If you could create more energy in your day, where would it come from?

We would all like to have more energy. Have you ever sat in a park, been at the shopping centre or any other public place and seen the energy small children display? It seems boundless, the running, jumping, squealing seems to tire only the observer not the child. Their tiny bodies are flexible, their eyes bright as buttons and everything is funny and amusing to them.

If you think about it for a moment, their body is only new, all the organs are working at their best, brain, tissue and skeletal are young, vibrant and working at optimum.

As we grow older we start slowing, the body starts wearing, we rejuvenate, however environmental and genetic factors start creeping in. What we breathe, drink and eat takes its toll on our body systems and over time our energy seems to decrease.

So what is energy? and how do we increase our own?........

In Western society energy has been defined as – the ability to do work; the capacity for work or vigorous activity; vigor; power, a source of usable power, and the capacity of a physical system to do work. In the East the meaning of energy is quite different. Eastern philosophy thinks of energy as a universal force that is within all things including the human body. In Chinese philosophy “Qi” (pronounced “Chee” and commonly spelt “Chi”) means “energy” or “universal energy”, the natural energy within all things, including the human body.

“Taoism” an ancient Chinese philosophy embodies nature to help achieve interior harmony. “Taoism” means “the way” and the Taoist's main focus was to observe the ways of the natural laws governing the universe as a method to understand the unseen inner world of our physical body.

According to the Chinese and other eastern philosophies similarly, everything in the universe is composed of two complementary energy forces known as Yin (female) and Yang (male). Even though those two forces are complementary they are also opposing energetic forces (similar to how magnets work). Yin (female) is composed of water and represents earth. Yang (male) is composed of fire and represents heaven. These two forces together are responsible for all creation by uniting the ‘water’ energy of earth with the ‘fire’ energy of heaven. It is this energy or life force, of Yin and Yang that combined is known as “Qi”.

Qi and the human body....

It is believed we all have Qi affecting our bodies in two separate ways. We have “inherited Qi”, the energy we received from our parents when conceived, and “acquired Qi”, the energy we accumulate throughout our life which is directly affected by the quality of life we lead. Someone may become ill when the Qi channels of the body are blocked or slow in the absorption of Qi.

Similarly how blood flows through our body’s circulatory system the Chinese say “Qi” flows through our system of meridians or channels. There are two systems of meridians, primary and secondary. It is the primary 12 meridians that enables “Qi” to pass through our internal organs. They flow through the 12 organs of our body and are named after the organ they pass through eg. the lung meridian. Of the 12 organs, six are Yin and six Yang. Each Yin organ is associated with a Yang organ by a special Yin/Yang relationship.

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