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Denzel Washington, welcome to inspire Vision. Our sole purpose is
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to elevate the lives of others and to inspire you
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to do the same.
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Adam, welcome to the show.
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Thank you, glad to be here.
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That's good to have you here. I'm looking forward to
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this discussion. You've got some interesting things that I know
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you talk about, and what I'd like for you to
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do with the audience is kind of explain your background,
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what brought you to this point, how did you get
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interested in this, and yeah, let's just kind of go
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from there.
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In my twenties, I had a pretty successful marketing agency
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in New York City. I had some childhood illnesses that
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were lingering, and I was using the asthma and handler
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that little pump that you see in the dudes. I
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was using that at least three times a day. I
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like to joke that coffee bar and Happy Hour weren't
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cutting it.
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Now.
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I was under so much stress. Now, let's put it
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this way. One of my.
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Clients was an attorney that defended two of our presidents
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in Supreme Court. So new York City marketing agency with
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high profile clients in my twenties, I just was burning
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out and I didn't know it until one day at
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a client, young guy even younger than me, I noticed
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what was happening, and he said, I think I can
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help you. And we started training over Skype, and I
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practiced a particular type of breathing and movement meditation that's
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known as cheatong, which I'll go into a little bit more.
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Yeah, we'll get into that.
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But I practiced that every day for six months and
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it cured my asthma. So what ended up happening As
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I continued developing this practice and looking for more teachers.
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So I started to realize that this was lineage based,
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that it's not necessarily something you can get from a book,
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although you can read about it. You really need somebody
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with a certain level of experience to guide you through
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certain articulations and things that are really experiential. So when
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you have something that's handed down from one person to
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another for so long, and in this case sometimes thousands
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of years, we call it lineage. And I started to
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see that as a bit of a life's purpose, that
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somebody saved my life. And if I could remember these
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things and remember these choreographies and these poetryes that go together,
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then I could share that with somebody else and maybe
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save their life or the life of somebody they love.
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So here I am, Here you are, and you still
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do your marketing.
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Yeah, I get a lot of calls. I did some
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fairly spectacular things for a lot of people, So I
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get calls. But at the moment I'm in, I'm enrolled
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in a PhD or a doctorate in natural medicine through
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Quantum University out of Honoluluguay, and the degrees actually Quantum
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integrated medicine. So they're training me to be the bridge
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between the mainstream allopathic model and the natural holistic books
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and our motto.
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In so many ways, it's just whatever works, whatever works
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to get you healthy.
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And if something's not working, if the person that's giving
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you health advice is prescribing something or or telling you
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to do something that's that's not effective, then it might
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be time to talk to somebody else.
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So are you are you in Hawaii or are you
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doing this online?
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The programs online, although I've been to Hawaii, okay and
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plan to go back for another training, so there is
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some hands on wow, okay, but it's.
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Amazing how now online you can get these degrees and
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this information. But oftentimes I think is even more effective
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than going to a university in person.
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Having having been to university, I would say that this
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is phenomenally more effective because.
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I know.
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Because these are recorded videos from in this case, in
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this curriculm. These are world RENOUWND thought leaders in the
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industry of health and consciousness. These are hours and hours
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and hours of recorded lectures that I can listen to
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and re listen to. The research papers and the the
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research libraries that they've given me access to are astonishing.
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How much how much we actually know that is not
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in the mainstream. Yeah. To put it simply, well, yeah.
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It's interesting as I've as I've interviewed various people, a
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lot of them, a lot of them similar to what
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you're doing, have gone in and got advanced degrees and
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then all of a sudden something's occurred to change their
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life and move in a different direction and they start
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to do all of that studying online. And we have
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all agreed, because I've done that too, We've all agreed
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that it's amazing how when you go online you're actually
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getting greater information and you become almost at a level
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at least equal to, if not a little bit higher
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than those that have gone to school for the same thing.
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So I find that fascinating. So anyway, as we go,
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I know that your studies started. Basically, I want you
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to kind of explain to the audience Chigong, because that's something,
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as you said, thousands of years old, and what is
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that exactly?
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Well, oh my god, this is such a debatable topic.
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You know, Historically folks in the East wanted to.
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Both live longer and have better romantic encounters, and so
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these techniques were developed. These techniques were developed for intimate
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relationships and longevity is an interesting thing because nowadays we
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have a lot of quackerie and snake oil and and
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side effects and all of these things, and a lot
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of claims that are made, and so Chi gong ties
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in very well with philosophy of Taoism. Okay, So it's
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a lot, it's it's a lot. It's a lot to consider.
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So in this philosophy, one of the foundational concepts is
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to be like water, and so water when it needs
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to be, can be ice. When it needs to be,
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it can be gas. So to flow like water, To
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be like water is to be adaptable, to be resilient,
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to be to have to have pressure, to be able
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to apply pressure. There's a lot of qualities of water
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that form this foundation. So Chi gong loosely translated she
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being energy and gong being practice is by my definition,
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the healing side of kung fu, that gong fu being
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and loosely translated the practice of movement. That there's a
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combat side and there's a healing side. So in this
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yin yang kind of balancing duality, we if we go
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into combat.
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Will need to heal.
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And so these longevity techniques became more with this philosophy
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of Taoism, became more quality of life. That the duration
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is a mystery. The quality is something that can be
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reliably improved, and in particular with those intimate relationships.
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Well so, yeah, and as you get into that, I know,
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as I've looked at it a little bit, it talks
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about the mind itself, regulating the mind, regulating the breath,
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but also regulating the body and different postures. And I
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found that interesting as I meditate, and I do a
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lot of walking meditation that as I start to move
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my arms and you know, and I don't have any
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specific way, I find that I actually get a greater
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sense of feeling of that meditation. And why is that?
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Why is the gentle movement like in chigong? Why is
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that make a difference when you consider the breath, the
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mind and then the movement.
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A great question, doctor Doug. Oh.
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So the chi is as I was saying before about
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the training that I had undergone, it's experiential. So I'm
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going to do my best. You know, there's the famous
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dowdi Ching book of philosophy. So and again to paraphrase
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the Dow that can be explained is not the true down.
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So I'll do my best. One way of one way
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of understanding that she this energy that we're practicing is
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that is the electromagnetic field that our body is generating
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and radiating electromagnetism, and that when you slow down through
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the breath, through for example, walking, meditation and walking in nature,
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that you that your sense is that you have a
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sense ability to tune into this subtle energy that you
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can feel your own.
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Biofield. Yes, one of the one of the one of
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the folks that I like the most is Rupert Sheldrake.
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He coined the term morphogenetic.
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Fields, so when you're engaged in these gentle movements, you
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can actually feel something that otherwise may not even really
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be detectable by most equipment. Although at this point now
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they do have a device called a squid and I
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have to look up what that acronym stands for, but
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it can't contact this energy field of the body.
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Well. And you know, as you've as you studied, obviously
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it's interesting to me. I mean, you've studied with doctor
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Jonas s. Benza. I know that you've studied with different individuals,
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and I don't know if that was a progression for
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you and how does how does chigong fit into all
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of that? Because you know a lot of times on
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the podcast we talk about meditation and I am a
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big advocate of meditation and how it can literally change
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your life. But how how does chigong fit into the
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modern day teachings that we get from doctor Dispensa and
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other people, because I know you've studied with a number
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of them. What do you find?
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Yeah, I have so much to say about these things
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and trying to be concise for you. Oh boy, Well,
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first of all, it feels fantastic to tune into this
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subtle energy and feel it moving through your body, to
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feel it clearing blockages. In so many ways, those blockages
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are physical that our lymphatic system, the endocrine system, the
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lymph nodes, and the branching lymphatic vessels are pump based
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and so similarly to our reason veins, the heart is
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pumping and the fluid is moving, the blood is moving,
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but the lymph needs a mechanical pump. It needs to
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be manually pumped. The main pump for that is the diaphragm.
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So the more breathing, the more deep breathing, the more
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that the sewage of the body, the mucus and the
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toxins therein are moving, and then the internal organs are
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digesting and eliminating. Chigong has choreographies that have you move
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in certain patterns that express that lymphatic drainage. And there
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are certain choreographies that have you moved in ways that
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you would have never considered in your entire life.
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Yes, so let me let me interrupt you just for
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a second, because what immediately comes to my mind. You know,
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we talked about yoga, which also includes meditation, But when
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you talk about movement, is that something that anyone can do,
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even as you get to be a little bit older,
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a little bit more and difficult of that, are these
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movements something that anyone can do?
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Absolutely?
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And to answer your question regarding doctor Joe Despenza and
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these other folks that I've studied with translating an Eastern
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philosophy philosophy into a Western medical language and giving it
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a Western medical relevance, in particular with doctor Joe, who's
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known for his work with La Cibo and his work
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with belief systems and in a sense being the world's
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thought leader on behavior change, that there's actually a study
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of I believe from Harvard that shows that these techniques
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done mentally in a mental rehearsal are slightly more effective.
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So you can practice shigong standing up, they are standing meditations,
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you can practice them seated, you can practice them lying down.
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That you can practice them purely as a mental rehearsal,
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and you're going to get incredible benefits. And I think
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the reason for that is actually more difficult. If your
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body is moving, there's a muscle memory, and you're in
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the flow and you're making these gestures and you're.
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In the motion.
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If you're rehearsing it in your mind, there's a lot
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more There are a lot more distractions, a lot more
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intrusive thoughts and other things at play that quite simply,
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you could fall asleep. This is what happens for most people.
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They attempt the mental rehearsal and then doze off. So
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in meditation training, one of those if that's one of
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those milestones to achieve, is to be able to make
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it through the entire mental rehearsal without And this is
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where being able to do it in your sleep comes from.
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So if I could do it in my sleep, that means.