A good reminder.
Lesson for the Day
World Tai Chi & QiGong Day
A lovely worldwide tradition occurs on the last Saturday in April — celebrating Tai Chi and QiGong across the world. “One World, One Breath” calls us to breathe and send our calm energy to others.
Get ready to participate — the energy wave starts at 10am on Saturday in Australia and travels across every time zone in the world. At 10 am on Saturday, April 26, stop what you are doing and focus on breathing. Focus your breathing and send its life and good energy across the world connecting with others who are doing the same thing. We can send calm and create unity with others who are in the moment, breathing, perhaps doing some Tai Chi and QiGong moves.
Let’s connect with our breath and our focus of sending calm energy across every time zone. Participate. I look forward to receiving your energy!!
Letting Go
Is your mind swirling with a to-do list that keeps getting longer and longer? Are you fearful about the current climate of we vs. they and where it might lead? Is AI going to make you obsolete? Do you reach the end of the day and ask yourself “What have I accomplished?” and don’t like your answer.
Do you feel like this —
but would like to feel like this ^
First . . . Breathe. Stop whatever you’re doing and take 30 seconds to breathe. Inhale. . . Exhale. . . Again, inhale, then exhale. Inhale . . . Exhale. One more time. Inhale. . .Exhale.
It’s summer so take a walk outside. Wander through a farmers market. Attend a free outdoor concert.
To relax your mind and body you have to let go of what you’re already doing or thinking about. When you walk, focus on how it feels to put one foot forward, shift your weight to it. How marvelous that one leg can manage the weight of our entire body! How marvelous it is to be able to walk!
Tai Chi is a wonderful practice to help us relax and let go. We learn to let go of what is spinning in our heads, focus our bodies and minds on gentle, flowing movements. We are like the trees rooted into the earth, connected with nourishing energy that flows up through our bodies. Being in the moment. Letting go.
World Tai Chi and QiGong Day
One World . . . One Breath. For many years the last Saturday in April is honored and celebrated as World Tai Chi and QiGong Day. It starts at 10 am Saturday in Australia and moves across the globe. At 10am in our own time zone, we breathe, move through gentle Tai Chi and QiGong movements and share our energy and peacefulness with others in close and far away nations.
This gesture is so important to stop, take time to breathe and move with the purpose of offering. positive energy and connection to others, most of whom we do not know. We are one in breathing; regardless of who or where we are.
So, take a moment to stop, breathe with the intent of sharing your breath and Qi with others. It can be a powerful force when thousands, maybe millions focus on spreading our life force energy with others.
Spring Equinox
This year the day of Spring Equinox was extra special. At the very hour when that point of equinox occurred, we were moving our energy in a Tai Chi class, focusing on balancing our Yin and Yang. We noted that bringing intention and attention to our balance at the moment of balance between of dark and light, felt so relaxing, put us so in the moment. A moment of letting go, a moment of lightness of being.
Without the dark, we can’t see the light. We honored that and also felt joy that it was evening and still light outside, admitted we were looking forward to longer minutes and hours of sunlight in our days.
This is a great time to focus on our balance, physical and emotional. Are our days filled with doing and achieving, and then wondering where the time went? Are we taking some time to stop, reflect and just be? Are we paying attention to the trees, the birds, noticing what’s around us in nature? And, are we breathing, taking time to intentionally breathe?
Tai Chi gives us the opportunity to balance, to move our energy together and feel our Yin and Yang as equal energy forces. We are very grateful.
New Year Day 3 – Calm Your Body and Mind
New Year 2020, day 3
Find a practice to calm your mind and body.