cheese so you know
we’re just hitting it okay all right so let’s go uh we we spent quite a bit of time on
that already so um all right so so the topic of today is is corona hypotension and
importance of chi and we’re going to be focusing on chi the importance of qi and this is a
continuation of the talk that josh and i gave last month always at the last tuesday of
the month last month when we talked about qigong and tau yin and so this is kind of
continuation of that but i thought that it would be good to to kind of bring in the present day
uh situations which which is the corona um so facts about the corona
um and this is just the facts ma’am okay we don’t we’re not adding anything here
so so lots of people had died that’s for sure now as of yesterday we have half a
million people we had just crossed the half a million mark um so you might say well what does that
mean because we have 320 million people in the country so that’s that’s less than point two percent uh it doesn’t
seem like a lot but it’s a lot okay that’s more people than we have in st louis
and that’s almost as many people as we have in san francisco especially if you don’t count the the
that’s a lot of people so right now um as it stands this year anyway it’s only
been a year and it’s a number three cause of death now after heart attacks and and cancer
so um a little bit more facts uh turns out that um not everyone who
had been tested corona positive had a uh had a severe reaction a lot of
people you know it was just like it’s just like a mild flu maybe i actually have a have a niece who
caught it and it was just one night and then the next day was fine so so this is a great kind of a strange
strange disease that not every it doesn’t affect everyone the same
but in any case um just think about how many people have been affected it’s close to 30 million people 28.2
million as of yesterday so that’s almost 10 percent of the population that got infected
but only a fraction of that became seriously ill okay so so the statistic
is that about 1 6 of the people who got infected who were test positive actually was seriously enough so
it was serious it’s not just that they had a reaction but the reaction was severe enough that they had to go to the hospital now
now if you do your math and because those two numbers are easy to find which is the total infected
and the total depth so then if you do your math then it’s actually pretty simple um it basically says that
um one sixth of the uh 28.2 million is 4.7 million
so half a million death means that um the the death rate among those who are
hospitalized is about 10 10 11
now that’s pretty high that’s pretty high imagine you you you have a car and you
have to take it into the dealership for maintenance and every 10 times the serviceman comes up and says sorry it’s total you got to
get a new one that’s not very good statistics that’s that’s a bad business model
okay so for that it’s pretty high now
so a little bit more facts so so it turns out that out of the people who actually die
i’m talking about the the the 11 of the people who actually 10 10.6 percent are there many many of them have
high blood pressure that is a fact so so some some data from china
and from from years showed that about 50 of the people who had died who who who who suffered
severe enough reaction that they went into the hospital and eventually die 50 of those have high blood pressure so
that’s sort of what we want to talk about is really what’s going on what is high blood pressure has to do with qi
that’s what we really want to talk about so and then more data some of the initial data of
course everybody knows that in italy they were the first country that was that was really hit badly in europe in the first wave
they showed that 76 of the people had high blood pressure now today
if you take all the data there are plenty of reports out there that says that um this this corrupt this corona thing
it really is is bad for people who have underlying sickness so
for example my dad has uh high blood pressure or a little bit not so bad but he does have diabetes and dementia
okay so he would be a very high risk of chemistry if he suffer he’s infected he he he won’t make
it okay so if you have any one of those you have no chance of leaving the hospital
99 of anyone that has any one of those underlying conditions would not make it
now i think it i want to do a little reflection here um i mean come on you know the united
states is is still a first world country we have pretty good health care system especially if you
have insurance and or you know if you’re covered under medicare but yet our citizens are not
healthy one-third of our citizens have high blood pressure
the the people who had died from the corona um most of them are seniors which means
that they were all uh covered by medicare which means that they were they even though they had high
blood pressure they were they were properly medicated
okay so what’s going on you know so you would think that if you go to the doctor
and the doctor said that you have high blood pressure and it gives you medicine and then and then you know holy behold your blood
pressure goes down you’re a normal person you’re a cure right
now the the the following slide is not an opinion the following slide is
an experience i take care of my parents who are in the mid 80s my wife take care
of her mother who are in the 90s we know a lot about our health care system we
know that our doctors are not really there to fix problems they’re there to fix
symptoms we know that every time you go in there i personally when i go in there and
and i’m looking at the doctor right josh we talk about the white coat syndrome yes that’s a that’s a really
important point the white coat syndrome yeah so as soon as they as soon as i i
see the doctor or my dad sees the doctor you know we our blood pressure goes up
and what you know and then they won’t let you leave until they give you a prescription
and this is a documented studied fact there’s tons of studies as far as i know on the white coat syndrome you can look
it up and how that works yeah now i i have a lot of respect for the
medical uh professionals don’t take me wrong and but i tell you
man the guy that works behind the counter at the walgreens
they’re not the only salesman for the pharmaceutical industry you know the doctors are trained to i
mean for every sickness there’s a drug and maybe two and and there’s two you get both
and a lot of them cause side effects that uh that require other drugs for the side effects as well
that’s right that’s right so i remember that um my doctor keep my keep wanting my dad to
um to to to do a test on his kidney and he said well there’s nothing wrong with
this kidney oh no he says we want to make sure that there’s no side effect
i said what and that’s another thing right there’s so many i shouldn’t say required um to do that
but that’s you know that they often uh are known to cause side effects which then more prescriptions are
uh prescribed to treat those side effects and yeah that’s another thing as well that’s uh that’s a common um
criticism is a lots of test order that dude all those tests need to be ordered
well i don’t know i don’t know how to answer that yeah yeah okay well uh enough of that so
i i i understand all that so i i became the
primary the prime contractor you know i became the prime contractor and so i take care
of my parents in terms of keeping them healthy and i let the doctors take care of the sickness
that’s the only thing you can do you just especially if you have a elderly parent who
who has a number of specialists and you know i mean i remember one time
my mom has a problem with the knee and i i got a referral to a doctor
and you know after about half an hour of and i realized that um then they asked
me more and then i would i said no i got the wrong specialist i need the one for the for the knee not
for the heel wow yeah it’s it’s um i think there’s a
term at least in missouri called a uh health care power of attorney maybe that’s um
so you’re uh i if i’m getting this right you’re authorized to make uh health care decisions on behalf of
someone else who’s not able to make them on their own i don’t have that i don’t have that piece of paper but by
by by default i am because i have to translate everything i see okay so yeah that’s that’s a
that’s a right that people can look up to a health care power of attorney it might be a different length or a term
in other states at the minimum you need a uh you need a letter maybe not as formal as a power
attorney pop a at the very minimum you need a letter that that says that you can talk to the
insurance company okay yeah i think there’s just there could be standard forms to just print
out and sign as well i don’t know if they need to be notarized or what but that’s another thing if anybody’s interested they can
look up find out about okay okay so these are again this is this is
really just my own experience that i want to share so but now this is the punch line the
punch line is is one third of a citizen 100 million and more
have high blood pressure but high blood pressure by itself is not a sickness but yet the doctor is
treated as a sickness it is in fact a a warning signal that
there’s something wrong with you either physically or mentally or both
so again we’re not giving out medical advice i’m not asking you not to go see a doctor my my parents are medicated for high
blood pressure no problem with that but i just i think that what we want to share with you
is how how their alternatives how do you how do you
really um take responsibility for your health by really understanding the the true cause for blood high blood
pressure and and denny yeah i just i think this would be a good point to jump in with some of my other points here about that
um yeah in my my mother she’s on high blood pressure medication as well so um so this
shouldn’t go off too much in a tangent there’s just some points so if you if this is a lot of information which it
probably is you can just pause this and go back i just wanted to make a quick note if anybody’s on the audio version
we’re going to try to some of the charts coming up we’ll try to um verbalize those as much as we can
they’re fairly visual uh but not too much there so you know like like denny was saying
we’re not against uh um traditional uh or western medicine right because
that’s if i if i break a bone or if i get in an accident or if i um you know have a heart attack or
anybody i know have the er is probably the best place to go you know not to just you know seek out
alternative medicine at that point um western medicine can be divided into
allopathic and naturopathic and they often say allopathic it folks often die from the cure while
with naturopathy folks can die from the ailment so allopathic basically means the traditional western
medicine and naturopathic means you know the alternative stuff so like i say western medicine’s not an
enemy and um you know but they do have a lot of power right so it’s it’s daunting to go up
against trillions of dollars in doctors and experts and pills and treatments and biotechs and
locking down the planet pretty much overnight but fighting something rarely uh in my experience helps change it at all
so like bring it back to the dharma the dhammapada the fifth verse says hatred is indeed
never appeased by hatred in this world it is appeased only by loving kindness
this is an ancient law so you know i won’t advocate or just or just nor discourage lawsuits and protest but the
thing here is that there’s there’s other options that danny and i are gonna get into uh to consider
um in addition to especially on the individual level starting off and the the biggest thing is you know do doing
your own research um you know there’s a uh
because if you don’t it’s kind of this is maybe not a napped analogy but it’s like going around telling people
you have the search engine in your pocket you can look up anything but then you spend more time um you know
telling people that instead of actually using the search engine right and this can lead to encouragement and
empowerment and self-responsibility too that you have a role to play in your own health care and in in your
loved ones as well and so when you do then you can respectfully ask questions and prevent
what you learned to the healthcare professionals from a place of care and not concern because
you know care comes from thoughtfulness but if we have a sense of concern that’s actually based on fear so it is
possible to care without being concerned right and in in our attitude determines our attitude
so we go into the doctors uh you know thinking that we know it all right and then we’re not we’re not showing them respect
and we try to denigrate and invalidate their industry and profession they’re probably not going to be too open to that so the more we can offer
respect and you know just a genuine curiosity with a decent attitude
then we can um then that’s how we can approach them right yeah yeah so so the two the two points
that i want to pick up on what john said one one is you kind of mentioned briefly that there’s a lot you know the western
doctors that has a lot of uh power uh over our care and and the power the
power comes from the insurance company is is who you know who is going to pay for this and what are they willing to
pay for and so a lot of my friends they go to uh acupuncture acupuncturists but yet when they go
there they they get different kinds of treatment um but at least they you know they they
so i i remember talking to them saying well how so what is it that you do acupuncture or this other thing he said
well we do this other thing because that really helps our patient but we can’t get paid for it
so we always you know become acupuncturist because at least the doctor recognized that and then the other thing
that i want to i want to just kind of because the with the word by now um you know kind of the medical
industrial complex they they recognize at least that that that there is an alternative
approach to pain management and so they’re willing to pay for
the the alternative medicine just for pain management okay now in fact let me stop for a
minute so so we get these things all screw up okay so when we talk about
the chinese or asian the indian those are the traditional medicines the western medicine is in fact the
alternative medicine all right all right okay so that’s a
good point you know and then you know even the the western medicine here yeah they’re the uh they’re yeah that’s a
good good point there the the you know they’re actually getting on board they see the writing on the wall kind of so to speak and
that they’re giving at least lip service to holistic practices right so you can actually hold them to that if
they have something in writing saying they’re they’re trying to be more or they’re want to be more holistic you know you
can possibly hold them to that as well the other thing you you might be able to
and they’re rare but you can find practitioners that are both an md a medical doctor and they do other treatments like um
acupuncture um you know naturopathy and stuff they’re they’re fair they’re fairly more rare at least in the
midwest but they there’s a few out there so so another thing that i want to pick up on josh is is
is what you said about being very respectful to the medical professional and and my my
personal experience is that there’s a trick to all this um so again you know really through a live
example my mom who’s been meditating with us now for over for over a year
and she takes um high blood pressure you know most most people in the mid 80s do
but i monitor her her blood pressure every other day and you can tell that as she practiced
more her blood pressure goes down to a point where you know maybe it’s time to cut
to to kind of adjust the medicine because it’s actually helping her now
you can’t go to the doctor and says can i reduce the medicine or can i just not take it you can’t do that
actually the doctors are much better at giving you medicine that needs to take away you try to you try you know like i said
before you know you go there and you’re like five points above what they couldn’t consider acceptable and
boom you know you got the next thing you know is that they already sent a prescription to walgreens and you’re supposed to pick it up
and and then but then now if you want them to take it off they won’t do it well so you have to go ahead yeah so let
me just finish so so this so what i did this is again i’m not giving all advice i’m just
sharing with you my experience i go to the doctor and they say you did such a great job it’s amazing
my dad my mom is actually you know being cured look at his blood pressure can we cut it in half
he says oh yeah sure why not go ahead josh that’s what i was going to say you know yeah the respect
that’s kind of reverse psychology a little bit but yeah it all depends on the doctor and you can just yeah use jenny’s
approach there you can also say hey you know look i’ve been keeping track of this blood pressure here’s the time and
date here’s what happens here’s a correlation it doesn’t necessarily mean causation
but here’s all this after time you know what do you think about what is your protocol for um eventually
lowering medication if uh if the conditions improve you know how do you go about doing that
you know yeah yeah and you can always ask for another if you just just not get a good vibe or a good
feeling or you you figure that you’re just not getting health um the best benefits you’re always welcome
to change doctors as well and second opinions too that’s right that’s right yeah okay so let’s continue
and so now um these are these are these are not um i mean these are open
secrets okay so so what causes high blood pressure what causes high blood pressure so
um a lot of that is is behavior it’s just behavior or
environmental you know if you take a lot of salt salt tend to absorb the sodium in the salt absorb water and
so now you just have higher volume of blood you know uh in your body in your heart your heart
has to work harder so therefore high blood pressure that’s that’s that’s a no-brainer if you smoke cigarette um it depletes
oxygens in your body and so in order to supply the same nutrient
your your heart has to work harder similarly alcohol if you drink coffee or you drink tea we
have a lot of caffeine those are stimulants or if you take substance that those are stimulants
you know high blood pressure is what you want or if you exercise or actually one of
the things that that happens a lot and again this is from experience is that a lot of the immigrant elders they don’t like to turn
on the heat because it’s it’s waste of money they didn’t grow up with that so they don’t turn on the heat and then
you go to the house and it’s very cold no wonder the high blood pressure goes up you know because their vessels are
not as elastic as they should be so anyway so those are those are this is just for completeness we put it there
the thing that that that we really understood is is that um high blood pressure comes from stress
okay we understand that everyone understand that um what they don’t understand is that what
what what causes the stress right so we have talked about this that stress come from this
this this thing called a fight of flight and it’s a nervous system that we have
it’s it that consists of a bunch of um
systems it’s it’s it’s called autonomous this is important autonomous autonomic so this is something that happens
and you can’t control it okay it’s it’s meant to be a survival um uh technique it’s part of an
evolution this thing called the sympathetic autonomous nervous system once it’s activated
then it sends out all kinds of stress hormone and the one of the one that people talk
a lot about is the cortisol which which goes through the bloodstream
from your adrenaline from your adrenal which is um that little piece of
triangular hormone hormonal gland sitting on top of your kidney it sends
the cortisol in the bloodstream to the kid to the liver first and then the liver receives that and
then it sends it to the heart and then the heart stop pumping because that’s what you want you
you know you sense stress and now you either run towards the danger or you run away from the danger and then over time
we have something called adrenal fatigue or adrenal disorder um so that that’s that’s that’s stress
okay a lot of our high blood pressure are stress related and we kind of know that everyone kind of
know that that’s why you know the yoga and tai chi and you know there’s so
many exercises that we do to kind of relieve ourselves for the stress what is next known is the other reasons
for having high blood pressure is that you actually have an underlying deficiency you actually have
underlying disease sickness some part of your body some organs some vital
organs are not just just not receiving the nutrients that they they need and so this has to do with bad
circulations okay there’s just something wrong with you either you are um overweight or you know there’s
something wrong with you and now your heart is trying to overcompensate so the problem with that is that is that
if you treat high blood pressure as a as a sickness and the first thing
you do is to is to um is to bring down the blood pressure bring down
the symptom as opposed to searching for the cause
then the person becomes sicker and sicker and sicker you know they start to lose their um
their um immune system and so when something like the coroner’s comes you know then it’s it’s really a uh
you know now you’re now you’re you’re you’re in deep doo-doo okay that’s what we said all right so
what’s interesting is that what does chi has to do with that what is the what is the traditional medicine
the the kind of the chinese people with the qi and the indians with the chi how did they how did they view that
joshua you want to add something yeah before you jump in there that’s a good thing it’s a good point for me to jump in
you know um this is why you know the the standard definite or the standard um you know generalized
advice is diet and exercise right well we don’t we’re not going to get into diet here so
much is but the exercise is what we’re about to get into are what could be you know considered exercise but it’s
way more beyond just regular exercise the the the stuff denny’s gonna talk about is you know focus
mainly on you know very uh precise uh health benefits and also if that’s if
that’s right but also in general too there’s just so many different benefits and layers uh you can go back to the last show and
hear more about that and we’ll get into some of that i guess the thing though we practice mindfulness
right because we can never have enough mindfulness so we can eventually notice where does that
stress come from how are we triggered by certain things in our environment and
other inputs and outputs and our own thoughts emotions and sense
input do do certain things trigger stress more than others and we can notice that and
that’s the first step so then if we notice that we have a choice uh a choice opens up there’s a space opens
up so where we notice so we can make better choice we can make other choices so we think about the power of the mind
right so if you’re just our environment as well so if you notice if you’re out in nature where you’re feeling very
relaxed and there’s no uh predators right and now notice how if you go
walk try to dart through you know a downtown city area in the middle of rush hour and
everybody’s frantically in a hurry how you feel in your mind and body compared to when you’re in
a natural relaxed setting so i mean that’s something most people can immediately relate to you right
yes yes yes and uh you know the power of the mind everything uh the first line half line damopad i
said this before one translation is everything is preceded by mind led by
mind made by mind right so everything happens in the mind for this pin this was an idea in somebody’s mind
before it became actualized right uh the computer we’re watching or seeing or listening to
uh somebody had an idea for this before it became a physical reality so so our mind is
very important so it doesn’t necessarily mean we have to disregard our body to focus on the mind
as well it’s it’s it’s there’s a synergistic um uh connection between the two and the
breath helps link with that but anyway i might be going a little off so that’s what i’ve got and now we can get
into thank thank you for that josh let me let me uh as you’re speaking i’m i’m trying to think of um something that um
you know kind of follow up on what you said that that we we use the term self-healing quite a bit and the idea is
that again this is kind of going back to just what we said about earlier about the medical industry that they’re they’re
the doctors or the specialists they’re the professional they’re there when you have sickness okay whether it’s
a broken bone or uh you know a block uh blood vessel or whatever you know
they’re just like they go in there and they just do what they have to do and now you survive that’s a good thing right
but what we’re talking about here is really taking um control of your own health
by being very conscious of what it takes to heal okay but the key word is here is
self-healing so the question is what is self so now now that opens up a lot of perspective
because different perspective because if you if you focus yourself as being the body
okay that’s one way of healing just healing the body okay but if you expand that and going
more towards the the eastern philosophy of what a self is then it includes not just the body but the
energy and the energy just doesn’t mean like you know you do the weight lifting and also in your body heats up it’s not even
that it’s really uh i’ll talk about that in more in a minute but it’s really more of an electromagnetic
energy that is is almost in parallel uh to your to your physical
apparent the physical presence so then then from a buddhist standpoint for those who are studying mindfulness
self consists of the body the energy the chi plus what we call quote unquote our mind
right which is which is which is a little bit more than the spiritual part it’s actually much deeper than that
so we’re not going to go into that so again you know it’s just really what do you think is is is you
okay and if you understand what is you then you can start to do self-hating so for what we do
is our healing is really about the body and the mind and healing the chi is a bridge between
the body and the mind and if you if you’re interested in the mind we did a show on uh what happens to
your mind when you meditate you come up and it’s so much easier to or not if you incorporate some of this into your
natural uh your lifestyle right and uh it’s preventative whether they say like an ounce of
prevention is is more than a pound of cure it’s a yeah as well yeah exactly yeah so so one
thing before i go to the next slide is that um i just want to make sure that um this whole presentation is
invitation is to invite you to join us on a practice where you get to
experience the things that we talk about okay in the natural in the body’s natural
inbuilt function is to heal so when all the the conditions are right or you know the
space is held and provided the information in the right
environment then the body’s natural response is to heal usually we are the only way we are the only
only species in the entire animal kingdom that have forgotten how to heal how the self heal and that’s
wild because we don’t need to be totally conscious of how you know the body is so vast and complex it just knows how to
heal on its own you don’t have to we don’t have to be involved in it at least in you know every little cell doing not only not
only while animal knows how to heal not to self-heal even your pet know that herself here if you take a dog out
to the to the park they disappear in the bushes you know because they’re they’re looking if they’re looking for
the the grass or whatever then they chew on that because they need it right that’s one uh saying too that that
a lot of the medicinal plants we need a lot of times somehow just grow nearby where we live
um you know sometimes yeah okay so so so um our topic has to do with
the word chi and so one thing that i wanted to remind ourselves is that
uh the the chinese language is a complicated language in that um a single character has no
an ambiguous meaning okay a single character if you just say one word is very
difficult very few instances where you can just say one word and it has has a clear meaning
so the word chi has no meaning because you can conjugate it with different things and it can mean different things
so for this when did when the chinese people say chi they actually meant um oops
hang on they actually meant share tea
it’s two words sure okay so that’s how how you write it now
the first word is share is it means blood so when we talk about qi it’s it’s half
of it is the circulation is the supply of your nutrient supply
of oxygens and supply of your immune system okay so chi is shir chi
all right now chi by itself is actually made of two words the first part is this this one right
here is is air and then this one right here is rice
so when the chinese talk about chi they meant vitality it’s it’s oxygen
plus nutrients okay you know you you it’s what you consume what you digest
that’s gives you energy now what’s even more interesting is that if you go to the chico master
and often they will write the word tea in an old form in a very old form and the old
form is made of two words that means no fire so basically
the minute that you mention chi gong it is precisely what causes high blood
pressure the lack of chi means that you have high blood pressure
or that the fact that if you have high blood pressure it’s an indication that your qi is is out of whack is bad because she
the word chi is sure chi which means circulations and stress okay now
this danny can you go back to that slide real quick and a couple quick com
thoughts here yeah circulation is blood but it’s also other functions in the body and energy
circulation as well too right yes yes and then um this the snow
fire this goes along with um one definition of the word nibana which means to cooling
they meant that they used to say like we’re going to nimbana the rice i’ve heard this said where you just set it off and let
it cool a little bit uh and then the vitality um you know i’ve also heard
once you know i told denny this that um somebody said that they got the name from the sound that the
sometimes the lid would fly off a pot of rice unexpectedly but not all the time
because it was just some kind of um energy that happened sometimes this vitality but i you know i don’t know that could
just be a wise yeah i still i don’t know yeah the other day um i was talking about the difference between
the western approach in understanding our our existence versus the eastern approach in understanding systems and
use example of a airplane you know so that the the western approach to understanding
our body and and is that we they think of us as a collection of mechanical parts
so like the airplane has an engine has a wing has a has a tail and it has a landing
gear has all that and so if you’re losing speed you run to the engine and trying to figure out you
know why why the engine is not working or if you you know if you don’t have enough altitude you know there’s
something must be wrong with the flap you know so every part has a function and every function is very clear and when all the parts you
know each perform their own individual functions then the body would have you know then you would have
a good outcome that’s not the way at all for the eastern medicine the eastern medicine doesn’t think of these things
as individuals they think of it as a system so so you know a mechanics that is
educated in the eastern uh approach you know if you say you’re losing speed you know he goes to the tail and he starts you know
tightening up the tail and you say well what’s going on and so so when we talk about qi now we’re actually talking about very
complex josh like this picture so i have to put that up so we have so the the chinese people
they um they think of the body as this really complex
not just biological but you know uh electromechanic electromagnetic system electromagnetic
and so you could have these so so to kind of um um make the long story short is that they
believe that there is these energy lines that runs through our body and there’s
12 of them that has to do with 12 important organs i’ll come back in a minute
for that and then there’s eight more uh that’s called the extraordinary vessel that that runs through your body and so
each organ has is associated energy lined and the energy lines are not just
localized with organs so so for example uh this morning i did the exercise of the
of the kidney work on the kidney well the kidney runs from the the small toe you know all the way up to
the top of the head and and you actually have to massage the bottom of your feet
you know to to massage your kidney all right now very often people will say hey you
know we are good western scientists we know how these things are supposed to work and we
have dissected all the you know different forms of human body and we can never find them
so what’s going on well let me use an example of of the earth and this magnetic field the
chinese discovered that the earth has a magnetic field not only that but they discovered that the stars the sun and the and and the
moon and the and and and the jupiter they all have magnetic field
well it wasn’t until they invented a compass that they could convince people that that is the case
right so you say well forget about you know let’s say let’s say before the compass and someone comes to
you and says there is this magnetic field in the earth and you say no i i cut up all the rocks and i see nothing
yeah that’s a great point denny the the point you mentioned earlier about the individual approach sometimes that could turn into
like whack-a-mole right you go to one part you you fix that but then it pops up somewhere else that old game
but yeah if you view it as a holistic system that’s different and i don’t see where these two approaches couldn’t you
know complement each other and work together as well and then uh what you said about the yeah just because you can’t see something
doesn’t mean it’s not there the most thing we deal with every day is this force we call gravity right so just
because we can’t see it directly every moment we have to we have to experience it through a different
object right we have to like throw a ball up in the air and say well this is consistent in our experience but we
can’t really you know pinpoint at gravity and say oh there it is that’s where it’s coming from right yeah yeah directly and then one last
thing these these uh just a little more verbal description so you can go in the the the post on this or or look this up
uh on the youtube to watch it but yeah denny’s posted a detailed diagram of uh the meridian systems and
the energy points and then the other one is uh the 12 main meridians you know corresponding with each of their organs
and the the diagram of how where the meridian flows and corresponds with each organ it’s a
pretty yeah a lot of information very good right so so the next slide the next slide i i
i will make an attempt to simplify all that so just just for now it’s perfectly okay that you’re confused
and because i am too but the point the point to remake here is that the chinese have identified 12
vital organs and interestingly none of the reproductive organs is considered
vital [Laughter] we’ll all go into politics or something
we won’t do we won’t do that so so for example you have the heart that goes from your pinky
all the way into your heart and then also distribute um into your your small intestines uh
you have your right here you have your lung right here you have a liver now i this is a good chalk so they the
chinese not only believe that there are 12 vital organs they believe that each of them
are active at a specific time okay so this is important so so for me
uh i’m very i am i’m very big on self-healing as you can tell
i can’t do all 12 but i focus on a few important ones so i focus on the lung and the heart
and the pericardium okay so we talk about that i also focus on the kidney and the small
intestines okay so forces particularly in the small intestines is what i eat in terms of soluble fiber
water soluble fiber and probiotics and all that kidney in terms of the exercise that i do to kind of relieve
the stress interestingly i also care a great deal about my liver and my gallbladder
which are the two important organs to to to detox
i do that by really really careful about what when i sleep i i don’t sleep any
later than 11 o’clock so according to this chart it says that
these two organs start to be active and stuck to your detoxification
process right around 11 o’clock and each one of them takes two hours
okay that’s 11 o’clock in the in the evening or morning no that’s 2 300 so that’s in the evening
oh yeah i see now okay and then denny what do you do you do specific exercises targeted at those
organs and yeah so we’ll talk about that we will talk about that uh in fact we do that every every day
every saturday every day and every saturday okay the reason i asked is i didn’t i didn’t i don’t remember a gallbladder
one but maybe i’m wrong no no look that’s what i said well i’ll talk about that oh yeah
we do we do actually a little bit on the gallbladder but i mainly do it by sleeping uh properly just let it heal see this is
what this is this is what josh said that was important is that our body is actually capable of self-healing if
you just give it a chance exactly and one other point i forgot is the mind so there’s people that do
meditation techniques you get into a meditative state and then they just drop a word in uh notice and then notice your response
when you say the words like ease kindness
you know happiness but then they’ll go in with a negative yeah fear yeah sickness
terror you know and you can just once you’re in a more receptive state in a
more subtle state you can notice how that language can affect our experience
directly yeah yeah and we have a chart that maybe touch on that okay so i want to so i thought i was
thinking about i got to make that i got to simplify this okay i got to simplify this so this is how i simplify so the 12
to 12 vital organs are arranged in a grid and so the lung is obvious
the heart is sort of obvious and so what is a pericardium well the chinese actually think of the
pericardium which is the muscle and the and then the vein outside of the heart
as the true heart and what’s inside the heart has something to do with
another organ which i will explain in a minute but together it is the heart so so so when you when
when you say chinese when you ask australian are you happy and they would say yes very open heart
that’s happy okay you’re not closed down right yeah yeah
yeah open and ready to to send out and receive right because you’re not yeah you’re close that’s right that’s right
that’s right then there’s the lost intestines and the small intestine and then there’s something that called the triple warmer which
actually have no parallel in the western medicine it’s it’s kind of like you know you have to chi for each of the branch
of the military and then you have like the joint chief of staff okay so the triple warmer kind of that
one guy that really have no specific responsibility other than to make sure
everybody talks to everybody okay then then you have then you have the
splint the liver the kidney the stomach the gall bladder and the blood on the bladder and they come in pair and i’ll talk
about that in a minute now the meridian line that i associate with these 12 organs
six of them has to do with the hand and six of them has to do with the feet okay so there’s six of
these that that originated from the hand goes into the inside and then you eventually distribute somewhere else
some of them goes on top of the head and some would go now what’s interesting about this is that if you look at these 12 organs
and i ask you what are the six that you must have in order to survive it turns out that
they are the ones that associate with the fingers for example you must have a lung you must have a heart whether it is a
heart the core the harder pericardium it turns out that you must have a large intestines or some some short section of
it because otherwise you can’t extract the the water and you would die from from that the triple warmer um obviously
some kind of coordination the small intestines you can cut that up you can shorten it from you know very toxic but you need it
it’s the only man is it’s a vital organ that actually absorbs nutrients so these six
you must have you must have splint if you don’t have that the splint
goes through the stomach the stomach will take over the liver you have it you must have it
but you don’t have to have the whole of it it will grow this is the only organ in the body that that
will grow back the kidneys you have two okay you need kidney but you got two
and uh so the stomach lots of people um have they they have some enhancer they
have to cut it up and so they they just contr they just they don’t need the stomach they drink they eat more fluid gall bladder
gallbladder is associated with the kidney same thing if you lose the gallbladder the kidney will take over
the bladder lots of people have no bladder okay that’s interesting that these six are more critical than d6
that the one that associated the hand is more critical than the feet
then they’re divided into yin and yang okay and now i’ll talk about
that and this is very critical out of the six that are associated hand three of them are yin
and three of them are yang okay now some people will say that the yin are the one that actually start at the at the
the at the fingers at the very extreme the fingers then they go inside not necessary not necessarily but still
it’s the yin and the yang and by the way the yin and yang doesn’t necessarily mean um
men and women it’s just like duality it’s just you need you know you need that and sometimes it
being this and sometimes you mean that the other way you can you can understand the 12 um
organ vital organs is in terms of what is called the triple warmer that if you think of your upper torso
there’s actually in three sections there’s a part that is above the diaphragm
there’s a part that is below your belly button and then there’s a part that’s in the middle which is between your
diaphragm and your belly button so the upper the upper warmer this is
the in chinese upper warmer there’s a there’s a phrase called the upper warmer is like the frog
the fog upper warmer is like the fog it contains the the lung and the heart or the heart and the
perigardium so the chinese think of the lung not just a organ that absorbs oxygen they don’t
think of the heart as something that just pumps blood it’s actually together is the
organ that distributes the vitality to your body like the fog would
moisturize the earth okay in fact we talk about this two energy point called the gate to
the cloud it’s the most important point for the lung which is the most important organ for the 12
vital organs and it’s the is the point where you have to open up you know too so that so that it it it
it spreads the nutrient the vitality to your body circulation again yeah yeah now what’s
interesting is that when they talk about the middle part they’re now talking now these are impaired so the liver has the
gallbladder the stomach has a splint and the word that they use is that they said the middle warmer is like the
foam so this is where you this is like the foam when you make um
wine this is fermentation so this is when you take food and it takes time to to ferment and then
ultimately extract out the the nutrient and then finally the lower
warmer is the one that contains the the small and the large intestines and the bladder plus the kidney
they call it the low warmer is like the water in the gutter okay so this is the the toxins that you
have to the toxin and the waste that you have to dispense from your body so this this explains that the 12
organ and and how it’s distributed through our body for anybody with just on audio i’ll read
the yin and the yang real quick so the yen denny’s got is a reactive and that includes the hand lung
pericardium and heart and the feet spleen liver kidneys and then for the yang the active for the
hand you’ve got large intestine triple warmer small intestine and for the feet stomach gallbladder and bladder
correct okay again now now that we have understand
this qi and how the chinese associated qi with the 12 organs and associated with
the vitality of these 12 organs it’s important for me to before before i
go into this slide is is to talk about the chi is really
because all these organs in order for it to be vital um it it relies on electricity
okay our body is is entirely it’s really just a network of electricities
whether it is in the blood or in the nerve or in the muscle or everything else okay that’s right and
realize that it’s it’s also starting with magnetism and chemicals right so there’s electrochemical electromagnetism as well right right
correct in isolation but yes correct predominantly so so when you have so that’s correct so so
so when you have um electricity you have magnetism okay so when you have electricity you
have magnetism so the chi is really electromagnetic energy that is emulated by your vital organs
as as as your body function you know the most obvious one would be how when blood flows in your body it
generates this this this very complex electromagnetic field and when you have electromagnetic field
you have this thing called the electro type electromagnetic dipole and so those are becomes your energy points
so it’s really interesting for example that that the chinese think of 12 vital organs and 365
pressure points and each of the vital organs takes two hours so you have 24
hours in a day i don’t know that’s that’s just coincidence so they figured this out
and not to mention piezoelectric too we’ve mentioned piezoelectric yeah the piece electric i’ll come to that thank you thank you josh i’ll come to
that uh and when we get to the therapy part is how do we use the piezoelectric
uh property of our body uh as a healing okay all right so so now stress
modern day scientists we know that stress comes from essentially a a um come from our
hormonal system that you know our hormone goes out of whack you know there’s this now what’s interesting is that when the
chinese talks about qi they talk about fire there’s two
words that they use one is fire in the heart and fire in the liver
okay but yet we know that from western science the the the two gland that is responsible
for stress is either the thymus gland which sits on top of the heart
and the adrenal gland okay it is an adrenal gland that puts out the
stress hormone but keep in mind that that as soon as it puts out the stress hormone it goes to the liver
so the chinese are not less interested in the origin of the the stress hormone but where to
end up okay because when you’re when you’re when your stress hormone goes to the liver it pumps up the heart and then it
you know and it starts to gen up put out um trichosteroid because you need you need glucose and all that
so a lot of your sickness actually comes from the fact that your your your your liver is is over medicated by
your own uh stress hormone so the chinese actually believe that that you you become sick because you
either have fire in your heart because you’re not happy enough
right so when they talk about the the pericardium in the heart the heart is the core of the heart
which actually ties to the the thymus gland and so you know you got to have a happy
heart a open heart because you need these hormone which we call we now call the happy hormone
and without that your your health deteriorates and then the other one is that if your adrenal gland your adrenal gland
um get excited and it sends the cortisols and and adrenaline to your rest of your body
you know then then you get sick as well and so just as a review we talked about
this is what the modern scientists know that as soon as you sense danger it this
autonomous nervous system this sympathetic the one on the right got activated because you know and it’s
not to go to the list dilate the people increase the heartbeat each every one of
them are a result of your your stress hormone your liver start to scent
the building blocks for good clothes which is called triglyceride you shut down your digest system which
is which is bad um you um it also shuts down your uh
your reproductive systems okay that’s why you know when i have this this is the
direct experience you know when i first got married i went to the doctor and says you know i don’t know what happened it’s been three years you say well take
a vacation you don’t need medicine anyway um so we
know a lot about the fight or flight we do know a lot of our fight but one thing you do you have to know is that this is a
autonomous system you don’t turn it off you don’t turn it off it turn off by itself because it’s
it’s it’s part of evolution okay and without that you don’t survive as
a species and also realize you know shifu has talked about this before that
there are some yogis with such you know advanced meditative powers they can actually
go in and control some of this or not control but influence some of this i guess uh consciously as well i mean it’s a
very high advanced state but there are regular meditations for dealing with these organs i i’m sure
denny’s familiar with a bunch of them i know the common one in the theravada tradition is the 32 parts of the body
and a lot of these organs are into that and it’s yeah if you’re interested in that you can google 32 parts of the body too and
you know if you want to see uh images of these if you can’t that’s it’s just google the endocrine system
the parasympathetic nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system as well yeah yeah yeah so i i think so i think i
think you can actually um you know sort of it becomes extraordinary
um um um technique but for most of us um that’s probably
much harder to do to actually go in and and change a otherwise autonomous system
into non-autonomous okay but so that we turns out that we do have a different system called the
parasympathetic system unfortunately not much is known about that okay i mean for as much as you couldn’t
just go in and fix and and activate the the sympathetic one you you it’s hard to activate the
parasympathetic one too because they’re both autonomous and the only thing you need to know is that autonomous doesn’t know how to turn
itself off there’s no off button so when you say when you see someone knows this is an important point
so so so we know we’re under stress and so we think that well if we just kind of relax you know let’s like just
watch it watch your comedy sit on the couch you know that would that help yes it would help
but it still doesn’t turn it off that’s the thing so right it runs its
own course and it’ll shut off when it needs it so yeah but we can notice we can’t have
mindfulness and when it goes on yes exactly that’s where we know because that’s what we know so there are things
that there are things that work so there are things that that work that actually can
can can turn on or at least um push the parasite nerve towards itself
being turned on and that has to do with with this this there are many okay there are
many many many so we’re not saying that this is the only one this is one this is the one we know okay and it has
to do with this this technique called the microcosmic orbit now now now i i need to explain
um if you say something is microcosmic is there a macro cosmic and the answer is yes there is
both a micro and a macro but but before you even talk about it as a name for the meditation technique
the origin of that term comes from the astronomers the chinese astronomers so
as they were observing the moon and this and the earth and the sun and the jupiter because it’s the
biggest star that they can see there’s only one they can see the eye they understand that the the earth actually turns on its own and
so each of that orbit is a is a micro cosmic orbit
okay they also understand that that the chinese never thought that the flat
would the earth was flat they didn’t have to they didn’t have to to to overcome that they knew that
from day one that everything is wrong and so the other thing they didn’t notice that is it is that
the the earth also orbits around the sun and they call it the macro cosmic
orbit and so when they practice this thing that that they circulate the qi you know
on the upper torso they call that the microcosmic orbit and then when they start to integrate
the the entire body then that becomes the macro cosmic happen now first of all in addition to the 12
meridian that has to do with the 12 vital organs i mentioned that there’s eight
more uh vessel you know conduits and the chico master actually use all
eight we only use two and the name of those two one i mentioned last time which is
called the governing vessel which is the one in the back and then the other one is
called the conceptual vessel which is the one in the front and and it’s actually like
the boulevard you know it’s like the the main conduit and the 12 all 12 vector actually
interconnects back into this big conduit okay now what’s interesting and i’ll come to
the last time when we did this a month ago josh asked me uh you know why is it called conception
right why is it called consensual so he challenged me so i had to go study that and it turns out that the word
conception rhymes with the word that we use for pregnancy
and so this line this this energy line that starts at the very bottom of your upper torso which is
an energy point that is between your your your reproductive organ and the opening
of your bowel there’s an energy point there and that’s a starting point for both and so if you go in the front it
goes all the way up to the lower part of your lip
that’s called the conception vessel and the chinese name it that because they
notice that all pregnant woman has a line in the belly
and when they gave birth after they gave birth to disappear so they start to believe that that’s a
reflection of the baby in the womb and in fact out of the 12 organ
remember we have six three from the hand three from the foot that we call the yin organ those
six are associated with the conceptual organ the conceptual vessel so if you
subdivide it like this you subdivide it like those six so six there are the six organs that the
fetus must have because it’s a vital before it’s a vital organism so for example the ones in the
back like the bladder they don’t need for now initially then the
the bladder they don’t need the the the intestines they don’t need okay the
um the splint they don’t did so there’s a lot they don’t need but the thing they do need is that they need the
three the three from your hand which are the are the the lung the heart
and the power guardian without that they’re not vital then they need three more the three more is that they need the kit
they need to deliver because they need to stop detox their body
okay they need the kidney okay because that’s also uh your immune
system and then they they need one more thing which is which is their um which is their um uh
the the splint they also need discipline because again that’s the anti you know that’s where they so those six
organs are associated with the front and that’s why they call the yin which which is like the the the maternal
or the reactive or the one in the shadow whereas the the one in the back or the one that they develop
later okay and of course once they have all six or twelve then they they’re they’re
standalone they’re ready to be to be born and so the chinese actually have a different concept
of what is considered prenatal versus postnatal it really hasn’t has nothing to do with time of birth but really has to do with
when the baby is considered vital even with the assistance of the mother
and when the baby will become vital without the assistance of the mother okay so this is this is actually a if
you talk about now of course now again the chinese they don’t think in in in pieces they don’t say okay
here’s you know we’re going to deal with you guys stress you’re going to deal with the stress you’ve got a problem with the circulation we’re going to deal with circulation
they don’t separate these things they are they are one okay so this this actually helps with your stress as well
as your circulation but it definitely helps your stress because essentially this is the only stage in your entire
existence where you were stress-free as much as possible right yeah yeah as
much as possible yeah i get our strange circumstances but uh
danny yeah and it’s called conception vessel um you know the conception is
when the egg meets the sperm as well that’s the term for conception right except that it’s yeah he said that it’s
not it’s not a great translation it’s not a good translation and i don’t know if you mentioned the back one it’s they call it the governing
uh vessel right i don’t know that term or what the other thing a couple things that you said jupiter uh you said it was the only
planet visible from uh by the name but it might have been back then but now during certain times you can see like
mars venus and i’m trying to think if there’s another one there’s certain maybe other ones at certain special times um
yeah but yeah but yeah no i misspoke there but okay but definitely is the one that has the long
height biggest effect on the tie yes because it’s so massive right it’s so massive yeah yeah and then thank
you yeah you’re wrong and then the spleen you know western medicine really doesn’t put much importance on the spleen at all
however chinese medicine does right so yeah yes and then the other thing could we
just briefly mention the technique here the microcosmic orbit so people kind of know because denny leads this technique maybe
i can give just a brief summary and denny can correct what i what i do first yeah go ahead go ahead josh go ahead please so you bring
the awareness there’s another medical two dollar term from the spot denny was talking about the genitals and the beginning of the
colon uh the paraneoma so from from you bring your uh attention from the perineum and on the in-breath
you go up the front part of the middle of the body to around yeah the the point on the
under the nose and then on the out breath right or and then it goes up around the top of the
head on the out breath all the way back down to the to that starting point and i just um uh
you know and i came up with this thing for um well i like didn’t go in there that else came up with the other day and what
about that okay all right let me let me just quickly catch up on what you said about the splint and why the splint is is so important
because the splint is is is the beginning of your liminal
so you must have that yeah beginning of your one i’m sorry you you’re lim no no oh yes okay so it
has the interaction with the lymphatic system yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so i don’t think i don’t think we have
enough time to go through the the nitty gritty of the technique but let me just say that
that um uh we i usually when i teach that i usually teach it in two parts
the first part is just abdominal abdominal breathing okay just breathe in push down you know
let the let the diaphragm be pushed down open the stomach breathe out
you know collapse the stomach and so forth and it’s it’s particularly easy to do after we do the five breathing exercise
and just that by itself has has is tremendous because what it does
is that it massage your your kidney you massage your liver
and then massage your your small intestines okay so it’s by that it already already um
you know um uh because you you know so it’s like going to the spa okay just imagine like going to a spot
so just just a domino now because i think most likely for josh but definitely for me is that i’m almost
99 percent abdominal with breathing now just because you know we’ve been doing it for so that’s a one
that’s one the other one is that is that as you do abdominal breathing and and josh mentioned that a little bit and
that’s really comes more towards the therapy part is that you know we understand the chi
is a magnetic field is a direct indication of the vitality of of your 12 organs
but by by by working the chi we actually improve our health and so how do you
work on the qi well you go back to the body again you realize that um a lot of your body
part rp is electric all your bones and muscles and your intestines are piezoelectric and so
this this abdominal abdominal breathing actually um by moving the small intestines and large
intestines is actually generate you know a minute amount of piezoelectricity electricity
and because the length of the intestines you know if you take your intestines you stretch it out
it’s typically about six times the height of every individual whether you’re short or tall
there’s a lot of surface area and you know that capacitors require surface area so
it it it is a great way to store static electricity and now what you have
to do is you have to utilize this electricity and you do that with your mind and because between the left and the
right brain we have this thing this this thing called the longitudinal feature and that so some people they actually
think of that as as the place where you generate your your your your brain wave and so what you have to
do is you have to calm yourself you have a balance between the emotional and the rational part of your mind you
relax and and that creates electrical potential
and now all the static electricity you generate in your abdomen start to move and it moves upward
through your spine which is very conductive very very conductive and now you just cycle that electricity
and once you have electricity then it generates its own magnetic field and now it pulls the
other parts up you know so now what you have is not mri as in imaging but mrt as in therapy
it’s magnetic resonance therapy now it’s a lot more fun doing it than it’s explaining okay
so again we invite you to to to come one last slide
oh sorry one last night how do you how what other things can you do to
enhance blood circulation so there’s a whole slew of things that we do we do joint
exercise we do stretch exercise again we this is mindful exercise so this is not you know
like your body is one and your body your your mind is somewhere else okay so we constantly
aware of what we’re doing using a brain wave to guide our our body parts that the electricity
generated by a body part so we do join we do stretch this is this is great this is
five breathing exercise this is really amazing really helps three things one is that it it trains
your your diaphragm so that you can actually now do a abdominal breathing second is that the
way that master has cholecraf called cardiac failures is that it it actually deliver oxygen to your
triple warmer in your lung and your heart and then below your you know three parts so if you if you
study each of the movement it does specific things then the lastly is that it’s a meditation
it’s a it’s a mindfulness emotion because you’re actually very much you’re very mindful then there’s two um
some might call it uh chi gong and somebody called that daoian we had a glass talk was about that so we do all
that but one thing that we do is that this is kind of a strange thing that we do is that we
we actually like pat are are very gently padding our um our meridian
points our energy points and we do more than this but the one thing that we do is we
we try to open up the blockage in our lung meridian which starts with the thumb and the two
most important energy point is right here right at our elbow
and then right here which is really like at a collarbone so we would pat that one so with that
take care of that that’s the gate to the cloud then we take care of the one on the top which is a gallbladder
then we do another one here which has to do with the pericardium which is not shown here
then the most important one is that we do that on the elbow which is i didn’t translate but it’s all three
it’s the heart the lung and and the pericardium and this one shows how we do that on the
top okay and again the inside of the elbow right not the inside elbow yeah so we stretch the elbow when
we do this we four fingers on top and the center of the palm so we’re touching the four points here and then one point here
okay but again it’s all mindful it’s all mindful okay exactly so you’re incorporating the best of both worlds there and then the
lat what you said might be considered uh qigong is yi jin jing and can you pronounce the
the other one there on the list yeah the other one is called okay so so there’s a lot of
controversy on which is which or whether they are actually one just called different name or whether
there was two and one was lost i mean you can you can get it you can get you can get a dozen of phds trying
to figure that out now i i’m less concerned about that i’m more concerned about the lineage
who taught me and more important that is that is that what did it what how how do i feel how how do i
benefit and so i just give it that name because we have two things one is that we we have something that was taught by
master giroux who learned it first from his grandfather who was a sheldon
martial artist actually also the bodyguard of dr senyasen during the revolution and then he
learned again from an ab about minji who was the 49th abbot of
a temple in china called the tinning temple and the founding abbott was a monk who was the disciple of
the fourth patriarch of zen buddhism
the true patriarch first picture being buddha dharma who is supposedly the inventor of eu
jinjing so i’m reasonably assured that that we have you know
that i can draw a line and but more than that is that i benefit i see the benefit in me and how it helps with my
meditation yeah now the other one we go ahead we’ve talked about maybe doing a show
denny’s written articles on this but maybe doing a show around this if we can be diplomatic and it can be helpful but that’s for another time
yeah correct so then then i then the other one c jing i wouldn’t i just give it a name
not like being very distinct but in reality there’s just another method that was passed on that that
and this one um is very popular in taiwan and i like it i like it so a lot of the
padding of the marine point of stretching comes from that and i just the word
yi jing means exchanging tendon the word seizure it means cleansing of
the marrow now some of that is mis mistranslation because
what they’re really talking about is a spine that’s all they talk about is really the spine
and and and they they so so i believe that they they actually um people think that they
actually reverse aging because when you work so much on the spine the spine get oxidized
as as you get old all bones get oxidized particularly the spine get oxidized so you’re losing volume of the marrow
and that’s another thing to reverse the process yeah the nervous system if i’m getting this right there’s two other nervous systems the central
nervous system which consists mostly of the spinal cord in the spine and the brain right if i’m getting that
right you can look this up and then the peripheral nervous system which is the one some say that’s
for more sensing subtle energies but again you know i don’t know hardly anything about that but it’s there for research
okay so again as i said uh this is the invitation to join us on our saturday practice
which we now have two sessions one in the morning one in the afternoon uh eight o’clock and six o’clock pacific
standard time so it turns out that the morning one is very good for the europeans and the afternoon one is very good for the agent
so we we actually have students from uk and you know all over um so we’ve been
having you know uh more than 250 students now um combined and and there are any number of
ways you can join you can you can actually join the insight timer through insight timer
uh which is an app that uh that has a lot to offer you really should check that out it’s completely free
we also live cast on facebook live cast on youtube uh eventually we’ll livecast on linkedin
but for now at least there’s a link to the youtube video we have josh and i we have a patreon
page where we try to put together a lot of material including for example today’s powerpoint
presentation and then finally josh you have something that you want to talk about
well it’s uh my website’s integratingpresence.com if you want to check out my work uh if you want to see some of these
videos dennykmuh.com aua to see some of these exercises i
forgot that’s a very very important one so let me flash that on the screen
okay so this is this is d e n n y k mu dot m com slash
aua assets anything so this is where we put our monthly chat monthly discussion and we’ll have
to i’ll have to cut this out for the audio version for insight timer because they don’t allow promos but that’s okay
and then i just want to drop some other miscellaneous information uh going back to the beginning with the western thing wrote uh do this
very quickly so you can rewind and listen again some other things that might be worth looking into
is the hipaa which is basically health care privacy and health care rights uh there’s something called informed
consent that’s helpful that doctors are required to comply with there’s a living will
and i mentioned the health care power of attorney as well you know and then there’s also something
called the placebo effect in the nocebo effect as well those are interesting um
interactions between the mind and the body is uh something else to possibly look into and then you know in the buddhist tradition
there’s something called the five daily reflections which are sickness old age death separation and self-responsibility
those are kind of my my terms for it so and this is not to get bummed out but it’s to be
aligned with the truth of how things are currently and when we’re aligned with truth we can
be more happiness instead of kind of deceiving ourselves and lying to ourselves and not being
honest with ourselves and it’s also to realize the preciousness and value of every moment we have here
so yeah if you’re interested in the there’s actually kind of more formal practices and more to read about the five daily
reflections you can just look that up five daily reflections buddhism yeah right thank you josh so
so again you know in the beginning of the show i said that um josh and i are the dumb and dumber of
we’re not going to use that anymore we’re going to call ourselves the yin and the yang now the yin and yan actually have a lot
more in common than they have indifference right so what we what josh and i have in common is that
we we’re we’re kind of um we want to take responsibility for our own destiny whether it’s our body or our
mind that’s really i think that’s that’s really what we do and so we respect the medical industry i
respect a great deal of the doctor and the nurses and the pharmacists and so forth
i’m not saying that i’m not saying anything other than that i want to take control of my own health
yes that’s the thing because self-responsibility it’s not a it’s not so much a burden as it is empowering
right so it can empower us and allow us to help ourselves and others as well yeah
and once one more time this is an invitation invitation for all of you to join us on
a saturday practice and for us to to really experience together right this is the experiential
science that we talk about experience okay and uh it looks like we didn’t get to my um
points from last time but i’ll include those in the show notes for this for anybody interested and who knows
maybe danny can i put that up let me put that up um yeah we’re not gonna we have a heart
stop coming up and so if you look at that list and you say hey you know we really should be talking about this
just give us a comment and uh or anything else that you want us to talk about give us a comment
let me read those real quick just for the audio how do the mind exercises therapy substances cosmic
energy and original and to relate how did any of the qigong
or the spiritual qigong teaching survive and text traditions and our societies because we talked about them
um potentially being wiped out for a little while and uh next one does experimental versus
um experiential have to be a dielectric or a dichotomy basically meaning can you have you know
how can you have both at the same time and then how exactly did shifu master giroud developed the five
breathing exercises and lastly are there any mythological stories surrounding how various
knowledges about uh chi were discovered um so yeah or just any other stories in
general but yeah we’re just gonna have to leave those at that for now yeah yeah i think it’ll be a good running list
all right i think that’s going to do it it was a pleasure and very helpful so okay thank you josh
thank you thank you for everything thank you for a lot of josh did a lot of work behind the scenes
getting that all that material at least asking the right question yeah well it did your powerpoint
presentations you know that saves me from doing that so i appreciate that as well okay well thank you josh thank you see
you see you soon likewise all right bye now
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