As already discussed on other occasions,  SpringForestQiGong is a fantastic method to regain your health.Now, for the first time ever, Learning Strategies Corporation who have published the  home study course of SpringForestQiGong, offer a unique opportunity .

Master Chunyi LIn will guide video and audio sessions to teach, completely free of charge, the first level of his course. These are the small exercises part of which you already know.

However, it is certainly a good  opportunity to learn directly from the developer of the method. As you may know, QiGong has been around for more than 5,000 years but only Master Chunyi Lin has seen the difficulty for Westerners to carry out the original exercises and has therefore simplified them for us.

As you will see on the page where you will register ,  this method has found appreciation in the medical world  and is used by many physicians in order to help people without the aid of medication.

I highly recommend you follow the sessions. You will certainly get aware of the benefits that this method can give you.

The exercises are very simple. You can carry them out while standing, sitting or lying on your bed. The benefits are always there.

They focus on active exercises, that is simple physical movements, on sound, on mental concentration and on meditation. Even if you just follow the simple active exercises, you will notice that you feel more relaxed, that you sleep better and that your overall well-being is increased. For people who need to lose weight, these exercises can even help you do just that.  In fact, the energy knows where it is needed. QiGong healing is information healing, message healing. Some energy is stuck somewhere in your systems and, thanks to the exercises you can  unblock it. This unwanted energy then leaves your body and in any case the part where it was blocked.  New energy can flow in and cleanse the energy channels.

Wherever you feel a pain or an uneasiness, there is a block of energy. When doing the exercises developed by Master Chunyi Lin, you feel that there is a reaction in your body. You may directly feel  the energy leaving your body. or you may feel the new energy flowing into your body. Both sensations are interesting.  Everybody has its own way to feel. It depends on everybody’s own siystems.

However, there is never a danger involved. Everything happens in a beneficial way.

The president of Learning Strategies speaks of his own experiences and of the fact that everybody who works at his company does SpringForestQiGong. They do it together, everyday there is a session at 11.30 am,. I have been there many times and can say that you feel the good energy in their rooms and staying with the people around.

As you can see from the offer, the classes take place all day long, 23.30 hours a day. This helps everybody to get the lessons offered on each day, whether you stay in US or in India, in Europe or in South Africa. You will find a moment in your day and you will find exactly what you will be looking for. The classes start on March 12 and are on for 6 days.

Again, I really encourage you to take advantage of this offer. You certainly will not regret it.

Go to: news@learningstrategies.com and you can get the information Just ask for the information and you will be sent what you need to attend.

You certainly are now doing what I proposed to you in my previous posts. Do you already feel the difference in your well-being? I bet you do.
Now, let’s get a step further. We have been talking about breathing. I would like to introduce you here to a very powerful way to activate your whole system.
This also means to relax your body more and more. In a relaxed body, the mind is also much less tense and anxiety has no chance.
The human body has various energy centers, the so-called chakras. You can breathe into them and I am going to explain to you how to proceed.
Your main energy center is deep in behind your navel. This is the seat of your life force. Now inhale into this point and, while exhaling, you push the energy to the next spot. This next spot is your bladder. Imagine that the energy you inhale is the energy of the universe that joins your own energy. In this way the energy you can use is much stronger. Then you inhale into the bladder and push, when you exhale, the energy to the spot at the bottom of your body between the legs. Then you inhale in this spot and push the energy, while exhaling, to the next spot that is the tip of your tailbone. Then inhale into that spot. Push the energy, while exhaling, to your lower back. Inhale into that spot on your lower back. Push, while exhaling, the energy to the next spot. This spot is situated between your two kidneys. Inhale into this spot. When exhaling, push the energy to the vertebrae that is situated at the height of your shoulders. Inhale into that spot and, while exhaling, you push the energy to the base of your head. Inhale into that spot and push the energy, while exhaling, to the top of your head. Then you inhale into the top of your head and exhale pushing the energy down to the third eye position, that is to your forehead. Inhale into that spot and when exhaling, push the energy down to your throat. Inhale into your throat and, while exhaling, push the energy down to your heart. Inhale into your heart and, while exhaling, push the energy down to the point behind your navel. This spot is also called the Lower Dantien. This is one complete cycle. You see, you touch all energy points around your body. You can do this cycle continuously. At the beginning you will want to do it for let’s say ten minutes. Then you can increase the time. The best is to do this exercise for half an hour. If possible, do it every day. This exercise will help you in many ways. It is easy to do. You can increase the focus of your mind by doing it. This is a very beneficial side effect. You will feel the relaxatiion in your whole body. You will also feel that your body is energized. This exercise helps not only with anxiety but with a whole range of physical conditions. In any case, it is an easy way to help anxiety and to strengthen your immune system. Chuny Lin, the founder and developer of SpringForestQiGong calls this exercise the “Small Universe”. A Small Universe is the cycle that touches all major energy centers in the human body. I highly recommend this exercise. I do it myself very often. I usually do it for half an hour.
I will continue to give you more natural cures for your anxiety. They all contribute to your overall health. This is also very important. Since I have been doing this exercise, I haven’t had a single cold nor have I had a flu or any other illness. Don’t you think that this is fantastic? I started to do this exercise about 2 years ago.

We will now add some more to our last lesson about easy ways for anxiety. About our breathing and more. Now that you have learned how to breathe deeply, slowly and gently inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth, you can switch to breathing in through the nose and breathing out through the nose. That is actually what you usually should be doing. Now you will be doing it slowly and gently. This will add to the quality of your life and help you minimize your anxiety.
Now we go one step further.
Do you know what the above letters stand for? This is an acronyme Master Chunyi Lin of SpringForest QiGOng teaches his students.
” S” stands for ” start”, “M” stands for ” my , “I” stands for ” internal”, “L” stands for ” love, ,” E” stands for “engine” If you put these words together, you get a phrase that reads ” Start my internal love engine”. This simply means “smile”! While you inhale and exhale, put a smile on your face.
That is, put a smile on your face that stands there always.
Whatever you do, smile. This smile expresses your state of mind. If your state of mind is gentleness, lovingness, you will be feeling better and better.
What you feel, will get impressed on your cells. On every cell of your whole body. And you know what? This love engine you start by doing so, gives more life to your whole being. To every cell in your body and to your mind.
It makes yourself content and this state of mind irradiates to your surroundings. Everybody can see that you are happy. Your happiness will spread. Instead of feeling anxious, you will be feeling happy. How is that?
Can you see the difference? Feeling happy does not allow you to feel anxious. Smile and all muscles of your body will relax. The relaxation is almost immediate.
You can feel it right away. And your neighbors will feel it as well. You see, by smiling you not only help your muscles to relax, you don’t only help your overall health to be better and to cut back your anxiety, but you also contribute to a better energy around you. How does this feel? Start your internal love engine and start it immediately. You will be thankful you did.
You will win over your anxiety. And that is exactly what will help you live a better life.

As we already said, there are many natural cures to help people who suffer from anxiety. Many of these cures take into account your body, others help you more with your mind.
Let us focus on your body. It offers so many possibilities. Most people ignore them and it is a pity.
Last time we spoke about pressing the top of your fingers.
Today I would like to talk about your breathing.
Have you ever thought that your breath is the connection between your body and your mind? Without your breath you could not survive. What is strange about your breath is the fact that most people do not breathe properly. Their breathing is superficial. Watch yourself and you will see whether your breathing is deep or superficial.
Deep breathing helps the body to get more oxygen. More than what is usually gets. When an anxiety attack is taking place, the breathing gets hectic, superficial. Unless you are able to control it. You can learn to do just that.
Learn it now, so that when anxiety shows up, you can just switch to deep breathing. Deep breathing will immediately calm your nervous system. Please do it now. Take a deep breath, inhaling through your nose. feel how your lungs are filled with fresh and sparkling air. Then exhale slowly through your mouth. You feel how the air comes out from your lungs. .Then inhale again through your nose, exhale through your mouth. Try to say thanks for each and every breath. This helps you to fix gratitude in your system. I suggest that you do the breathing exercise every day, at the beginning may be just for a couple of minutes,. then you can increase the duration of this breathing exercise. You will feel much fresher if you breathe this way.
When breathing with slow and deep gentle breaths, your whole system benefits from it. You get calmer and calmer. Your nervous system gets what it needs to do its work properly.
Your immune system gets stronger, your brain gets more oxygen and works better.
You see, you can only win. Anxiety shows up when you are tense, when you fear something. With better breathing your tension gets loser or it even disappears. Even if you work hard and get stress related to work, if you just switch your breathing to a slow rhythm, you will immediately feel better. You see, it’s easy. Another step towards an anxiety free life. Take it.now!

There are many simple exercises that help us to stay better mentally, physically and spiritually. Many of them are so simple that they are usually overlooked. Who would ever have thought that our fingers present all our meridians, that is all of the energy channels that run in our body?
By simply massaging your fingers, you can change your mental state, your physical health and your spiritual well being.
The fabulous truth about this is that you can do this massage wherever you are. Nobody will get aware of it. It is a natural movement.
Let us look at the various fingers and their importance. To tell you the truth, they are all important. It depends on what you are looking for, you will treat the finger that gives you the result you want to reach.
The first finger is your thumb. You can rub its tip on both sides and you will breathe with more ease. This is very important at the moment of an anxiety attack. This small movement gives you an immediate relief. Better breathing helps you also to get a better mental state.
The little finger helps you in case of low blood pressure and the sensation of passing out. You can press the edge of the nail at the inner side of the little finger. Press hard. It hurts a bit but the result is immediate. Once you get aware that your heart has regained its normal beating, which is immediate, you feel good. This feeling good also contributes to a better mental state. It helps you to relax immediately.
The middle finger is also a good help. If you rub it on both sides, you can improve your blood pressure. By massaging it from top towards the hand you lower your blood pressure, by massaging it from the hand upwards to the end of the finger, you increase your blood pressure. Do this movement for at least 8 minutes a day. You massage alternately the little finger and the middle finger, starting with your left hand.
If you have a diabetes or you know that your pancreas creates you some problem, massage your ring finger and your index finger. Do it accordingly to what I just said about the blood pressure. If you want to increase the pancreas’s work, you massage the fingers from the hands upwards to the top and vice-versa if you want it to work less.
The above examples are also valid for emergencies whereas you can use every finger to improve your overall health.
A part from the fingers, where there are other exercises you can use, (I might talk about them on another occasion) try to massage your ears from top to the bottom. By doing so, you will help all your organs to function well. In fact, on the outer ear, every single organ is present and can be stimulated.
It is really fantastic that Mother Nature has put at our disposal so many simple movements that can help us keep healthy and happy.
You may want to work on your fingers and on your ears as many times as you like. All of these exercises help you improve your mental state and give you many benefits for your body.

Actually, I just came back from Lake Superior, northern Minnesota/USA. It was so wonderful
there and I have learned a lot I will be talking about in the next few weeks.
Infact, my stay was dedicated to the retreat with Master Chunyi Lin of  SpringForestQiGong.
Lake Superior has a particular energy that you can feel if you just stay on its
shore. You can feel that it is good for you. It calms your system and it puts
joy in your heart. The lake itself is a calm water. I have practically never seen
it coming up with big waves. You can watch the various kinds of aquaticr birds
either when they are bathing or when they are flying over the lake. The
original inhabitants of the area called the Lake their Grandmother and the
Rocks that you find everywhere, especially also on the shore, were called their
Grandfather.

They had another friend, the bear. The bears were called the Healers. These healers are
still around.You cannot see them unless you dare walking through the woods at
night time.

This is not advisable. Although it is unlikely that they would attack you, you never know.
A bear is, in any case, a heavy and huge, strong animal. Just bear in mind that
they are healers that are working in the woods, also for your good without any
need of your encountering them. The idea that animals are there to protect and
help you is just beautiful, don’t you think so? Nature wants you to stay
healthy. Think of it wherever you walk in your daily life.

Have  you ever thought to do meditations with colors? They are easy to do and yet they are powerful  . They can help you to develop various aspects  of  your being. These meditations can be combined or used  with every single color.

They will help you master your state of  mind, your life and  your anxieties.

 The first color I would like to speak about is blue. Blue stands for power. You can imagine that this color is covering your whole body and provides you with power for every one of your actions. It empowers your thoughts and your body.

The second color is yellow and stands for wisdom. Contemplate the color and think of your wisdom. In every person there is a grain of wisdom which can be developed. If Wisdom  rules our life, we will be able to develop our best qualities and to make the best decisions. Again, you can imagine that yellow covers your whole body and penetrates into every cell.

 The third color is actually a non color. It is white and it stands for purity. Let it have its effect on you. Purity of thought is an enviable state because it helps you to live better, to be honest with yourself

If you like, you can use these three colors in layers. You first put a layer of white purity color around your body and in your heart. Think of the power of purity.

Then you add a second layer of wisdom color which is yellow. Let it penetrate into your cells, into  y<our brain and into your heart. Think of what importance wisdom  has for you.

The third layer may be blue for power. This, as last layer, will empower and protect you against unwanted thoughts and feelings. It helps you  overcome fear and anxiety because you are now protected by three important values: purity, wisdom and power. Think of every value and of its importance it has in your life.

You can do these simple meditations and visualizations as often as you like. It is possible that every time you will have other pictures (visualizations) showing up.

These meditations are based on Chinese Feng Shui wisdom, the wisdom of room and space, of the three forms of luck which can be influenced by us. If we use the right power and thoughts.

Enjoy your experience with color meditation.

Who suffers from anxiety would certainly be very happy to have peace of mind.
Does peace of mind help you get anxiety free? You bet it does! If your mind is completely at peace, there is no space for anxiety.
How can you reach this goal that seems to be so far away and is called  peace of mind? It usually takes little steps that bring peace of mind. In most cases it can be reached by training ourselves to watch for good things in life and to discard others that would only disturb your peace.

How can you discard negative facts from your life? Even if they are happening around you? You can watch these events as somebody who is outside, who is simply not touched by negativity. When you are outside of negativity, you live your life in a better way. you stand outside of what could affect your peace of mind just by observing the events and by knowing that they are not meant for you. It is not a question of ignoring these things, it is a question of not letting them touch you. One thing that you can do is  let the tip of  your index finger touch the tip of your thumb so that these two fingers form almost a circle. This simple move cuts any negativity out of your system. This latter remains untouched by outside energies. You can do this in any situation that might otherwise bother you. You will find yourself more energized and calmer. Peace of mind does not mean to not listen to your friend’s problems. First of all, these problems are not yours. So listen to them but do not get involved. They do not touch you if you do not allow them to do it. Even your problems can be watched from the outside, as if they were not yours. After all, problems arer simply challenges and are there to be solved. Life changes completely if you look at problems in this way, not as something that sucks, but something that is a challenges and is waiting for a solution. You will find the solution if your mind is at peace. And you will rejoy in life. Your energy affects the world and if your vibrations are those of joy and peace, the universe will return these vibrations and qualities to you.  May joy and peace be with you. Always, if  you allow it.

There are many techniques that use visualization to help people free themselves from anxiety, panic- attacks and other problems of all kinds.
One of them is certainly self-hypnosis, but there is also neurolinguistic programming that uses visualization. Visualization and imagination are two very important supports to helping people release anxiety and many other not related problems. Meditation often also works with visualization and all of these methods are working towards a relaxation of the body, of the mind and of the spirit.
In fact, what is most needed is relaxation. People are too tense and once they achieve relaxation, every problem can be solved in an easier way. How can we bring these two techniques together? And how can they support each other?
You can visualize a problem, give it a form and a size. You can also give it a color and other physical aspects. When visualizing in this way, the body gets relaxed on its own and once all physical attributes are given to the problem, it dissolves itself. This is the ideal case. Maybe that you will not be able to do this the first time and on your own. It might be better to give you some input. Anxious people feel safer if they are guided in such a visualization. But they are also surprised by the results they achieve.
Relaxation can be reached with the aid of your mind, but also with soft music. Play new age music that takes you into a state of alertness but with less tension in your muscles. In this state everything seems to be easier. The same results can be achieved with baroque music or music by Mozart. In fact, relaxation and also visualization can be reached by listening to music by Johann Sebastian Bach, by Friedrich Händel, as long as you listen to his adagios, by Antonio Vivaldi and by Telemann. All these composers have written pieces that change from adagios and largos to quicker pieces, but only the adagios or largos can be used for relaxation. Certain pieces by Amadeus Mozart are considered to have a healing effect. They are also used to enhance learning skills.
While relaxing with these pieces of music, you can visualize your problems and therefore see them no longer as heavy and something that cannot be solved. Music and therefore relaxation together with visualization, help to overcome almost every problem or at least to find a solution to it. They should be used more often.
These methods and many more are contained in my ebook Anxiety, Goodbye! that you can download from this site

II wish you all the best
Elisabetta
ereist@reistlingue.ch

If you walk through the streets of a town or ride on a bus, you mostly see dark faces. People who are worried, who do not smile. Most of them are taken by their problems or are reading a newspaper. I don’t know which is better. Problems all over. And no relaxation.
Maybe they do not know how easy it is to forget the tensions. At least for a moment. A moment can be good enough to let go of all negativity..

Maybe you have never thought of this. Or you simply did not know it. But it is really true. Smile and you will relax. Whether you want it or not. Your body has been provided with a mechanism that helps you to relax. Itsn’t this fantastic?

Most people do not use this simple mechanism. Smile. If you smile and then you observe your body, you will immediately notice that your muscles start to relax. The first muscles that relax are those of your face. Then you can feel the relaxation in the muscles of your shoulders. The relaxation goes down, along all of your muscles. It is not only on the front of you body. Also the back muscles relax.
You can observe this mechanism that acts very quickly. It happens almost together with the smile.

Relaxation is the first step to release your daily tensions. These mount up and build up and you get stressed. Stress is the first step to disease. It does not have to. You can interrupt stress simply by smiling. Not only do you release your stress but you also help other people to release their stress. A smile is contagious. Try it out in a crowd. Smile and look around. Others will smile back. If you are able to make the other people smile, the tensions in the air diminish significantly. Isn’t this a fantastic way to feel well and to make feel well or better other people? It is a contribution to a better environment. This, on its turn, has a strong effect on a lot of things that happen every day.
It is as if you contributed to lower air pollution. Your energy level becomes different. You swing on a higher level and thus help others do the same. It doesn’t cost you anything. The only thing to do is smile. Relaxation is guaranteed by your smile. So it is a win-win situation. You win and all the others do. Do it. You will be surprised and build it into your daily habits.

Elisabetta Reist