Summer is the season of the year when the likelihood of health issues affecting the heart and liver increase. Heart because it is the organ most energized in summer, and liver because it’s tired out from having just finished its lead role throughout Spring, and is in need of replenishment.
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SUMMER HEALTH: Relaxed LIVER; Happy HEART; Strong KIDNEYS; Laughing LUNGS
Summer is the time to improve LUNG health. What the ancient doctors called vital capacity or chi. Lungs filled with chi, the life force cultivated by Tai Chi and Chi Kung, are strong, healthy lungs. Who doesn’t want strong, healthy lungs?
Keep Fire Energy Balanced So It Doesn’t Burn Up Your Chi
What we are experiencing now as the hot part of summer is upon us are really high temperatures across the US. Many weather predictions, such as bigger hurricanes, are beginning to bear out. And surprises are always at the fore these days, evidence all the massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections which have occurred […]
“The Shortest Day,” by Susan Cooper: A Poem For People
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
Exploring Winter Solstice: A Time of Deep Yin and Knowing
Winter Solstice marks the moment of deepest Yin (least Energy) in the solar calendar. And in this Covid Winter, the natural quiet and darkness of this time of year is more accentuated than any time in collective memory.
This is the time of year where the Chi (Energy) like fallen leaves, has sunk down into the ground, and so has the energy in our bodies, minds, and spirits. It is a time where we are more capable, perhaps more willing, of feeling that deeper, darker part of ourselves, and learning from it.
