Hi Again,
Our morning Qigong practice just finished, and it is breakfast time. With a twist!
Today is fast day. We receive an apple for breakfast, an apple for lunch, and an apple for dinner. The bountiful banquet tables are off limits to us today!
Chunyi says it is much easier to go into the emptiness and stay there when our bodies are not expending so much energy in digestion. As such, tonight's meditation will be two hours.
Yesterday he taught us Turtle Qigong, a way to take in energy during fasts that keeps us feeling full up!
* Open your mouth. Allow qi to flow in.
* Close your mouth, and chew the qi.
* Swallow, making a gulping sound, which ensures that the qi makes it to the stomach.
It works! That a technique I use during my regular fasts, which I personally refer to "Three-Apple Monday." I generally do the fast one Monday a month.
Chunyi just finished a three-week juice fast, drinking a small glass of fresh juice made from organic greens for each meal. He included a teaspoon of olive oil, coconut oil, and cod liver oil. He'll go back on the fast after the retreat is over. "The food is too good here to fast!" And he is right.
Chunyi recommends that you do healing on food before you eat it. Scan the food for blockages, sword finger the blockages, remove the blockages, and give energy to the food.
You can also use your hand to scan for good food that is right for you. As you scan pay attention to the feelings in your hand. If the feelings are good, then the food is perfect for you. If the feelings are not good or if your hand shakes, that food is not right for you.
Chunyi reminded us that it is best to eat food that has been grown within 100 miles, because it has the energy of the local earth, which your body has already acclimated to.
For best energy also best to eat foods of the season such as green foods in the spring, red food in the summer, squash in the fall, and root vegetables in the winter. (You'll learn more about this in our new Sonic Access Four Seasons program coming out in 2009.)
Streaming foods is the best way to activate good energy in foods. Say away from deep frying!
It is best to eat breakfast before 8:00 am, because your stomach channels are open then.
Today is also a day of silence, so I probably should quite writing.
Best,
Pete
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