Chinese New Year is ALWAYS a time
to clean up your life and that means your
internal spiritual temple as well as your outer temple- your home.
I started getting it together weeks ago and I’ll
make sure it’s all done by February 4th.
This year, the cleansing process is even
more important as we are in a Yang Water Dragon year.
The emphasis of the year 2012, a Water
Dragon year is to gather the spiritual benefits
and clean out all of the cob webs in our personal
as well as our spiritual lives.
The rituals done this time of year are most
important for your health, wealth and happiness.
In China, you will see statues of Guan Yin, the
Goddess of Compassion, riding on a Water Dragon.
This might give us a clue to be more
compassionate in all that we do.
It’s important to clean out your closets of anything
you no longer use, get rid of all the clutter in
and around your house!
You also have to make sure that before February 4th,
you clean and renew all of the spiritual things in your life.
If you have spiritual statues, paintings,
amulets, books, and ritual objects, no matter what tradition, they all
need to be cleaned, polished, dusted off and
made ready for the year of the Water Dragon.
I will light incense around my house at every door.
This is a way to feed the spirit and I always make sure
that there are flowers in my house with fresh clean water.
I also put the traditional Chinese Red Welcome mats
at my door. Internal cleansing of the body is very
important at this time. I do skin brushing every morning
to cleanse and stimulate my skin which is one of the
largest detox organs in the body.
It’s important to do your own personal cleansing,
inside and out, at this time. Deep cleanse the surface
of your body. If you have access to hot tubs, saunas,
mineral or herbal bathes, this is the time to soak,
scrub and sweat out as much of the impurities as possible.
Be very clean on February 4th
(that’s the day ).
Wear only fresh clothes on February 3rd and 4th.
(The Dragon starts emerging in the evening of February 3rd).
I am definitely going to the Russian
Sauna to absorb the heat, jump in the cold plunges
and clean my body of toxins! I am even doing the
7 day Core Restore Program to clean out my liver,
remove all additional toxins from my diet and lifestyle.
This will REMOVE, RESTORE, and REVITALIZE
my entire system! It’s a way of gently cleansing my
body inside and out, and it only takes 7 days!
I have a personal practice that is based on
ancient tradition that involves early morning meditations,
cleansing the house using epsom salts.
You can get the formula on my You Tube channel
Make this upcoming week a time of purifying your
body, mind and spirit. Eating pure foods at this time
is also VERY important. The Taoist Chinese say your
whole year’s fortune can depend on how you
enter the new year.
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Getting ready for the water Dragon year
I started by inviting the Dragon into my home
last week. I hung up red Chinese lanterns,
bought all of the incenses, wine, and sweets and
set up the dragon fountain to honor and invite the
legendary animal in 2012. I woke up at 4:00 am to
honor the dragon energy and the new moon into my
home for good luck, health and wealth for the year.
Noodles are the traditional dish for the New Year
and I’ll cook fish for dinner. The Dragon is coated
with mysterious colors. Chinese consider that the
dragon is unpredictable, untouchable and people
cannot see its head and tail at the same time.
Therefore, we might see something unexpected
happening in 2012.
The water Dragon is an energetic year characterized
by movements and changes.
The Fung Shui experts are predicting an
increase in epidemics and health risks involving viruses.
Therefore, diet, hygiene and exercise will be very
important this year. The more responsibility you take
for your own health the better off you will be in the Dragon year.
As it’s a water dragon, pay more attention into
keeping your kidneys and bladder healthy.
There can also be stomach problems so eat healthy,
fresh and clean food. Get a good vegetable wash and
clean your fruits and veggies very well.
The water element sits on the earth element which
sounds like there will be a lot of mud stirred up.
I always urge you to practice, this year it will be the year to do so.
“Hang a metal wind chime in the South-East of
your home,”-that’s a Fung Shui protection.
We can expect more natural calamities such as
floods and earthquakes. The water element have
to do with fear on the negative side and gentleness
on the positive side, so be more gentle with yourself
and others and the year will be a lot smoother for you
and your family.
I have been spending more time working on
Yin practices like the Yin set that clears and tonifies
the internal organs. It is very gentle, calming and
works wonders on the
Lungs, Kidneys, Heart, Liver and Spleen.
You’ll find these magical exercises in the
Recharging Qi gong program.
Go to:
www.Rechargingqigong.com
I wish you the best in your Health, Wealth ad Happiness
The National Weather Service
issued excessive heat warnings
for wide areas of central and
eastern United States, saying
that the combined heat and humidity
could push the “real feel” temperature
to 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius)
through Saturday.
The thermometer hit 91F (33C)
but it felt more like 112F (44C),
according to AccuWeather.com.
By the weekend, the heat wave
is expected to cover half of the
United States and affect nearly
150 million people.
‘DANGEROUS HEALTH RISK’
The low pressure system that
barreled east was expected to bring
powerful thunderstorms with hail
to northeastern states.
“Do not take this threat lightly,”
the National Weather Service
warned.
The extreme temperatures
are particularly dangerous.
When it gets that hot it’s really
important to stay hydrated, we
all know the importance of drinking
water, but there are some other
important things to know to keep
us from de-hydrating.
Drinks like alcohol,
soda,other high sugar drinks,
and even coffee will dry you out.
Pure H2O is the safest to drink
and water with electrolytes will
keep you cool and
well hydrated.
Eat fruit– this will also
help to cool your
body off, my favorites are:
-plums
-peaches
-grapes
-pears
-watermelon
Here are a few of my formulas
for cooling yourself down
when it’s this hot.
Buy an organic pineapple;
it’s really important that the
pineapple is organic. Pineapples
are so sweet and bugs love them
as much as we do, so they spray
them with poisoned chemicals,
lots and lots of sprays! When I
lived in Hawaii, you would see
them spray them all the time. My
friend Gail used to go down to the
tide pools that were below
the pineapple fields to soak every day.
Although the fields were a hundred
feet above little did she know that
all that poison was leaching down from
the pineapple field into the pools.
Before she knew it she was sick
from toxic poisons. She is still
beautiful on the outside, but her
internal organs are all suffering.
So make sure you get an Organic Pineapple.
cut off the outside skin and instead of
throwing it in the basket, wash it well
and then put it in water and boil it for
about ahalf an hour.
Then you strain it and
pour off the juice and put in the
refrigerator.
It’s a very cooling drink for the summer,
needs no sweetener and will keep you
hydrated and cool.
Another one of my special cooling summer
formulas I learned from Dr. Fu Dhi he’s
from Harbin China. Although Harbin
is one of the coldest places in China in
the winter,the summers are hot and
humid and when I went to school,
there was no air-conditioner.
This recipe is most likely thousands of
years old.
We all like ice cold watermelon, the
sweet red meat is cooling and
refreshing and people all over the
planet eat it, drink the juice and
you may think that’s the trick.
But wait there is more to the watermelon
than you would ever think.
The rind is rich in silicon and its
outer green skin is concentrated
in chlorophyll.
Rind can be used to keep you
cool as well.
You can take the watermelon rind
which is the white part, cut it up
into about one inch squares, add a
little salt and put it in the refrigerator
to cool for an hour or so.
Once it’s chilled,
you can add it to either vegetable
or fruit salads.
Also watermelon
rind can be juiced and drunk 1 or
2 oz. of the juice 2 to 3 times a day-
it will also lower your blood pressure,
but if you have a heart condition
leave out the salt.
Stay hydrated can also keep you
Young.
When I’m doing my Qi Gong practice
this time of year,
I focus on the kidneys and the spleen.
That’s the water and earth elements.
The Recharging Qi Gong program
www.RechargingQiGong.com
is the perfect program to do all summer.
It will tonify your organs and cool
down your body mind and spirit.
I wish you the Best in your Health,
Wealth and Happiness
Everyday I deal with stress.
I’m used to stress.
I do my practices and training and for the most part,
I use stress to my advantage and turn stress into power.
Last week, I had to go to Michigan as my eldest son was
stressing out and crashing after his son’s surgery
a few weeks ago. He was stressed to the max.
With his children, job, relationship, and business in general,
he had so much stress,
that he was unable to function and this stressed me.
The reason I’m telling you this story, is even if you don’t have
stress in your personal life, if friends or family are going through
a rough time, they defiantly pull on your strings and can pull
you off center easily.
I noticed in Michigan, I wasn’t following my diet,
let my practice go for three days in a row,
and I was wasted.
“If you don’t eat the energy,
the energy will defiantly eat you.”
Although I had a ton of things to do there,
as soon as I realized I wasn’t training,
I immediately went back to it, corrected my diet,
and began doing the exercises in the
Turn Stress into Power program, www.turnstressintopower.com
and took the reigns
back on my own situation. This happens to many people,
when life throws you a curve ball, the tendency of most
people is to eat, drink, and talk excessively or to just
stay home and do nothing.
But neither one of these strategies
work to put you in a place of power. If you want to be in
charge and on top of your game, its imperative to recommit
to your practice daily and make sure that your health is # 1.
Sometimes, people think this is selfish but it’s not at all.
If you’re sick, you can’t help anyone else.
It’s true in all walks of life. If you see a drowning
man in the water, and you’re not trained as a lifeguard,
and jump in, he could pull you down. Even a lifeguard knows that
when he jumps in to save the drowning man, he always
brings a life preserver to assist the person not only the
person drowning, but to keep himself from drowning.
If you want to help others, you must help yourself first,
and that’s where training comes in. You build in a
muscle memory that brings you back to your training
and your practice. The Turn Stress into Power program
will give you exercises, meditations, mantras, and
strategies to pull yourself out of stressful situations and
keep you healthy strong and powerful.
It’s the year of the Rabbit-
a Metal Rabbit year.
This means this year will be ruled
by a lot of structure.
According to Chinese tradition,
the metal Rabbit year will brings
you a year in which you can catch
your breath and calm your nerves.
It’s a time for good negotiations
with others but don’t try to force
issues, which could end in a disaster
for both parties and cost you more
than you could imagine.
To gain the greatest benefits in 2011,
it’s important to focus on home,
family, security, diplomacy,
and your relationships, especially
the Yin nature, women and children.
Make it a goal to create a safe and
peaceful lifestyle, so you will be
able to calmly deal with any
problem that may arise.
The Rabbit that is sometimes referred
to as the Cat, which is the symbol of
the Moon, while the Peacock is considered
to be the symbol of the sun.
These two animal signs represent
Yin and Yang in the Taoist system.
This is the year when wishes will be
fulfilled, so be careful what you
Wish for in the Year of the Rabbit
–you may just get it!
The practice that I will be doing
this year will build strong Yin Qi
plus much more. On every Full Moon
nights I take a healing stroll in
the moon light for an hour or so
and if possible near a large body
of water.
Water is also yin like the moon.
I fix my eyes on the Full Moon
and I visualize Moon beams and
Moon glow flowing into my entire
system, filling
my body with bright white light
as I gather the pure yin energy.
This will strengthen the inner
Qi and bring wisdom into ones
life.
One of my life time friends from
my home town of Detroit is here in
Miami Beach to share in the celebration
of this New Year with me.
We haven’t seen each other for years
as he has been living in Asia for
the last 20 years soaking up the
Qi of the Orient.
He is well skilled in energy work,
a tea master and holds the title
of World Sport Qi Gong Master of
the Year by the World Qi Gong
Congress.
We took the entire day to prepare
for the Chinese New Year.
The house was cleaned inside and
out to get rid of any stale energy.
I got rid of everything in that wasn’t
in alignment with my goals.
Things like old papers and books that
hadno value any more.
I made sure that useless things that
were just sitting around were now gone
opening the gates for the new Energy
and Pure Qi to flow in without
any obstructions.
Next we went to the Asian import store
and gathered all the goodies to
transform the house to welcome
the New Year.
Gung Ho Fat Choy
I wish you the Best of Health, Wealth and Happiness
Today A student asked me if I knew how to control pain using Qi Gong.
I refered to this blog that I sent out a few years ago.
This is the story I told him.
As a kid growing up in Detroit you learned how to be tough
at an early age, and even if I got in a fight or got hurt
I learned how to control pain. That was something I learned
early.
Dr. Feldman our family dentist taught me from an early age to
GET TOUGH!
You may remember those old dentist offices where that had
those old cable drills, well that’s what he had in his old
creepy office, with those old time cable drills that moved
really, really slowly with loud buzzing drills.
Dr Feldman told my mother, who seemed to believe
everything that he said, that kids didn’t need Novocain
or anything else for pain. He Told Her “Kids don’t really
feel any pain from the drilling”.
So we never got the numbing stuff.
I learned how to move my internal energy in my body to
avoid pain at an early age just to survive those early
days of touchier.
Not exactly the water board technique, but close.
I still use the technique to avoid pain,
to the amazement of my current dentist.
I was working out with a group of students about a
month ago showing some of the advanced techniques of
internal Qi gong and how to strike not at things but
through things.
I got distracted by a question from a senior students
and a newbie cold cocked me on my left side right on my jaw.
Ouch! I didn’t give it much energy and re-channeled the
pain and went on with the instructions.
A few days ago I was feeling some discomfort in my mouth
and went to the dentist to have it checked.
It turned out that I had a broken tooth and it needed to
be pulled.
When I said No Novocain! The dentist and her assistant
turned white. After some discussion and seeing that it
wasn’t going to happen without me agreeing to let them
give me at least a ¼ dose I agreed for their sake I then
went into a deep meditation and before I knew it the
tooth was out.
I did much better than the doctor and her assistant in fact
I giver her call to day to check on her anxiety level after
seeing me. She was fine but still can’t believe that the
processors didn’t bother me.
Over the last 6 decades I have studied and learned many
techniques from the ancient cultures on to move, remove,
divert and avoid pain. On many different levels mentally,
physically, emotionally and locked in spiritual pain.
Some of these systems I have discovered out of necessity
others are drawn from the Taoist systems and Tibetan
systems, as well as Alchemy, Chinese medicine and the
secret teachings of Ayurvedic medicine.
These and other internal Qigong exercises are what
I teach to the Qi Gong Inner Circle members.
If you are not a part of the group as of yet.
Join us now. www.Qigonginnercircle.com
If your not totally thrilled with
the teachings you can cancel any time.
There are no contracts
you just drop out; it’s as easy as that there is no pain.
Sign up today I can guarantee you’ll be glad you did.
Every day we accumulate toxins from the food we eat,
the water we drink and the air we breathe.
Even our negative thoughts affect us as toxic poisons
and those accumulated poisons interfere with the quality
of life.
The world is overburdened by chemicals that we are not
able to process nor eliminate without help and this is
a major source of disease.
Every day I see patients at my office complaining that they
have no energy, their sex drive is gone, they only have a
bowel movement every few days, they are bloated, full of gas
and over weight and Don’t Have a Clue Why.
I was in Switzerland last summer at the Paracelsus clinic
interning with Dr. Thomas Rau. He told me a story that
I will always remember.
He said,” Our bodies are like a big garbage-can.
Every day we put something in the can and sooner or later it
fills up and garbage spills over. The next thing you know
there are flies maggots and rats everywhere.
We can spray the flies, and poison the rats but that doesn’t
solve the problem. If you want to solve the problem you need
to empty the garbage-can and the pests will disappear. ”
We eat drink and are exposed to a multitude of poisons daily
and eventually our body fills up with a toxic overload and the
next thing we know we have some dis-ease.
You can try to kill it with medicines, but until you clean up
the underlining problem you are just covering-up the real thing.
So what’s the solution?
It’s a Detox, Cleaning out the Colon, Liver and the Kidneys.
I prescribe a combination of three remedies for 2 weeks
to purify your body of toxins, and cleanse the entire system.
It enhances the circulation, improves your digestion and cleans
toxic substances that relieve symptoms of illness caused by an
unhealthy lifestyle and/or exposure to environmental toxins.
The program will:
1. Detox the lymphatic system
2. Stimulates the gastrointestinal pathway and liver function
3. Detox the kidney and gallbladder systems.
If you are in South Florida, This is the last week of the
Detox Special.
I had hundreds of people come in for
the cleansing program that included
*Acupuncture
*Lymphatic Drainage
*Light Therapy
*Homeopathic Detox.
They have reported More Energy,a Bigger Smile on their faces,
Better Sleep, and a Clearer Mind and have Dropped Pounds.
I wish you the Best in Health , Wealth and Happiness
Last night I came home after sundown and the whole
house was completely dark.
Instead of turning on the lights I lit a candle.
I never do this sort of thing but the house seemed
so quiet and peaceful I wanted to just sit and open
to the quietness.
I spent the majority of the night in contemplative
meditation.We are in the Winter Solstice and it is
an excellent time to take time to be quiet and reflect
on the past year.
I recommend doing this for yourself as a matter of
self-cultivation.
With all the crazy energy around the holidays and
year-end you want to make sure that you cool-out
and recollect yourself before you burn-out.
Once you do I think you will find that the rush of
the holidays and year-end quiets down and you can
refocus on those things that are most important.
In Chinese medicine Winter is associated with the
element Water. Water energy has the attributes of:
•Cold
•Damp
•Quiet
•Stillness
•Calmness
•Smoothness
•Listening
•The Kidney organ and meridian
This energy is available in the atmosphere
throughout the winter. Just slow down,
sit quietly in a natural place and pull in the
atmosphere. Winter Water energy is also
associated with a special type of Awareness that,
from Chinese to English, best translates as
Alert Stillness. In the Chinese Medicine system we
use animal associations to signify these types of
energy, and as such, the animal for the water element
and organ of the Kidney is the Deer.
The Deer is chosen because it is a master of Alert
Stillness. When you think of a deer you think of an
animal that is impossible to sneak up on.
The slightest snap of a twig and the Deer has
disappeared. This is not the same type of power of
a Tiger or a Dragon but it is a type of power that
completes us.
In the Ba Gua system of Martial Arts it takes a
whole circle of animals to become a Master.
We cannot always Push, Push, Push, sometimes we
need to sit, take inventory, and listen to the
atmosphere.
This is the power in the symbol of the deer and that
is the power of this time of year.
So take advantage of this time of solstice when this
energy is most powerful and abundant, you will not be
able to tap into this energy so easily in other seasons.
Winter, not just the New Year, is the best time to set
new plans and goals into action.
Take inventory of what is happening around you.
Upon deep consideration you may see more then
before.
Clarity is not achieved when you are rushing or
being hasty.
Opening is found in reflection.
Wishing you the best in Health, Wealth and Happiness,
Dr. Wu Dhi
PS: This year was one that was filled with many firsts
for me that you can still participate in.
1. This year I totally changed my web site,
my web master and started to reach more people
that ever before with my blog and email subscriptions. www.energymedicineflorida.com
2. The Recharging Qi Gong Program is now on every
continent bring my Health and Vitality practices
to people all over the world. The a fully illustrated
book The Recharging Qi Gong, with additional
instruction
on DVDs and CDs. http://rechargingqigong.com
3. My healing practice specializing in getting you
healthy and your longevity. Contact me if you would
like a treatment at 786-271-0325. By the first of
the year I’ll have two offices. One in Aventura on
182 st and Biscayne and the other also on Biscayne
and 52 th. Street near down town Miami.
4. The Qi Gong on the Beach Club has been great.
A way to train new people in Qi Gong and work out
the details for other projects that are on the
drawing table. We are still doing a few Saturday
classes. Email me if you are in the Miami area and
would like to attend. I train every morning at 6
am, call me if your game for an early workout. drwudhi@energymedicineflorida.com
5. The Qi Gong Inner Circle. Has been getting bigger
and better all year.
Go to http://qigonginnercircle.com
and read all about this special training.
Every month I produce a new DVD and mail it out to
students all over the world.
6. This week I announced an exciting new book
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