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Daily Qigong Tip
Our Emotions and Our Qi Series
Anger Management
Emotions play a big role in our health. Understanding how our various emotions affect the Qi in our body, and therefore affect our health, is very important. Ancient Chinese culture has a thorough explanation in this area, which has been part of the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In this issue, I want to discuss Anger and How to Manage Anger.
What happens to our Qi when we get angry?
The energy created by our anger hurts our liver Qi, which is in charge of transportation for our whole system. Our good health depends on a fully functioning transportation system, just as a city must have its transportation system up and running to sustain its citizens’ quality of life.
When a person gets angry, their system Qi pushes their blood pressure up. This is why we sometimes see a person’s face getting red when they are angry. The disorderly flow of Qi will be adjusted back to normal later on, but if the anger comes too often or too intensely, the Qi will fail to revert to normal, creating a negative impact on health.
Western medicine has developed some amazing technology for detecting health imbalances in our physical bodies. Qi imbalance is the root of physical imbalance. Therefore by the time technology detects a health problem, the root causes have become well established. Daily Qigong practice helps us balance our Qi and gradually eliminate the root causes of health problems before they manifest in our physical body.
What to do with our anger?
1. First, be aware of it. Being in close touch with our emotions is the foundation of our self-care practice. Acknowledge your feelings and acknowledge your willingness to changing how you feel.
2. Take a deep breathe. Inhale deeply and exhale very slowly. Keep repeating.
3. Focus on your breathing. You might find yourself breathing very heavily at the moment. Relax your body. Count your breathes and feel yourself breathing.
4. If the situation allows, (e.g., if you are not driving), look down at your toes, then continue with step 3.
5. Zoom out and see the bigger picture, visualizing (or you can call it remembering the picture).
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Be Happy!
Continuation of an unpublished manuscript by Robert Cowling(BC),currently being edited
Chapter Eight
CHANGE
Embracing The Process
Change or die. Life is that simple.
As a child during the 1950s, I was indoctrinated with the '50s Dream: a family, a house, two cars, a good job. This Dream was something to work for, something to get. Only after achieving the Dream would I then be happy.
I struggled to get "there," operating on the subliminal assumption that once accomplished, the Dream would then be maintenance-free. After all, who needs change when the Dream is realized?
Gradually I am unlearning this cultural teaching. Before I became aware of it, though, I defeated myself many times by looking at my challenges as hurdles to get somewhere. I did not realize change is a process. Until I learned to embrace this principle, I resisted change because I wanted to be where I thought I was going, not where I was. Today, I still relearn this lesson regularly. The old programming fades slowly because it is an echo in me of a primal urge to resist pain.
Change is hard for most of us, because we resist it. Our resistance makes change unpleasant—not the change itself. A relationship grows comfortable, perhaps stagnating in some area. One person in the relationship goes through a change which disrupts the comfortable sameness for their mate. What then? People have made many different choices in this situation. Happy people usually face their changes and adapt.
If we never changed, we would quickly die. Here is an obvious example. Chestnut Street used to be two-way traffic. Last year the city planning board changed Chestnut Street to one-way traffic flow. What do you do? If you do not change your driving habits you invite the serious problem of driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Resist enough changes and your life span will surely shorten.
To step into tomorrow, we need good footing today. Adapting to change helps create a solid personal foundation. How can embracing change help you Be Happy? Sure beats dying.
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