My topic for a recent Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar was a poem by the Chinese Zen(Chan) master Wumen Huikai that begins with "Ten thousand flowers in spring."
The full recording of this webinar including the Accunect Healing Session that followed the lecture is below - keep reading for the full video.
My premise is that this poem gives us a practical way to work on connection to inner Oneness and hence health wherever we are. No special equipment needed, you don't need to schedule a time for meditation/prayer. Just be present to the daily miracles that surround us.
I'll present Wumen's poem and then talk about it.
"Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life." - Wumen
What does this have to do with health?
Accunect is a healing system, but we look at the deeper roots of health and disease.
In Chinese medicine, all disease begins because of the perception of separation from the Tao(God/Oneness).
When we feel separate or alone, we experience fear. Fear weakens the Kidney Qi and it causes our nervous system to go into alert/fight-flight mode. The Kidney meridian is where we store our Original Qi / Reserve Life Force, so when we weaken this energy we age. And when our nervous system stays in fight-flight mode too much every system in the body gets distorted:
- Too much tension in the muscles.
- Blood pressure goes up.
- Digestion weakens and we become malnourished.
- Immune function weakens and we let toxins and infections build up in the body.
- Tissue repair gets put on hold.
- Inflammation increases relentlessly.
Which means that anything we can do to feel connected to Oneness/Tao/God is a good thing for both our physical health and our spiritual/mental health.
What about meditation?
Meditation is great. So is prayer. But these experiences are typically planned and not spontaneous. Both can make you calmer and increase resilience, but they don't reliably produce wonder.
What really helps us appreciate the interconnectedness of all things is an experience of wonder:
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!" - Vicki Corona
If we are truly present, we will notice countless evidence of miracles in everyday life.
Life itself is a miracle - more and more scientists are doing the math and realizing that Darwin's theory of random mutation and natural selaction is fundamentally flawed. Accidental genesis of complex life is mathematically impossible. Life itself is a miracle, and taking it for granted is hazardous to our well-being. If we are present we are able to see "a World in a grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower" (William Blake) and experience joy and wonder by seeing something fresh, beautiful, and miraculous everyday.
Miracles are the true nature of reality, when we do not see them something has gone wrong with our perception. Witnessing miracles and experiencing joy and wonder is necessary for maintaining balance in both body and mind.
Joy neutralizes the other emotions and is a tonic to both the digestion and the immune system.
How do I get better at miracle watching?
This is where the Accunect balancing comes in. In order to shift our instinctive reaction to the world, we have to shift the underlying energy state.
An example I often refer to is that the Spleen meridian regulates our relationship with worry. If the Spleen Qi is weak you will worry too much. So I never tell people not to worry. Instead I balance their Spleen Qi and that gives them a chance to worry less - it shifts their habitual, instinctive response away from worry.
This is why the Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar always consists of two parts:
- A mini-lecture on some aspect of creating better health: diet, lifestyle, exercise, and very frequently mindset and beliefs. I try to correlate this information with possible energy imbalances.
- Then an Accunect Healing session to help shift our energy state and hence our instinctive responses to the world. This is what changes our ability to crave healthy foods, make time for exercise, manage our stress, and see more miracles.
Just show me the video already!
Here's the recording of the webinar. The Accunect healing session follows the lecture. Information on joining this webinar series below the video - we do this every week, because if you want to get your energy in shape it's like going to the gym to get your body strong: once is not enough, you make progress through consistency of working on yourself.
This episode explores the topics above in more detail and then I do an Accunect Healing session to help everyone shift energetically to encourage the ability to be present.
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The Accunect Mind Body Healing webinar takes place every week at 4pm London time (11am Eastern, 8am Pacific, 11pm Singapore/Hong Kong).
All sessions are recorded and replays stay up for six weeks. That gives you plenty of time to catch up on any calls you aren't able to make live. And for people experiencing difficult health issues, I recommend watching a replay everyday in addition to that week's call. This gives people a way to be proactive about supporting their health on all levels every day.
You can join monthly for $97/month. That's about $22 per session for a powerful healing session and benefiting from my 35 years of research and practice in Chinese medicine and mind-body healing.
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