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Dry-Cold challenges ahead The unusually high temperatures we saw in the autumn will continue for the next couple of weeks. However, Dry-Cold energy will dominate for the majority of December and January. Dry-Cold is often burdensome for those who have weak lung and/or heart function. People with these susceptibilities will need extra support to avoid related health challenges. This dynamic may also cause some blood circulation and skin problems. Unfortunately, it also suggests to me that SARS-CoV2 will continue to worsen during these Dry-Cold months. As usual, in order to maintain my own health and well-being, I have been dedicated to my daily cultivation practice. Like you, I have been carrying feelings of great grief for the world. I make a conscious effort to hold all those beloved in my heart and DanTian during my practice and send them wishes for health and healing. Transform destructive emotions w...

  Seasonal Wisdom from one of my Qigong Teachers, Master Peng On Friday, November 6th , the nineteenth phase of the Chinese seasonal calendar begins. This phase,  Start of Winter (Lidong) , starts at 6:14 PM EST as the sun crosses 225° Longitude (15° Scorpio). Start of Winter  is the first of the six seasonal phases that constitutes the season of winter. If we create a correspondence between the four seasons and the four stages of life, then springtime correspond to birth and childhood, summer to adolescence and early adulthood, fall to maturity and midlife, and winter to elderhood. On  November 6th   the year will officially become an “elder” as the Chinese seasonal clock crosses over the three-quarter point of its yearly circuit and we can glean the meaning of winter in concrete terms by meditating on  elderhood. What is an elder? You might picture an eighty-two-year-old, white-haired patriarch dispensing wisdom in a traditional Chinese family. Wisdo...