An apple a day
Welcome to my new blog on self development and preventative care. The Chinese character on top translates into centering through stillness. Movement towards balance and how to stay centered will be a...
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Think with your heart
It is hard to have a deep discussion of preventative care without exploring the internal organ relationships and energetics. We use the word energetics because we are talking about the Qi or energy of...
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Turn up the quiet
Water Element – blue, deep, yielding but very powerful. Serene, still, gentile, like a mountain lake, this is the Yin virtue of the kidney Qi. From the deep stillness of the kidney yin, yang arises,...
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Iron Shirt
Metal Element – Lungs, Large Intestine, Skin, Sinus, Autumn, color-white. During the Autumn season, the energy within nature and the body begins the downward movement leading into Winter when the...
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Willow Tree in the Breeze
Wood Element : Liver, Gallbladder, eyes, tendons, nerves, green, Spring. The Liver Qi represents freedom. Like a willow tree in the breeze, the Liver keeps us cool, calm, collected, flexible, and...
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Be Who You Are
Earth Element – Spleen, Stomach, muscles, Color -Yellow The Earth Element represents our center or home base. Instinctively we are always trying to find our way home. Our home is where we center,...
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Inner Expression
Artwork by Juan Li Just as there are no two identical fingerprints, we are all unique in a very special way. Our goal is to discover, refine and express our hidden potential and natural gift. According...
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Acting Wisely
Life is about change. Nothing stays the same. Everything in life runs in cycles. It is important to recognize when a cycle is ending and one is beginning. Often we resist change and cling to the old...
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Pennies from Heaven
Happy New Year! As we enter into the Winter season and the New Year, the time is right to move forward with our exploration of the classic book of change, “The I Ching.” We will first explore the...
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Till the Soil
The next trigram of the I Ching we will examine is the Earth Trigram. It is composed of three broken lines. A solid line is yang and a broken line is yin, so this Trigram is pure yin. In order to...
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Rainbow Bridge
As I look around my hometown, New York City, I am reminded how everything is in a state of flux and change. A favorite store goes out of business, a new bland designer one takes its place. Condos...
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Moments
If you sit by a freshwater stream and listen carefully, you will hear a sacred sound. This is the sound of the eternal present. If you observe the flow, you will notice some branches and rocks causing...
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Insight
In the days before meteorologists, in order to forecast the weather, humans would observe the clouds as well as the direction and intensity of wind. They would know if there is a fog about to...
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Inertia Blues
In life, every once in awhile we need to shake things up. Life can become too routine, mundane and predictable. Sometimes we need to knock down the old in order to bring on the new. A thunderstorm...
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Steady At the Helm
Alignment – Breath – Consciousness flows Consciousness is seated in the heart – thymus gland. The Heart -Thymus are the spiritual core of life on this planet. This is because they provide direction...
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