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What’s the Best Diet for Humans?
By Jane Barthelemy. OK, will the best human diet please stand up? I’m asking, are there general dietary health guidelines that can apply to all humans? Or should we all just follow the current diet ...
Balancing the Cortices
This is a great way to balance your nervous system in 1-minute. Use this simple exercise before an important performance, an exam, an athletic challenge, or a meeting. Do it if you’re ...
My Book, The Cosmology of Qigong
By Jane Barthelemy. This book attempts to explain the roots of Qigong in simple terms for Westerners. A recent public talk I gave in Santa Fe, and Gubbio, Italy, the book explores ...
My Qigong Workshop in Italy
My workshop in Gubbio, Italy was called “How to cultivate your personal Mogadao practice and improve your health through the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine”, with Anneli Arpolahti, a talented ...
Should You Keep a Microcosmic Journal?
A Microcosmic Journal is a diary for the purpose of deepening your spiritual awareness. It is a useful practice on the path to a complete life and a powerful tool to internalize your attention and ...
The 20 Meridians and their Consciousness
What are the Meridians? Ancient Chinese medicine thousands of years ago described the meridians in the body that carry Qi or life force through special channels that connect the various ...
Yin Yang Qigong, Brain Balancing
By Jane Barthelemy. I finally made videos of my favorite brain balancing exercises. These ancient Qigong movements stimulate body intelligence, expand intuition, improve your memory, keep your brain flexible, and make you ...
Are You Getting Your Five Cosmic Messages?
By Jane Barthelemy. Yes, the five messages we receive in our life are: Signals, Symptoms, Stones, Stress, and Solutions. No, they don’t come in as texts. They come in as situations for ...
Introduction to the Chinese Five Element System
By Jane Barthelemy. The Chinese five elements are said to arise out of the two energies Yin and Yang. And the five element system can be considered refinement or outgrowth of Yin Yang Theory. It ...
What’s Protective Wei Qi? How Can I Build it?
By Jane Barthelemy. Wei Qi is an invisible energy, an electro magnetic field referred to in Chinese medicine. Wei Qi is critically important especially in current times, as we are bombarded by energies and ...
Full-Body Sunbathing, Risks and Benefits
By Jane Barthelemy. Is Sunlight Dangerous? Over the past 4 decades, dermatologists and doctors say you should never be exposed to direct sunlight because it will damage your skin and ...
Do Emotions Cause Disease? Chinese Medicine Says “Yes”
Emotions: Our Main Obstacle to Health and Destiny Desires and passions are considered by Chinese thinkers to be the main obstacles to the true accomplishment of a human life and ...