Energetically, the product of the mind and physical body is what’s beyond the physical body (the metaphysical); thoughts are things. The body accumulates one’s thoughts, emotions and experiences. Consciously or unconsciously, we gather, cultivate and transform Vital Force; then we attract and repel all phenomena, every circumstance and experience that makes up the fabric of…
Category: 3 The Energetic
Breathe
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Breathing is the most important of all of the functions of the body. Life absolutely depends upon the act of breathing. To breathe is to live. Without breath, there is no life. Breath is indeed Life! Life is but a series of breaths; from the first breath of the infant to the last gasp of…
Sleep
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Sleep is defined as a state of unconsciousness from which one can be aroused. In this state, the brain is more responsive to internal stimuli. It is a dynamic activity that profoundly affects physical and mental health, and is essential for the normal functioning of all systems of the body, especially the immune system, which…
The Senses
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Only through our senses can knowledge of the Universe be obtained. The sense organs and their related nervous systems, designed to obtain, examine and investigate information about the outside world, have developed and evolved over a many generations. The primary senses consist of five: sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. The Mind makes use of…
(a) Sight
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The eyes are immediately active from the first waking moment until its time to go to sleep. Like a video camera, everything that is seen is sent to the brain for processing and storage. The sense of sight is the highest and most complex of all the senses. About 80% of our sensory perception is…
(b) Sound
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The sense of Hearing is more complex than Taste, Touch or Smell; objects being sensed must be brought into close contact with them for information. In Hearing impressions may be far removed; they are carried by the vibrations in the air, caught and reported upon by the ears and their internal mechanism. The ears rely…
(c) Smell
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Smells can trigger vivid memories, involving sights, sounds and emotional impressions of events from our distant past. Odor particles too small to be seen with a microscope are what make smell. The nose is the opening of the Lungs, and through it respiration occurs. It is designed to smell, moisten and filter the air inhaled.…
(d) Touch
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The sense of Touch is the one sense where humans surpass animals in the matter of degree and acuteness. The animal may have a keener Sight, Smell, Taste and Hearing, but its sense of Touch is far beneath that of a human. It is the simplest, primal sense; long before lower forms of life developed…
(e) Taste
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The sense of Taste is closely allied to that of Touch. It has been considered a very highly developed sense of Touch. In fact, the tongue has the finest sense of Touch as well as the sense of Taste developed to perfection. The sense of Taste depends to a great extent upon the presence of…
The Transformation of Vital Force
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Generally speaking, exogenous dis-eases are always carried to the internal portion of the body from the external, and it is the channels (meridians) that are first attacked by the exogenous factors. On the other hand, diseases caused by endogenous factors (denotes emotional factors such as joy, anger, melancholy, obsession, sorrow, horror, surprise and shock) usually…
Air
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…fish are the best swimmers. They were born and reared in the water, but do they know the role of the water? Humans are the best walkers. They were born and raised in the air, but they do not know the role of the air. One thing they share: if the fish are plucked from…
Water
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Sixty to seventy percent of all diseases can be cured or prevented with water. Another declaration that the Taoist Priest made that, at the time, sounded absurd to me. I listened to what he had to say but in my mind I doubted the veracity of such a declaration. Initially, I thought he was speaking only…