Last week it was in the thirties in Florida and that’s really cold for
South Florida. I was talking to a friend who is in Michigan and he
said.
“It’s colder than a witches tit”.
That sounds really cold.
I looked the expression up. Here is what I found.
“The simple explanation is that “colder than a witch’s tit” is just a vivid metaphor, like “hotter than the hinges of hell.” Since a witch is in league with Satan, presumably she has no maternal feelings. Thus the medium by which she would suckle a child is, well, cold as a witch’s tit.
But there’s some history behind this wisecrack. A witch’s tit (or witch’s teat, to use the older spelling) supposedly left a marking that witch hunters and courts would look for on the body of an accused person. Supposedly, witches would suckle their familiars, and sometimes the Devil himself, from this “unholy” body part. To find these marks, as well as insensitive spots on the skin called devil’s marks–caused by the Devil’s claws or teeth–the suspects were stripped, shaven, then closely examined for any blemishes, moles, or even scars that could be labeled as diabolical. To find marks invisible to the eye, the examiner would poke the victim inch by inch with a blunt needle (called a bodkin) until they found a spot that didn’t feel pain or bled. Discovery of these marks or spots–one supposes they would be considered cold since they were a sign of communion with the Devil–would be “proof” of the person’s dealings with Scratch, so they would be shown in full court before the execution”.
Cold weather can cause problems with your health if you are not prepared,
especially the Kidneys and that can lead to back pain, stiffness and host
unwanted symptoms.
Although I now live in the Sun Belt, I was brought up in the northern
part of the USA and lived in the mountains of Colorado for years.
Winter is the season that you need to protect your kidneys.
In China the winters were long and cold, so they developed a system to
build energy, tonify the body and to nourish the internal organs to stay
healthy and strong. Qigong, diet and tonics play a major
part in nourishing the bodies immune system.
This is one of my favorites to keep your body warm and give you a
tremendous amount of energy on those cold days.
Dr. Wu’s tonifying Lamb Stew
Here’s what you will need.
I always buy organic veggies and when you get the lamb,
make sure that it is grass fed with no hormones or antibiotics.
2 lbs meat (I prefer lamb)
1 head garlic
1 kohlrabi cubed
Rosemary fresh
Burdock root (is high in minerals)
Lotus root
1-cup carrots sliced
2 red potatoes
2 turnips’s cubed
2 cups fresh okra
2 cups Shou wu chih
Brags ¼ cup
2 tsp olive oil.
Sea salt to taste
½ gal. of pure water
Cooking instructions
Brown meat with ½ of garlic
Add water about ½ gallons.
Cook until meat is nearly done
It can take 1- 2 hrs to cook.
Cook with a sprig of fresh
Organic Rosemary
Add Burdock sliced thin, it
takes the longest to cook
Add Turnip and kohlrabi
they cook at about the same
time
Add potatoes & lotus root
2 cups Shou wu chih
Add the other ½ of the garlic
Prepare okra cut ½
Add at end after off the fire
Add brags at end, sea salt
cayenne and olive oil
If you’re not a meat eater -substitute the meat with more root veggies.
As for the best internal exercises, I focus on the grounding and
rooting practices and of course the kidney exercises.
Go through the Recharging Qi Gong book you’ll find plenty
of them to build your Qi and keep you warm all winter.
It’s extremely important to keep your low back warm during the
winter months.
The new program on Back Pain is a must if you have back problems. This works!
I received a deluge of calls since the beginning
of the month.
People have been freaking out and they don’t
have a clue what to do.
The first thing I ask them is, have you been
practicing and training?
For the most part they haven’t been,
I can’t believe how many different excuses I hear
as to why they can’t or why they don’t practice.
Do they think that there was some kind of entitlement
to mental and physical health without doing anything?
There are formulas in just about every culture on how
to be balanced and to stay younger and healthy.
I don’t care if it’s Buddhists, Taoists, Hindus, Christians,
Muslim, Jewish or the ancient Egyptians.
Throughout the ages people strive for longevity and
there are tried and true formulas that work.
But you have to practice.
The formulas include diet, hygiene,
exercises, prayer, meditations and rituals.
The Key is Practice.
The month of December has stressed people to the max with
the holidays. The planet Mercury has been retrograde since
December 10th and doesn’t go direct until December 30th.
This can cause delays in travel, communication and
mechanical breakdowns.
Last night there was a lunar eclipse.
That’s the eclipse of the Moon,
when the light of the Moon darkens at the brilliants of
a Full Moon.
Traditionally this has been viewed as a bad omen.
It can awaken illogical responses in people.
As a rule, women and family are generally more affected
by the lunar cycle.They say men are more affected by solar
eclipses and today is the Winter solstice.
The Winter Solstice has been celebrated in cultures all over the
world for over thousands of years.
This start of the solar year is a celebration of Light and
the rebirth of the Sun.
One of the stronger days of the year to make changes in our lives.
As we welcome in the seasons we also have a great opportunity
to shift in our body and mind.
We can use all of these astrological aspects as excuses not to
practice and make positive changes, or we can move beyond all of
our expectations and have a great shift in body, mind and spirit.
There is an opportunity to use all the energy of the planets to
propel us to have all we ever wanted.
Make a commitment to yourself to be all you can be.
Practice! Practice! Practice!
I wish you the best in your Health, Wealth and Happiness
Dr. Wu Dhi
PS. If you want to be trained in the very best of internal practices
get the Recharging Qi Gong program right now!
In Less than a 1/2 hour a day you will transform you stresses
and be a Power House of Energy
Rituals are one of the foundations of Spiritual work
and the basis of all the internal arts.
This is the reason I always encourage you to PRACTICE,
to build a strong foundation and to embody the practices.
It could be the Recharging Qi Gong practice,
Flying Crane Qi Gong or any of the internal practices
that I teach in the Turn Stress into Power program or
any other discipline you choose.
The key is the ritual of practice.
In 2007 a group of Qi Gong and meditation students
came to my office and made a formally requests
of me.
They asked if I would take them on as students.
The Master’s that I have studied with over the years
have taught me that whenever a student formally asks
for the teaching it is a karmic obligation of the teacher
to give it to them, if they qualify.
Since that time the group has grown and requests have come
in from all over the world.
Thanks to modern technology I produce a DVD every month
for the group on practices and ritual work.
“If one truly wants to grow the ritual of practice must be a
way of life.”
-Dr Wu
I am on my way to the Desert for my Solar Return.
You may be asking yourself, what the heck is a
Solar Return?
First, Let me explain the importance of this practice, it ‘s
called by astrologers “The Solar Return” the day of your
birthday.
Most of us know the usual ritual. Ice cream and cake,
a drink with friends and maybe a few presents and It’s
a party “ Happy Birthday!”
But there is some real magic that can happen on that
special day once you learn the rituals of the
“Solar Return.”
A Solar return is when the Sun returns to the exact
degree and minute it occupied when you were born.
Basically astrologers use the Return as a way to
forecast the upcoming year.
Personally I don’t use astrology as an everything
forecaster,but it is a handy map to look at now and again,
to give you the best places to be and to know when
to travel,plan special events and avoid possible
bad situations.
Traveling on your Solar Return is a special ritual to
travel to a specific location that maximizes the
positive and reduces the negative factors of your
coming year.
I first heard about “Solar Return Travel” back in the
early Seventies.
Since then I make my birthday a magical day of
traveling to incredible places in the world.
Traveling for one day doesn’t work for most of us,
But when you turn the travel into a spiritual ritual
it has a lot of merit and will empower your entire
year.
“Take charge of your life! and receive the support
of the stars.
Travel on your birthday to the best destination,
location to energize
a positive focus for your current year’s “Solar Return”.
Empower your intentions, your goals, and your desires
for the year unfolding.”
That being said you are going to need to do something
with this election other than simply showing up!
I’ll spend some of the time to creature a special a
talismans, some would call it a good luck charm, created
at a particular moment that will capture the energy and
power of that moment and preserve it.
My day will be spent in setting goals, meditations and
intensive Qi Gong practices.
I wish you the Best in your Health, Wealth and happiness.
Dr. Wu Dhi
PS I’ll be sure to have a piece of cake and a drink too.
Last week my son called me really excited with some good news.
Damo as we effectively call him is the editor of 6 newspapers in Arizona
He’s spends long days getting things together to get the newspapers ready to roll out on the press.
I really don’t know too much about the newspaper business so I Google it and here’s what I found
by Steve a. Smith
A newspaperman was a writer. An author. The true, first voice of history.
A newspaperman chronicled the life of his times on old Remingtons with faded ribbons.
A newspaperman wrote on copy paper, one story in one take.
If he wanted a copy, he used carbon paper. If it didn’t sing, it was spiked.
A newspaperman edited with pencils and always had a ready stack,
freshly sharpened, at the start of every shift.
A newspaperman smoked at his desk. And if the managing editor wasn’t paying too much attention,
he might steal a drink, too.
A newspaperman knew how to eat well and finish off the meal with a stiff drink and a fine cigar — all on the company dime.
A newspaperman wore black slacks, a bit worn. A short-sleeved white shirt and a thin black necktie.
A newspaperman owned one pair of black wingtips for his entire career.
A newspaperman had nicknames, raunchy, rude and unashamedly affectionate nicknames,
for all of the linotype operators in the basement.
A newspaperman reveled in the composing room heat, the smells of melted lead and oily black ink.
But the newspaperman was most at home in the newsroom.
A loud, smoky, smelly place. Wire machines. Real phones with loud rings.
The morning news meeting held in the men’s room, the last two stalls on the right,
each editor doing his business while conducting business.
The newsroom was a place of boisterous rough housing, crude jokes and tough insults,
none taken too seriously, unless they were taken seriously, in which case there might be a bit of a ruckus,
maybe a swing or two.
And the characters. The copy editor who barked like a dog.
The old city editor who ate reheated fish for lunch.
The former war correspondent, hobbling around on one leg, the other lost to drink not combat.
The newsroom was no place for the meek. The young newspaperman knew that when the managing
editor threw a coffee cup at his head, the proper recourse was to duck.
The older newspapermen had their heroes. Ben Franklin. John Peter Zenger. Horace Greeley.
William Randolph Hearst. Joseph Pulitzer, maybe. William Allen White certainly.
And because he had the heart of a newspaperman, Edward R. Murrow and, later, maybe Walter Cronkite.
For the aspiring newspaperman, heroes were the veterans who welcomed him into the newsroom,
all the while expecting he would stay quiet, pay his dues and eventually prove himself under fire.
The brightest, most ambitious, most talented young newspapermen were grateful for every day
they were able to work next to these great, principled and talented men.
A newspaperman knew the meaning of a deadline. He felt a chill when the presses rumbled at
midnight and would look for a reason to be in the press room,
slipping an early run paper from the conveyor to give the front page a quick
look and maybe also to see his byline in print.
Newspapermen worked hard and played hard.
The bartender at the dive across the street knew how many beers each reporter could consume between editions.
And after the last edition went to press, the bar lights would be turned up just enough to let the newspapermen
read those papers pulled fresh from the press.
The newspaperman was respected in the community. There was a mystique, a glamour that really didn’t exist but
which the newspaperman happily cultivated. In the movies, the editors were Cary Grant. Or Clark Gable. Or Jack Webb.
Or Humphrey Bogart, the greatest of all.
The young newspaperman wanted to be Bogie, standing in the press room, screaming into the phone,
“That’s the sound of the press, baby.”
The young newspaperman aspired to challenge authority, defend the defenseless and right wrongs.
If he was a Don Quixote with a pen, his windmills were politicians, bureaucrats, crooks and thugs.
He thought of his job as a calling and truth was his holy grail.
Nice read Steve.
I don’t picture my Son drinking and smoking cigars but who knows.
When I asked about the good news he said.
Dad I’ve got a space to fill in the newspaper and if you send me an ad I’ll put you in.
How cool is that.
I sent him a few choose one on the Recharging Qi Gong.
Take a look http://rechargingqigong.com/recharging-qi-gong.html
The other one was an ad that I ran in Black Belt magazine.
I’ll let you know what he picked as soon as he sends it to me.
Dr Wu’s Black Belt
I wish you the best in your Health, wealth and happiness.
If you get up early in the morning and make it to the beach around
4:00 or 5:00 AM you may find a special treat.
Large 300 pound sea turtles are laying their eggs.
The big mama came in just before daybreak and spent about 30 minute
digging a hole, laying her eggs, covering them up and going back
into the sea.
The magnificent sea Turtles migrate thousands of miles,
but usually return to lay their eggs on the same beach where
they hatched.
Sea turtles have existed for over one hundred million years
It can take 15 – 50 years before a sea turtle is capable of reproducing
Scientists estimate that only 1 in 1000 to 10,000 babies will survive
to adulthood
Sea turtles live their entire life in the ocean. The only time they come
ashore is when the female lays her eggs.
Sea turtles are reptiles. They breathe air and can hold their breath for long
periods of time.
When its time to sleep, a loggerhead will wedge under a rock close to the
shore, or take a snooze while floating on the surface of deep water
Hatchlings weigh less than one ounce and are only two inches long.
Adults can grow over 3 feet long and weigh 200 to 300 pounds!
The nest temperature during incubation determines a sea turtle’s sex.
Boys like it cool – Girls like it hot.
Sea turtles have great underwater vision, but are nearsighted out of the water.
Although sea turtles do not have external ears, they are capable of hearing
low frequency sounds and vibrations
Sea turtles use their strong jaws to crush a diet of crabs, shrimp, mussels,
and jelly fish.
This is to sad
I was talking to the park service lady who I call the “Turtle Lady.”
She said they lost over 200 turtles this year in shrimp nets on the
Gulf as the Shrimp boats crews were in a rush to get the shrimp in before the
oil spill destroys them and the turtles drowned in the nets they are air breathers.
“This oil spill is really a mess.”
The eggs will take about 3 months to mature and the little ones will scurry
back to the sea.
One of the advantages of doing my training before the sun rises is that everything is
Really Still
and you get to see wonderful things in nature that most of us miss as we get
those last minute Zzzzzzzz’s.
If you’re ready to build a body of steel, increase your internal power and align
yourself with the sprits of nature join me June 12th
for a one day intensive in Miami for the
Recharging Qi Gong workshop call 786-271-0325 to register.
I Wish you the Best in your health, Wealth and Happiness
Jerold wrote and asked me to explain to him what he can
expect from doing Qi Gong and internal exercises.
He said he did a weekend workshop and thought it was all some
Big Hype.
He said he felt that the instructor was more filled with himself and had no real Qi.
Jerold, some Qi Gong masters and teachers have the real goods and others have a good
intensions.
I don’t judge them but it takes more than a weekend to get the goods.
“Keep on Practicing”
There two keys
1. The teaching
2. Is the practice
If you don’t do both, It ’s like a bird who only has one wing. It doesn’t fly half the distance, he will just flop along the ground. You need both wings to fly.
I have been practicing for more than 30 years.
When I first learned Qi Gong, most of my friends and fellow students never really took
notice of of the practice.
The hard core Martial Arts people thought it was BS.
They looked at me like I was crazy – practicing so many hours a day and not showing any
outwardly visible skills.
Were they wrong.
I have no health problems, I look at least 10 to 15 years younger than my peers and I take no medicine.
Why? The key is the practice.
Every time I run into an old Martial arts person all they talk about is how much pain
they are in, their knee injuries, shoulder injuries and how beat up their hands
and feet are from breaking boards and bricks.
They really didn’t really get what internal exercises would have given them.
Twelve important benifits for your health and longivity that you can acheive by practicing
The Recharging Qi Gong exercises.
1. Helps dissolve stress naturally
2. Calms high blood pressure without drugs as it balances cardiovascular system.
Also it will normalized blood pressure, and lower bad cholesterol levels.
3. Promotes health and longevity. Your vital capacity, hormone levels, kidney function,
mental acuity, vision and hearing, skin elasticity, bone density, immune function,
digestion, and libido will perk up.
4. It releives chronic pain, people report significant pain reduction from all causes, including injury,
surgery, arthritis, fibromyalgia.
5. Improved flexibility, strength, musculoskeletal development, great posture,
balance, and stamina.
6. Slimming effect on body and spinal toning
7. Promotes relaxing as it calms the body and mind
8. Clears out mental troubles as it balances the mind
9. Encourage a better respiratory rate, improves gaseous exchange, significant benefits
for asthma & bronchitis
10. Circulation improves, micro-circulation, prevents vascular spasms, very helpful for
angina, migraine, and Reynaud’s Syndrome (cold hands & feet)
11. Builds a strong Immune System, with a significant
anti-cancer effect
12. Brain improves cerebral blood flow, less incidence of stroke; reduction in frequency
and intensity of seizure disorders; slow, high amplitude brainwaves suggest relaxed
and integrated state of consciousness.
These are just a few of the health benefits, if you build in the habit of regular practice.
There are also many major benefits in energy,meditation practices and the Payback
you’ll get in the Martial practices are too awesome to talk about at this time.
If you want to get the real deal that teaches Qi Gong, Nei Gong and Shen Gong,
order a copy of the Recharging Qi Gong Program : www.Rechargingqigong.
I wish you the best in your Health, Wealth and happiness
Dr. Wu Dhi
PS. I will be teaching a intensive workshop on internal Power
using the Recharging Qi Gong program
June 12 Saturday
call 786-271-0325 to hold your space.
Dr. Wu Dhi
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“Where there is Blockage there is pain,
where there is no Blockage, there is no pain.”
I read this statement in Kung Fu Magazine a
few months ago and it really stuck with me.
That’s not a concept that they entertain in
Western Medicine. People in general can’t deal
with pain.
They are always trying to run from it, kill it,
or numb out, just to avoid pain.
I hear it all- “Doctor: my back hurts, my stiff neck
is killing me, and I’ve had these pounding head aches
for weeks.” I have heard that some of the standard
treatments are worse than the actual disease itself.
As a doctor of Chinese medicine, I am forever opening up
the blockages in Qi flow and this relives pain in a flash.
No blockage, No pain. It’s as simple as that.
If the Qi is not flowing; it’s stagnant or disrupted in
some way. It can be from a trauma, spiritual, mental,
or emotional imbalances.
Here’s the scoop: we have a meridian system that travels
through our whole body. It’s like a sea of energy or a large
river of energy flowing in and out, around every organ.
If the Meridians are open our health is great,
but if there is a blockage the next thing we know-
there is some kind of dis-ease.
The acupuncture, herbs, and massage help to open up those
blocks that effect our balance.
But most of us can’t get a treatment everyday because of time,
costs etc.
So what can you do to keep your self in tip top shape,
release the blocked energy and stay balanced?
I’ve got the answer;
“The Recharging Qi Gong Program”. www.Rechargingqigong.com
I now have more than 700 patients and students doing this
increasable program daily with 100% satisfaction.
They have cut their pain down to size or completely
eliminated it.
I receive letters all the time from students and patients
telling me how their energy has increased and that
they are more flexible than they have ever been with no pain.
They now feel great in their own skin again.
How does it work?
The program opens up the blocked and stuck energy in your
physical, mental and spiritual bodies.
“Where there is no Blockage, there is no pain”.
If you start now you can improve your health way beyond your
own expectations and feel GREAT! www.Rechargingqigong.com
I wish you the Best in your Health, Wealth and Happiness
21 degrees in Florida this morning and that’s
a record breaker. Miami Beach is warmer 29 but with that breeze coming off the ocean its dam cool at my house.
Never the less I was up early walked down to
the beach and did my TRAINING AS USUAL.
The Recharging Qi Gong exercises increases power,
warms the kidneys and gives you more sexual strength
and if one gets all that, who wouldn’t want to train. www.rechargingqigong.com
“He who fails to train, Trains to fail”.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the kidneys
are responsible for our growth, development, reproduction,
bone marrow production, temperature regulation, the
function of brain and spinal cord, controls the strength
of bones,and fluid metabolism. If your kidneys are deficient
you could have signs and symptoms which will include:
Exhaustion, feeling cold all the time, swollen face,
swollen extremities, memory loss, hair loss, hearing
problems, decreased sexual drive, brittle bones,
teeth problems, sore back and knees, frequent pale
urination, incontinence, high blood pressure, low
sperm count, infertility, hypothyroidism, asthma,
impotence, difficult bowel movements.
You can see why the kidneys are so important to keep strong.
One of the keys to longevity is to keep the kidneys strong.
I have been telling you about Shou Wu Chih in my blog.
You know the Chinese tonic to keep your kidneys warm.
(Look at November 19th, 2009
“Keeping the Kidneys warm all winter” www.Drwudhi.com
I have been drink it since late fall to prepare my system
for the cold and keep my energy at its best.
A few days ago when I heard that the artic freeze was
coming my way, I got all the goodies ready to make a
tonifying ginseng chicken soup.
Here is the formula,Enjoy!
Ingredients
1 small black chicken
(you can find a black chicken at the
Chinese grocery store)
5 slices of ginger about the size of a quarter
and ¼ of an inch thick
3 or 4 Tsp. Shou Wu Chih
10 Chinese red dates
1 pieces of dried ginger
2 or 3 pieces of garlic
½ package of the thin ginseng root
(they look like thick twigs and come
with a string around them)
Seasonings:
2 tsp sea salt
5 tbsp rice wine
A splash of sesame seed oil
Directions:
1. Wash and clean the black chicken
( I soak the chicken in salt water
for a few hours to pull out toxins)
2. Peel the ginger and garlic
3. Rinse the ginseng root, and red dates
4. Place the black chicken in a large pot
and add the ginseng root, Shou Wu Chih,
red dates, ginger and garlic.
Add enough water to cover the ingredients.
5. Bring the pot of water to a hardy boil.
6. Lower to low heat and simmer the soup for
about 2 hours
7. Remove from heat and add the seasonings before serving
Today I had 3 bowels already and I’ll have another one
for dinner. Yum!
My entire body is warm. I Train Hard and I am Chocked
full of energy.
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21 degrees in Florida this morning and that’s
Flying Crane Qi Gong
